After dinner, after cleaning up the mess, Lu Mingxuan and Jiang Yueli lay on the sofa and continued watching TV.

Mrs. Shen was not in good health, and she didn't last long. After saying hello, she went back to her room early to sleep.

Lu Mingxuan felt that she probably couldn't forget Mrs. Shen's tangled yet relieved look at the two of them before she turned around.

She didn't know about the relationship between Lu Mingxuan and Jiang Yueli, but it wasn't that she was unaware of the undercurrent between the two.

This lady also experienced vigorous love when she was young, and knows the true appearance of love and heartbeat.

Therefore, she paid a little more attention, observed the two of them carefully for a while, and was already aware of some ignorant sprouts between them.

It was probably because Jiang Yueli's temperament of "becoming lonely" was too strong in the past, and Mrs. Shen was a little surprised for a while.

However, it was also because she looked too much like the kind of person who would be lonely for the rest of her life, so after realizing it, Mrs. Shen was mostly relieved.

Although she didn't directly point out the pettiness between the two of them, Lu Mingxuan was sure that the last look Mrs. Shen gave her alone meant to warn her to treat Jiang Yueli well.

But having said that, this should be regarded as another kind of recognition, right?

Lu Mingxuan slumped on the sofa, rubbing her belly, and turned her head to look at Jiang Yueli.

Obviously, everyone who met for the first time could see her thoughts clearly, but the person next to her seemed to be deaf and blind, and always had infinite doubts about her feelings.

Sometimes Lu Mingxuan couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.

But what else can she do, that is the person she can't let go of, she can only try her best to show her sincerity, to melt that sensitive ice.

Jiang Yueli brought a cup of hot water from the kitchen, took out a board of pills from the medicine box, and handed it to Lu Mingxuan.

"Do you want to take some medicine?" Jiang Yueli glanced at Lu Mingxuan's stomach, "If you take too much, you won't be able to bear it."

Lu Mingxuan rubbed her stomach and groaned twice, while giving Jiang Yueli a resentful look, she thought that this person was rarely self-aware, knowing that he had eaten too much.

But after humming, she still took the medicine, poured it with water, and then continued to rub her stomach and lie down on the sofa.

In the past, she was a self-made person, and her food requirements were basically maintained at the minimum standard of fullness.

In other words, she is not picky about eaters, and she will order as much as she can, and she will not touch a little more when she is full.

However, in front of Jiang Yueli, all her self-control was broken in a short period of time. Leaving aside other emotional issues, Lu Mingxuan had never discovered that Jiang Yueli had the effect of increasing appetite.

Of course not in a positive sense.

Ever since the accident that was so embarrassing that neither of them wanted to mention it, Lu Mingxuan also began to let go of herself and competed with Jiang Yueli for food at the dinner table.

When recalling the incident afterwards, Lu Mingxuan said that she was not entirely responsible, but Jiang Yueli's eating speed was too terrifying.

If she doesn't compete with the other party, she may still have an empty stomach until a large table of food is finished.

Facing the lively dining table in the second half, Mrs. Shen was not only not angry, but also laughed for a long time watching them look like childish ghosts.

But the consequences of being too addicted to grabbing food are also serious. For the first time in Lu Mingxuan's life, she couldn't walk because of eating——

Because I am too full.

Ah, what a shame.

When lying on the sofa, Lu Mingxuan looked up at the ceiling and silently spurned herself.

After eating at least twice as much as Lu Mingxuan's, Jiang Yueli acted like a normal person, packed the medicine box, poured himself a cup of hot water and sat back on the sofa to watch TV.

When she turned her head slightly and glanced at the bright expression on Lu Mingxuan's face from the corner of her eye, Jiang Yueli briskly bent the corners of her mouth, and a smile flashed across her lips.

Lu Mingxuan was slightly taken aback, she stretched out her hand that wanted to pinch Jiang Yueli's face.

But then again, it seemed like she hadn't been this crazy for a long time.

Needless to say at work, she has to write the word "reliable" on her face at all times, but outside of work, she has very few entertainment activities. Those familiar and unfamiliar friends are either of the opposite sex, or It's the eldest lady who has to put on a posture anytime and anywhere, so naturally she can't fight, let alone fight like elementary school students because of such a boring reason.

But no one is born with such an impeccable demeanor, calm and self-possessed shell, the inside has been stretched too tight for too long, Lu Mingxuan almost forgot that she herself was too skinny when she was a child.

Lu Mingxuan's fingertips landed on Jiang Yueli's face, she paused, and rubbed her cheek with the back of her finger.

She didn't dare to use force, as if she was afraid of disturbing something.

The touch was as soft as a piece of warm fluff falling on the cheek.

When Jiang Yueli turned her head in surprise, Lu Mingxuan had already put down her hand, and turned to lean on the back of the sofa behind her, turning her head to look outside the balcony.

At this time, it was already dark, and every household in the surrounding area lit up bright lights, and through the windows, one could vaguely see a family sitting around the table pushing cups and changing glasses, with smiles as bright as warm yellow lights on their faces.

Through a balcony door, the bustle outside seemed to have nothing to do with them.

But thinking that the person sitting next to her was Jiang Yueli, and Lu Mingxuan, who always celebrated the New Year alone, felt like there was a fire in her heart. It wasn't hot, but it was burning slowly, and the warmth radiated from her heart spread to her limbs. Baike.

This winter, it is not as cold as in previous years.

Lu Mingxuan couldn't help but bend the corners of her mouth, and the expression on her face gradually softened.

"Bam—"

A muffled sound came in through the balcony door, and the two looked up at the same time. Under the night, a cluster of fireworks bloomed in brilliant colors in midair.

Then there were several more sounds, and the dark night sky was illuminated by clusters of fireworks as bright as day.

Lu Mingxuan turned to look at Jiang Yueli: "Let's go out for a stroll."

……

Late at night on New Year's Eve, the shops on the street have already closed early, leaving only the street lamps on both sides of the road to guard the cold night.

There was just a heavy snowfall a few days ago, and the snow in the middle of the road was cleaned up and piled up on the side of the road. It has not completely melted, and there is still a creaking sound when stepping on it.

Jiang Yueli followed Lu Mingxuan for a while, then couldn't help lowering her head and asked her, "Why do you always walk on snow?"

"Ah..." Lu Mingxuan came down from the snowdrift by the side of the road as if she just came back to her senses, "Because it's too boring."

When Lu Mingxuan lowered her head, she was still in a daze. She remembered that during the holidays in previous years, all the staff and friends went home from vacation, and some of them were busy with overtime because of their special nature of work. Even if she wanted to find someone to get together, it would not be easy for her matter.

So in rare leisure time, when mobile phone and TV can hardly fill the emptiness in her heart, she will go out.

To put it mildly, it’s called self-entertainment, but actually it’s just to find some boring things to do, so that the deeper level of boredom in my heart is not so obvious.

After a long time, she is also good at finding some fun in some boring little things, such as stepping on the snow.

As a result, when she saw the snow, she subconsciously stepped on it.

Jiang Yueli glanced at her with no expression on his face, but he understood the meaning behind these words more or less in his heart.

When she first came back, Lu Mingxuan didn't want to let herself be too dependent on others, so she put a layer of isolation armor on herself in advance. Even if she sometimes felt the outline of loneliness, she always gritted her teeth and endured alone.

Later, she was so strong that it was difficult for others to easily shake her. She shouldn't have had so many scruples, but at that time, she discovered that she was used to spending those unknown times alone.

It was really strange to say that such a person who had already decided to go on alone showed his love to her.

—to another man who thought he was going to end up alone.

Maybe it's fighting fire with fire, or getting the best of the best?

Nothing seems right.

The thoughts in Jiang Yueli's mind turned around, she remained calm on the surface, but the hand held by Lu Mingxuan tightened.

"Does being with me make you feel bored?" Jiang Yueli asked, turning her head to the side.

"Of course not." The desire to survive made Lu Mingxuan subconsciously give a negative answer, "Why do you think so?"

Jiang Yueli looked down, and Lu Mingxuan subconsciously pulled the end of her hair after receiving the hint, coughed lightly, and decided to change the subject.

"It's just getting used to it." Lu Mingxuan muttered before turning around, "Let's go to the square in the city center. Today, the phone said that there will be fireworks there in the early morning."

Lu Mingxuan grabbed Jiang Yueli's hand and put it into her coat pocket together.

The expensive coat material is not bad at keeping warm. After putting it in for a while, a fine layer of sweat has already oozed out from the clasped palms.

Jiang Yueli subconsciously moved her fingers, but Lu Mingxuan held them even harder.

The fingers are intertwined and it is difficult to pull them apart.

The cold wind blows towards the face with the smell of gunpowder smoke after the fireworks are burnt out. While bringing the cold temperature, it also brings the hustle and bustle not far away.

Jiang Yueli sighed, and decided not to argue with this childish ghost anymore.

"I'm going to go back to bed after watching the fireworks."

……

——That's what they said, but it was already late at night when the two of them actually went back.

Lu Mingxuan and Jiang Yueli entered the door. In the dark living room, there was only a little light from the street lamp outside the window. They hung their coats on the hangers in the dark.

When they turned around, their foreheads bumped into each other accidentally, and they forcibly endured a cry of pain, fighting with their hands and feet, and moved to the upstairs room with difficulty.

The dishes in the living room were cold long ago, but Bureau Shen seemed to be extremely busy with work on duty, so he hadn't returned home yet.

The two of them didn't dare to disturb the sleeping Madam Shen, they even opened the door cautiously, and their hearts would jump with nervousness if there was any extra movement.

Jiang Yueli groped all over her body and only found one key, which was not the key that matched the door.

After struggling with the door lock with the only key for a while to no avail, the two sat in the corridor, looking at each other in the light of the window at the end.

"Where's the key?" Lu Mingxuan lowered her voice and asked, "No, why does their house even have to lock the door?!"

"Because it's the room that's going to be given to us, um...a sense of security is more important." Jiang Yueli looked up at the sky. Obviously, the Shen family already knew her nature very well, but at this time it would only appear that she was so considerate. Too much, "If no one takes it, the keys are in the drawer in the storage room downstairs. But... you have to pass through Aunt Xiu's room."

Under Jiang Yueli's popular science, Lu Mingxuan already knew that Mrs. Shen's physical and mental state has not been very good in recent years, and it is difficult to fall asleep.

That's why they were very cautious when they first entered the door, for fear of disturbing Mrs. Shen's rest.

Although Mrs. Shen probably didn't care about it, they still felt a little bit guilty psychologically.

Now the problem arises -

If they don't have a key, they can't enter the room. If they can't enter the room, they have to make do on the sofa or somewhere outside for a night.

However, in the current weather, even if two people huddled together to keep warm, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not be frozen.

Should he search for the key at the risk of waking Mrs. Shen, or just go out and find a hotel or something to make do?

But at this point in time, it's hard to say whether the hotel is still open...

Just when Lu Mingxuan was hesitating, Jiang Yueli who was beside her had already weighed the pros and cons and started to take action.

She did not know where to take out a wire, pushed the glasses, and began to fiddle with the door lock.

Lu Mingxuan's expression froze.

Almost forgot that Jiang Yueli still had this skill.

There was a soft "click", and the door creaked open a crack.

Jiang Yueli got up and turned on the light. The sudden white light made the two people at the door squint their eyes at the same time.

After getting used to it for a few seconds, Lu Mingxuan raised her head and looked at the whole room. The room is not too big. There is a bed, a small desk and a wardrobe. There is not much extra space left, but it is clean and tidy. It has obviously been taken care of. Well cleaned and tidied away.

Seeing that Jiang Yueli opened the door and was about to turn around and go to the next door, Lu Mingxuan grabbed her hand: "Hey, where are you going?"

Jiang Yueli pointed to the next door: "You sleep here, I'll go to the next door."

Lu Mingxuan glanced at the pitiful door lock that had obviously been raped, and pointedly reminded: "Then scrap another door lock?"

Jiang Yueli glanced at Lu Mingxuan expressionlessly: "Then what do you mean?"

Lu Mingxuan raised her eyebrows, a smile appeared on her lips, and pointed to the room next to her coaxingly: "We can make it together."

After saying that, Lu Mingxuan added another sentence to cover up: "Don't worry, I will definitely not do anything to you."

Ah, it feels even weirder after adding this sentence, okay?

Jiang Yueli felt a little complicated after a meal.

……

So how did she agree to Lu Mingxuan's proposal?

In the early morning of the next day, the noise from downstairs woke up the two people in the room. Jiang Yueli woke up first, feeling dizzy, as if 100 yuan of lead was pressed on her head.

She rubbed her eyes, her vision was not so clear when she didn't wear glasses, and she was not so clear just after waking up, so she numbly crawled past Lu Mingxuan who was lying next to her, wanting to get out of bed.

"Well……"

Lu Mingxuan was so crushed that she was almost out of breath, and almost suffocated to death in the dream. After struggling to open her eyes, she realized that it was Jiang Yueli who stepped on her directly.

"Hey——" Lu Mingxuan's forehead was twitching with veins, and the fatigue from lack of sleep made her unable to lift up her strength, leaving only some chaotic annoyance.

Then in the next second, Jiang Yueli was tripped by Lu Mingxuan and fell headfirst out of the bed.

With a muffled sound of "dong", Lu Mingxuan was completely awoken by the fright, and lifted the quilt on her body to look under the bed.

"Are you okay?"

Fortunately, there was a blanket on the floor, and Jiang Yueli lay face down on the ground for a long time without responding.

Lu Mingxuan wasn't too worried at first, but after poking her several times with her finger, she didn't get a response, so she became a little flustered.

"Jiang Yueli? Are you okay?" Lu Mingxuan got off the bed and tried to drag him up, "Don't scare me."

"Hmm..." Jiang Yueli was turned over, her mind was still in a daze, and the light from outside the window fell on her eyes through the cracks in the curtains. She subconsciously stretched out her hand to cover her eyes with the back of her hand, tilted her head, Want to roll to the side and fall asleep again.

Lu Mingxuan half-kneeled on the ground and hugged the person half-on her lap, only to realize that Jiang Yueli's face was frighteningly red.

Touching his forehead again, his hands felt hot.

"I'm going... No way..."

Lu Mingxuan breathed a sigh of relief, then felt a headache again, and finally found the root cause after looking back.

The two of them were already very tired when they came back, they whispered a few words, lay down on the bed, and soon fell asleep without taking off their coats.

Lu Mingxuan slept very well, but Jiang Yueli was the complete opposite. After sleeping for a long time, she felt the heat and overturned the quilt, and she was still leaning against the window.

It was so cold all night, it would be a ghost if you didn't catch a cold.

……

When Lu Mingxuan came down with a cup and an empty medicine box, Shen Ju had just entered the house, followed by Han Lin.

The two were stunned when they saw each other: "Why are you here?"

Han Lin came to his senses first: "You came with the little senior sister? By the way, where is she?"

Lu Mingxuan replied: "I have a little fever, and I'm sleeping upstairs."

Mrs. Shen came forward to take the empty cup, and asked, "Is it better now?"

The eyes of the others all focused on her in an instant, Lu Mingxuan frowned, paused, and then replied: "I've lowered a little bit, I'll go up and see her later."

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Mrs. Shen breathed a sigh of relief, "Zhaoying's health has not been very good, and it is easy to have a fever in winter. Fortunately, there is no work recently, so let her sleep for a while."

With that said, Mrs. Shen turned her head to look at Han Lin again: "Has Xiao Han eaten yet? Let's stay for lunch together."

Han Lin nodded: "Then trouble Aunt Xiu."

Bureau Shen followed up in the kitchen: "Let me help you, the two of them are young, so let them play together as young people."

There was probably a debate over there for a while, but Mrs. Shen still couldn't hold back her husband, so she let him go.

The door of the kitchen was pulled up, and the two of them were on one side, one was washing the vegetables, and the other was preparing to fry the vegetables in a hot pot.

Han Lin put down the things in his hands, and followed Lu Mingxuan to sit on the sofa. He seemed much more skilled than the latter, and he was obviously a frequent visitor here.

"Before, I thought the little senior sister was joking." Han Lin looked Lu Mingxuan up and down, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "I didn't expect that your progress is as fast as riding a rocket, isn't it? Did you come last night?"

"Yes." Lu Mingxuan raised her eyebrows, "Didn't you be on duty yesterday? Why did you come here today? Your parents and brothers don't care?"

"I took the time to go back last night and this morning, and Xiaorui was at home. I had to go back after dinner. I still have a case to solve in the past two days." Han Lin explained, "and also It’s not just me, it’s estimated that there will be more people coming by noon and afternoon.”

"Shen Ju's popularity is really good - do you come every year?" Lu Mingxuan couldn't help but asked again, "Are you all with Jiang Yueli?"

"Yes, my parents will come back when they are free, but...why do I feel that what you said is a bit meaningful." Han Lin's face was a little subtle, "It's all about work, the relationship between seniors and seniors, what you eat What kind of flying vinegar."

"No, I didn't, I was just asking casually." Lu Mingxuan snorted twice, trying to kill herself for being narrow-minded, "I've never heard of such a thing before."

"I remember that I mentioned a lot to you." Han Lin paused, recalling something, and his face became more subtle, "Although it's not a positive parity..."

"Huh?" Lu Mingxuan recalled for a moment, "The little senior sister who is said to be dead? I haven't mentioned it many times, right?"

"No..." Han Lin couldn't help covering his face, "It was earlier, when I just graduated from high school—"

At that time, Lu Mingxuan had just returned to China, so her memory was still relatively deep.

When Han Lin reminded her, she also remembered something.

"You don't mean that... You keep shouting that you must throw her into prison with your own hands, a high-intelligence psychopath?" Lu Mingxuan's mouth twitched, "You mean Jiang Yueli? Are you sure it's not a memory disorder? ? It’s not the same painting style as the little senior sister who blows every day behind you! Are you sure you’re talking about the same person?”

"That's just because she has become low-key in recent years." Han Lin's expression was blank for a few seconds, "...Of course I misunderstood her in the past, but she is actually a good person."

Lu Mingxuan made a posture of listening attentively.

"This problem can be traced back relatively early. I was kidnapped when I was a child, do you still remember?"

"Ah, is there such a thing?" Lu Mingxuan looked bewildered.

"..." Han Lin was silent for a moment, pretending not to hear her answer, and then said, "Auntie Xiu saved me that time. If it wasn't for her, I might have died long ago."

"It's fine." Lu Mingxuan comforted her, and then asked, "So what does this have to do with Jiang Yueli being a pervert?"

"Do you still want to hear it?"

"Say what you say." Lu Mingxuan made a gesture to shut up.

"It was also after that time that I had the desire to become a policeman..."

Of course it worked out later.

In fact, Lu Mingxuan was not in the country when Han Lin had an accident when he was a child, so he was not very clear about it.

However, it was precisely because of this incident that Han Lin had the idea of ​​becoming a policeman in the future, and his parents did not stop him.

Because of that kidnapping case, the Han family and the Shen family also had contacts, and Han Lin followed Shen Ju's ass to ask for advice.

He also met Jiang Yueli during that period - at that time her name was Hua Zhaoying.

At first, Han Lin didn't have a good impression of Hua Zhaoying.

However, there were not a few people who were vigilant and disgusted with Hua Zhaoying at that time, all because of her famous "great achievements".

Before Han Lin was admitted to the police | academy, the name "Hua Zhaoying" had already been spread in the K city police station, and it was like thunder.

The reason is not because she was adopted by Ju Shen, but because of the series of feats she has done when she was young.

Long before Shen Ju became Hua Zhaoying's guardian, the latter's name would appear inside the K City Police Station at least once every two months, and she would have to go in for two cups of tea every three or four months—

Most of the time, it's really just tea in the literal sense.

As for the reason, to some extent, she was an assistant in solving the case.

More than ten years ago, the law and order in some areas of City K was notoriously poor, because of the high turnover of personnel, and the emergence of many high-intelligence criminals, they also caused many serious serial crimes.

It is difficult to deal with it using conventional investigative methods, and the result is that many cases are left unsolved.

Hua Zhaoying was the first person to apply network information tracking and screening to the extreme.

In order to track down suspects who have nothing to do with her, she can endure severe cold or scorching heat, pretend to be passers-by or beggars around the living area of ​​the other party, and search for all available clues.

No one would be wary of a ten-year-old girl, not to mention Hua Zhaoying was malnourished since she was a child, and she was thin and frail. Even if she had doubts, the suspect would not take her seriously at all. inside.

It is no exaggeration to say that Hua Zhaoying played a key role in the detection of several important cases in K City in the early years.

At that time Hua Zhaoying was only in her teens, she was too young, she was a genius, but she was less rash than her peers.

Even if some of the regulations were occasionally touched, in the end, the credit for assistance was offset by those innocuous small mistakes.

Because of this, the K City Police Department once became a laughing stock among colleagues——

A group of adults were helpless with the case, and in the end they had to rely on an underage girl to save them.

In addition, Hua Zhaoying has such a lukewarm temperament since she was a child, and she treats everyone with a deadpan expressionless face. Combining all kinds of pressure, it is not surprising that she is not popular.

When Han Lin interacted with the Shen family, he also came into contact with some seniors. After hearing a lot, he also had a negative impression of this strange guy.

A withdrawn and talented guy who walks alone and does not communicate with others, and has a weird obsession with criminals——

No matter how you look at it, he looks like a guy who will grow into a pervert.

Just imagine, a girl in her teens is still at the age when ordinary people would lie in the arms of her parents and act like a baby because of wrestling, but Hua Zhaoying deals with criminals all day long.

How about a sense of justice?

This is even more ridiculous. What kind of "sense of justice" does a poor little girl who came out of the sixteenth district and didn't even go to school have?

While some people ridiculed the teenage Hua Zhaoying's "sense of justice", others noticed the danger in her.

Hua Zhaoying has a special talent - there is no doubt about it. After helping to crack the prisoner's encrypted files and find key clues many times, no one dares to underestimate her "talent".

Even in some unavoidable situations, they had to bow their heads and ask her for help.

Under such extraordinary talents and talents, there is a heart that is tenacious and focused to the point of fear. She never enjoys pleasure, has no extra interests, and absorbs knowledge and experience at an astonishing speed. Have any contact with the case and normal life outside of the criminal.

The more focused, almost paranoid, and talented people are, the easier it is to fall into the abyss once they go astray, and they will never recover.

At that time, Bureau Shen was aware of this, and after some hesitation, he still took over her guardianship, trying to guide her to the "right path".

"... Shen Bureau's original intention was good. He recommended the young senior sister to the school as a special case. She could join us in the police station after graduation." Han Lin paused, ambiguous about the second half of the sentence. Details, "But because of what happened to her teacher, she dropped out of school and went to that newly established company to do information technology support..."

Lu Mingxuan knew that there were some things she shouldn't ask, so she consciously skipped over them, and only raised her eyebrows at his previous question: "Then how did you suddenly turn from suspecting her as a pervert to blindly bragging? What kind of magical powers does she know?" ?"

"It's almost there." Han Lin sighed, "Don't mention the black history when I was young and ignorant. Many people did have prejudice against her at the beginning, but... capable people can indeed save many people, and she will also save her later. It's not that difficult to communicate anymore, she had a good relationship with me in school, but..."

When Han Lin stopped here, Lu Mingxuan felt that he meant something: "But what?"

"I suspect that it's because of you that she treats me well." Han Lin recalled, "I didn't feel it before, but now that I think about it, she started talking to me, as if it was when you came back."

Han's parents and Lu Mingxuan's parents were good friends when they were students. The two children even attended extracurricular classes together when they were young, so they can be regarded as well-known family friends.

When Lu Mingxuan first returned to China, Han Lin personally went to the airport to pick her up.

Although none of them publicized it, it should be no secret to Hua Zhaoying.

Lu Mingxuan froze for a moment, and the photo of Jiang Yueli's computer flashed inappropriately in her mind.

Originally, she felt a little horrified, but also a kind of strange satisfaction—Jiang Yueli's attention to her was a fact, no matter what the original intention was, this attention has become a deep-rooted habit, almost a kind of affection.

However, at this moment, some doubts crossed her mind——

In the past so many years, what kind of mood did Jiang Yueli look at her?

……

Jiang Yueli's mind was burning groggy, and he woke up a few times during the period, but his vision was blank, and he soon fell asleep again.

During this period, her consciousness was hazy, and she felt that there seemed to be a familiar figure sitting by the bed, reaching out to touch her forehead, and muttering: "Fortunately, I retreated..."

Jiang Yueli subconsciously chased the cool temperature on his forehead, his frown was slightly relieved, and soon his consciousness sank into a deep sea.

A sigh became a distant echo in her ears, and long-lasting memories spread out in front of her.

In that heavy rain, she held another little girl's hand, watching the violence in the distance | powerless.

The light in the little girl's eyes dimmed little by little, like a candle in the wind, but she couldn't hold on in the end, and she was led away until there was only a small black spot left in her vision.

She stood in the rain, trying to chase the back of the man in black, but was hugged tightly by her mother.

The mother knelt on the ground and hugged her waist, with tears streaming down her face, mixed with the rain, and whispering in her mouth: "Xiaoying, don't go, please, don't go to them, just pretend you don't know anything, okay, you don't know anything See, don't do those dangerous things..."

So she stopped and stood there, watching the person holding the blood-stained knife go away.

Later, when her mother passed away, her elder brother held her hand and stood in front of her mother's grave for a long time.

Then, in the blink of an eye, she turned her head, and the brother who had been leading her along had disappeared.

She sat alone in the dark room, the only source of light was the faint light on the computer screen in front of her, the screen turned from blue to bright, and a girl's face was reflected on it, from ten years old to teens, and then to twenties.

A strange sound came from the next room, she looked through the gap in the window, and saw a young girl being pinned down by a man with a hideous look.

The girl's screaming sound quickly disappeared, and she collapsed on the ground like a rag, motionless, with a shocking pool of blood pooling under her body.

What should I do if I encounter this kind of thing?

She went to report to the police, but no one believed what a child said, and perfunctorily walked around this chaotic place, and the original traces had already been cleaned up.

"Look, I'll say it's a child calling the police blindly." Someone said disdainfully.

"That's right, the kids don't watch too many TV series, maybe they are just doing things that only adults can do." Someone responded.

So they roared with laughter.

Some people muttered softly, "Isn't it normal for dead people to die in this kind of place? A bunch of rubbish, they deserve it."

She wanted to reach out and grab the corners of those people who didn't look back, but she froze in place, unable to move.

The words of her mother before she was alive sounded in her mind for the last time, but in the end it was covered by the desperate face of the girl she never knew before she died.

And that rainy night back then, when she watched the violence | her sense of powerlessness overlapped with the empty expression of the girl beside her, surging up together.

Half a month later, the dead girl's mother reported her daughter missing, and the details of the murder case and all the clues and evidence were sent to the city bureau at the same time.

The murderer who was forced to be trapped in the waiting room because of the rare delay of the high-speed rail was caught on the same day.

The darkness in front of her eyes was illuminated by another faint light. She sat in front of the man with a kind expression, tapping on the armrest of the chair with her fingertips in boredom.

"Catching criminals is the business of us adults." The man said, "You are not only disrupting our normal work, but also very dangerous. You are only a teenager, and you should go to school well instead of running around."

"Did you catch it?" She turned her head and asked coldly.

When he came out of the hospital, the psychiatrist in charge of testing looked at the man and sighed, and lowered his voice: "Her IQ is very high, very high, but her mental state is very strange, she doesn't look like a child, she has a lot of problems. Strong 'sense of justice', but...very stubborn, I suggest you pay more attention to her mental health."

After that, the man squatted in front of her, seemed to hesitate for a long time, and then said: "I know your intention is good, but you can't go on like this, the doctor told me that your last test was already very dangerous, you must You have to control yourself, or find someone to watch you... Besides, a person will still be lonely, if you can promise me not to violate the regulations at will, how about coming directly to my side in the future? What you have been doing It's a job, not a secret that requires sneaking..."

At that time, she probably nodded her head. Since then, the light like the sun has penetrated into the originally dim and dark memory.

Or rather, she had finally stepped into the sun.

……

What made Jiang Yueli wake up from the dream was a phone call.

The ear-piercing sound came in persistently even though she covered her ears, Jiang Yueli squinted her eyes and fumbled for a long time before finally finding the phone on the bedside table.

"Hello?" Jiang Yueli didn't look at the caller ID, and responded perfunctorily.

"Xiao Hua—ah no, Xiao Jiang? Oh, you're not dead, are you?" The person on the other side opened his mouth and said, "If you're not dead, hurry up and go to work tomorrow, and bring that little bastard Jiang Feng over by the way, and let him go back and calm down for a while. It's really a strike for me, it's too shameful."

The caller was Jiang Yueli's immediate supervisor in name, and said it was in name because this person had been a hands-off shopkeeper for a long time.

Jiang Yueli woke up with a start: "Tomorrow?"

"Yes, tomorrow is the second day of junior high school, and you two don't have any relatives to visit, so it's no problem to come here. I'll count you as overtime wages."

Jiang Yueli narrowed her eyes: "What happened?"

"I need your help to solve the matter. Others are kept secret. Get out early before eight o'clock tomorrow morning, or wages will be deducted."

Obviously they had a tougher problem, but it wasn't that urgent.

The other party had already hung up the phone quickly, Jiang Yueli looked at the phone in his hand with a drowsy head, and his mind was still spinning.

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