5 years ago, November 1st.
Xia Yihan returned to Wangjiang City with money, mobile phone and purple card stock. This day is her birthday, and she wants to spend it with Mu Shangqing. Although Mu Shangqing is very busy, she still brings her a cake for her birthday every year. Or take her out for a walk.
At the end of September and early October, he sent her to his aunt's house and told her to get along well with her aunt and uncle. During that time, Mu Shangqing was so busy that he sometimes slept in the work unit at night and took his life to work, but Xia Yihan didn't think he was busy and threw her to Huang Li.
She felt that he had a last resort. He didn't say it, and she didn't ask. It is estimated that if he asked, he wouldn't say it.
After leaving home, leaving Mu Shangqing, Xia Yihan was not sad, just a little unaccustomed.
She lived her life as usual, just like copying and pasting Wangjiang's way of life.
But on November 1st, she wanted to see Mu Shangqing and celebrate her birthday together.
Xia Yihan saved up living expenses, bought a car online, drove directly back to Wangjiang City, and returned to the famous community. But Mu Shangqing was not at home, and the atmosphere at home was a bit weird.
Mu Shangqing loves cleanliness. When he wakes up every morning, he will fold the quilt, arrange the things on the table, and open the window to let in the air. But now the empty room looks messy, like just after a fight, the window is not open, just looking at this "scene", I thought it was Mu Shangqing who absconded in fear of crime, and was ready to be gone forever.
Looking at the messy room, Xia Yihan called Mu Shangqing, but no one answered. She simply rummaged through the house to see if anything was missing.
After a thorough search, she found that not only was there not much, but there was one more thing—a note was pressed against the corner of the bed, which she was very familiar with, and that was her personal belongings. In large characters: "Director of the Research and Investigation Division for Supernormal People", and a fork made of individual bones is drawn on the back.
After Xia Yihan finished reading it. Imprint the words firmly in your mind and put the cardstock back in place. Other than that, she didn't find anything unusual, so she walked out of the house.
She came to Changning Street, next to the Public Security Office, there was a white low-rise building, which was where Mu Shangqing worked. She played truant and followed Mu Shangqing before, and found out that he worked here.
I don't know what I'm doing secretly.
The place where he works is very mysterious. It looks like a row of facades outside, selling motorcycles, and above it are residents or offices, but Xia Yihan went up there to go shopping, there are only stairs, no rooms, and no entrance.
Mu Shangqing disappeared out of thin air as if he had walked into a low-rise building.
On the evening of November 1st, Xia Yihan wandered outside the low-rise building, hoping to meet Mu Shangqing, but after waiting for a long time, no one came in or out of the building.
She was tired and walked home, but when she got to the door, she found that the door was open, the light was shining from it, and it fell to the ground in a slanted line.
There were still people coming up behind him, Xia Yihan was afraid of being discovered, turned his toes and left immediately.
After walking out of the unit building, she looked up at the lit window, and suddenly had a premonition.
Mu Shangqing escaped, and now at home, either his colleagues or the police.
On November 2nd, Xia Yihan had been wandering on the street. She went to many places, cafes, museums, galleries, parks, these were the places where Mu Shangqing took her to on her birthday in previous years. She hoped to see Mu Shangqing in these places, saw him sitting in the cafe, standing at the entrance of the art museum, saw her, and said to her: Xiaohan, I have been waiting for you!
But after a day of searching, there was no gain. It seems that Mu Shangqing not only ran off on strike, but also didn't want her as a cub - he definitely didn't go back to Chenyang to find her, otherwise he would try to contact her.
But her phone has never received a reply.
Xia Yihan finally came to a place, Hua Xie Ting. This place is like a wasteland. Because of the demolition and the shutdown, all the people were evacuated, and the construction team was nowhere to be seen. It was like being abandoned by the outside world, with broken walls and rubbish piled up. Even wild dogs hate it.
She remembered that Mu Shangqing had told her that if he retire in the future, he would definitely come here to grow vegetables.
Xia Yihan also knew that Mu Shangqing spent his childhood here, and that there is also a locust tree, which is older than Mu Shangqing.
She wandered for a long time, the surrounding streets were not streets, the roads were not roads, she forgot where the locust tree was planted. It may have been knocked down, carried away, made into firewood and burned.
There were no street lights around, only the moonlight illuminated it. She searched and searched, and finally found the locust tree. It was lying on the ground, mixed with bricks and stones, as if it was about to be buried together.
She walked to the locust tree, touched the trunk, and suddenly noticed that there was a deep hole beside the tree, as if it had just been dug. Room out.
She was dexterous and hid behind the small brick house. In the dark night, several figures appeared. Two of them carry individuals. Xia Yihan's eyes were good, and he recognized it almost immediately. The person they were carrying was Mu Shangqing.
The other two people pulled out shovels from the stone pile next to them, and dug the hole next to the locust tree a little deeper. Afterwards, Mu Shangqing put them into the pit and threw something in. In the end, the five people worked together to restore the soil pit. The soil nearby had already been turned over, and it was messy. There was no abnormality in the pit where people were buried.
Xia Yihan was like a black cat, lurking in the darkness, hiding even the light in his eyes. Her heart beat a little faster, but she wasn't nervous. She saw five figures, his father, and saw those people holding knives in their hands, and she could even smell the blood on them.
Her mouth was a little dry, her eyes widened, she stared straight ahead, and the outline of the five people was imprinted in her mind by the outline of the moonlight.
She could see clearly that among the five people, there were two men and three women, all older, about 30 to 50 years old, gathered together, like a premeditated murder scene. After the murder, the bodies were buried in an orderly manner. , destroy the loot.
After the corpse was buried, the five people stood in a circle, all bowed their heads and looked at their feet. Finally, they left at the same time and spread out.
The five people went in different directions, Xia Yihan couldn't follow them at the same time, so he chose one of the younger men, took out a card in his hand, folded it, and put it in his pocket.
When she followed, she was a little flustered, because she clearly realized that she must not be lost, or she would never know who killed her father.
Xia Yihan followed the murderer from a distance, silently, quieter and more dexterous than a wild cat. Outside a public toilet, the killer took off his coat and washed the blood from his hands by the tap. After that, he buckled some mud on the side of the road and smeared it on his body to cover up the blood. It was like a car driving through a puddle and splashing mud on him.
After completing the disguise, he continued to advance until he reached Xinye Community. Xia Yihan was familiar with this neighborhood, near the mysterious low-rise building. She saw the killer approach building 11.
He is the inhabitant of it, and he lives in it!
After remembering his address, Xia Yihan hurried back to Hua Xie Ting and back to the locust tree.
She took the shovel and dug up the dirt again.
After two full days of searching, she finally saw her father, who was lying in the dirt, covered in blood, with a peaceful face.
Xia Yihan stretched out his hand and wiped the dirt off Mu Shangqing's face. She turned on her phone, illuminating his face.
He was so good-looking, even though it was stained with blood, mixed with mud, and his face was wounded, his facial features were still straight, which made people want to help him clean his face and heal all his wounds.
Xia Yihan sat by the long pit, she was surprisingly calm, she didn't cry, she didn't scream, and even her breathing was calm.
In her imagination, after seeing Dad, he would smile at her, brighten his eyes, and stretch out his arms to her. But at this moment, he lay motionless in the earthen coffin with 5 stab wounds on his body.
Xia Yihan peeled off Mu Shangqing's clothes and carefully observed that one of the stab wounds was bandaged and had scab marks, which should not have been the injury suffered tonight. The other four wounds were fresh scars, with obvious bloodstains.
There were five knives in the pit. She used her mobile phone to identify them. Four of them had dried blood, and one of the knives was clean and did not appear to have penetrated into the body.
In the desolate Hua Xie Court, Xia Yihan was like a detective, concentrating on observing the scene and searching for evidence.
In addition to the knives, she also found a mobile phone, a second-hand copycat phone with almost no trace of use. It seems that Mu Shangqing bought it, but there are 5 call records. Call each of the five numbers.
In the dark night, facing the dazzling light of the mobile phone, Xia Yihan's pupils shrank sharply. She turned off the screen of her mobile phone and put it in her bag. She took the shovel, finally glanced at Mu Shangxin, and restored the pit into it, with Sophora japonica on the side, motionless.
Xia Yihan remembered that Mu Shangqing once said that he liked the locust tree in his hometown very much. This tree was full of his childhood. Now that the tree fell, so did he, but fortunately, one person and one tree have a companion. Son.
Xia Yihan put her hands in her pockets, and after confirming that there was no one around, she went back the same way and disappeared into the darkness.
After returning to Chenyang City, the days are still the same. She goes to school, after school, eats, sleeps, does her own things, lives in her own world, has no companions, and has no communication. A person goes out facing the rising sun and returns with the stars.
A few days after returning to Chenyang, the police came to her and asked about Mu Shangqing. Xia Yihan just said lightly that she didn't know that after arriving at her aunt's house, they lost contact.
On her birthday, she called Dad, but he didn't answer, so be it.
She didn't say a word about what she saw and she didn't trust the police. After Xiaomei died, she went to the police, but to no avail. The police believed the good teacher and automatically ignored her, the bad student.
Moreover, she also guessed that the mysterious organization that Mu Shangqing worked was inextricably linked with the Public Security Bureau.
First, the headquarters of the mysterious organization is near the Public Security Bureau. She has seen people inside rush to the Public Security Bureau, as if they are working together; Second, before she left Wangjiang City, she asked Mu Shangqing, what work How's it going? And Mu Shangqing's answer is: The place where I work is a hell.
Perhaps, the murderer behind Mu Shangqing's death was the mysterious organization and the Public Security Bureau.
She kept this secret and didn't even mention it to Huang Li and Wang Zitao. They asked her where she went on her birthday, she just avoided the important and said lightly: boring, go out to relax.
But not saying it does not mean forgetting. She knows that what she wants to remember will never be forgotten.