sincerity of lies

After chatting, it was already four o'clock in the morning.

However, no matter how late he had to drive back to the city, Ji Xun sat on Huo Ranyin's return trip as he wished. In the passenger seat of the car, he lowered the back of the seat to the lowest position and yawned profusely: "Why do you have to work so hard? You are in the middle of the day today." After exploring the bottom of Luping, I drove another four hours to come here after get off work. When I came here, I went up the mountain to dig soil and gave me artificial respiration. Hurry back to Ning City in four hours—this day will be difficult."

Huo Ranyin concentrated on driving.

"Brother policeman," Ji Xun said again, feeling bored, "It's so hard to handle a case, and it's easy to die suddenly. If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of your eyes..."

"It's dark and the road is far away, and the mountain road is rugged." Huo Ranyin said suddenly.

"Ok?"

"I understand that you know I'm tired of driving, so you pull me to talk," Huo Ranyin, "but can we talk about the world? You are really not afraid that I will get emotional while listening to you and lose control of the steering wheel." , drive the car into the ravine, and finish playing together?"

"Tch." Ji Xun curled his lips, "The last time I played Driver, he said he would protect me. Is this the law of protection?"

Huo Ranyin sighed.

"As long as you are obedient and keep your mouth shut, I guarantee that you won't lose a single hair when you arrive in Ning City."

"What if I'm not good?" Ji Xun asked curiously.

"Now we are in the wilderness, and I am off work." Huo Ranyin said softly.

"—Wait, you are obviously working overtime." Ji Xun sensed danger and quickly corrected it.

"I can consciously work overtime, and I can also consciously rest. No matter how rough the week is, I won't call and ask me to be in—" Huo Ranyin deliberately glanced at the time, "04:34, work."

"Ah, is it already 04:30 in the morning? I'm sleepy." Ji Xun suddenly behaved like a baby.

"Are you so afraid of what I will do to you?" Huo Ranyin couldn't help but sneer, "Aren't you very open in the bar?"

"I can't see through you." Ji Xun said.

"Isn't that good? It has enough mystery and freshness." Huo Ranyin replied.

"Of course it's not good. Because the unknown means danger." Ji Xun put his hands in his pockets and looked sideways at the person. "Captain Huo, to me, you are a very dangerous person, and human beings seek advantages and avoid disadvantages."

Huo Ranyin stopped talking, and the car drove on for a while.

"Is there a blanket?" Ji Xun asked suddenly.

"No."

"It seems a little cold." He looked at the air outlet of the car's air conditioner.The temperature in the mountains is low, and the air conditioner in the car has been turned on. It is okay to take a normal car, but if you want to sleep, your body temperature will drop, so it should be uncomfortable.

As soon as he finished speaking, the car stopped.

Huo Ranyin was still too lazy to speak, so he took off his coat and threw it to him, before continuing to drive.

"Thank you." Ji Xun hugged Huo Ranyin's coat, and lay down comfortably. This coat still carried Huo Ranyin's body temperature. He fell asleep slowly in such a suitable temperature package. catch...

This trip to sleep in the car was unexpectedly okay. There was always the sound of gurgling water in his ears to soothe his nerves. He didn't know if it was a dream or what. He seemed to see Huo Ranyin pulling for him while he was asleep. Ripped off the slippery coat.

If I was asleep, how did I see this scene?

Ji Xun thought about it interestingly, but this scene was very clear. He even saw Huo Ranyin stretching out his right hand. His knitted sweater was lifted up, revealing a section of his wrist. His wrist was scratched a little, and it was red. At first glance, it looks like a kiss has been branded on it.

hickey...

His mind was confused again, the sound of water went away, Huo Ranyin also went away, he was immersed in the chaos and nothingness, his heavy body disappeared, his mind was swaying and floating, unrestrained, until the children laughed and chased after him. The noise woke him up again.

He opened his eyes, and in front of him was a cup of steaming soymilk. Ji Xun took it mechanically after a while, and drank it.

The night is gone, and so is the small mountain village. Outside the car, the sky is bright, the spacious road is crowded with vehicles, and the voices of children come and go. At eight o'clock in the morning, the parents are sending their children to school.

"Where is this?" He was still a little confused.

"A kindergarten two streets away from the police station." Huo Ranyin said, "Cheng Zheng just came out of the police station and walked all the way here."

Ji Xun yawned for a long time.

It seems that An Xinhe and the others have already won the trust of the police with all their preparations. They have no evidence of Cheng Zheng's murder, so it is meaningless to force Cheng Zheng to stay.

As for why Huo Ran didn't stop him, it was probably because he felt that the interrogation at the police station would arouse the other party's rebellion, so it would be better to let nature take its course and meet outside.

The congestion at the entrance of the kindergarten continued until the bell rang for the start of class, and the crowded road dispersed. A figure standing in front of the green barbed wire fence of the kindergarten, who was reluctant to leave for a long time, stood out.

It was Cheng Zheng.

Ji Xun said: "Go and talk to him, I'll hang around."

Huo Ranyin: "Aren't you going with me?"

"I don't want to go, I don't want to, I'm too lazy to bother." Ji Xun yawned sleepily again, "Besides, you're going to handle a case seriously, so what am I going to do? Ordinary citizens have nothing to do to join in the fun?"

"If you can stick to this consciousness, you won't have to sleep in my car tonight." Huo Ranyin was lukewarm.

"You think your car is easy to sleep in? Beg me next time I won't sleep in your car." Ji Xun hummed perfunctorily, opened the door and left.

Huo Ranyin took one last look at Ji Xun, and seeing him wandering in front of the small stall at the entrance of the kindergarten after getting out of the car, he ignored him and walked to Cheng Zheng's side.

Cheng Zheng seemed to be aware of it, and turned his face: "You are... a police officer."

Huo Ranyin introduced himself: "Huo Ranyin, the captain of the second criminal investigation branch, is also the person in charge of the 1.13 indoor suffocation case and the 1.23 Wushan dismemberment case."

Cheng Zheng asked, "Are you here to catch me?"

After seeing him overnight, this man who has always been cautious, gentle and easy-going seems to have changed.

His shoulders are no longer bent, he no longer avoids people's sight, and he no longer has the kind of resignation to his fate.He straightened his back again, and the wrinkles on his face stretched out. He is still a strong, handsome middle-aged man.

"Normal questioning of criminal suspects." Huo Ranyin said, handing Cheng Zheng a cigarette, "Do you smoke?"

"Criminal suspect." Cheng Zheng repeated it, and then smiled, "You are being polite, you can directly ask the murderer."

He took the cigarette, didn't smoke it, just held it.

"Before the court pronounces a sentence, you are just a suspect." Huo Ranyin corrected, "Your crime, you say it doesn't matter, I say it doesn't count, the law says it counts."

"Officer, your behavior is not consistent with what you said." Cheng Zheng smiled slightly, but he took it lightly, "But it doesn't matter, let's sit down and talk, you should ask a lot of things, what I want to say There are not many, sitting here, you can see the children doing morning exercises in the garden, a bunch of radish heads crowded together, lively and human.”

He took Huo Ranyin to a park chair by the side of the road, sat down, and then said:

"When I walked out of the police station just now, I kept thinking whether the police told me to leave, Xinhe and the others urged me to leave, or I wanted to leave. I walked all the way, thought all the way, but I didn't understand, Huo What do you say, officer?"

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that you hang around here."

Cheng Zheng laughed silently.

It doesn't matter who pushes you.The important thing is that after countless escapes, you still face a choice, a choice that you must make a decision.

"The important thing is my choice." Cheng Zheng said, "People always have to choose."

"—That's not necessarily the case."

A voice came in from the side.

Huo Ranyin turned around and saw three big and colorful cotton candy.

Then, the chubby marshmallow moved, and he saw the man hiding behind the marshmallow, Ji Xun.

"I don't really like making choices. I choose difficulties, but I also live a good life." Ji Xun dismantled Huo Ranyin, "Come on, each of you choose one, and I will eat the rest .”

These three marshmallows, one white, one blue, and one pink.

Huo Ranyin picked up the pink color closest to him.

Cheng Zheng declined the remaining two marshmallows: "Thank you, I don't need it."

Ji Xun: "Teacher Cheng, if you take one, you can help me solve my choice difficulty once. Since it's a small effort, why not do it every day? When you saved Xi Lei back then, it was just a daily act of kindness."

The blue cotton candy entered Cheng Zheng's hands.

Ji Xun held the last white one and smiled with satisfaction.He took a sip, and bit out a gap in the fluffy cotton ball, a little golden sugar stain stuck to the corner of his mouth, he stuck out his tongue, and licked it off:

"Go on, I'm sitting in the chair next door, so I won't disturb your serious conversation."

"This writer, was he also a police officer before?" Cheng Zheng said suddenly, looking at Ji Xun who was leaving.

"Where did you see it?" Huo Ranyin did not refute.

"Intuitively, he doesn't look very serious, but it gives people the feeling that you can talk to him about any difficulties." Cheng Zheng, "But he is also a bit like me, always avoiding something."

"It's far away." Huo Ranyin.

"Indeed, it's getting too far. What are we going to say?" Cheng Zheng smiled apologetically, and asked Huo Ranyin, "When you get old, your thoughts become mixed. There are a lot of things to say, but you don't know where to start."

"Xi Lei has a secret, what is this secret?" Huo Ranyin asked.

"This secret..." Cheng Zhengruo said, without any intention of hiding anything, he opened his mouth slowly, "It's a secret about children, and it's about Tang Jinglong."

"Leilei seldom told me about her relationship with Tang Jinglong. I can only guess that being forced by Tang Jinglong is a very shameful thing for Leilei; later she took money in this relationship. , so things became both shameful and dirty. But Lei Lei didn't want to go on like this, passively waiting for Tang Jinglong to get bored, she was always waiting for an opportunity to act."

Huo Ranyin listened quietly.

It is not uncommon for Xi Lei to make this choice, as her personality can be glimpsed from the people who appear around her.

Zeng Peng took drugs, and she made Zeng Peng detox successfully; Xia Youqing wanted to commit suicide, but she was finally persuaded to come back.

There is a kind of tenacity in her body, obviously fragile like a weed, but exposed to the wind and rain, she has to take her roots deeper into the ground.

"She did find an opportunity." Cheng Zheng said.

Cheng Zheng still remembered the phone call from Xi Lei in the middle of the night, and remembered it clearly.

That day he picked up the phone in his sleep. On the phone, Xi Lei's rapid panting sounded like a gushing mist, and the mist wove into a net, enveloping his newly awakened mind.

He heard Xi Lei say:

"Teacher, teacher, I have photographed evidence of Tang Jinglong's infanticide—"

And yet how cool--how cold--how he had reacted.He slowly sat up from the bed, picked up the glasses on the bedside, and said to Xi Lei: "Okay, take a deep breath, exhale, exhale. Have you calmed down? You should remember carefully now, are you How did you get this video, were you seen by anyone during the filming?"

"Later, Leilei told me that the reason why she was able to take this photo was because Tang Jinglong answered a phone call while fooling around with her. Tang Jinglong was very upset when he saw this number - and under normal circumstances, Tang Jinglong is a kind-hearted person A businessman would not be so irritated by the phone calls. She kept an eye out and said that she was going to take a shower, but in fact she just opened the shower head in the bathroom, and secretly opened the bathroom door, and hid it in the door. Sew the back and eavesdrop on Tang Jinglong talking on the phone."

"She heard..."

"Boss Wan, after all, it's a child. It's already born, but it can't be stuffed back. It's not a matter of you ordering a luxury and not taking it if you don't want it."

"Boss Wan, I know you have changed your wife, so you want to change the child born with your ex-wife as a surrogate. But the child is innocent after all."

"If it doesn't work, how about sending him to an orphanage? How much morality do you have accumulated?"

"...it's not about the money."

"……okay, I get it."

"In the following days, Lei Lei kept following Tang Jinglong, and even followed her quietly. Later, she finally came across the scene where Tang Jinglong met someone in the cafe downstairs, and the person said to Tang Jinglong, 'This time the matter is done, The baby is in the trunk, do you want to take a look?" Tang Jinglong really took a look, they opened the trunk, and Lei Lei took a picture... In the trunk, there was a baby lying quietly, wrapped in swaddling clothes , motionless, black lips, purple body...he died of suffocation."

"'Also'?" Huo Ranyin whispered the word.

"It's not surprising, is it?" Cheng Zheng said calmly, "There is a boundary in life, and those who walk on the edge of the boundary will not only cross the line once."

He continued:

"The trunk opened and closed for a moment, and then, Tang Jinglong handed over the money to the other party... Lei Lei took pictures of all these, and this is the secret in her hands."

"After taking these photos, why didn't she call the police?" Huo Ranyin asked.

"Because I told her... There are other people behind Tang Jinglong. Calling the police rashly will put her in danger." Cheng Zheng replied calmly.

"Is there someone else behind Tang Jinglong?" Huo Ran raised his brows slightly, like a knife point, "Who is it?"

"I don't know. This is my personal guess, but I don't think it's persecution paranoia or fabrication out of thin air. Tang Jinglong has a working background in an organ donation organization. He can change the order in which organs are used and make someone Prioritize the replacement of organs in secret, do you think such a precious talent will be left alone?"

After Cheng Zheng finished speaking, he returned to Xi Lei:

"I advised her to leave Ning City first, avoid the limelight, wait until she is in a safe place, and then hand over the evidence to the police. Lei Lei did not take my advice. She said that she promised someone to take a walk with her every day. She said Tang Jinglong found nothing, she will not be in danger. She said that walking is not a big deal, but a promise is a big deal; she said that the person she accompanied was a pregnant woman, she sometimes hugged her, and could hear the sound of the baby in her belly... ..."

"She told me that when she hugged her friend, she could hear the fetal movement in her friend's womb."

"It's like the sound of a seed sprouting, and it's also like the sound of us reading her a bedtime story when she was very young."

"I think at that time, Lei Lei was really happy." Cheng Zheng said, "I was worried about Lei Lei's safety, but she was really happy."

He repeated this sentence twice.

"She saved a pregnant woman who was about to commit suicide, who even wanted to kill her own child. I think it reminded her of a small mountain village, the women in the mountain village, and even her mother. She saved her, she Like being able to change things that she's been powerless to do in the past."

"She stayed. You all know what happened after that."

The children started doing exercises.

A group of children huffed and ran out of the kindergarten classroom, pushing each other to stand in line on the playground.

Cheng Zheng narrowed his eyes behind the lens, put his elbows on his knees, and leaned his neck forward slightly, eagerly looking at the child behind the barbed wire, as if he was looking for a familiar shadow.

He didn't find it.

Greed faded from his eyes, and he slowly resumed his sitting posture leaning against the back of the chair:

"Leilei is actually quite similar to her mother. They both have a self-sacrificing heart, and they are willing to pay too much for some insignificant things. They don't have any good results. Stupid kindness is destined to burn themselves and light up others .”

"Comrade policeman, you have handled many cases, right? Murder cases are as common to you as a rainy day. Faced with these heinous cases every day, do you think there are more good people or more bad people?"

"Is the city beautiful?" Huo Ranyin asked.

"Very beautiful." Cheng Zheng said.

"Cities are different in the eyes of good people and bad people." Huo Ranyin, "Some people see beauty, some people see ugliness, as long as he still has a little kindness in his heart, he can always feel a part of beauty. I do this work because there are billions of times more good people than bad."

Cheng Zheng looked at the blue sky, the playground under the blue sky, the children on the playground, and a bird that accidentally landed in front of the children.

A child wanted to grab it, but was stopped by more children around. It didn't realize that the danger was almost approaching, and it jumped up and down a few times, flapping its wings, and flew away.

So free, so good.

Lei Lei may not be able to feel this freedom anymore.

But Xinhe and the others still have a chance, even though it is difficult, they still have a chance.

"Officer," he stretched himself on the chair, "we've talked for a long time, and the kids are going back to class. It's time for me to go too, take this thing..."

Cheng Zheng raised the blue cotton candy in his hand.

"Will it be taken as a joke when you go back to the police station and say you will surrender yourself?"

The cotton candy was not taken to the police station in the end, Huo Ranyin saw Cheng Zheng wandering on the road for a while, and happened to meet a little girl who was crying for some reason, and the little girl's mother stood beside her, distraught, I kept complaining, and then felt distressed again, and hugged the little girl to comfort me again and again.

Cheng Zheng handed over the marshmallow, said something, and the little girl burst into tears.

He stood here for a long time, smiling all the time, until the mother took the little girl away, until the little girl who was eating marshmallows and turning back frequently also passed the corner and was never seen again.

He's still standing here.The child's laughter grew further and further away.The illusory shadows in his eyes became more and more solid.

It's Lei Lei.

Lei Lei was running ahead, her ponytail braided happily flew up against the sun, every strand of hair was shining with golden light, he chased after the shadow.

He said repeatedly: "Be careful, run slowly, wait for the teacher—"

In front of him, the blue badge of the police station was also shining in the sun.

When Huo Ranyin returned to Ji Xun's side, there was only a little bit of white marshmallow left in Ji Xun's hand, and there was a ball of white wool on the stick, which he turned left and right into a magic wand.

"So rest assured, don't you personally send Cheng Zheng back to the police station? Aren't you afraid that he will sway you with a flower gun and run away after crossing the intersection?" Ji Xun rushed the sign towards Huo Ranyin.

"If he wants to run, he can run from the beginning. There is no need to say so much." Huo Ranyin took a step back. Although the ball of wool in front of him is still far away, it looks fluffy, as if it will be stained with his hair in the next second. Body.

Huo Ranyin retreated, Ji Xun took an inch, and passed the stick forward again, flaunting it in front of Huo Ranyin, until the patience on Huo Ranyin's face was cracked, then he suddenly changed his hand, turned the stick towards himself, and bit Drop the ball of yarn.

The lottery was thrown into the trash can, and Ji Xun clapped his hands: "Okay, it's over, I can go home and sleep-although the dust has settled, Captain Huo, you really believe my words. Have you ever thought about... It was the mother and the others who murdered, and Cheng Zheng was the one who made the scapegoat. After all, in this story, it is also valid to change the perspective of the characters. Cheng Zheng, who thinks that he is more like a villain than the women, can't forget the pain of the women for many years, and he can't bear himself. He has the idea of ​​scapegoating, but he has not made up his mind, so he has to wait there, waiting for someone to help him. What I said yesterday is really just a touching but false story. I sympathize with those women, so I made up a story to convince you to believe me, and let you push the timid Cheng Zheng to take the blame."

"...Ji Xun, is it fun to be true and false?"

Ji Xun didn't answer, he straightened up, shrugged his shoulders, and revealed these four words in his expression: It's really fun.

"Cheng Zheng is the murderer." Huo Ranyin said.

"But there is no evidence—" Ji Xun dragged his voice out. To be honest, Huo Ranyin's choice surprised him. Huo Ranyin, who always emphasizes the conclusion based on evidence, actually came to Cheng directly because of a story he told. Zheng, the reason behind this makes people think carefully, "Huo Dui, who has made a choice, can only force himself to believe that Cheng Zheng is the murderer at this moment. You can't accept the answer that he is not and you push him to plead guilty. After all, you have a choice Sexually biased identification of Cheng as the murderer... In your opinion, he is more suitable to be a bad guy."

"Ji Xun, I made a choice, but you don't even dare to make a choice." Huo Ranyin said calmly, and he asked back, "Don't you tell me this because you want me to make a choice? Now I have made a choice , you began to question the correctness of my position again, Ji Xun, don’t you think you are capricious and ridiculous? What is your position to question me?”

His voice suddenly became lighter, soft and cruel.

"Yuan Yue is really the person who can see through you the most. You want to go back to the police station, but you dare not come back."

Ji Xun felt that his teeth were sore for a while, and then he realized that it was because he was biting too tightly.

"That sentence is not very pleasant."

"It's always been the truth."

"You are the only one who can talk?" Ji Xun lowered his gaze and landed on Huo Ranyin's ten fingers wrapped in gauze, "Then let's talk about Captain Huo's hands. The big difference between humans and animals is that humans can skillfully use all kinds of hands." It’s a tool, so what made Captain Huo abandon the rocks that can be seen everywhere and the clothes he wears on his body, and directly use flesh and blood to compete with sand and soil—is it the feeling that we can’t make a date, and we will fight when we meet?”

"Of course it's impossible. Let me guess, oh, I know..." Ji Xun gently and cleverly solved the mystery, "Suffocation. Captain Huo always pays special attention to the matter of suffocation."

Huo Ranyin's face became stiff, stiff and cold.

He stepped on Huo Ranyin's sore foot.Ji Xun thought with a sneer.how easy it is.

At this time, Huo Ranyin took a step forward, took his hand, and pressed it to his chest.

The sneer hadn't faded from Ji Xun's eyes, but astonishment had already surfaced on his face.

What he could feel was a strong heartbeat under the palm of his hand, a real heartbeat.

The coldness on Huo Ran's face melted, and a smile appeared. He wiped away the calmness and professionalism of the day, and exposed the beauty and danger of the night together.The more gorgeous the more dangerous, the more dangerous the more attractive.

Huo Ranyin leaned over, leaned into his ear, tilted his head, and said softly, "You guessed right. You're really sharp. Do you want to know what's behind the suffocation?...Come on, guess again, my secret is hidden here .”

A huge sense of disobedience rose in Ji Xun's heart.

This is not right.

Huo Ranyin's office without any personal belongings flashed in his mind.

This is a person who hides deeply in life and doesn't want to be explored at all.What is hidden under his skin of justice and order?Why is he willing to admit his weakness?And why did you invite yourself to explore him?

In a flash, Huo Ranyin let go of his hand and returned to the original position.

That layer of indifference that keeps people away thousands of miles away covered Huo Ranyin's body again.

The other party looked calm, and said declaratively in a business-like tone: "There is evidence in this case."

"...Ah." Ji Xun met Huo Ranyin's determined eyes, shrugged and admitted, "Yes, there is. Let alone the place where Tang Jinglong was kidnapped, it is a blind spot for monitoring; but no matter who is going to kill Lu Ping, TA will step on the spot in advance, this is irreparable for the scapegoat afterwards, as long as the surveillance around Lu Ping's house is called, whoever appears in the surveillance is the real culprit."

"I understand." Huo Ranyin nodded, "You dropped your phone, do you want me to take you home?"

"No, I have a wallet." Ji Xun reminded, "The cotton candy will melt if you don't eat it."

"When you bought it for me, didn't you expect that I would not eat it?" Huo Ranyin asked back.

Ji Xun suddenly bit Huo Ranyin's marshmallow, leaving a crescent mark.

The surprise that was caught off guard also appeared on Huo Ranyin's face.

"I thought about it, but I have to force it, can't I? Captain Huo, if you let me approach, I will force you."

Ji Xun stood up straight, the arc of the corner of his mouth was exactly the same as the crescent moon on the cotton candy, he raised his index finger and shook it:

"Finally, cherish food and don't waste it, bye."

Ji Xun left.

Huo Ranyin froze in place for a long time, looking at the bitten marshmallow, propped his head up, and had a headache.

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