With the turn signals on, the police car made a hasty turn and changed lanes on the bustling street, and drove to another road.
And that is the only way to go to the family hospital of Jiangcheng Hospital.
Man pushing a wheelchair for a walk on the sidewalk.
The man in the hat turned around: "Aren't they notified?"
When going out, the man also wore a mask and a peaked cap, looking like a family member of an ordinary patient.
"Why, are you softhearted?"
The person in the wheelchair grasped the armrest: "I..."
"Don't forget who abandoned you." The man pushed him across the zebra crossing and said calmly.
The policeman on duty at the intersection saw them, one old and one young, still pushing a wheelchair, and immediately ran over to help them lift the wheelchair up the steps.
There was a little sincere gratitude in the man's eyes: "Thank you."
"You're welcome, just ask us for help if you need it."
The man smiled and pushed the wheelchair away. The moment he turned around, his eyes turned cold. His smile seemed to be floating on ice without a trace of warmth.
"This is what she owes to you and Xinye. It's a gift for me to let her live for so many years. Now it's time for her to repay the debt."
He lovingly touched the head of the child in the wheelchair: "Besides, without her blocking the police's sight, how could we have succeeded so easily."
"Okay, now it's time to do one last thing."
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Wei Lihong has been a little restless for the past few days. After work at noon, she hurried home to cook for her son.
When the water boiled, she lifted her son up from the bed and scrubbed his body. The ten-year-old was tortured by illness, his arms and legs were thin and soft, and he looked like a seven or eight-year-old child.
She felt sad and turned her back to wipe away her tears. The corner of her son's lips was slobbering. When he saw her crying, he clapped his hands and laughed at the same time.
Wei Lihong had no choice but to push the person down and lie down again, motioning him not to move.
At this moment, the phone rang, and she picked it up and covered the receiver: "Hello?"
The man's eerie laughter came out: "Wei Fengzhen..."
Upon hearing this name, she trembled almost subconsciously, and a layer of goose bumps appeared all over her body.
However, she looked at her son who was bewildered and foolish on the hospital bed, and managed to gather herself together: "Didn't you say you found a suitable kidney source last time?"
"Yeah, it's a pity that you didn't have the chance to see the day when your son was alive and kicking."
The man's voice was rough and sharp, as if it came out of nowhere through the earpiece.
The feeling of uneasiness in the woman's heart became more and more intense. She turned her head suddenly, panting slightly, and looked around her room.
"You... what do you mean?"
"I mean… "
The man smiled slightly, and the doorbell rang along with knocking in the long blank space.
"Is anyone there? Police, open the door quickly."
The woman took a few steps back hastily, knocking over the chair, and the knock on the door stopped for a moment, and then became more urgent.
The devilish voice in the receiver continued: "Do you want your son to live? Do you want to? If you want to, you know what to do."
beep beep—
Phones were disconnected and the police broke into the house.
Wei Lihong stretched out her hands on her own initiative: "I surrender myself."
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Inside the bars.
Wei Lihong sat with her head drooped in handcuffs.
Zhang Jinhai came in, sat down on the main seat, and called her by her original name: "Wei Fengzhen?"
The other party nodded, his eyes were dim.
Zhang Jinhai looked at her: "Are you Li Hai's wife? Why did you change your name?"
Wei Lihong licked her chapped lips, her voice hoarse: "Li Hai and I eloped, and we changed it when we left Xiaohe Village and went to Jiangcheng to register."
Several criminal investigators looked at each other, and one of them pushed a photo: "Do you know Yu Xinye?"
In the black and white photo, Yu Xinye is still young, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and regular facial features, he is considered a handsome guy.
But she seemed to have been stabbed by something, she shrank back suddenly, lowered her head, not daring to look again.
"Yes... Yes, he... He is my ex-husband..."
Typical guilt-avoiding psychology, Zhang Jinhai was thinking about it in his heart.
"At that time, you and Yu Xinye were newly married, and you just gave birth to a daughter for him, why did you elope with Li Hai?"
As soon as these words were blurted out, Wei Lihong's expression changed.
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In the deep winter of 1988.
Xiaohe Village.
"Brother, look, the official documents from the county have come down, and our group of educated youths can go home!" Li Hai ran to his side sweating profusely holding the thin piece of paper.
The mine stopped work at noon, Li Yang sat and rested, squeezed half a dry noodle steamed bun in his hand, and Yu Xinye brought over two bowls of cold water.
"Hey, this is not a good thing, you can go back to the city and enjoy yourself!"
Li Yang took the steamed buns under the cold water, and said lazily in a drawn-out voice: "What good will I enjoy when I go back, my dad will force me to take the medical school exam all day long, I'm not interested, I don't want to take the exam, it's better to dig coal here .”
"Tell me why you don't care at all, that's a good thing!" Li Hai took advantage of Yu Xinye's inattention, and secretly gave him a hand.
"There are only two places in our batch, so hurry up."
"Old Yu, it's time to eat!" The woman stood at the gate of the mine and yelled, Yu Xinye immediately ran over like a cat that smelled fishy, and picked him up.
"Why are you here? Aren't you watching Xiaobao at home?"
"Baby is sleeping. I'm not thinking about it. I'm afraid you won't be full at the mine. There is still some leftover lunch, so I brought it here for you."
"Okay, okay, so many people are watching, put me down!"
"Don't let it go, this is my daughter-in-law, let them see it!"
Not only did Yu Xinye not let go, she even hugged the woman and turned her around.
The woman in the calico dress was flushed with shame.
Li Yang leaned against the rock with a piece of dog's tail grass in his mouth: "Brother Yu and sister-in-law are so close, brother, when you go back, shouldn't it be time for Dad to kiss you too?"
Li Hai's eyes were firmly fixed on the woman, and Li Yang yelled several times before he came back to his senses.
"Ah? What's the matter? What did you just say?"
Li Yang spat out the dog's tail grass, and scolded with a smile: "Brother, do you think women are crazy?!"
Li Hai's usually fair and elegant face turned red: "What nonsense are you talking about?! Let me tell you, go to the commune with me to sign up after work at night, did you hear that?!"
Li Yang picked up the hoe and walked towards the mine, and said in a drawn out voice, "Understood brother, I'm really long-winded."
Li Hai shook his head, there was nothing he could do about him, he was the eldest son in the family, his parents had placed high hopes on him since he was a child, and he was a little neglected to discipline Li Yang, the youngest son, that's why he has grown up and has a loose personality.
Even after going to the mountains and the countryside for so many years, I still can't change this dead virtue.
However, when he thought of going back...
Li Hai looked back at the plump figure of the woman in red who had just given birth, licked her lips, and went down the mine.
In the evening, the bad news came.
Wei Fengzhen was cooking around the stove, and her daughter, who had just turned one month old, was lying on the bed, humming a country tune to light the fire.
An old man from the same village ran over: "Fengzhen, go and have a look, the mine has collapsed!"
Wei Fengzhen was taken aback, and was about to rush out, but one of the shoes ran away, and the child burst into tears.
She fell back again, strangled the baby with cloth strips on her back, and ran barefoot to the mine.
The winter in Wei Fengzhen's memory has never been so cold.
There was heavy snow falling in the sky, and she walked barefoot on the rough gravel road, and the half-frozen road was under her feet.
It was a mess, the doors of the mine had collapsed, and the roof of the mine could no longer be seen.
Some villagers spontaneously came to rescue people, and corpses were lifted out from under the pile of stones.
She hugged the children and asked one by one: "Did you see the new leaves?"
"No no."
The villagers shook their heads as they passed by her, and continued to dig the next person.
Wei Fengzhen ran to the side where the corpse was placed and knelt down, and frightenedly lifted off the plastic sheet, and the people underneath had been smashed beyond recognition.
She spat it all out with a "wow".
That day, she stayed in the mine until late at night, touched seven or eight corpses, but failed to find Yu Xinye.
Until the rescue team and experts from the county arrived.
She was shivering in the cold wind with the child in her arms, her tears and snot were blown away by the wind as soon as she came down.
The villagers advised her one after another: "Go back, go back, the child is important, if Xinye has any news, we will notify you."
She was in a daze, always feeling that someone was crying in her ear, and when she came to her senses, the child no longer had the strength to cry, her little face was frozen pale, and her whole body was as cold as a lump of ice.
She undressed, wrapped her daughter in her arms, and staggered home with her bloody feet.
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After listening to her, the criminal policemen in the interrogation room were silent for a while and said, "So in the end you and Li Hai, who escaped from death, left Xiaohe Village. What about your daughter who just turned one month old?"
Speaking of her daughter, Wei Lihong waved her hand, covered her lips and choked with sobs: "You can't support... you can't live."
It was the third day after the mining accident.
In 1988, there was a severe drought and a deep winter with heavy snowfall, so the fields had no harvest.
The Yu family has no labor force, but the family still has two mouths to eat.
Wei Fengzhen no longer has milk to feed her baby.
Aunt Yu took all the little millet left at home to her.
"Auntie, I can't help but..."
"Life is bitter..." Upon hearing about Yu Xinye's accident, Aunt Yu's hair turned white overnight, and she shed tears every day.
"Auntie's house doesn't have much food. You and your baby will make do with it first. Xinye is gone. If something happens to you and your baby, tell me how to live."
The old man wiped his tears and cried with her.
On the fourth day after the disaster, she walked out of the house with her child on her back and went to the mine first.
"Still digging, still digging, but I guess there is no hope..."
The builders told her so.
Before leaving, a kind-faced policeman in a big padded jacket stopped her: "Hey, this is for you, let the children eat."
She took it, and it was a half-pack of biscuits, which was rare at the time. The woman smiled gratefully, and tears welled up in her eyes: "Thank you... thank you... benefactor..."
As he said that, he was about to kneel and kowtow, and was helped up by someone.
"Are you a family member of the victim?" the policeman asked.
The woman nodded in a daze, then shook her head again: "Not yet... haven't dug it out..."
The policeman nodded his head, and his exhaled breath turned into a cloud of white mist: "Well, what's your man's name? I'm a forensic doctor. I'll send someone to tell you as soon as... the results come out."
"It's... called Yu Xinye."
The woman looked back at the mine in three steps and saw that the policeman was still standing in the snow and waved at her, then turned around and bowed with the child in his arms, and then reluctantly left.
fifth day.
The bowl of millet that Aunt Yu gave last time was finished, and the child was screaming with hunger, so she had to go door to door to ask for leftovers, or some milk from women who had given birth.
"No, really not, and my family is almost out of control."
"If there is one from the folks in the village, I will definitely give it to you."
"Take this and go quickly, go and look elsewhere."
A family threw out a hard and moldy steamed bun. Before the woman could pick it up, it was picked up by wild dogs looking for food by the side of the road.
The woman rushed to snatch the food from the dog's mouth: "Give me, give me, beast, beast!"
Dog hair flew around, her hands were dripping with blood, and she didn't know who she was scolding.
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While she was talking, the investigators were taking notes.
Zhang Jinhai: "And then, how did Li Hai get out?"
The woman covered her face and cried for a while, no one urged her, a policewoman handed over a tissue.
Wei Lihong wiped her nose, her eyes were red, and her face was a little wrinkled, but a good-looking woman is still good-looking even when she is old and crying, and she still has the charm of her youth.
When she was interrogated by the criminal police, she briefly thought of her daughter. The reason was short because she later had another son.
This son is the only one who has devoted a lot of time, energy and money. Isn't there an old saying in the countryside
Bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age.
A married daughter is the water that is poured out.
So when Li Hai told her that she wanted her to abandon her daughter and go back to the city with him to live a good life, she was shaken.
He raised his finger and swore to the sky: "Fengzhen, believe me, I will definitely treat you better than Xinye, let's go back to the city, meet my parents, ask them to marry us, and you will wear a red wedding dress Marry me and hold the wedding in a fair manner, and you will never suffer from poverty again... "
As he said, he threw out the rotten bun in her hand: "Let's eat something like this, I won't let you see it again in the future!"
Later, she also asked about the whereabouts of Yu Xinye and Li Yang, but each time she got vague answers.
Seven days later, when it was time to return to the city, and when she was at the end of her rope, there was still no news from the mine.
Li Hai got up from her bed and tied her pants chain.
"Let's go, don't hesitate."
Ten years later, when Li Yang found her again, she still felt that it was just a dream, a nightmare from which she would never wake up.
He came for revenge.
Thinking of this, Wei Lihong inevitably trembled. The investigators thought she was afraid, and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, you will be lenient if you confess, and strict if you resist. Now you say that going to court in the future will only benefit you, right?" harm."
Wei Lihong was really scared, but she wasn't worried about herself, she was afraid of her son.
She remembered what Li Yang had said to her again: "Experienced criminal policemen can't see anything, don't try to lie to them, if you know it, you know it, if you don't know it, you don't know it, this is the safest answer."
Wei Lihong shook her head honestly: "I really don't know how he got out of the mine."
She really didn't know that the only ones who knew this secret now were Yu Xinye who was sleeping in the ground and Li Yang who was alive like a ghost.
Song Yuhang and Lin Yan monitored the interrogation remotely from the police car.
As soon as Wei Lihong finished speaking, Song Yuhang frowned.
Lin Yan caught it keenly: "What's wrong?"
She shook her head and continued to listen to Zhang Jinhai.
"This number belongs to your deceased ex-husband, right?"
Looking at the number card that was picked out in front of her, Wei Lihong nodded.
"You use this number to contact the owner of the small workshop every other month to order a batch of gamma-butyrolactone and send it to the sentry box at the gate of Beidou Industrial Park. This is the bill. What else can you say?"
Wei Lihong shook her head, her face pale: "I have nothing to say."
Zhang Jinhai patted the table: "There's nothing to say about a dozen lives?! Why did you get so much γ-butyrolactone? Seriously!"
Only then did Wei Lihong look up at him, with a very calm expression on her face: "Make gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, which can be used to anesthetize people."
"You are a rural woman, who taught you?"
"My husband is a doctor, just look at it and you'll be fine."
"Does the death of these people have anything to do with you?"
Several photos were placed on the table in front of them, all of them were young boys and girls, very young.
Wei Lihong glanced at it, then looked back indifferently: "Yes, I first posted online to attract the attention of people who want to commit suicide, and after I got to know them well, I asked them to meet offline, gave them medicine, and made them feel ashamed." mentality, deepen their tendency to depression, and finally commit suicide.”
"What's the motive for committing the crime?"
She moved a little, and under the dim light of the interrogation room, her face became a little cold and terrifying.
"Why can't my son live if he wants to? They have hands and feet, are in good health, and have a happy family but want to die. Since they want to die, then I will make them happy."
Wei Lihong leaned forward and leaned against the table until she trembled with laughter, and tears splashed out.
Zhang Jinhai popped out two words from between his teeth: "Crazy."
Song Yuhang took off the earphones and threw them on the seat. The car stopped at the gas station to refuel, and the rest of the people also went down to exercise.
She opened the window of the car, poked her head out and asked Duan Cheng, "How long is it?"
Duan Cheng looked at his watch: "It is estimated that it will take more than two hours to reach Jiangcheng City, if the road conditions are good."
Song Yuhang nodded, and the interrogation over there also took a short break.
Only now did she have time to look back at Lin Yan: "What are you thinking?"
Lin Yan leaned on the seat, her face turned pale, and she kept looking out the window.
Hearing Song Yuhang's question, he came back to his senses: "Thinking about the case, I think Wei Lihong is lying. Although it looks flawless on the surface, it doesn't make sense when you look deeper."
She seemed a little uncomfortable, and frowned slightly.
Song Yuhang also felt the same way: "Even if the matter of γ-hydroxybutyric acid can be explained, that procedure cannot be done by ordinary people."
At the end, seeing that she was not feeling well, he opened the window wider: "Are you suffering from motion sickness? Wait a minute—"
She looked around, as if she was looking for something, and saw a villager selling oranges on the mountain road outside through the car window, and jumped out of the car excitedly.
It was too late for Lin Yan to stop: "Hey—"
Sure enough, he borrowed money from Fang Xin to buy oranges.
Lin Yan shook his head, took out a bottle of chewing gum from his backpack, poured out two gum bottles, and stuffed them into his mouth to chew.
When Song Yuhang came back, she had already swallowed the mineral water, and the chewing gum bottle was still in her hand and she had no time to stuff it in.
Lin Yan shook her face: "Two pills?"
Song Yuhang was taken aback. There were so many people on the way that they didn't have a chance to talk, so they finally got out of the car.
She cleared her throat: "Are you feeding me?"
Lin Yan made a gesture to hit her, but she took it by herself: "Hey, hey, don't throw it away, I will do it myself, I will do it myself."
Lin Yan's pupils shrank, and he snatched it back again: "Whoever wants to give it to you, I want to... um..."
The sweet and sour juice of the orange burst between the lips and teeth, just neutralizing the bitterness of the medicine.
Lin Yan was stunned, and Song Yuhang peeled another orange for her: "Stingy, you can protect yourself with sugar, are you a child?"
With the orange stuffed in his mouth, Lin Yan didn't want to talk to her, so he swallowed it down before opening his mouth: "Do you have a problem with your childlike innocence?"
"Don't dare dare." Song Yuhang behaved himself, and didn't confront her directly, but he didn't hand her the orange petal in his hand for a long time.
Lin was tired of eating one, but he still couldn't get enough of it. He reached out to take it, but Song Yuhang hid it: "Want to eat it? Open your mouth and I'll feed you. I'm very generous."
Song Yuhang was sitting on the outside near the car door, and Lin Yan grabbed her as if she was hugging her from the side, which seemed awkward no matter how you looked at it.
The eldest lady got angry and simply sat back down again. Damn my old lady didn't eat it? !
Rare you an orange! ! !
When I go back, I will contract an orangery to enjoy the delicious food! ! !
She was gnashing her teeth here, while Song Yuhang ate with relish, peeled another one and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Well, it's delicious~ As expected, the oranges are grown by the farmers themselves. They are sour and sweet, not astringent at all, and have no pesticide smell."
The unique scent of oranges permeated the compartment.
Lin Yan swallowed his saliva and turned his face away.
Song Yuhang laughed, holding a piece of orange and still dangling it to her mouth: "Ah - it's really a pity that someone doesn't eat it. Back in Jiangcheng, there will be no such delicious oranges."
The cold and watery thing kept moving towards his lips, Lin Yan didn't want to eat it, and was fed several times.
Song Yuhang liked to see her so deflated and helpless, so he bent his brows and eyes with a smile.
"Now, the last one."
Lin Yan looked at the smile on the face in front of him, which was dazzling no matter how you looked at it, and decided to take revenge on her a little.
It's the turn to be seductive, who is the eldest lady afraid of
The red lips parted slightly, and she ate it with her fingers.
Song Yuhang swallowed with a "thud" and his Adam's apple rolled up and down, unable to speak.
Half-open car doors, transparent glass, colleagues who will come up at any time.
She imitated some kind of ambiguous action, which was different from helping her suck the blood out of her fingers last time, and it was a little more deliberately tempting.
When the tip of his tongue lightly brushed the thin callus on the inside of her index finger, Song Yuhang couldn't help but tremble.
A current went straight up the spine.
She was itchy everywhere, and her other free hand was tightly clutching the fabric of her knee, crumpling the sturdy training uniform into a mess.
Time seemed to stop, but the atmosphere became more and more anxious.
Lin Yan took her time, but she became a little impatient. She hoped that someone would come over quickly to end this long torture for her, but also hoped that they would not come over.
In this way, Lin Yan can last a little longer, and treat her a little longer...
Lin was tired of watching her reaction, his eyes rippled slightly, and water shone, as if he couldn't bear this movement, the orange juice dripped down his chin and slipped into the neckline.
For a moment, Song Yuhang wanted to pounce on her and erase it for her.
A human voice came from behind, Lin Yan let go of her, licked the corners of her lips, her eyes were charming and haughty.
"Thank you for your hospitality, Officer Song."
As soon as Fang Xin came up, she saw that her ears were all red: "What's the matter, Captain Song, are you feeling well?"
Lin Yan sat next to her and played with her mobile phone peacefully: "It's hot."
Song Yuhang put the hat on his face directly: "... I'm fine."