The place of practice is about Tan Bo's house. Although the house has been cleaned up, the place is still too small. Tan Bo moved wooden tables and chairs to an acacia tree in the community and greeted the guests to take their seats.
He prepared a table of good dishes, such as spicy chicken, dengying beef, couple's lung slices, two vitex sticks that are crystal clear and green, and seven star peppers bright red. Tan Bochong smiled apologetically: "Chuansheng Yuchang, I like to eat spicy food."
Fortunately, Xie Lanshan was not taboo, and Shen Liufei was not afraid of spicy food. They sat down face to face, with Tan Bo sitting beside him at a right angle.
On a cloudy night in midsummer, the moon walks through the clouds, and as soon as it emerges, some light sifts from the branches of the locust tree. The wooden table is mottled, and even the three faces by the table flicker. ambiguous.
"Sichuan cuisine with red wine, what kind of novelty is this?" That being said, Xie Lanshan was rude when he opened the bottle and unplugged the cork. He had tasted Shen Liufei's Tibetan wine, but he couldn't get enough of the cheap alcohol outside.
The wine was brought by Shen Liufei, or it was Latu. He said that Lafite was excited and Latu was strong, and he preferred the latter. Xie Lanshan agreed.
Tan Bo didn't understand wine, so he tilted his neck and poured a whole glass. He didn't react until the glass bottomed out. He asked nervously, "Is it inappropriate for me to drink like this?"
"Wine is for fun. If you're deliberately pretentious but don't enjoy drinking it, then you'll put the cart before the horse." Shen Liufei smiled lightly, and drank it with a toast.
The young man looked at Sven and elegant, but very approachable. Tan Bo couldn't answer this, so he could only laugh with him. In fact, there is no difference between ten thousand pieces of red wine and a dozen or one catties of soju. For him, wine is not to add to the fun but to relieve his sorrow. The best wine is the one that can drink it. When he closes his eyes, the world turns around, and the struggling no longer struggles, and the past can pass.
It's windy tonight. As soon as the wind passed, the leaves of the locust poplar tree on the top of the head would stick to each other, and if the wind was stronger, they would fall down. Suddenly, a gray-blue insect the size of the belly of the thumb also fell, and landed in an empty bowl.
"Shoot it to death." Xie Lanshan pretended to be angry, and with a quick hand, he turned the bowl down and covered the bug inside.
"Don't shoot, don't shoot," Tan Bo has a good life, and hurriedly stopped him, "This is Zaochan."
Xie Lanshan and Shen Liufei looked at each other and asked in surprise, "Is this little bug a cicada? It's not time yet."
"It was born early, and it came to announce the good news to the farmers." Tan Bo said, carefully rescued the cicada from under the bowl, protected it in the palm of his hand, and let it fly away.
Shen Liufei watched silently. This skinny, dark-haired old man has just released a small bug.
Xie Lanshan also looked at Tan Bo, suddenly smiled at him, and said, "Tan Bo, you are really a good person."
"No no, where am I... where is a good person..." The old man seemed unworthy of praise, shaking his head and waving his hands, "I am the most common ordinary person in this world..."
"No, it's not common." Xie Lanshan poured most of the empty wine glass for Tan Bo and said sternly, "We've been doing this for a long time, and we've been in contact with the dark side of society, brothers who fought for inheritance, and those who poisoned their wives for their lovers. Husband, it is very easy to be disappointed by human nature. Thanks to your existence, Tan Bo, I believe that there are such pure and good people in this world. "
Xie Lanshan raised his glass and said to Tan Bo, "I'll give you a toast."
"I really... can't be..." The old man's face flushed and he wanted to shirk, but he couldn't resist the sincerity on the other side's face. He toasted his glass again and drank it too quickly, so he was choked up and coughed a few times.
"It's like the murder case that happened a few days ago," Xie Lanshan put down his glass and led the conversation to the topic, "We obviously caught the murderer, but the other party refused to recognize him, and insisted that he was framed. In the early morning of the 12th At two or three o'clock, he was stunned and carried away, and was thrown into the Fan Luo River. However, now all the iron evidence points to him, and he is useless no matter how cunning he is. When he is handed over to the procuratorate and then tinged, he should be shot. Still got shot."
He emphasized time, the exact time that evokes the exact memory.
Sure enough, Tan Bo obviously shook his hand and stammered and asked, "No... No way, since there are doubts in the case, we can't just judge it in such a confusing way."
"Why not? Are there still few cases like this?" Xie Lanshan pointed at Shen Liufei with his eyes, "Ask Teacher Shen."
"It's really a lot." Shen Liufei said lightly, "People often say that justice will not be absent, but will only be late, but late justice is meaningless to the parties involved. The deceased has passed away, and the living have spent half their lives in prison."
"Our director is busy closing the case, taking credit, and solving a major case within a limited time. He really fucked him up." Xie Lanshan sighed for a while, then suddenly turned his head to Tan Bo, "Tan Bo, do you want to save him or not? What about a life?"
"Save... who?" Tan Bo was taken aback.
"Rescue the suspect who claimed to be thrown into Fan Luojiang. By the way, he has a name and a surname, his name is Zhang Yuchun." Xie Lanshan stared at Tan Bo, "Zhang Yuchun said that he was rescued from the river that day, if he can find him He who saves him will be saved."
Xie Lanshan took out the mobile phone from his pocket, as if to show Shen Liufei the video inside, but put the mobile phone in front of Tan Bo.
Inside was a young man who was crying bitterly in the face of the interrogation. He said repeatedly: I really didn't kill anyone, I made mistakes in the past, but I've changed it, I want to be a good person... I'm really a good person …”
The sound of "good people" scorched the old man's heart. He had another drink. He had never drank such a good wine, but he didn't feel its goodness at all. Instead, he felt that an extreme bitterness and astringency filled his mouth and throat, making it difficult to swallow.
In the video, the young man who was being questioned was sobbing so hard that tears were running down his nose.
awful. The voice sounded miserable, and the people looked even worse.
The old man was suffering.
Xie Lanshan took back his mobile phone, turned off the video, and said, "It was raining heavily that night, strong winds, such a dark sky, such murky water, how merciful it is for a person to jump into an unknown river to save people without risking his life. It is also noble, if he knew that someone lost his life because of his silence, he would definitely feel uneasy." Xie Lanshan looked at Shen Liufei again, "Is that right, Teacher Shen?"
"Yes," Shen Liufei nodded, "perhaps every day that passes from now on will be a torment for him."
His face turned even paler, and Tan Bo almost trembled and asked, "Really... Is it really going to be shot?"
"I just said, if someone testifies for him, it won't." Xie Lanshan was serious for only three seconds, and then sighed, "Where can I find someone in the vast sea of people. Besides, maybe it's this kid named Zhang who is trying to get away from the crime. What nonsense, he is a former criminal who also takes drugs, and it is not surprising that he would kill the whole family."
Tan Bo's eyes became more and more empty, and he didn't answer any more.
"Okay, okay, I said it was practiced for Tan Bo, but it turned out to be such a disappointing thing, let's have another drink." Xie Lanshan looked up at the sky, his face was a little melancholy, as if he wanted to drink this cup. Then he thought, and he said to Tambo:
"Let's toast our unblemished conscience."
In a practice feast, the dishes were not eaten much, and the wine was even more unpleasant.
The person was brought by Xie Lanshan in the car, but now both of them have been drinking, and drinking and driving is absolutely impossible, so they took advantage of the good moonlight and took a walk together.
The stars were sparse for half a moon, and the two passed through the narrow and old community. Xie Lanshan whistled softly, slightly drunk.
Shen Liufei asked, "Can your public security police play the interrogation video to outsiders?"
"Of course not." Xie Lanshan answered decisively, and immediately turned his head to Shen Liufei, leaned against his ear and said softly, "This is a clip I cut from a domestic criminal investigation drama."
Seeing that there were still doubts in Shen Liufei's eyes, Xie Lanshan added at the right time: "The black lights are blinding by the river, Tan Bo must not have seen Zhang Yuchun's appearance clearly."
Shen Liufei smiled slightly. This guy's eyes are shining, an adult, a bit like a child who refuses to follow the rules. He asked him, "Do you think this will work?"
Xie Lanshan asked him: "You suspected Tan Bo before me, why?"
"To put it simply, human nature is inherently evil, and I don't really believe that there will be good for no reason in this world." Seeing that Xie Lanshan's eyes were full of content, this answer might not be satisfactory, so Shen Liufei continued, "To be more specific, some unconscious little The expression betrayed him, Tan Bo has more than ordinary people's attention to the 'hunting operation', I didn't know that he was linked to this murder case, but my intuition tells me that he is a shadowy person."
"So, what about you?" Xie Lanshan suddenly brought his face close to Shen Liufei and waited for the red light stall. They were close to each other, breathing in each other's breath. The wine warmed through his mouth, like the end of a perfume, exuding a more meaningful and depressing aroma.
Xie Lanshan asked, "Do you have a shadow?"
"Everyone has a shadow." Shen Liufei looked down and settled on Xie Lanshan's neck. He seemed to fiddle with the bullet necklace casually, and his fingertips slowly brushed the skin of Xie Lanshan's neck.
His fingers were slender and cold, with a strange feeling that his throat was about to be cut, dangerous and mysterious. Xie Lanshan felt dizzy, he thought, maybe Latu had too much stamina, or he was on his head. He snatched his things back from Shen Liufei's hands in time, and slapped him with sand, not serious.
"I don't know if it works, I'm not sure." After a long time, Xie Lanshan sighed softly, "Just believe it again."
Believe in humanity again.