Ye Qing has a small habit of writing and marking the itinerary the night before for important matters.
For example, if October 24th is Zhou Weiping's birthday, Ye Qing will draw a small circle above that date to indicate that there is something to do that day.
When Zhou Weiping saw that familiar circle, he felt a 'thump' in his heart for no reason.
"These are just speculations. I don't know if I'm thinking too much. I always feel that he didn't have the idea of committing suicide that day. In fact, I felt strange when I heard the news of his death. Although it may be a bit conceited to say this, I I'm sure he's not this kind of person, he...anyone could jump off a tall building, but he can't, it can't be him." Zhou Weiping got up in a hurry, raised his hand and turned on the light with a 'snap', without hesitation On the other, even the slippers are worn backwards.
"I suspect that this is not the last sentence he left before his death. Someone tore up the other page after this page. We always thought it was too old, and the binding was not good, which caused the pages to be scattered..."
But no, it's just missing the last page.
Because there are still a few lines of traces left on the final cover—that is obviously the traces that were printed on the hard paper shell by using too much force when writing before.
When Gu Yanzhou and Shao Si left Yang Ze's home, it was almost one o'clock in the morning.
Gu Yanzhou stood at the door, bowed his head very politely and said goodbye: "The content of our conversation today, no fourth person can know, otherwise I will come to your grave today to burn incense for you, you know?"
"..." Yang Ze took a deep breath, "Hurry up and go, I will cooperate when the police come looking for me in a few days."
So Shao Si went down the steps and waved to him: "Take care."
Yang Ze stood silently at the door of his house, watching the two walk towards the street one after the other, the street lamps stretched their figures very long.
Shao Si didn't like to look at the road while walking, Gu Yanzhou always wanted to grab him from time to time, tugged at his collar and asked, "Can't you see the car?"
"I walk too seriously."
"No, you're blind."
Yang Ze turned back and closed the door. He kicked away the wine bottles piled up at his feet, as well as the bottle of water that Shao Si hadn't finished drinking. Lying on the sofa, he finally felt a little tired, and slowly closed his eyes.
-"help me."
It was the old man in ragged clothes. He was a little smelly, and his hygiene was obviously not good. The shoe he was wearing was torn in several places. His fingers pinched on his arm, stabbing panickedly.
Yang Ze frowned uncomfortably in his sleep.
-"help me."
His voice was too loud, like he was insane, and he seemed to be deliberately attracting someone's attention, but mixed with these nonsense, he suddenly approached him again, begging in a low voice: "Please help me take this thing out, Hand it over to the police, please be sure to hand it over to the police. We have been imprisoned here for more than 30 years... more than 30 years... "
He tugged too tightly, as if he had found a life-saving straw.
Wang Shan came from the outside with someone, and shouted from a distance: "What are you doing, it's the other way around, you guys, drag him down."
"Mr. Wang, he... can't delay this." Several burly men were helpless, facing a bad old man who was desperately holding on to the door panel. The old man looked thin and weak, and he didn't know where his strength came from.
"What's the use of raising you bastards? If you can't drag it, you cut off his hand, and you want me to teach you?!"
Yang Ze lay on the sofa, breathing more and more difficult.
In the end, the frame stopped at the man's wide-eyed eyes when he was beaten to death, those eyes stared straight at him, his pupils were bloodshot, as if he had countless words to say, Yang Ze finally broke out in a cold sweat, and woke up screaming come over.
The hour hand is exactly on '3'.
At three o'clock in the morning, Yang Ze stared at the ceiling panting. Then he stood up with difficulty, walked to the table, opened the drawer, and there was a piece of yellowed and stained paper lying quietly inside.
Yang Ze slowly unfolded the piece of paper, and there were densely packed... people's names on it.
This is a list.
"This mark." The next day, Director Ou and Zhou Weiping were in the lounge, using a magnifying glass to observe the hard paper shell with handwriting marks on the page, "... even if you trace it slowly with a pencil, it will be difficult to recover."
Zhou Weiping remembered another matter and asked, "Wang Shan didn't come today?"
"He hasn't been here for a few days, and he hasn't contacted Yanzhou." According to the observation some time ago, among Shao Si and Gu Yanzhou, Wang Shan is more inclined to Gu Yanzhou. the meaning of.
For this, Shao Si was convinced: "You are very good at pretending to be a pervert."
Gu Yanzhou patted him on the head: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Director Ou observed for a long time, finally put down the magnifying glass, and said: "This matter is not easy to handle. All of us believe that Ye Qing committed suicide because he couldn't bear it, so he took a long detour and took the risk to touch the underground industry in Wangshan. If we overturn the conclusion at the beginning——Ye Qing’s death has other secrets, he didn’t commit suicide after being oppressed... It can only prove that we took such a long way around and chose the most dangerous path.”
"I think Mr. Zhou's speculation may be valid." Shao Si said again, "In 1998, why did he choose to change the country's policy and give up his life after the cold winter?"
In 1998, the state deleted the crime of hooliganism from the criminal law.
Even he only needs to wait a few more years. In 2001, under the third edition of "Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders", "homosexuality" is no longer called a mental patient.
Ye Qing is such a strong person, no matter how difficult it is, he survived, but in the year when he saw the dawn, he jumped from upstairs
Just when everyone was silent, the door was knocked several times, and only the field manager shouted loudly outside the door: "Is Shao Si there? - There is your courier."
"… express delivery?"
Several people present stared at each other.
After Shao Si opened the door, the field manager hurriedly handed him something the size of an envelope in his hand: "I don't know either, a courier came just now and said he was looking for Mr. Shao, but I followed him around but couldn't find him You... will help you sign for it first."
After the scene was finished, he asked a little curiously: "What did you buy online?" After all, few actors would shop online and send things to the crew during filming.
Shao Si took it, weighed it a few times, it was very light, and there was no movement: "I didn't buy anything, is someone joking with me..."
"Maybe it was sent by a friend." Shao Si patted the field manager on the shoulder, thanking him, "Anyway, thank you for your hard work."
"It's okay," the scene manager waved his hand, "Then I'll go first, you guys have a good rest, the scene is quite heavy in the afternoon."
Director Ou was also suspicious: "What is this? Who sent it?"
Shao Si closed the door, looked at it repeatedly, and said, "Take it apart and take a look. Why is this thing so light?"
Shao Si tore open the seal, didn't look at it, reached in and took a long time to dig out, and found a piece of paper folded into a square shape.
"This is..." Looking at the dirty and crumpled paper, Shao Si couldn't react.
Ye Xuan walked over quickly and snatched it, his hands trembling with nervousness.
— She is all too familiar with this piece of paper. For so many years, she has read Ye Qing's diary over and over again. She is very familiar with this paper, whether it is the color of the paper or the lines printed inside.
After getting the paper, she was even more convinced.
... This handwriting is completely written, it is Ye Qing's.
The piece of paper was so wrinkled that I couldn't see the words on it clearly. After several times of identification, Ye Xuan read the first sentence: "The winter of 'hooliganism' is over, don't worry about it anymore, don't need to be threatened anymore, We are free."
"and then?"
Ye Xuan said: "It's gone, there's only this one sentence, under this... I don't quite understand it, it seems that they are all names."
Gu Yanzhou stood beside Shao Si, and said after a long time: "This is a list."
Before anyone opened their mouths to ask who sent this piece of paper, Shao Si slapped Gu Yanzhou on the back, reminding him: "Yang Ze!"
Ze Yang said last night that he didn't know what it was, he didn't pick up...
This statement is a complete lie.
In Shao Si's acting class, he learned behavioral knowledge. But last night, he couldn't hear the loopholes in Yang Ze's words at all.
The whole thing happened in an instant, the man stuffed the paper to Yang Ze, and Wang Shan soon heard the sound, and in this short period of time, there was no room for him to think. Yang Ze has only one choice, which is to hold the paper tightly and hide the paper—this is the subconscious, fastest and safest method.
— because he has no time to throw it away.
Almost a few seconds later, Wang Shan appeared in Yang Ze's sight.
Yang Ze originally planned to hide this matter, but for some reason he changed his mind midway and was willing to give them this important clue.
"Go and check this list, maybe things will come to light soon." Zhou Weiping said this, on the one hand, he wanted to comfort everyone, but once he said it, he knew that things are getting more and more complicated now. Development, maybe the truth... is far more cruel than they had imagined. In other words, the truth has gradually become clear, but no one is willing to admit it.
Gu Yanzhou said: "Let me check, I know someone in the Public Security Bureau, it will be easier to check."
Director Ou asked silently, "How long will it take?"
"If you hurry up, it will take three days, if you are slow, it may take a few months. After all, in addition to the names on this list, the clue of 'hooliganism' is mentioned. We can only follow it to check these people... These people on the list were in the past. It's best to have a criminal record, but it's so old that we can't be sure about anything." After Gu Yanzhou finished speaking, he said sharply, "The matter is already very clear, but we dare not reveal it... Back then, Wang Shan used this crime to persecute people. Except for Ye Qing, maybe none of these people on the list survived, their experiences may be even more outrageous, and Ye Qing, nine out of ten, is because of them, who were exterminated by Wang Shan."
Because he never gave up hope until the end.
Because until the end of his life, the words that fell on the paper were: the winter has passed, and we are free.