sincerity of lies

Involuntarily, Huo Ranyin took a step inward.

When his foot stepped over the metal bar that sealed the door of the room, Ji Xun inside turned his head alertly.

All of a sudden, the relaxation and clarity on that face disappeared, the dark clouds descended, and the glistening charm dissipated, leaving only boring and boring laziness, and Ji Xun hid under the ashes again.

"Woke up so soon?"

With a long leg, Ji Xun kicked the small blackboard in front of him towards the curtain, a deep green wave rose up, and the blackboard was also resolutely hidden, just like its owner.

Huo Ranyin followed her eyes.

The light has moved from Ji Xun's body to this blackboard, it is covered, but the words written on it seem to absorb enough light source, so that they can emit a charming light under the heavy curtains.

"There is breakfast on the table outside." Ji Xun said.

"Yeah." Huo Ranyin didn't care what he had for breakfast.

"Eat first, I will drive you to Yi'an County after eating." Ji Xun said again.

"Are you taking me there?" Huo Ran turned his gaze back, and the spot of light on the blackboard seemed to fly back to Ji Xun, "What are your plans when we arrive in Yi'an County?"

"Ask me?" Ji Xun was surprised, "What can I plan? I just want to be a good person, a coachman, to take you to the county, and then I will follow you all the way without thinking. Whenever necessary, I will call 666 and wait for you to take me. Just lay down and win, isn't that the case?"

"..."

The light was gone again.

Not only disappeared, but also fed the dogs.

Huo Ran was annoyed, thinking coldly.

He didn't say anything, but the micro expression on his face said it all.

After watching the whole process, Ji Xun didn't have the ability to read minds, and couldn't read Huo Ranyin's specific inner activities, so he could only guess... The captain of the criminal police was seriously deprived of sleep, and he was so depressed that he was getting up, and he was about to go out of his mind.

He decided to be a good person to do it to the end, and to send the Buddha up. He drove the two-hour drive by himself, and let Huo Ranyin catch up on sleep in the back seat, so that he could pull the car back from Huangquan Road.

After breakfast, I followed the navigation, and the journey went smoothly. When I arrived in Yi'an County, the time was just around eleven o'clock at noon.

Their first stop was Liandazhang's mother's house.

On Liandazhang's household registration, there is only one mother, and his father passed away 24 years ago.

It was an old-fashioned five-storey building. There were no serious community walls nearby. It was just a single building, some horizontally and some vertically. It was in the 80s and [-]s that there was no overall plan, and it was built as soon as there was space.In the large open space in front of the building, some parts that should have been used as green belts were leveled to plant vegetables, or poured with cement to transform them into parking spaces.

Liandazhang's mother lived on the second floor without a doorbell. The light bulbs in the corridor on her side were turned off, presumably to save electricity.

The house is dilapidated, with no furniture. There are only a few chairs left alone, some of which are lame. The most conspicuous are the paper shells and plastic bottles piled up in the corners. The owner has the habit of collecting junk; One dish, bare beans, no trace of meat.

Ji Xun finished scanning, and the old lady who opened the door just now ran out of patience.

She raised her head, her face was wrinkled, and the corners of her eyes were down, she looked sad, especially her back, she was hunchbacked, so it seemed that there was a big hunchback hidden under her clothes, which bent her whole body.

"Hello, is this Liandazhang's mother?"

The old lady's complexion changed, and she waved her hands again and again. Embarrassment appeared on her wrinkled face: "I don't know him, don't look for me."

Huo Ranyin's next question was blocked in his mouth, and his hand stretched into his pocket, which contained a police officer's ID card.

But before he took out his police ID card, Ji Xun raised his hand and held down the arm that hadn't been stretched out. He raised his voice and said to the old lady: "Sorry, we may have found the wrong one. Auntie, please continue to work." .”

After finishing speaking, Ji Xun dragged Huo Ranyin away.

Huo Ranyin followed Ji Xun for two steps, far away from the house, and then asked, "Why don't you let me show my police officer's card?"

"What's there to show?" Ji Xun casually looked around, "The son is rich and the mother is poor, and most of them are at odds. Instead of listening to her complaining with embellishments, it's better to ask the well-informed neighbor aunt directly. What's wrong with a small county town?" Conflicting neighbors know better than the parties involved.”

"Really?" Huo Ranyin, "What do you think of that aunt?"

He pointed ten paces ahead.Squatting there was a figure in green clothes that almost blended into the bushes. If it wasn't for a 50-year-old aunt with brown curly hair that had just been permed, she wouldn't have been noticed.

50 years old, stylishly dressed, wandering around the community during meals.

If they have time and experience, they are probably willing to chat with them, which meets their requirements.

"On the road, sharp eyes." Ji Xun gave a thumbs up.

They walked forward together, and when they got closer, this aunt's trendy dyed curly hair was even more eye-catching. She was holding a chopstick and fiddled with the meals in a white plastic box in the bush with a dignified and cautious expression, as if she was checking something. .

Ji Xun looked at it for a while, and then asked, "Why, someone poisoned stray cats?"

The aunt who was squatting was taken aback, looked back at the two strangers, and asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

It may be that this scene is too similar to a standard passer-by asking a question in a detective novel, Huo Ranyin raised the corner of his mouth, and then retracted: "He saw the notice on the wall, didn't your property call the police?"

"How old are you? Have you never reported to the police? How can the police care about such a thing?" Auntie showed disgust.

"..."

Ji Xun laughed unceremoniously. He waved his hand to signal Huo Ranyin not to cause trouble, and continued to chat with his aunt: "Does it appear frequently, every day?"

Auntie was full of bad luck: "It's been many days, every day. I didn't see it when I was patrolling at night, but it reappeared during the day. It's sneaky, and it's often a lot of them."

"It's all this white porridge with eggs and cat food?"

The aunt probably didn't pay attention to these things, thought for a while, and nodded heavily: "It should be, they are all about the same size."

Ji Xun discussed: "Auntie, let me catch the poisoner for you, can you tell us about the Lian family who lives in that household?"

"Yo——" Auntie looked at Ji Xun with a shrewd face, "Of course, you help Auntie, and Auntie helps you."

"Porridge boiled with white eggs, no seasoning, good metabolism for cats and dogs, this is a person who understands the habits of cats and dogs, most of them have raised them himself; you didn't catch it in the middle of the night, because this person got up early to poison, this egg and porridge They are very fresh. The poisoner probably did it by getting up early every day. Waking up early is not an easy task. This is his habit. Adding eggs to porridge is a very strange move. Cat food itself is enough, why bother, because eggs are as common as rice in the eyes of poisoners.”

"To sum up, the poisoner should have raised cats and dogs, worked as a breakfast stall, and cooked porridge and eggs for people every day."

A breakfast stand is locked on the railing downstairs - the billboard above reads: tea eggs, white porridge, Roujiamo.

There is also a mobile phone number and a last name.

Ji Xun finally said: "By the way, the murderer's surname may be Chen."

This Chen surname is written on the breakfast stand in Zhengda Lala.

The aunt was already stunned when she heard half of it, and then slapped her thigh vigorously:

"Detective! Old Chen's family seems to have lost a cat half a month ago. It was scratched by a stray cat. It couldn't be rescued. His little granddaughter cried to death and fell ill."

"It's okay, it's nothing, a little observation."

Ji Xun said very modestly, and rushed to help Auntie clean up the things on the ground, and then he got straight to the point:

"Then Lawyer Dazhang Lian and his family...?"

"Him? Damn, you're so cruel!" Auntie opened her long speech with this emotional remark.

"His family is not bad, but his father has cancer, so it's useless. His mother can't figure out what to do. You said that there is no cure for such a serious illness. If you have to go to the doctor, you will go to the doctor until you are poor." Ah. Xiaozhang was a well-known good student when he was a child. His mother insisted that he drop out of school and give the tuition fee to his father for medical treatment. , we all advised her at the time, don't be like this, don't be crazy, don't listen."

The aunt sighed and empathized with it: "It's so pitiful, our villagers can't stand it anymore. Children can't go to school, have nothing to eat, and hang around a dead ghost every day. They have a bad mind. I never thought about what to do when I was old. Later, it seemed that the teacher was still someone with a good heart, and I paid him the tuition to continue studying. If I didn’t study, wouldn’t I lose a famous college student and a lawyer?”

"When her son was successful, she started shaking again. She showed us what a barrister was every day. She was very powerful and would help everyone get justice. Many of us listened to her bragging and ran to Xiaozhang to file a lawsuit. Let me tell you, even the phone call The number is wrong! It is a lie, and his son ignores her."

"I refused to give a penny to go to school, and now I'm getting retribution—tsk, but this son is also a poison. The folks in our village ran to kneel down and begged him to send them back. This mother and son, there are as many children as there are mothers, It's poisonous."

After coming out of the community, Ji Xun frowned and pressed his stomach.

"Stomach pain?" Huo Ranyin noticed, "Do you want to go to the pharmacy?"

"No, I'm just hungry." Ji Xun saw the noodle shop in front of him, "Let's have a meal first, let's chat."

The dining peak was staggered, there were not many people in the noodle shop, and the cash register staff was staring blankly behind the cash register.

Two voices sounded at the same time:

"A bowl of noodles, heavy and spicy."

“A bowl of noodles, not spicy.”

The hot one is Huo Ranyin, and the less spicy one is Ji Xun.

When the noodles were ready, Huo Ranyin's bowl was heavy in oil and spicy, with green peppers cut into circles floating in the red soup base; Ji Xun's was much more simple, with only a beef soup base that had been boiled for a long time Submerge the noodles.

Looking at the two bowls of noodles that were obviously the same but seemed to exist in different dimensions, Ji Xun couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It seems that we will never be able to eat from the same bowl in this life."

"Yeah." Huo Ranyin, "You shouldn't have a bowl with me, you should have it with Team Yuan. Coincidentally, Team Yuan doesn't eat spicy food either."

Ji Xun failed to pick up the noodles with his chopsticks, and accidentally broke them.

Bowl, Yuan Yue, bowl.

Ji Xun shuddered heavily, and it was inevitable that he would be disgusted by the suddenness in the future. He made it clear: "Captain Huo, you are really curious about the matter between me and Yuan Yue. I don't have any wrong thoughts about Yuan Yue, but you , paying so much attention to me and Yuan Yue...couldn't it be that the drunkard doesn't want to drink, but actually wants to have a bowl with Yuan Yue?"

Huo Ranyin was also disgusted.

"Don't talk nonsense, I have a serious relationship with his colleagues, I don't like his kind."

"What type is that?" Ji Xun asked casually.

After asking, I saw a trace of hesitation on Huo Ran's face, as if he himself was not sure, so he wavered.

"It can't be said that I like it." Huo Ranyin, "I can only say that I have a good impression... Appreciation."

A picture flashed through his mind.

In the picture, there is someone standing in the center of the crowd, surrounded by stars, he is the sun, with endless light, power, temperature, he swayes it wantonly, and shares it with the people around him, and these are nothing to him It was a drop in the bucket, the more generous he was, the more he swayed, the brighter the light became, like a magnet, attracting all the eyes of the surroundings to himself.

But the sun does not pay attention to the stars.

Especially not paying attention to a dim star overwhelmed by the crowd.

"Sunshine, reliable." Huo Ranyin began to say, "Smart, helpful, and capable."

"?"

Ji Xun looked strange.

"Isn't that Yuan Yue?"

"..."

Huo Ranyin patted down the chopsticks.

I can't eat this bowl of noodles.