He said goodbye

Extrapolating from the clues so far, here's the sequence of events:

Shortly after Xie Qingcheng's parents met Wei Rong at the Yanzhou clubhouse while investigating a case, Xie Ping and Zhou Muying were both demoted again, and then killed by a spontaneously combusting truck while out on their daily activities.

A week after Mr. and Mrs. Hsieh's death, Wei Rong, a newlywed, also died, also in a car accident.

Xie Qingcheng checked the remarriage of Wei Rong's husband Meng Sheng, six months after the woman's death. The timing is also intriguing, as under normal circumstances, if one's newlywed spouse dies, it would take at least three to five years for the surviving spouse to remarry.

There are only three reasons why a man who has just lost his wife rushes to marry a new one.

First, the wife hooked up with her new love before she died, and the death of the main house just allowed the mistress to rise to the top.

Secondly, the family still retains the very backward custom of "rushing to the wedding".

Thirdly, there is no affection between the couple.

The third scenario is the most common in marriages between extended families, but Meng Sheng's marriage to another woman in less than half a year before Wei Rong's body was cold and after his tragic and accidental death would have been an offense to Wei Rong's mother's family.

However, strangely enough, the relationship between the Meng Sheng and Wei families did not suffer too much because of this, and as usual, they cooperated and interacted with each other, as if the Wei family did not blame Meng Sheng for this behavior.

The investigation is at this point in the process, and is again mired in a fog.

However, behind this woman named Wei Rong, there must be a valuable clue that can solve the murder case of his parents. There is no doubt about it.

At the same time, Xie Qingcheng was also slightly relieved - he had always thought that his parents had met with the masterminds in the first place, but now it seemed that his parents might have met with the victims, and since Wei Rong was most likely a victim as well, the conspiracy might not necessarily involve Xie Xue's in-laws.

He could have explored further along the path.

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Xie Qingcheng has been busy cooking a pot of pea and ham casserole for the summer.

Because he resumed the investigation of the case, and at the same time, he had to scramble to finish finishing the writings for Old Qin, the two major events were all pressed on him, even if he relied on RN-13 to re-stimulate his primordial emperor ability, maintaining a far more than normal mental agility, he could not help but feel a thousand times tired.

"A small summer meal of ham and peas and rice is the best way to replenish your strength and brain power."

It was something Zhou Muying had told him when he was a child, and even though there was no scientific basis for it, sometimes the psychological comfort was far more important than the scientific basis.

Northeastern rice washing, add diced sausage and salted meat, together into the kettle simmering, very simple summer cooking, but after the pot is fragrant, soft and sticky in the mouth, full of rice grains absorbed sausage and salted meat fat, even do not like to eat peas Xie Xue will be three bowls in a row.

This is the first time Xie Qingcheng has cooked a pot of peas and rice, and he's the only one who eats it.

"...... overcooked."

He looked at the pot full of rice and thought about calling Xie Xue, but finally put the phone down and sighed.

In the afternoon, Wei Er brother called Xie Qingcheng, saying that the police had given the final results of the investigation of the poisoning case of the Wei family wedding banquet villa.

"It's fucking outrageous, from the residual ash, they've identified high concentrations of hallucinogens and psychedelics, there's no doubt that someone deliberately messed up, but that waitress has been repeatedly arraigned for more than a month and hasn't provided any meaningful clues." Wei Er said, "She's so capable, the secret service is not as tight-lipped as she is."

Xie Qingcheng suddenly asked, "Does she have symptoms of nosebleeds?"

"No." Wei Er wondered, "Why do you ask?"

Xie Qingcheng said, "...... It's nothing."

Although the Huang Zhilong company has been taken to the cleaners, the core secret of "hearing water" is still in the hands of only a few people, and the consequences of the complete disclosure of the existence of this chemical product are likely to be unimaginable.

Mayu later carefully studied, the new version of the hearing water and RN-13 although there are many similarities, but the power and side effects of the hearing water are far lower than RN-13, it works on the human body is only temporary, and at present, it does not seem to be prone to cause a disease as serious as the spirit Ai Bola.

However, it still has the potential to cause varying degrees of harm to the user.

For example, depression, bipolar disorder, paranoia ...... Some people with severe reactions can also be like Xie Xue, coma, drowsiness and other phenomena. And listening to the water will not bring similar damage to the victim, after the beauty of the study, the main judgment standard to see whether the symptoms of intermittent nosebleeds within two months.

If they do, they must be treated.

If not, then the hearing water did not cause harm to this case individual and no proximal intervention was needed.

"But the He family is also odd." Wei Er said on the other end of the phone, "This matter has involved their eldest son, yet they've been ignoring the progress of the police's investigation for over a month, not even showing up, as if they're not very interested."

Xie Qingcheng : "...... Probably they felt that the original target of the person who poisoned them was not He Yu, and that it was not the He family that they wanted to assassinate."

"That's still way out of line too." Wei Er tone has a lot of dissatisfaction, "Well at least it's their child who is in trouble, right? I've heard before that the He family is known for favoritism, and that the parents only have eyes for the little one, but I didn't really believe it, and this time I've seen it."

Xie Qingcheng would not comment on this, only asking, "What were the final findings?"

"That powder is not seen in the country, but in the Golden Triangle, there have been anti-narcotics police together with drugs seized once, is an overseas pharmaceutical companies to drill the local legal loopholes, production and sale of a kind of ecstasy incense." Wei Er said, "Foreign, it is difficult to trace, but the other party committed to our head surnamed Wei, this matter I will certainly follow the vine to go outside the country to find out. You can rest assured. We, the Wei family, aren't that easy to bully, and we won't be like the He family, who doesn't even care about their own loved ones."

"...... Thanks."

Wei Er The army ruffian snapped his fingers and laughed, "You're welcome, we're family."

After hanging up the phone, Xie Qingcheng could not help but frown slightly.

Given his confrontation with Lv Zhishu at the time, Lv Zhishu was very concerned about her family's reputation, but why did she then stop paying attention to the case altogether?

And what about He Jiwei? Why he did not bother ...... In Xie Qingcheng's impression, He Jiwei is not this kind of person, he at least to He Yu is to stay a little bit of concern.

However, now that he had completely broken with the He family, there was no one to answer all these doubts for him.

In the evening, Xie Qingcheng had just finished heating up the peas and rice and was ready to have dinner and then go back to work.

I didn't realize that I had only turned the rice cooker on when there was a hesitant knock on the door.

Xie Qingcheng opened the door, slightly surprised.

"...... Chen Man."

Standing at the door was Chen Yan, whom he hadn't seen since the wedding banquet.

Chen Man later apologized with him, messages sent, phone calls, Xie Qingcheng did not say much, meaning that the past is the past, such a ridiculous thing, the future as never happened, so as not to embarrass each other.

Chen Man wanted to see Xie Qingcheng several times, but Xie Qingcheng refused, who knew that he would come directly to the door today.

"Brother Xie ......," I could tell Chen Man was nervous, he first handed Xie Qingcheng a bunch of gift boxes he had brought with him before he said apprehensively, "Can I, can I come in and have a seat? Can I come in and have a seat?"

"......"

People have come, it is not appropriate to let people eat closed door, Xie Qingcheng so opened the door, side.

When Chen Man entered the house, Xie Qingcheng did not close the door, but left it open, so that the neighbors could see what was going on in his house.

The atmosphere between them had once been as natural as that of blood brothers, but now it was stiff beyond words.

A long silence.

Finally, Xie Qingcheng spoke first: "Have you eaten?"

"Not yet, not yet ......"

Xie Qingcheng then turned back to add another set of chopsticks and a bowl of rice with peas and salted meat, and said to Chen Man, "Sit down and eat first. If you have something to say, talk about it while you eat."

Throughout this process, he never looked Chen Man in the eye.

Chen Man also ate Xie Qingcheng's pea rice when he was a child. It was the summer of the second year after his brother left, and he came to Xie Qingcheng's house to ask him to teach him his homework, and Xie Qingcheng patiently sorted out all the points with him, and then he greeted Chen Man and Xie Xue in the small courtyard of the Rainy Lane. Man and Xie Xue to the small courtyard of the rainy alley, the three of them under the white orchid tree eating peas and rice, drinking watermelon juice ......

Now that I think about it, it's like a dream.

"Brother Xie, I actually came here today to apologize to you. That day in the mountain villa, I-"

Xie Qingcheng interrupted him, "You've already sent me a message and made a phone call, this matter, you don't need to talk about it any more from now on."

Chen Man looked at the man sitting across from him and insisted, "No, brother, please let me finish this time. Because ...... because I'm leaving Huzhou soon."

Xie Qingcheng's hand, which was about to eat with chopsticks, paused, and for the first time, his eyes fell on Chen Man's face.

He saw that the youth had lost a good deal of weight in his face.

"......"

"I'm leaving Huzhou soon." Chen Man said it again, his voice seeming to have water vapor in it.

Xie Qingcheng : "...... to Yanzhou?"

Chen Man shook his head, "Hiro City."

"Going somewhere for what."

Chen Man hung his head, after a while, he raised his eyes, look mournful and resolute: "I applied for transfer. Guangzhou city immigration personnel, criminal investigation in the past two years has been some lack of people, I applied for transfer to the front line of criminal police there. ...... have received the transfer order notice, the day after tomorrow, I will leave."

Xie Qingcheng : "............"

The fan in the room oscillated with its head bobbing and a subtle hum that became the only source of sound in the room.

Xie Qingcheng snapped and put down the chopsticks, rising abruptly and snapping, "Chen Yan, what the hell are you trying to do? Are you crazy?"

Chen Man bowed his head and said nothing.

Xie Qingcheng: "Don't you know that the most dangerous posts are missing over there? You're taking on missions with a death and injury rate second only to the Golden Triangle border? With a mind like yours, you're going to work as a frontline detective in Guangcheng? Why don't you just find a tree and hang yourself!"

Chen Man's face reddened and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

Xie Qingcheng didn't think it was enough and said angrily, "Why are you crying? Your brother is the one who should cry! Your dad, your mom, your grandpa should cry! I'm asking you, what's wrong with being alive? What are you trying to do, huh? You're a little brat with no hair on your head, why do you want to get yourself fucking killed! Do you think you're a hero?!"

"My brother back in the day, too-"

"Your brother is your brother! You are you! Your brother was the first graduate of the police academy back then he all sacrificed his life! At the same time with him, his comrade-in-arms, also one of my parents' apprentices, also counted among the top grades, and then also sacrificed! What about you? You should have stayed at the police station. What's wrong with the police station? What's wrong with the police force?"

"No." Chen Man was scolded by his chopping face, finally retorted in a trembling voice, his eyes glittering with a radical light, "No, brother. I didn't think there was anything wrong with the Civilian Police, but I know that I'm in Huzhou, I'm under the care of you and my parents' grandparents, and I'll always be just an overgrown child. You care about me, but no one looks down on me ...... even I don't look down on myself!"

"......"

"That day in the hotel, I completely lost my mind and judgment, and there's no way I would have done something like that if I was mature enough. It's even more so that I shouldn't have said such excessive and hurtful words to you." Chen Man wiped away his tears with all his might and got up and said to Xie Qingcheng, "Brother Xie, I'm sorry. You believed in me for so many years, you treated me well for so many years, and I hurt you like that. I feel like I failed all your expectations and care for me."

He wiped his tears, but his eyes were still red, "I don't know, what's going on between you and He Yu, but I know that no matter what you've done, Xie, you're the one who's very, very good, and there's a hidden agenda behind this that I probably don't deserve to know about, but I'm supposed to go ahead and believe in you, just like you believe in me."

"......"

"Maybe it's the only way you'll be willing to actually look at me."

Xie Qingcheng raised his hand to hold his forehead, his heart was like a fire: "Chen Man ...... I don't look at you, it's not a matter of whether you become mature or not, but I don't like you at all, I don't like men ...... "

"You don't like men, so why are you with He Yu?" Chen Man interrupted him.

Xie Qingcheng : "I ......"

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

He waited for an answer and couldn't wait.

And he tried to think of an answer and couldn't.

Ultimately, he was dumbfounded.

Chen Man heart like a knife: "Brother Xie ...... when you look at him ...... eyes and look at me is not the same ...... I am too stupid, so long since, I did not find, until later recalled the past, only to realize that ...... he in your eyes has been more than just a protected person, you look at his gaze ...... you ...... in the school, in the hotel, the way you looked at him was different from the way you looked at me ......"

Xie Qingcheng didn't know - was that really the case?

Chen Man choked, "I know, I know you don't like me. I'm too childish, I'm not smart enough ...... but I also want to grow up, I want to become different from before, I don't want me to look back at my life when I'm eighty years old, and live such a shabby and bad life. With no opinion, always like a child."

Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes:"...... Is this matter clear to your parents, your grandfather?"

"They just found out yesterday."

"...... How's this for you to have no opinion." Xie Qingcheng clenched his back teeth, angry and worried, he still cared about Chen Man in the end, "--You're too fucking opinionated, Chen Yan, you're opinionated! You're so willful to the point of lawlessness! I used to think that out of you, He Yu, and Xie Xue, you would never let me down. Now it seems that I was simply wrong!"

Chen Man : "I'm not trying to be capricious, I just want to ...... I just want to be different."

"......"

"I'm just trying to sharpen myself and stop being treated like a protected object by all of you."

"......"

"I just ...... I just think, Shea, if I grow up, maybe one day ...... maybe ...... there will be a day when you'll be able to --"

He didn't finish.

Because Xie Qingcheng wouldn't let him finish the second half of his sentence.

Xie Qingcheng had already said, "I won't like you, Chen Man. i am your elder."

Chen Man was silent for a long time, "What about He Yu?"

"...... He's different."

"......"

"Too much has happened between me and him to explain it to anyone." Xie Qingcheng had never admitted his feelings in front of He Yu, but at this moment, he said this in front of Chen Man, "But He Yu is different. There is no one else who can replace him."

After a pause, he continued, "If you took such a risk and went to Guang City to become a criminal police officer for my sake, then there was absolutely no need for you to do so."

Chen Man looked at him fearfully, and once again, he couldn't hold back his tears.

He raised his hand violently, covering his eyes, and half a dozen times he said hoarsely, "...... I'm not doing it for you, Hsieh."

"......"

"I did it so that I could stand before you." Chen Man hissed, "on equal footing."

After saying that, he bowed to Xie Qingcheng, could no longer bear the sadness in his heart, turned around and grabbed the door to go out.

Chen Man did not touch a single bite of the bowl of rice with peas, which was similar to the bowl of rice in his childhood, and was already cold.

Xie Qingcheng slowly sat down, his expression was hidden in the falling forehead hair, no one could see, what kind of color in the bottom of his eyes.

After a while, he suddenly got up, emotional outburst unexpectedly overturned the table, the table of food clattered to the ground, he gasped, and finally held his forehead, disheveled slid to the ground ......

He fumbled for a cigarette and lit it with a shaky hand.

But before he could get close to his lips, the taste of blood rushed up to his chest, Xie Qingcheng coughed heavily, cursed and threw the cigarette on the ground again - the mess was like a mockery of his life.

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At the same time, there was a great secret going on at the He House--

"...... I'm sorry for trying so hard for so many days, but this time it's a real comeback ...... Please ...... I'm sorry for your loss. "

The EMTs who arrived did not put the person in the bed on a stretcher, they made a judgment on the spot - the patient, who had been dead for many hours, had no body temperature.

The white cloth was slowly put on to cover the dead man's face.

The villa was silent as the grave.