Miao Yuli was taken back to the provincial office and received condolences from the director; Zhong Yongbao was replaced by the police, and the police comrades helped him take care of the empty-nest elderly; Chen Min, who was far away in Changyan, also received a call, and Wangjiang’s colleagues asked enthusiastically. When will they return?

There are always police officers patrolling around Superman, and you might bump into one as soon as you go out.

Chu Yu sat at the dining table, not even in the mood to eat lunch.

Xia Yihan was lost, and there was no news. She was now a sinner of the ages who deliberately helped the murderer escape, and jumped into the Yellow River to be unclear.

Several subordinates wanted to comfort her, but they didn't know where to speak. After all, mentioning such a horrible thing would only increase the degree of horror.

Chu Yu, who was disheartened, still paid attention to the development of the provincial government. According to Gu Miao, the current focus of the provincial government is to work with Changyan City to search the whereabouts of the Phantom of Sophora japonica. The focus is on protecting the five victims and fearing her. After sculpting a circle of Sophora japonica, the next round is ready to cut the grass and remove the roots.

However, the provincial government did not investigate the series of outstanding cases. It may be because the top priority is to find the Phantom of Sophora japonica, stabilize the people's hearts, and end various rumors and rumors.

Chu Yu knew it in his heart. In the past, when Superman was in charge of commanding, it combined the Sophora japonica project with a series of unsuccessful cases and proceeded simultaneously. Although the mystery became more and more rolling, Chu Yu believed that when enough fragments were collected, chaos Chaos, but as long as they find the most critical arrangement hints, they can piece together the pieces and finally form a whole picture to generate the truth.

She is now looking for the hint, the key hint.

For the provincial government, it is not complicated to terminate the investigation of the Phantom of Sophora japonica. The evidence of Xiao Sophora’s murder and wounding is already complete. As long as she is captured and brought to justice, it’s done.

Only one thing is missing-motivation.

Why do you want to carve Sophora japonica? Why should the victim help protect the criminal? What is the relationship between Xiaohuahua and the victim?

These Chu Yu must investigate, if the series of outstanding cases cannot be investigated, then she will not allow the Huaihua project to be closed.

After all, I ate lunch. Chu Yu delivered the food to her mouth like a walking dead, but the taste was the same as chewing wax, and she couldn't taste it anymore. She was to accumulate energy for the afternoon activities, so as to avoid insufficient body energy and defeat the police.

Now for Superman, especially Chu Yu, the situation is tense. If you can do it, you should not move, and strive for a chance to "confess and be lenient", and the punishment may be lighter in the future.

But Chu Yu was uneasy. He belonged to the typical "no tears without seeing the coffin" type. Both his right and left arms were chopped off, and he continued to jump.

From Gu Miao, she learned the address of the former neighbor of Mu Shangqing and planned to visit it herself.

Chu Yu and Song Qingyang, looking at the opportunity, slipped out from the ground floor, avoiding the surveillance area.

The two also dressed up in disguise, wearing masks and old caps. Fortunately, it was winter, and they could wear more swelling to cover up their bodies.

In the taxi, Chu Yu couldn't help but sigh, how he got mixed up like this, it's not as good as Xia Yihan, who would cringe when going out.

The two went straight to Huaxieting to visit an old grandmother named Cai Shuying. At that time, Gu Miao said that she had met Mu Shangqing and Xia Yihan six or seven years ago, and Chu Yu was very interested, but now they are finally free and come in person. Ask it again.

Cai Shuying is a veteran-level resident of Huaxieting. She was born in Huaxieting and grew up in Huaxieting. Even after the demolition, she still came back often, always inseparable from this small ruined place.

Gu Miao asked Cai Shuying's words, but the notes were incomplete, because Mrs. Cai herself was not clear in her speech and had a strong local accent. She didn't know one big character and couldn't communicate in writing. Listening to her dictation requires guessing. Gu Miao could hear it at the time, and she didn't know that after the transcript was handed in, Chu Yu couldn't understand it.

According to the address, Chu Yu went up to the second floor of the shop on the street. At first, Mrs. Cai would come back every other time, but later moved back and lived on the opposite side of the original block.

Chu Yu called her in advance. She knew there were guests visiting, so as soon as she knocked on the door, the door opened. Old lady Cai stood behind the door and asked them to come in and sit down. She was in good spirits and smiled. Shiny, the wrinkles at the corners of the mouth look kind.

Because I have heard of Mu Shangqing’s past, I know that Huaxieting is a "poor country", and the residents are generally of low quality. Mu Shangqing’s neighbors always call him and his mother mentally ill, so Chu Yu treats the residents of Huaxieting, although there is no Disgusted, but there is no good impression.

But at the moment when I saw Mrs. Cai, Chu Yu felt better. She soaked two glasses of wolfberry water for them. She was afraid that it would not suit the taste of young people, so she added rock sugar to the water.

Chu Yu stood in front of the yellow wooden window and looked at the buildings outside. After the demolition of Huaxieting, the plan was re-planned, the roads were paved and widened, the greening was improved, businessmen of all sizes came in, and opened tea houses, clothing stores, KTV really has the atmosphere of a modern city, unlike before, the atmosphere of the urban-rural junction is so strong that it can't be beaten.

Mrs. Cai stood by the window with her, talking about the development history of Huaxie Ting. She is now older, living alone, often nostalgic, and no one listens to her.

Nowadays, there are often comrades from the government who want to know the situation, and Mrs. Cai is also willing to share and dig out all the past. She does not express smoothly. She may be born with a bad tongue and stubbornly speak, but Chu Yu is patient enough. No matter what she said, she listened attentively.

Song Qingyang finished a glass of wolfberry rock candy, nothing to do, a bit boring, she is used to speaking Mandarin, old lady Cai has a rustic accent, she doesn’t understand well, she wants to listen carefully, but she started to feel sleepy if she couldn’t hear three sentences. , Almost fell asleep on the sofa.

Fortunately, Chu Yu insisted on holding on. When she encountered something she didn't understand, she repeated it and guided Granny Cai to explain until she understood it.

After two or three hours, Chu Yu finally figured out the logic of Mrs. Cai and could serve as her Mandarin translator.

The two chatted from the window to the sofa, and then from the sofa to the kitchen. Granny Cai left them for dinner, and Chu Yu helped her peel the beans. The brain and the hands were completely separated, the hands were opening the pods, and the brain was combing the memories. logic.

Mrs. Cai used to live in Mu Shangqing’s house facing the street, and she was not familiar with Zhou Lan, but she had made clothes with her. She liked Mu Shangqing very much. She looked gentle, and she always called her aunts and sisters when she saw people, and she gave it back to him. Stuffed homemade rice cakes.

Mrs. Cai used to work in a small restaurant in Huaxieting. The boss is her distant relative. She is equivalent to helping with friendship and earning some living expenses by the way.

Zhou Lanxin and Mu Shangqing have almost never eaten in a restaurant. Mrs. Cai knows that his family is poor. Even in Huaxieting’s low standard of living that requires state subsidies, his family is considered to be the best. It can be said to be poor. And features.

When Mrs. Cai threw the trash, she saw Mu Shangqing being bullied. Those children, who were much older than him, and some were not as tall as him, dared to spit on him. He looks good, has good grades, and others. Politeness, logically speaking, should be likable, but because he is not gregarious, he does not like to be wild with other children, he does not speak swear words or fights, so he becomes a heterogeneous object and is bullied.

It stands to reason that other parents should follow Mu Shangqing as an example. When teaching their cubs, they will say "Look at others Shangqing, study well, be polite, and look at you again, just like the one who grew up in the trash."

But they didn’t. Because Zhou Lan was very frugal and sent Mu Shangqing to the city’s elementary and middle schools to enjoy the best educational resources, so the adults had a grudge in their hearts. Everyone had to be poor together and be mourned together. What do you do? You also enjoy something different. Is the start different from ours?

Therefore, no matter how good and excellent Mu Shangqing is, in the eyes of adults, it means that the school is well taught and the teacher is well led. If they send their children to the city’s elementary and middle schools, the children will be as good, but they don’t have the energy and energy. I have a hard time living with spare money, so how can I be in the mood to care about my children?

The children bullied Mu Shangqing, the adults knew it in their hearts, but they didn't say anything, and they were a little relieved. They couldn't help but think, saying that it makes you different from us? If you have the ability to go to a good school, then you have the ability to move directly to the city. Don't be neighbors with our poor ghosts. See you when you look up and see you down.

Later, when Mu Shangqing grew up to twelve or three years old, he would resist. Those children who bullied him were beaten by him and became incontinent. They ran all the way home, crying.

The adults were unhappy, and they talked a lot:

——This child who usually looks at Sven, how can he beat people so frantically, usually other children beat him, it is a joke, he is still a hand, how can he beat people to death!

——He used to pretend to be quiet and sensible, but now he can’t stretch himself, his nature is exposed, he is like his mother, maybe he is the same as his dad. What does his dad do, he shouldn’t be a murderer. , Absconded in fear of sin!

——I look like a mental illness. How can normal people bully people like this? There must be a mental problem, and I can’t tell right from wrong!

Later, the adults and the children reached a consensus that Mu Shangqing had a mental problem, and the children made up a jingle. At the time, everyone chanted: "Frozen, mentally ill, stunned people, went crazy. Very nervous, my mother said, stay away, or the infection will get you sick."

But by the way, the children only dared to recite, if in front of Mu Shangqing, if he irritated him, it would be crazy again, they don't want to be beaten up again.

Thanks to Shangqing, Zhou Lanxin also received the title of "sick". Originally, neighbors only thought she was stubborn, gloomy, and didn't like to chat. How they look at her now, why is it abnormal-how can normal people get up early and greedy for dark and spend every day? Three hours to send the child to and from school?

How can a normal person look good and still be widowed and have no object?

How could a normal person give birth to such a crazy son?

So the neighbors in the neighbourhood reached a consensus that Zhou Lanxin was also sick and passed it on to Mu Shangqing. Her mother and her son were abandoned by the man because of mental problems!

Now, when the children scolded Mu Shangqing, they brought his mother with him. With more emphasis, the jingle became longer and longer.

This situation continued until Mu Shangqing attended high school. The school was too far away in Dongcheng District and had to live on campus. However, his peers who bullied him in the past either started to work or learned technology, and rarely returned. Family.

In the urban-rural junction, the flow of population is already large, and people come and go every year, and there are fewer and fewer familiar faces. Those past events also gradually disappear with the movement of the population.

However, every time Mu Shangqing returned to Huaxieting, he could still see neighbors in the neighbourhood, but never talked to each other-he had lived for decades, but he couldn't integrate into it. I don't know if it is sad or fortunate.

Chu Yu sorted out the content of Mrs. Cai's dictation. Whether it was stated or implied, these meanings were quite different from those of Gu Miao's previous inquiry transcripts.

The other three neighbors Gu Miao asked mostly about the mental problems surrounding Mu Shangqing, emphasizing that she was not familiar with his family, while Mrs. Cai repeated the reactions of the neighbors in the neighborhood. She did not entangle Mu Shangqing. Mental problems, but other people's attitudes toward his problems.

Comparing the two oral statements, Chu Yu believed in the latter more. Old lady Cai was lonely until she was old because of her inconvenience in her tongue, not good at chewing the tongue, and Chu Yu guessed that she might have some other flaws, so she was childless, and she was also an outlier. It didn't melt too well.

She has been working in restaurants for a long time. People at the dinner table love to talk about things. When they put it on the dinner table, they can talk for an hour. At this time, it is the gathering time for gossip and discussion. Mrs. Cai is here. I must have listened a lot to the effort of serving dishes back and forth.

Finally, and what Chu Yu cares most about, Mrs. Cai has never bullied Mu Shangqing or talked about his family. This allows her to look at people and things neutrally from the perspective of an outsider, and draw a comparison. Appraisal close to the truth.

In the evening, at the dinner table, Chu Yu knew about the background information. She found that Mrs. Cai couldn't tell any new information, so she turned passive to proactive, digging for information in a targeted manner by asking questions.

"Grandma Cai, Aunt Zhou, when did she pass away?"

Mrs. Cai froze for a while. She could remember her previous experiences and feelings, but it was a bit difficult to recall the specific time.

"About... more than twenty years ago, I haven't seen her for a long time. When she died, her baby did not invite any of her funerals, otherwise I would send her off."

Chu Yu: "Then where is she buried?"

"It should be the head of the earth dam buried behind her house, where there is a locust tree, or if it’s hot, you can shade her and help her from the rain. Unfortunately, the tree was pushed during the demolition. There is nothing left."

Chu Yu's breathing was stagnant: "Sophora japonica...too many?"

"Not much, just one," Mrs. Cai said, "but that locust tree... is really beautiful. Every summer, the flowers fall down and look very beautiful. The ground is full, just like... it snows. Same."

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