Chapter 33: Let’s escape

    The island is very lively at night, with bonfires lit outside the B&B, tourists in grass skirts singing and dancing around the bonfire, and the cheerful sound of guitars can be heard far away.Gu Yuwei walked alone on the beach. The sea breeze at night was cool, filling the girl’s short sleeves with wind. The fine sand on the soles of her feet was cold, and the waves crashed, adding a sticky feeling.

    Gu Yuwei looked at the dark sea with mixed feelings in her heart.She and Qin Qing quarreled for the first time.Qin Qing asked her which university she wanted to apply to, and the girl said, “Teacher Qin, I don’t want to go to university.” Qin Qing asked the girl why.The girl turned around for the first time to avoid Qin Qing’s question.

    The girl raised her feet and kicked the wet and greasy sand on her soles into the sea water, but she could not wipe away the sticky feeling on her soles.The girl turned around and saw Qin Qing standing behind her at some point.The girl lowered her head and remained silent, her toes kneading the sand at her feet.

    Qin Qing sighed, stepped forward and put her coat on the girl, and touched the girl’s head as always. The girl looked up at Qin Qing, reached out and held Qin Qing’s hand tightly.

    That night, she didn’t ask her why again.On the plane, Qin Qing looked at the peaceful sleeping face of the girl next to her, but the sadness in her heart became stronger.Qin Qing stretched out her hand to straighten the broken hair on the girl’s face, and sighed softly, “Xiaowei, what should I do to you?” She sighed again after saying this, but unknown to Qin Qing, the girl’s hands hidden in her sleeves were already tightly clenched.

    The days passed, and the college entrance examination results came down as expected. On the day when the freshmen were admitted, Qin Qing sat in the office, holding her panicked eyes with her hands.

    “Hey, hey, let me tell you something!” Cao Xue, who was opposite Qin Qing, stood up from her seat with a raised voice and waved to the teachers who were immersed in the office.When the teachers heard the news, Cao Xue continued, “The college entrance examination results have come out. I heard that there are still students in our county who turned in blank papers this time! It is said that they didn’t even write their names, tsk tsk tsk… Kids nowadays are so rebellious.”

    As Cao Xue spoke, she opened her mouth.

    Qin Qing fell silent after hearing this, feeling that there were several tons of stones weighing in her heart, making her breathless.After school, Qin Qing walked to the county hospital. Qin Qing looked up at the huge red letters on the building and felt bitter in her heart. How long had it been since the last time she came here?Qin Qing sighed and walked into the hospital.

    “Your condition is not optimistic.” The female doctor took the film and compared it. “You have been hospitalized a long time ago. Conservative treatment may prevent the cancer cells in your head from spreading further. You…” The female doctor put down the film and sighed at the calm man opposite.”Go to the hospital as soon as possible. I can help you make arrangements directly.”

    Maybe, just maybe.

    The person opposite looked up and took the film from the female doctor, “Doctor, I still don’t want to be hospitalized. I know my situation well. My mother…” paused, “I don’t want to end up like my mother, lying in the hospital bed.”

    The female doctor looked at the person opposite, shook her head, and wrote down a prescription, “In this case, I won’t say anything else. This medicine can’t cure the root cause, you understand.”

    The person opposite took the prescription, pursed his lips tightly, and clenched the paper in his hand, “Doctor, how long…do I have?”

    The female doctor paused and retracted her emotions, “The spread is very fast, at most…” The female doctor hesitated, “It will take two months at most. Her eyes will be blurry at first, and then she will lose sight, and her headache will only get worse.”

    “I know.” The man lowered his head, and his mother’s former appearance seemed to flash before his eyes, and it was like this.

    ·

    In the Linqi County Police Station, the man was meditating against a wall full of clues. There were screenshots of Qin Gufeng captured by road cameras. But every time he waited for them to arrive, Qin Gufeng seemed to have evaporated, and Bai Yang frowned.

    “Brother, hoo, hoo, I’m exhausted. I didn’t know there were so many things piled up in our office.” A young man holding a big box pushed open the door and walked in, placing the box next to a small pile of cardboard boxes of the same size. The cardboard boxes took up nearly one-third of the area in Baiyang’s office.”Senior brother, there are quite a few over there in the evidence room. I see…” The young man rubbed his sore shoulders and looked at the cardboard boxes piled messily on the ground with his hands on his hips.

    There was a heavy rain in Linqi County a few days ago, and the evidence room suddenly became damp. Only then did colleagues in the office discover the holes made by rats. Rainwater flowed in along the rat holes, and some old materials quickly became moldy.Therefore, before the evidence room is renovated, the information in it must be moved to another location quickly. There are already few in Baiyang’s office, and there are many large offices that can no longer accommodate it.

    Although this information was recorded in electronic files after computers became popular in the early years, the original handwriting still needs to be retained. In addition, not all of the information is recorded in the computer. Many items retrieved from the scene, which have been inspected and compared and have nothing to do with the case, will not be recorded in the electronic file.This is why there is more and more information coming and going.

    “We have to check if there are seats in other offices.” The young man looked at Baiyang.

    Bai Yang heard the sound and came over, looking casually at the cardboard box on the ground. A photo was revealed in the cardboard box. Bai Yang was stunned for a moment, then squatted down and took out the photo from the cardboard box.

    Seeing this, the young man glanced over and said, “Brother, this is the photo of the madman’s case. What’s wrong? I remember that girl’s name seemed to be…” The young man scratched the back of his head and said, “What’s the name soup? This was a case four years ago. I didn’t expect this photo to still be there.”

    The photo shows a stack of rain-soaked paper.

    “Tang Ya.” Bai Yang took the young man’s words and stood up with the photo.

    “Oh, I remember, her name is Tang Ya, it’s true, right? Senior brother is good at thinking, hehe.” The young man said with sudden realization, and then touched the back of his head in embarrassment.”I remember that at that time, senior brother said that something seemed wrong about this case, but Team Zhou closed the case. Later, later…” The young man couldn’t remember clearly.

    Later, I really couldn’t find or recall anything that proved something was wrong with this case. In addition, there were many things going on in the office. As soon as I became busy, I was slowly forgotten by Bai Yang.

    “Are the evidences from Gu Tao’s case here?” Bai Yang took the photo and looked at the messy cardboard boxes on the ground.

    After hearing this, the young man thought for a while, then quickly bent down and pulled out a cardboard box from a pile of boxes. “It was all registered when we moved here. I remember this is the box.” The young man moved the cardboard box to the desk in Baiyang’s office.

    Bai Yang nodded, put down the photo and started rummaging for something in the cardboard box.A colleague’s voice came from outside the door, asking the young man to move the cartons. Then the young man remembered his own business, said something to Bai Yang and disappeared.Bai Yang continued what he was doing without even raising his head.

    Until a somewhat worn diary was taken out of the carton.Baiyang opened the diary. This was Gu Yuwei’s diary at that time. The diary started recording records from the sixth grade of elementary school. It was written every once in a while. Most of what was written was about Gu Yuwei being beaten and scolded by Gu Tao and even touching her.

    The diary was read by Bai Yang very early on. He didn’t pay attention to it until he saw the photo, and a feeling of clearing away the fog came instantly.Bai Yang picked up the photo again and compared it with the writing in the diary. Although the writing on the photo was wet with rain and some of the words were hard to read clearly, it was undeniable that the writing on the photo was similar to the writing in the diary.

    Bai Yang sat back on the chair, propped his elbows on the table, rested his chin on the back of his hands, and looked at the photos and diary on the table quietly.

    ·

    Gu Yuwei didn’t look at the college entrance examination results, and didn’t even react at all on the day she applied for school. She found a job not far from Qin Qing’s home, and started a life of leaving early and returning late.Qin Qing seemed to have nothing to do with her. The two of them had not spoken to each other for more than a month.

    When Qin Qing started taking a long vacation, it was already half a year after her trip to the island.In the past few days, her vision has obviously become worse and worse, and several times she felt like there was no light in front of her eyes.

    Bai Yang came with a bag of something. He didn’t know what it was. He came to see Gu Yuwei.

    “I haven’t heard anything about Qin Gufeng, so I can’t tell you anything.” The girl hasn’t come back yet, so Bai Yang chats casually.Qin Qing’s expression was calm and she just nodded.Bai Yang added, “I see that you don’t look very good. Did something happen? But it’s good to take a vacation, so as not to be in class all day long.”

    Qin Qing has lost weight, and to a large extent, the warm smile that always hangs on her face is much less, only when she faces Gu Yuwei occasionally.Qin Qing was at home today, which Bai Yang didn’t expect. He thought she would be in class and called in advance, but he didn’t expect Qin Qing to say she was free, so he came a little early.

    “That’s right.” Qin Qing raised the corners of her mouth and reached out to touch her cheek, which seemed to have lost weight.I don’t know if Xiaowei can see it.Qin Qing sighed in her heart.

    “Is she really not going to college?” Bai Yang asked.

    Qin Qing raised her head and glanced at Bai Yang, then shook her head.Bai Yang saw that she didn’t want to talk about this, so he changed the topic, and the two of them talked about something else.

    When Gu Yuwei came back, it was already sunset.When the girl saw Bai Yang, she was stunned for a while, and then quickly returned to normal, “Officer Bai.” Bai Yang stood up after hearing the sound, and the girl turned dark, maybe from the sun or something else.

    Qin Qing knew that Bai Yang had something to tell Gu Yuwei. It must have been Gu Tao’s business. She felt that it was not convenient for her to be here, so she got up and planned to go to the study. “Xiaowei, Bai Yang has something to do with you, and I have something to talk about.” Qin Qing raised her feet, her eyes darkened, and she stopped where she was.

    The girl’s eyes darkened, she dropped the food in her hand and stepped forward to support Qin Qing.Bai Yang looked at the two of them, wondering what he was thinking.

    “It’s probably anemia. I’m fine, Xiaowei.” Qin Qing let go of Gu Yuwei’s support, touched her head and smiled.

    The girl pursed her lips tightly and said nothing.After Qin Qing left, Bai Yang took out the contents of the bag.Gu Yuwei looked at the photos and diary on the coffee table, and met Bai Yang’s eyes calmly, “Officer Bai, what do you mean?” The girl leaned on the sofa, feeling exhausted, and her eyes towards Bai Yang became increasingly cold and distant.

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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