Don't move the old man's bounty

A few days after the flower seeds fell, Xiao Shi took Jiang Juan back to Su'an's hometown.

Before leaving, the two went back to the hospital to secretly look at Yunxi. The little girl grabbed them tearfully, and cried reluctantly: "Brother Tired and Uncle Dog must come back early to play with me."

Seeing her drop the golden beans, Jiang Juan felt distressed, and stroked her head to comfort her: "I'll bring you special products when I come back, little cat, don't cry."

When saying this, in order not to let Yunxi's mother notice, the two of them poked their heads out of the window of the ward, as if they had come out to meet their little lover privately.

The windows of the hospital are too high, even Jiang Juan's height of more than 1.8 meters is still short, and Xiao Shi's importance is highlighted at this time.

"Ex-wife, have you finished talking... the big tabby cat under you is going to be overwhelmed!" Xiao Shi hugged Jiang Juan and pushed him up, his face blushing.

Jiang Juan lowered his head and glared at him, "Isn't that false? Didn't you say that last night?"

After the incident, the victim, Xiao, said that the experience of risking his life to help his ex-wife have an affair with someone else was really fucking bad.

Just for this, Jiang Juan also compensated him for a chance to cook by himself.Xiao Shi cheerfully accompanied him back to his hometown, only to find that the reality was not as beautiful as he thought.

Although they haven't come back for a few months, the state of the house in their hometown is enough to give them a headache for a while, because no one takes care of it, and the weeds grow wildly to knee height after the warm spring, and it is desolate.

It has been left unattended for so many years, and the old house was exposed to the wind and sun, and the damage was very serious, but it was frozen in winter by ice and snow, and Xiao Shi couldn't find it when he came back with Jiang Juan to recuperate.

So the two wounded had to clean up the weeds in the yard by themselves, and it took a whole day just to clean them up.

At dusk, Jiang Juan sat under the porch, looking at the mansion full of childhood memories against the setting sun.

The old scene of the past has been blurred, and now the parents and elder brothers who shared the memories with him have all passed away. He is like an abandoned child, forgotten in time alone.

Xiao Shi served him some hot soup, and the two of them sat side by side under the night under the night breeze, looking at the rising new moon together.

Xiao Shi asked: "Should we clean up all the climbing vines on the outer wall, the dead vines and new branches are entangled together, it's more like a haunted house."

"No more." Jiang Juan licked the oily star at the corner of his mouth, "They have stayed here longer than me, and after cleaning up, there will always be some kind of dove occupying the magpie's nest, which is unreasonable."

Xiao Shi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

"I just feel that compared with them, I seem to be an outsider."

Jiang Juan grew up here since he was a child, and he is very familiar with every plant and tree here, and has deep feelings for it.

He said: "Before entering primary school, our family of four lived here. The house is very big and remote. It is just at the junction of the county town and the village. We don't have many neighbors with us. My parents don't know how to walk around the streets. People who are close to others, so I have not been very familiar with the villagers here since I was a child, and I have no feelings for them."

"Then you still remember Jiang Yi, it's not easy."

"It's hard not to remember. When I was young, he brought a group of wild children to bully me, saying that Yu-xi <I look feminine, I'm a girl, and I must have no spout. I was young at that time, and I didn't dare I can only hold back and cry secretly. Later, my brother found out, he tortured my dad to raise a retired police dog, which is also a German shepherd with erect ears. Those wild children came to join in the fun when they saw the prestige. I made the big dog bark fiercely, scaring away all the little kids, and no one dared to find fault with me after that. But because of this, the villagers and my family became even more alienated."

Xiao Shi laughed, "How old were you then?"

"Four or five years old."

"A group of little bunny beans are not as tall as a dog. Of course they are afraid of being scared by a dog. But it's a bit strange. Why do your twins only bully you? Can they recognize you and your brother?"

"When I was young, my brother and I didn't look that much alike. My mother always said that he was in a hurry. He was a lot taller and stronger than me, so when he was young, he always called me bean sprouts."

Thinking of this, he himself laughed.

Looking at his smile, Xiao Shi felt that it was worth the trouble to come back. He pinched Jiang Juan's cold nose, "Go back, it's late, the wind outside is hard, you should be sick after a long time. It takes a long time to warm up when it's cold, and it's hard not to sleep half the night."

"It's not good if you can't sleep, you have something to do."

"That's no good, I won't be presumptuous here."

Jiang Juan felt strange, so he let him drag him back to the room.

As soon as Xiao Shi entered the door, he consciously went into the kitchen to wash and wash. Jiang Juan was bored, so he moved a bench and watched him work. The rhythmic sound of cutting vegetables and the crisp sound of dishes colliding made him drowsy Jiang Juan had the illusion of going back to his childhood in a trance.

At that time, my mother was standing there, cutting vegetables quickly. My brother touched a piece of hot crispy meat while she was not paying attention, but was caught by his mother.

Time was too tight, only enough to steal a piece, my brother ran out without looking back amidst the sound of his mother's lecture, blew on the delicious crispy meat in his hand, and fed it into his own mouth, which was sitting on the steps and looking at the sky.

At that time he asked: "My brother gave me the meat, so what do you eat?"

The elder brother licked the oily foam on his fingertips, grinned at him, "I'm not hungry, I can wait, but you're so hungry, you're as thin as bean sprouts, I should feel sorry for you .”

The crispy meat at that time was really fragrant and delicious.

But the person who can make that kind of taste, and the person who will be the first to feed him the meat is gone.

"Xiao Shi," Jiang Juan called softly, "I miss them so much... I can't help but think about it when I get back here, I regret coming back."

The sound of water stopped abruptly.

Xiao Shi wiped his hands, leaned down and touched Jiang Juan's head, watched Jiang Juan hide away, and simply kissed his forehead in one step, "I can't change the past, but I can walk with you Go on. Jiang Er, you have to work hard to come out, face your past, and learn to accept it."

"I know." Jiang Juan lowered his head exhaustedly and leaned on Xiao Shi's shoulder, "So at that time I had to hold you. If you died, I would not be able to live. I never thought that I could form such a relationship with you before. A symbiotic relationship, now that I think about it, this might be fate..."

Xiao Shi cupped his face and kissed him for a long time.

Jiang Juan thought that he would definitely take advantage of such a gentle atmosphere to do something, but unexpectedly, after the kisses were all over, Xiao Shi just took a blanket and wrapped him up, "The body is really cold, honestly, warm up for a while, I want tonight what to eat?"

Without even thinking about it, Jiang Juan blurted out: "Crispy meat."

Immediately thinking that it would be too embarrassing for him to make this dish with Xiao Shi's dog paws, he simply rolled up his sleeves: "Forget it, beef noodle soup, I'll make it, so you don't waste food."

Jiang Juan's cooking skills are not as good as his mother and elder brother. After all, he was spoiled and cared for since he was a child. He didn't learn these life skills until college. They were all life-saving skills that were forced out of the drug den. The cooked meals were quite satisfactory, not delicious, but not to the degree that Xiao Shi was unpalatable.

Xiao Shi stood by and gave him a hand, his eyes widened when he saw the boiling soup pot.

Jiang Juan said with disgust, "Restraint, don't drool in it."

Xiao Shi could only lick the corner of his mouth resentfully, and put the pot back on.

This time it was his turn to sit on the small bench and admire Jiang Juan's skill in cutting the beef until it was translucent.

He propped his chin, and called out boredly: "Bean sprouts?"

Jiang Juan: "..."

"It's great, you took the initiative to let me know you today." He wrapped his arms around Jiang Juan's waist from behind, clinging to him, and took a deep breath, "Every time we warm up with you, even if it's just a small step, it will make me feel better." I've been happy for a long time. Let's live a good life in the future, shall we?"

"You are so humble, I am not used to it. These are nothing, if you want to hear, I can say more."

Jiang Juan put down his knife and pointed to the wasteland outside the window, "My family also has a lot of land, this one is all there, and it is considered a big family. But no one in my family farms, and my mother does it near the courtyard. There are many flowers, chrysanthemums are planted in a remote place near the mountain, and a plum grove was planted there, and some roses and crabapple are planted nearby, all of which are white. But her favorite is camellia, which are all around here in spring, summer and autumn. There are white camellias blooming, so when I was a child, my impression was always the white flowers all over the mountains.”

"It seems that Auntie really likes camellias. I remember when I lived in your house, I planted a lot of them in the yard, and they grew very well."

"What she doesn't like is because her younger brother likes it." Jiang Juan picked up the knife again and cut the side dishes, "I probably never mentioned it to you, I have an uncle who is my dad's junior at OUHK. The relationship is very good, so he introduced my sister to my dad, tried his best to match the two, insisted on getting married, and married my brother. My parents got along very well and got married after a few years of getting along, but my uncle Fate was not very good, and he passed away without seeing them get married and have children."

Xiao Shi was dumb for a while, "Sorry."

"It's nothing, I brought it up myself. Speaking of which, I wasn't there when he left, and I don't have any feelings for him."

Jiang Juan put the beef bones into the pot and simmered on a low heat, and led Xiao Shi into the study to flip through the photo album.

He stood on the ladder and took out a few dusty photo albums from the top shelf of the bookshelf. They were all very old, and some photos were still in black and white.

Jiang Juan originally wanted to point out those two people in the group photo of hundreds of people, but unfortunately it took so long that he couldn't even recognize who was who, so he could only flip through the group photo of the two alone, and pointed out his father and uncle from it , and asked: "Do I look like them?"

Xiao Shi compared the photos for a long time, "Your family's genes are too strong, why are you so good-looking. I feel that you are a bit like Uncle when he was young, but the only resemblance is the outline, and your facial features are more like Auntie, so with Uncle is more similar. I didn't expect that your uncle and aunt look so similar, could it be twins?"

"No, as you said, it's because of the strong genes. The siblings are two years apart, and they both inherited the same characteristics. However, there is a mole on the uncle's face. The difference between the two is quite big."

Jiang Juan pointed to the right cheek, which was about three fingers away from the eyes, "My mother is beautiful, and he looks like my mother, so it is inevitable that he is a bit effeminate. It is said that when he was taking the costume class, his classmates made a fuss." It depends on his women's clothing. His makeup skills are also very good, with a little dressing up, he looks exactly like my mother, and he is probably a beauty blogger with millions of fans now."

"It's strange, you actually know such a word that keeps pace with the times."

"... How old do you think I am? I'm not so isolated from the world that I can't surf the Internet." Jiang Juan glanced at him from the corner of his eye.

"No, it's just refreshing to see that you don't play with your phone or watch TV much."

"I still watch it when I'm bored. When I was in the hospital, I also noticed the public opinion turmoil caused by the two murders of Ye Mingxuan and Mu Xueyin. I saw a lot of insults to the police on some social platforms."

"Oh? How did you say it?" Xiao Shi wiped the dust on the photo album, stirring up a burst of dust. He took the opportunity to cover Jiang Juan's mouth and nose, and kissed him along the way.

Jiang Juan pursed his lips, "It's nothing more than accusing the police of inaction, covering up the murderer, and making the major incident smaller. Originally, after Mu Xueyin's case was exposed by the media, people who didn't know the truth were dissatisfied with the police, thinking that such a bloody case It couldn't be a suicide, and some people made up the scene where the police and the murderer teamed up to kill the rich and noble lady. Later, the news of Ye Mingxuan's death was spread out somehow, and a reporter inspected the scene of his death on the spot, and made up an outrageous and doggy story. The script of blood, the rhythm on the Internet is now one-sided, and everyone thinks that the couple provoked someone, so they were silenced by the police."

Xiao Shi sighed: "You can speak so calmly!"

"Otherwise, are you going to kill those who spread rumors along the network cable?" Jiang Juan flipped through the photos on his lap disapprovingly, and yawned.

"I thought you would be influenced by them and force yourself to solve the case as soon as possible."

"Whoever wants to be influenced by a group of idiots who don't know the rhythm, first someone sells the inside story to the media at a high price, and then someone exposes it anonymously. There are pushers behind these two things. It is a waste of your own knowledge to follow them. Life. The most urgent thing now is to find Chen She, who has evaporated from the world, I don't have the energy to help the Internet police to improve their performance...Huh?"

"what happened?"

Xiao Shi leaned over and saw Jiang Juan holding an old photo and staring at it in a daze.

Those are one of the few color photos in the album. The colors are not very saturated, the overall picture is gray tone, and the details are very blurred. It should be taken when color photos were first popularized.

But what surprised Jiang Juan was not a color photo mixed in with a bunch of black and white photos, but the content of the photo itself.

In the picture, a person is hung upside down with his hands and feet tied, and a bloody wound on his neck is bleeding profusely. Judging from the large pool of blood on the ground, the blood loss may not be able to recover.

They could all see that this dying man was the face they had seen in a hundred or so photos.

The key is……

"His death..."

It was exactly the same as Jiang Zhu who had his lungs pierced, throat cut, and hung on the bell tower to die.

When the two looked at each other, they saw panic in each other's eyes. This sense of crisis that approached the truth while ushering in more mysteries inevitably made them feel timid.

Xiao Shixian calmed down, "Don't panic, have you ever heard of your uncle before..."

"Car accident." Jiang Juan said firmly, "Both my parents said that what happened to him was an accident."

The author has something to say:

Some people may wonder how to conduct an autopsy after Jiang Zhu died for ten years. You can guess by recalling the previous plot and the details in Ah Juan's words.

The answer will be announced after the two return home.

Today weibo posted the draft of the appointment!I have tried my best to make the code as small as possible. If you are interested, you can go and have a look!

In the future, I may use this manuscript to make some free materials and send it to everyone!

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