"Chen Nian?"
"Huh?" The girl seemed to be absent-minded, always looking at the sunlight outside the window. She needed Zheng Yi and the others' reminders before she came back to her senses and looked at them with those dark eyes.
The pure eyes made people believe that what she said was true.
"Do you hate Willie?"
"Fine," she said.
"What's alright?"
"If you don't mention it, I won't think about this person."
This answer was hard to put into words, and Zheng Yi didn't know what to say next.
After Chen Nian finished speaking, he looked out the window again. At half past twelve, the sun is at its strongest in summer, and the air is cracked into tiny crystals.
Lao Yang asked, "What about now, now that she is mentioned, do you hate her?"
Chen Nian seemed to be disturbed again, turned around and said, "It's okay."
"Why is it alright?"
"I've already remembered, but I can't remember exactly what she looks like." Her stuttering seemed to get worse.
Lao Yang was also blocked.
When it was quiet, she suddenly said again: "I heard that for a dead person, her face will be blurred in the memory of a living person. But for someone who is not dead, his face has always been clear and clear, even if Not for many years, see you."
Zheng Yi was thoughtful, but the others were not interested in this sentence.
Lao Yang was surprised and asked, "Where were you the day Wei Lai disappeared?"
Chen Nian slowly raised his eyelids and asked, "Which day?"
The usual tricks didn't work, so Lao Yang had to say, "The day after you were bullied by her."
"Go to school." Chen Nian said.
"Why don't you take time off?"
"To review, time is very, very important."
Incredible, but speechless.
"You've been at school all day?"
"Um."
You shouldn't be able to lie, just go to school and find out.
"How about at night?"
"See a movie."
"Watching a movie?" A light flashed in Lao Yang's eyes, "When did you choose to watch a movie? Review and time are not important?"
He was aggressive, and she swallowed slowly: "Because it's very classic... classic."
"You watched it alone?"
"no."
"with who?"
"classmate."
"What is your name?"
"Li Xiang."
"Who brought it up?" Zheng Yi interjected.
"He." Chen Nian said.
This is also easy to verify. Everyone fell silent again, exchanged glances, and there was no other problem.
Lao Yang walked out of the conference room and said, "This little girl is too calm."
Zheng Yi: "What do you want to imply?"
"It's nothing." Lao Yang said, "It has something to do with a person's growth environment, personal character, personal experience, or, in other words, recent encounters."
Xiao Yao asked: "Meaning, is it possible that she is in a deep self-protection mode and can't get out?"
"Yeah." Lao Yang nodded. The reason for the question just now was just because the little girl was here, so I asked to clarify. It doesn't look like a big problem now.
"Ask the teachers and classmates at the school and the boy named Li Xiang to make sure she lied. - Well, about the twenty or thirty suspects, we have to find a way to narrow the scope."
Lao Yang said, and left with a few people.
Zheng Yi stayed where he was and went back to open the door. Chen Nian was still sitting there, looking out the window, the glass of water in front of him did not move.
It's impossible not to be thirsty on such a hot day.
Zheng Yi knocked on the door and said, "Chen Nian, you can go."
He took her to eat in the cafeteria, and bought her bottled water specially, she twisted it open and drank half of the bottle.
After dinner, he took her home,
"Chen Nian." He spoke to her, inadvertently and cautiously.
"Um?"
"You can tell me anything you have in mind."
"No." She shook her head.
Zheng Yi looked at her lowered head and felt a little worried, but in the end she didn't say much, just told her not to think about it, and to study and prepare for the exam with peace of mind.
Chen Nian said yes.
When going upstairs, Chen Nian remembered that his key was taken by Kitano. But when I got to the door, the key was inserted into the keyhole. Dare to do this, it means: Kitano is watching somewhere nearby.
She looked around immediately, but couldn't find him.
The summer sun is everywhere, like densely shining fish scales.
Her eyes were a little sore, she lowered her head and rubbed it, feeling sad for a moment, her mouth pouted, but finally calmed down and opened the door to enter the house.
All her books were moved back, along with her clothes. She can't go to him anymore. They must be strangers.
There are two large shopping bags on the table, with vegetables, noodles and snacks. When the refrigerator is opened, it is filled with newly bought fruit, milk and juice dumplings.
The mattress on the bed was wiped with water and the fan was cleaned.
Chen Nian turned on the fan and opened the curtains. The windows are wide open, and outside is a dense canopy of trees and buildings scattered at different heights. She went back to lie down and looked out the window, so that she could take a nap in peace.
Someone will be watching her.
Chen Nian woke up in the afternoon, took ice drink and a bunch of grapes from the refrigerator, and went to school while walking. After entering the school gate, he looked back and left.
Kitano stood at the end of the road, and when he saw her looking back, he turned and walked away.
Her way to school has long been safe, but this has become his habit and his hope.
Kitano received a call from Dakang and asked him to play. Kitanohara wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, let him go home.
Dakang was waiting for him by the rolling shutter door with a dog's tail grass in his mouth.
Kitano held the helmet and opened the door to enter;
Dakang followed behind, and the room was still hot and humid, but Dakang raised his eyebrows and noticed something strange: "Is your house clean?"
Kitano said indifferently: "Just cleaned up yesterday."
"Hid the little woman behind you to clean up?" Dakang said with a sour taste.
Kitano sneered: "I dumped it early."
"Yo?" Dakang raised his eyebrows, "Why?"
"Too much, annoying."
"Oh." Dakang suddenly realized. But this time it's strange. Growing up, he had never seen any girl Kitano fell in love with, and he rejected all those chasing him with disgust, blinding his face in vain.
Since I dumped it early, it means I didn't like it.
Dakang fell on the bed, Kitano frowned and gave him a look, but remembered that he always tossed the bed so much when he came back, so he endured it. Sheets, pillows and mats have been changed.
"Kitano, you say, Lai Zi said he went to Guangzhou to wander, what is he wandering about?"
Kitano took two bottles of beer, knocked them open on the edge of the table, and handed one to him.
Dakang took it and took a big gulp, and said, "Didn't he just quarrel that day to get angry at him? He actually left. Don't look at him being bored at ordinary times, but he can't stand it like a little woman when he is angry, so he fights in the middle of the night. Saying goodbye on the phone, do you want to break up the relationship? Hey, did he call you too?"
Kitano said "um".
Dakang drank his wine and asked, "Where are you going? Stay in Xicheng, or leave?"
"Go." Kitano said.
"where to?"
Kitano said nothing after a few seconds, "Beijing."
"It sounds really advanced." Dakang stabbed him.
Kitano poured beer and ignored it.
"They all run out, and I am the only real orphan who stays in my hometown." Dakang was a little sad, "I thought we would be good brothers for the rest of our lives, but I didn't expect that when we grew up, we would all go to work. My mother-in-law always said that it’s good to grow up when you grow up, what the fuck is good when you grow up?”
"Yeah," Kitano said. "What the hell is good?"
When he said this, Dakang reversed his stance and came over to cheer him up: "Let's go, let's go hard. Don't forget me when you get developed."
"Well." Kitano said, "If you leave."
He is like a tree that wants to fly but takes root.
"That's right." Dakang remembered the business, "Did the teacher call you? Get your certificate."
"Beat." Kitano kicked his ass and asked him to make room for him. He also fell on the bed, resting his arms on his head, and said, "What's the point of getting that broken certificate?"
"Don't take vocational colleges seriously. At least you can prove that you have learned a skill. College students are not as good as mechanics these days."
"Cut." Kitano said, "This will fool you."
"Really, I've already found a job. I'll go it alone after saving enough money for a few years. I'm not like you. Your uncle and aunt have money.
Kitano didn't respond, and Dakang was also annoyed by his quick speech, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Hey, did you hear about the man in the raincoat, he seems to be our peers."
Kitano turned to look at him: "Why did you say this suddenly?"
"Yesterday I went with a few old fritters to get our diplomas, and there were some strange men sitting in the teacher's office looking at us up and down. Those eyes and aura were probably the police." He snorted coldly, "The head teacher is insidious enough to make us Calling all the non-professionals together, they really treat us as suspects. I... fuck."
Kitano was speechless. The fan blows his forehead into his eyes, and he shakes it.
Dakang said again: "Hey, remember to get your graduation certificate."
"Know."
…
When Chen Nian was on duty after school, he saw Zheng Yi again, standing at the door of the classroom, but came to look for Xu Miao.
Xu Miao passed by Chen Nian, handed her the broom in his hand, and said, "You should sweep, I have to go."
Chen Nianli didn't move.
There was no one in the teaching building, and Zheng Yiyuan's voice was not loud, but she could hear it clearly.
"... Your relationship with Wei Lai has been dealt with coldly, and she understands it. I checked her call records. At that time, Wei Lai hadn't contacted you for more than a week. Why did she call you the day she disappeared?"
"Didn't I tell you?" Xu Miao's voice was small.
Zheng Yi said: "I'm not doubting you, I just think that you are hiding some key things."
What Xu Miao concealed was that Wei Lai said the location on the phone at that time, Houshan; and the person who had an appointment, Chen Nian.
Chen Nian didn't doubt Zheng Yi's ability at all. The first time she saw his eyes, she knew that this young policeman was unusual.
She went to the corridor to look, the campus was empty, Zheng Yi and Xu Miao were tall and the other was short, talking while walking, stopped for a while by the flower bed, and then Xu Miao went out of the school gate and got into his car. Zheng Yi also left.
Standing on the empty and towering teaching building, Chen Nian felt a gloomy danger, a force pushing her behind her.
She turned back suddenly, the classroom door was wide open, and the desks and chairs in the room were empty.
Chen Nian looked outside the school again, and there was a white figure in the cold drink shop across the street.
Chen Nian ran back to the classroom, thinking about what Xu Miao said just now, his hands and feet trembled. She threw the broom aside, ran downstairs with her schoolbag on her back, and rushed out of the school. I don't care about Kitano at all.
She walked very fast, taking various long-distance roads that she usually did not take, making twists and turns, as if to get rid of something. Going all the way to the familiar wasteland, I saw the sunset like the big egg yolk she had seen countless times.
The sound of footsteps caught up behind her, and she immediately ran, running fast. But still can't beat him.
Kitano rushed up and grabbed her wrist, frowning: "Where are you running to?"
She pushed him but couldn't push him away; he dragged her back to her house, but she just wanted to go in another direction, the direction of his house.
"What happened to you today?" He frowned.
"I want to go home." She shouted at him, trying to break free from his hand, but couldn't.
Kitano looked behind him, and there was no one where he raised his eyes. Then he looked at her and said, "Your home is in that direction."
"I want to go home," she said again, louder.
Kitano was silent, looking at her who was a little out of control, her voice softened, she smiled slightly, and said, "You should understand what I mean?"
I understand, Kitano, I understand. But…
"I can't hide it." Chen Nian also smiled slightly and said softly, "I killed Wei Lai, I couldn't hide it."
Before he finished speaking, Kitano grabbed the back of her head and pressed her tightly into his arms.
"Don't talk nonsense." He pressed hard against her temple, "Listen, she wasn't dead when I found her."