According to He Yu's letter, the real Lu Zhishu Vivian ran many times and was found. And in the last escape, she met Zhou Muying.
The specific details at that time are not known, but it is not difficult to guess that Zhou Muying, as a mother and a policeman, can easily notice those young mothers who are obviously encountering difficulties.
Might as well make an eight/nine inseparable assumption. At that time, Vivian was pregnant and was walking on the road in embarrassment, and Zhou Muying noticed her, so he stepped forward to ask her about her condition.
Vivian was probably not feeling well at that time, and the money she carried with her was almost used up. Zhou Muying may have taken her to have a meal, or she may have opened a hotel for her to take a good rest. In short, after a period of time After the contact, Vivian judged that the female police officer in front of her did not have any malice towards her. The long-standing emotions finally burst at this fragile time, and Vivian told Zhou Muying what happened to her.
"She said these words at the time, she should not have much hope that Officer Zhou would help her, maybe she just wanted a little emotional catharsis." He Yu's letter wrote, "After all, she does not have any Evidence can support her suspicions about Wei Rong. No one around her believes her guess, which is why she escaped from Shanghai."
"But from the series of events that happened later, we can see that Zhou Muying chose to believe my mother."
No one knows how the two young women communicated and how trust was established.
However, Zhou Muying is a very gentle police officer. A foreign singer like Li Miaoqing can be moved by her sincerity and kindness. It is reasonable for Vivian to let her guard down.
Now that the two mothers are no longer alive, no one can restore the full picture of the dialogue at that time, but from one of Vivian's relics, the living people can still glimpse it.
That relic was found by He Jiwei during the investigation—
A postcard that Vivian later sent to Zhou Muying.
It was sent by Vivian to Zhou Muying before giving birth, but she didn't know that Zhou Muying had just passed away at the time, and the postcard was placed in the file box by the police station's receiving room because the recipient died.
In fact, this kind of postcard, which is purely human, should be disposed of casually, but Zhou Muying usually treats people very well. The aunt in the office can't help but feel uncomfortable when she sees this letter that can no longer reach the recipient. As soon as he read it, he kept it in Zhou Muying's file bag, and later stored it in the long-term file room along with many expired documents. Only then did He Jiwei have the opportunity to see the letter his wife wrote to Police Officer Zhou 20 years later.
The content of the postcard was very simple. Vivian invited Xie Qingcheng's parents to come to her house with their children after her child was born.
She wrote on the postcard, thank you for helping me, and I look forward to seeing Sister Zhou, brother-in-law, Qingcheng and Xiaoxue.
She referred to Zhou Muying as Sister Zhou in the letter.
She even wrote Xie Qingcheng's name. When He Yu's biological mother was alive, she once wrote the two characters "Qingcheng" one stroke at a time. This feeling is really very subtle.
He Yu continued to narrate what happened afterward: "After seeing this postcard from twenty years ago, my father recalled a story about Xie Ping and Zhou Muying. Yes, he also met them, and he was sure, Xie Tuesday. After meeting Vivian, a police officer once met Wei Rong in a club in Yanzhou."
"That meeting was not easy. At that time, Wei Rong was always proud of being the daughter of a big official and wealthy family, and did not take Xie Ping and Zhou Muying seriously, thinking that they did not belong to the same class as her until they told her , the girl she was helping He's laboratory to find was by their side, so she promised to find a place to meet the two police officers."
"On the day of the meeting, Zhou Muying asked Wei Rong some very tricky questions and recorded them. Those questions exposed Wei Rong and made it difficult for her to explain. She became angry and had a dispute with Zhou Muying. She may have wanted to put my mother at the time. I took it away, pulled and dropped an earring in the process…”
Obviously, Zhou Muying has determined that Wei Rong is not a good thing, and the frame-up is definitely not Vivian's paranoia, but it is true.
Therefore, after this meeting, Zhou Muying personally accompanied Vivian back to Shanghai and informed He Jiwei of the incident. That's why He Jiwei knows the truth...
"But my father had never told me about it before."
He Yu wrote: "He even told me that my mother had always thought that she had not protected me well because of the biochemical infection. In his previous narration, he never mentioned Wei Rong. Maybe it was his heart There was suspicion, but he didn't dare to face it at all, he would rather deceive himself at that time."
In fact, it's no wonder that He Jiwei has stubbornness in his heart. After all, He Jiwei once suspected Wei Rong and almost found out the truth. At that time, he was shocked and angry when he learned that Wei Rong was indeed very likely to frame his wife. Zhou Muying and Xie Ping said that they would investigate this matter carefully, and once there was evidence, they would tell He Jiwei to seek justice for them. He Jiwei thanked him and promised that he would stay there day and night to take good care of his wife.
"Not long after this incident, Xie Ping and Zhou Muying were suddenly reported and framed, both of them were demoted, and then there was the accident of the truck self-igniting. Both of them died." He Yu wrote, "My father immediately I just thought about whether the murderer might be Wei Rong, he was worried that my mother was too sad, so he didn't tell his wife who was about to give birth, but after thinking it over, he decided to report the case to the bureau."
"However, just the night before he was going to report the case, something happened, that event completely dispelled his idea of reporting the case, and he even thought he was wrong. It was just a coincidence. That incident was— Wei Rong died unexpectedly. It was also a car accident."
"Everyone is already dead, and my father has no reason to guard against and suspect a dead person. After that, Vivian gave birth in Shanghai and gave birth to me." He Yu wrote, "These things happened very intensively, my father There was almost no time to breathe and no time to ponder, and later he was completely immersed in the joy of becoming a new father, and even put these doubts behind him."
The next paragraph is when He Yu and Xie Qingcheng were getting along, and he once told the story of his mother's disfigurement after marriage, and her disposition changed drastically because of her appearance.
The letter wrote: "In these years, my father's attitude towards her has changed from being sympathetic at first to only sympathy at the beginning. In fact, it is not because her appearance is out of shape, but because he gradually feels that his wife Completely changed."
"They used to have a lot of common topics, but gradually they couldn't talk together. He used to like her for being straight, but now he only sees smoothness in her. He has always followed her and took care of her heart, what she prefers, He completely followed her choice. They even had a second child. Lu Zhishu was very fond of his second son. Because he loved his wife very much, he tried to be consistent with her... But day after day, he found that she was impossible. Back to the past again. She seemed to be a woman he didn't know, right down the line."
"I think the seeds of doubt in his heart were planted very early. It's just that he never dared to inquire about the truth. Because he knew subconsciously that the truth must be something he couldn't bear."
"It's not easy to get people to admit that they've done something wrong, and it's even harder to get people to admit that what they're doing is wrong. He just kept running away from that invisible ghost until recently, one by one. Cases occur frequently... Huang Zhilong killed his wife, illegally developed obedient water, cross-border drug research, far surpassing the invention of current scientific research and technology... These incidents forced him to a dead end, and the conjecture in his heart continued to fit. He could no longer pretend that nothing had happened, and he finally made up his mind to find out the truth of the year. As Wei Rong's direct boss, Vivian's husband, and even the person who had contact with the two police officers before Zhou Muying's sacrifice to Xie Ping, he The clues in this book are more detailed than anyone else. He put all the puzzle pieces together in his hand, and finally saw the whole picture of the whole incident-"
The letter was turned over again.
"It turns out that when Wei Rong was studying in school, because of her excellent grades and good family background, she was targeted by the cross-border illegal scientific research organization in Australia. Wei Rong saw the many benefits that organization could give her. It also coincided with them in the main concept, so it was quickly absorbed by the organization and became one of them."
"And the high-level people of this organization are often people who have exchanged great interests with them, such as Huang Zhilong. The organization helps him hide the evidence of killing and humiliating his wife. This is not only a proof of ability, but also a depth of complicity. Bound. Wei Rong is the same. The dirty things she and the organization are deeply tied up are murder, killing police, plastic surgery... In a word, the organization uses its own high-tech means to complete a flawless ' A civet cat for a prince'."
This is a plan that has been refined over time and has been carefully laid out.
Wei Rong learned that Zhou Muying and Xie Ping were investigating her intentionally framing Vivian, so she quickly reported the situation to the organization and asked for help.
In order to exonerate her, help her fulfill her wish of marrying the person she really loves, and at the same time get rid of the "poor girl Vivian" she hates, Wei Rong and the people in that organization carried out a series of crazy behaviors.
They first used their relationship to deter the Xie couple from demotion. After finding that the couple still did not give up investigating Vivian's case, they simply used the spontaneous combustion truck to kill the Xie couple who had first-hand evidence.
Then, the organization carefully planned Wei Rong's suspended death before He Jiwei reported the case to provide more evidence.
Although Wei Rong's status is noble, the old man in the Wei family is a very honest veteran cadre. Once he is told that there is such a murderer and scum in his family, he will definitely not protect Wei Rong.
What's more, the follow-up status arranged by the organization for Wei Rong is not low. They also pointed out that after Wei Rong changed his identity, he could become the person in charge of the organization's inland drug testing and manufacturing base for a long time.
So comparing the two, the identity of "Weirong" is no longer attractive - according to the plan, Weirong "died".
Her death was designed to be tragic. After the collision, the car exploded, and the big explosion almost turned her body into ashes. The technology at that time was not very advanced, and the forensics only had those simple equipment. Where did you play with that scientific research organization in Australia? The identification result naturally said that it was Wei Rong himself who died.
In fact, the real Wei Rong has been hidden in the organization's private manor in Shanghai, and the people in the organization are performing an amazing face-lifting operation on her, all of which are invented by their internal scientists Drugs, devices… enable transformations that are absolutely impossible to achieve in normal society.
A few days later, Wei Rong recovered.
When she came out wet from the repair solution warehouse, what she saw was a very beautiful carcass, with black hair hanging down like black silk, covering her naked/naked breasts, the woman in the mirror was wide and graceful The almond eyes, showing a look of surprise and ecstasy—
She became exactly the same as He Jiwei's wife Vivian.
This is a terrifying surgery comparable to the face-swapping of a sci-fi movie.
After rectifying his skin, Wei Rong waited for an opportunity in the manor, like a poisonous snake ready to swim out of the cave at any time.
The opportunity came.
A few days before Vivian's due date, it was the birthday of Wei Dongheng, the third son of the Wei family. The invitation was sent to He Jiwei, who is emerging in the field of medicine.
Although He Jiwei was already very famous at that time and the laboratory was rapidly rising, he was not the later President He. The invitation from the Wei family was impossible to ask for, and all businessmen in Huzhou knew that rejecting their invitation was either crazy or stupid.
So He Jiwei went to the banquet.
And Vivian has been using rn-13 to protect the miscarriage since then. She and He Jiwei both took the attitude of giving it a try and becoming a living horse doctor. They didn't know that even this savior-like medicine was deliberately arranged and recommended by the organization. On the day of the banquet, the researcher who secretly belonged to the organization replaced the RN-13 injected with her with the medicine to induce labor. Vivian broke the amniotic fluid and was rushed to the arranged hospital by the researcher who was nearby at the time.
That's what happened when the dove occupied the magpie's nest.
In the delivery room of that private hospital, Vivian gave birth to a baby boy. She cried and asked the doctor to answer the phone call from her husband. At that time, He Jiwei was on his way like crazy.
"I hope his name is He Yu... This is the best child God has given us... Do you remember? We have long thought about calling him He Yu... "
"Okay! Don't talk, I'll be there soon! I'll be here soon!"
He Jiwei never thought that it was the last conversation between him and his real Vivian.
The mother is young, the fetus is in the right position, and the baby is born quickly. After the delivery, she will be pushed into the intensive care unit for monitoring. Vivian closed her eyes tiredly, put her hands on the guardrail of her hospital bed, and pushed her towards the special elevator, but Vivian didn't see that the elevator button that person pressed was not a normal maternity care floor.
Rather—
negative second floor.
Tai, flat, room!
During the whole process, the researchers used the first-generation obedient water that had been prepared long ago to stun the medical staff, complete the murder, and confuse the audience.
At the same time, Wei Rong, who was already prepared and adjusted to a similar state to the postpartum Vivian, lay down on the mobile hospital bed.
The elevator door opened again, and the cart entered.
The elevator went up, bringing a slight sense of weightlessness. Wei Rong was inserting those tubes, wearing a breathing mask, and her face was abnormally pale, but she knew that it was not because of the pain of childbirth, but because of her extreme excitement and extreme guilty conscience.
She opened her eyes and looked at the cold light in the elevator.
The person sent by the organization said softly beside her hospital bed: "Miss Wei, when you get out of this elevator door, the past has been written off, you must remember, you are Lu Zhishu, you are He Jiwei's wife, He Yu's mother, you are Vivian."
She nodded, clutching her cold hand tightly.
With a ding, the elevator door opened again.
She was pushed out. All of this was organized in an organized way, and no one found abnormality. She was pushed into the intensive care unit. The nurse took the handrail of the stroller, and confirmed it professionally as when receiving each mother: "Maternal name? What's your name?"
Her lips opened and closed under the breathing mask, and her heart beat like an invisible war drum. Thus began a two-decade-long scam.
"Lu Zhishu," she said, "my name is Lu Zhishu."
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"He Jiwei has left evidence for these things." Wei Er saw that Xie Qingcheng had read this, and said, "We interrogated Lu Zhishu, and she confessed some content, which can be compared with the content of this letter. match."
"..." Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes, he was only reading a few pages of text, but he seemed to have exhausted all his strength.
Wei Er: "The whole body made by the fake Lu Zhishu made her look like Vivian temporarily, but their technology was not fully mature. As time went by, her appearance began to decline rapidly, which made her become She was very anxious. She wanted Vivian's beauty like crazy, and she hated everything Vivian left behind. He Jiwei said that she once burned down a lot of old things as if she had a disease. He thought she was mentally stimulated. , but in fact she really wanted to destroy those traces."
Xie Qingcheng thought that He Yu had chatted with him about this matter, and He Yu said at the time - "My mother almost burned all the clothes before giving birth to me, photos..."
He Yu also mentioned to him that when he was young, his mother liked to wear the retro Hong Kong-style red dress that was popular at the time, and liked red very much, but she never wore it again after giving birth.
The old man in the villa that hosted the Wei family's marriage also mentioned that Wei Rong hated red very much.
In fact, what this woman hates is not red at all, but Vivian... everything is right.
"Her mentality is not difficult to understand." Wei Er said, "On the one hand, she desperately wants to have everything in Vivian and become He Yu's biological mother, and on the other hand, she looks down on He Yu, a real mother of ordinary origin. She killed the real Vivian. It's not enough, she has to erase all the traces of her life... The only thing she can't erase is He Yu. She needs to pretend to be He Yu's own mother and completely own this child, but she doesn't want to see that this child belongs to her. Vivian's shadow, He Yu grew up in such a deformed family environment in the past 20 years."
Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes, he knew this better than anyone.
When Wei Er said this, he paused: "When He Jiwei finally confessed everything to He Yu, he should have expressed his extreme guilt and remorse, but it was too late. He was deceived by the fake Lu Zhi book for so long, and he still had a relationship with her. They are their flesh and blood... that is He Yu's younger brother He Li. In order to take care of his 'wife' feelings, he petted He Li for so many years, but he almost never got close to the child who really belonged to Vivian. Even... He back then When He Yu was two years old, he held a make-up wedding with him, and the woman who entered the door solemnly was not the girl he loved, but Wei Rong, the murderer who killed Vivian."
"He Jiwei loves Vivian very much, far more than he loves He Yu, more than anything in the world. So after he knows the truth, he will quickly die in just a few months."
"The pain completely broke him, he felt disgusted, scared, sad, but there was nothing he could do. He didn't even know if he should disclose the truth again... He was almost driven crazy, in order to escape all this, He chose to kill himself by drinking paraquat out of extreme self-loathing."
Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes and said, "It's hard for him to determine the truth... Because Lu Zhishu has been lying to him. She doesn't forget to act when she sleeps, and she will say things like 'it's because your mother didn't protect you well', these things He Jiwei Said it to me once. But he hesitated when he said it, and maybe he did suspect in his heart that there was something wrong with all this."
"Yeah." Wei Er sighed, "It's a pity that He Jiwei is not a very brave person, is he?"
"… "
"It wasn't until the last moment that he had the courage to face his faults for the past 20 years. In fact, he almost brought these secrets to the grave, but maybe people are watching, and such crimes cannot be covered up after all. He Jiwei was temporarily rescued after drinking the paraquat... None of us knew what he thought, but he finally kept He Yu by his side during the few days he was waiting for his death, and told him Everything went out."
When Wei Er said this, he paused for a moment: "And He Yu... He is much braver than his father."
Xie Qingcheng's heart seemed to be severely stabbed.
He remembered the last night he and He Yu spent in Moyu Lane... At that time, He Yu behaved so abnormally. At that time, He Yu hugged him so tightly, but told him that maybe , this is the last time.
At that time, he thought that He Yu had made a decision, and from now on he would take the responsibility of the He family.
I don't know, it turns out...
It turned out that He Yu at that time had already learned all the truth from He Jiwei. At that time, He Yu was almost driven mad by the pain, and was driven to death in a desperate situation by the truth.
But He Yu... This boy, who was suffering from a mental illness, had to carry it alone and couldn't say anything.
He Yu's "last time" was not because he chose the family, but because he knew everything, and he knew that he had to go through fire and water to seek a clear truth.
He wants to love him forever, but he has no other choice...
Xie Qingcheng took a deep breath, seeing He Yu's sad and calm face that night, and he couldn't get rid of it. In fact, he already knew in his heart what happened afterward.
He has already guessed...
But he still took the stack of letters and slowly read He Yu's last words in this world, word by word... Word by word pierced into his heart, read word by word over.
Not as he expected.
All He Yu did was to avenge his mother, Zhou Muying and Xie Ping, to find out all the illegal livelihoods in Lu Zhishu's hands over the years, and to leave her irrefutable evidence.
He even designed the delivery this time. In the cargo he handed over to the Mandela ship, he secretly placed a location recording tracker that he had specially designed. If they arrive, they will not check too seriously, and the tracker will be brought back to Duan Wen's lair, and more criminal information can be collected.
"Duan Wen's old nest is very difficult to find. That island has been shielded from information. We have been trying to find it, but we have never found any success. For so long, there has been no breakthrough." Wei Er said, "But Now... its latitude and longitude data has been sent back through the channel He Yu left us."
"He Yu has done what no one has done before."
"… "
Xie Qingcheng still didn't say a word, didn't say that He Yu was doing well, and didn't ask why He Yu didn't want to tell anyone of the news in advance.
He understood the purpose written in the suicide note.
And he can understand what is not written in the suicide note.
Xie Qingcheng knew that Duan Wen's organization was looking for the "first emperor", and He Yu didn't want him to take this risk. No one would be curious about what the first emperor was... He wanted to protect him.
That 20-year-old kid, knowing all the truth, is so persistent in wanting to protect him...
There was only the last page left of the suicide note. Xie Qingcheng wanted to turn it down, but he turned it several times without success.
He thought the pages were stuck together, but Wei Er came over with a sigh and helped him turn to the last page. He looked at his hands numbly, only to realize that it was his hands that were shaking badly.
The content of the last page is rarely very short, and the explanation is very simple.
The familiar handwriting reads:
"If this delivery goes well and I can come back safely, this suicide note should be useless. When you arrest Wei Rong and when you interrogate me, I will try to tell you all the truth in person. But I know that this incident is startling every step of the way, and it is easy to make mistakes. I may never be able to get rid of the crime again, or I may be buried in the ocean. If this is the case..."
Xie Qingcheng looked on, he could no longer feel any heat in his body, and he could not feel the blood of living people flowing in his veins.
He saw the last paragraph:
"If that's the case, I hope you don't hand this letter to Xie Qingcheng. If I really die, I don't need to correct my name, and I don't need to reverse the case. Because if my death is a fait accompli, I don't want the best person in the world to feel sad for me. I'd rather he be disappointed in me and spit on me, than I don't want to see him sad. responsibility."
"This is my only request."
"He Yu left a book late at night on August 19, 2022"
The room was eerily silent, and no one said a word.
Finally, Wei Er broke the silence.
He said: "I really want to fulfill his last wish for him, but no one can do it. This case is reported directly to the superior, and soon a lot of information will be made public to the whole country, and no one can hide the truth of this section. And I think... You should know. If the only person in the world who was good to him also disappointed him after his death and regarded him as a criminal, then it would be as if he never existed in his life, and no one would remember him. Live and care for him."
"..."
Xie Qingcheng slowly put down the suicide note.
He didn't listen to what Wei Er said. It doesn't seem like it matters anymore... it doesn't matter anymore.
He just realized very clearly that He Yu didn't need to die.
If it wasn't for the police catching up with him at an untimely time, He Yu would not have died... and the police had not been able to catch up so easily... He took the initiative to stand up and stood opposite He Yu.
The one who stabbed the knife into He Yu's chest with his own hands, the one who didn't stop Director Lu in time, and the one who didn't try his best to give He Yu a chance - was himself.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered his last phone call with He Yu.
At that time he said to He Yu:
where are you? You are so confused you...!
He Yu…
where are you
You are so confused...
Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes tightly—
He Yu said that he is the person who treats him the best in this world.
And this turned out to be the last word that the person who was the best to him, in this world, said to him.
Xie Qingcheng stretched out his hand and, trembling slightly, stroked the words, as if He Yu's hand had just left the paper.
Too bad the paper is cold.
Xie Qingcheng then knew—
The gentle talisman that was struggling to support the dilapidated bear puppet to live in the world, finally... In this sweet and desolate sea breeze, it lost its last strength...
It is very tired... So many times, so many days and months, it has tried so hard to give everything of its own, to stop Xie Qingcheng's blood, to cover Xie Qingcheng's injury. As a result, he was soaked wet and scarlet.
Now it doesn't have the strength to hold on anymore.
The fire trembled, the oil ran out, and he loved him to the last moment.
When his life ended... The talisman that stuck close to the puppet bear's heart finally accompanied him, and suddenly...
floated away.