Chapter 35 chapter Five

In 2007, autumn night. "Boy, do you know why I told you the secret of this little room last Christmas?" Huang Hai played chess with Si Wang at home, if someone saw it from the opposite window, they would think it was the deep love between father and son. "You're drunk." "Bah! I'm famous for never getting drunk! Actually, I let you know on purpose, because you must have your own secret about Shen Ming's death in 1995..." "At least our purpose is the same." "So, this is a deal. I told you the truth that the police have, and you must also tell me all the secrets you have discovered during the more than half a year at Gu's house—about Gu Qiusha, Gu Changlong, and the others. There is Lu Zhongyue who is still at large.”

Si Wang was already in check, but took back the chess pieces: "Can I not say anything?" "No—because I still have a lot of secrets in my heart and haven't spoken them out. If you don't exchange them, then I will never tell them." "You lost." He took a deep breath after eating Huang Hai's veteran, "Let's start with Gu Qiusha." "it is good." "Gu Qiusha has a terrible secret. There is a small medicine box in her room, but the drawer is locked. I stole her key, and when I opened it, there were many imported medicines, most of which were not stated on the labels. English. I copied the text with a pen, and locked the drawer again, and there was no trace of tampering. I searched the Internet again, only to find that it was in German, to the effect that it is used to inhibit the release of luteinizing hormone, which leads to the increase of testosterone produces a reduction—”

Huang Hai scratched his head and interrupted: "I don't understand." "To make a long story short, it is drug castration - by giving people medicine, they become eunuchs unconsciously." "Too ruthless!" "Obviously, these medicines are aimed at Lu Zhongyue. Only then did I understand why Gu Qiusha forbade me to drink piped water and only allowed me to drink bottled water." "No wonder this bastard has such a weird look, he didn't even know it when he was a father-in-law." Huang Hai lit a cigarette and lingered by the window, "If Lu Zhongyue knew this secret, he would naturally hate Gu Qiusha to the bone, Killing her is also logical."

"For a year, I have been very afraid. Will he come to find me again? I remind my mother every night to lock the doors and windows of the house. If a stranger knocks on the door, no matter who it is, don't open the door casually." Huang Hai scratched the boy's nose: "Boy, I wish I had a son like you—don't worry, as long as I'm here, your mother and child will be safe." "Really?" "I promise, as soon as this guy shows up, I can catch him!" The policeman looked at the time and said, "Go home early, or your mother will call later."

After the boy left, Huang Hai opened the secret small room, looked at the red patterns painted on the wall, and lit another cigarette.He touched the center of the wall, and there was a big word "declaration". In June 1995, one week before Shen Ming was killed, he was locked behind bars and strongly demanded to meet with police officer Huang Hai, saying that he had important clues to provide.Huang Hai got up from the bed overnight, left his one-year-old son, and rode his bicycle to the detention center. in the interrogation room, Shen Mingji is neither human nor ghost, scratching his hair in despair, the dignity of a high school teacher is gone, kneeling on the ground and begging for Huang Hai's help: "I didn't kill...I didn't kill..."

"What clues do you want to provide?" "Officer Huang, there are two rumors about me circulating in the school, one of which is true." "Do you have a teacher-student relationship with Liu Man?" He wiped away his tears, his lips trembled, and he seemed ashamed to say: "No, I'm an illegitimate child." "Isn't your biological father the man who poisoned his wife and then shot him?" "Yes, that guy's surname is not Shen, that's why everyone said I wasn't born by him." Shen Ming coughed violently, "My real father is a decent man like you, with a serious job and status. Sworn to him never to reveal his identity."

"I see, and if he has nothing to do with your case, I respect your secrecy." "I was called Shenming when I was just born. My mother married someone when I was three years old, so I took my stepfather's surname. That man is a beast. He has other women outside, and he has to rely on his wife to work and support him. Because I Not his own, he used to take it out on me, hit me whenever mom wasn't home and didn't leave any scars. I told mom the truth and he said it was a kid talking nonsense. In my earliest memory , full of crying and screaming, and his approaching steps made me tremble with every step, so that I crawled under the bed and hid, I was only five or six years old."

Although Huang Hai had heard enough of such tragic stories, he still muttered in his heart: "Crafting a crime!" "When I was seven years old, my stepfather poisoned my mother to death. After I called the police, he was also arrested and shot. My grandmother became my only relative. I can no longer use that man's surname. I went to the police station and changed the name back to Shen Ming.” "That's what makes me wonder about your file." "Grandma has no education. She has been working as a nanny for others and lives in the owner's house all year round. Do you know Anxi Road? From the first grade to the third grade of elementary school, I lived with my grandma in the basement. It was narrow, dark, damp and rats were running around. I was like a lonely soul. I grew up like a ghost, don't look at the frail look now, at that time I fought with people every day, the children united to bully me, threw stones at me, pulled my pants, and even peed on my face. Every time I resisted more In the end, I was beaten so badly that I went home with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and my grandma rubbed some useless red syrup. In the end, no one could beat me. When they saw me, they ran away in fright. Those people said that I would become a big A hooligan, even a murderer like my stepfather. But my academic performance was surprisingly good. Relying on a few tattered textbooks and the ballpoint pen left by my boss, I was admitted to the city's key Nanming Senior High School. Graduated Later, my grandmother lived in a rich family as a servant, and I moved into the dormitory of the unit."

"Declaration, I can sympathize with you, but it will not change my view on the case." "I want to tell you, that man, although he was shot and burned to ashes long ago, he has always lived in my heart, reappearing in my nightmares from time to time, that black figure who was drunk, the footsteps of tin shoes, a little Come closer to me..." Huang Hai, who was a new father, felt a little sad when he heard this: "Stop talking." "Let me finish! During the few days I was locked in the detention center, I dreamed of him again every night—that dirty face gradually approached my nose, and then squeezed my neck tightly. Revenge myself, if I hadn’t reported it to the police, my mother would have died of an ordinary illness, how could he have been sentenced to death? Every time I woke up after being strangled to death in a dream!”

"As a policeman, I have had such nightmares occasionally. I dreamed of the gangsters I shot to death." Huang Hai really wanted to slap himself, how could he show his timidity in front of the suspect? Suddenly, Shen Ming stretched out his hand over the iron railing, grabbed Huang Hai's sleeve, and said tremblingly, "Last night, I dreamed that I was dead, stabbed to death by a knife from the back, and then turned into a gave birth to a child." Twelve years later, several wrinkles appeared on Huang Hai's forehead. He looked at the relationship diagram of the characters drawn in red ink on the wall, and in the middle of the shocking word "Shen Ming", he drew a red line under it, pointing directly to another A name - Si Wang.