Case File Compendium

Chapter 112 I'm Holding You

A few days later, Zhuang Zhiqiang passed away.

Before the old man left, he still did not see his daughter who had been missing for many years, but at least he got some comfort and company.

He Yu and Xie Qingcheng arranged for his funeral, and then they prepared to set off together for Zhuang Zhiqiang's hometown.

"Zhuangjia Village, Qingli County."

Although they already knew Zhuang Zhiqiang's hometown before, they didn't find out so much detail. Now they looked carefully and found that Zhuang Zhiqiang was from Qingli County. They were a little surprised.

Xie Qingcheng: "That's where Lu Yuzhu served as the secretary of the county party committee."

"Do you think this is a coincidence?"

Xie Qingcheng shook his head.

He Yu: "I also think things are not that simple. Let's take a step and see, but we need to be faster, and we can no longer be destroyed by the other party's evidence like the Sha Hong incident."

This was something that He Yu didn't need to talk about. The two asked for leave and boarded the flight to their destination that night.

More than two hours later, the plane landed, and they chartered a car and drove to Zhuangjia Village, Qingli County.

When they arrived at the village, it was just dawn and the sky was dim. The two found a local guest house to live in. After entering the house, although He Yu had been mentally prepared, he was still quite shocked.

He Yu had never seen such a dilapidated hotel. The room smelled musty, and even the carpet could not be covered. The sheets were not clean either, with suspicious old ecru stains on them.

He Yu dragged the suitcase and turned around to leave.

Xie Qingcheng: "...what are you doing?"

"I can't bear this kind of grievance."

"Just enough for one night."

"I do not want."

"Then where do you live?"

"I don't want to live in this kind of place if I sleep in haystacks in the open air."

Xie Qingcheng originally wanted to ignore him, she was really delicate like a daughter, but thinking about it again, He Yu also followed the vines to find out the medicine that Xie Xue was taking at the time in order to track down the clues, that's why he followed him to this place Kind of backcountry.

So I had to give up.

"...Okay, stop making trouble." Brother Xie coaxed the eldest lady, "I'll think of a way."

Later, Xie Qingcheng found a farmer's house in the village that looked fairly clean, and gave him 1000 yuan, saying he wanted to stay for two nights.Seeing that the two men were handsome, well-spoken, and the renminbi was brilliant, the farmer readily agreed to their request.Although the cleaned-up house is not too big and there is only one bed, at least it is clean and fresh. The hostess specially brought two freshly popped cotton mattresses from the cabinet to spread them on, and finally gave them to them very politely. Made two cups of tea and brought them to the room.

He Yu stood in this room, still not so comfortable.

Xie Qingcheng: "Sit down and drink some tea."

He Yu walked over and looked down, the water in the teacup was very impure, and it still exuded a smell of yellow earth after being boiled, he walked away like a noble cat, he would rather die of thirst than drink look.

Thanks to Xie Qingcheng, there were still two boxes of Shuhua milk in the suitcase, so he handed them to He Yu.

He Yu took it and stared at him: "Are you going to give me this?"

Xie Qingcheng's patience was exhausted: "I brought it specially for you, if you don't drink it, forget it, give it back to me."

He Yu rolled his eyes, then reluctantly removed the straw, and took small sips of this unnatural processed milk that he despised.

The two settled down, relieved a little of the hard work of traveling and traveling, and then went out to start investigating Zhao Xue's case.

They first went to the high school that Zhao Xue had attended, but that school had been vacated and there were overgrown grass.The large iron gate of the school is tightly closed, with thick chains hanging on it, the chains have been corroded, like the slough left by a red snake.

"Yenheng Middle School? It closed down several years ago, and the sponsor withdrew its funding. At that time, there was a lot of trouble for students who had no place to study." People from the nearby canteen saw them inquiring about this school, and said while knocking peanuts, "It's really good. pity."

He Yu asked, "Then do you know who the principal is and where he is now?"

"Principal? The first female principal left within a few years. The later principal also came from the city. After the school closed, he also left. When he was in the village, he didn't talk to others very much. He was a scholar. He's so lofty. We don't know him well. But you can go to Yijia Village in front of you and ask, there is a nine-year rural primary and secondary school over there, and it has cooperated with Renheng Middle School before, maybe their people will know better."

When Xie Qingcheng heard the words "Yijia Village", he felt a faint sense of discomfort in his heart, as if he had expected something.

Following the direction of the shop owner, the two walked for two miles and came to another small village under Qingli County. There was a towering tree at the entrance of the village. Under the tree, there were several old men with echinoderms playing cards. There was also a two-story house nearby. The mud-tiled building of the building, the sound of mahjong shuffling and dice shaking can be heard from the building, which is obviously an underground casino.

And right next to the casino, there is a stone tablet with three large characters pretentiously written on it——

"Yijia Village".

He Yu easily deciphered the gambling atmosphere in this village from the scene in front of him. He looked at those old men whose necks were half buried in loess and still gambled so fiercely. He was quite disdainful, and turned to Xie Qing and said: "This place is really..."

Before he finished speaking, his eyes touched Xie Qingcheng's face.

He Yu paused.

He noticed that Xie Qingcheng's face suddenly became very pale.

He froze for a moment, and a few seconds later, as smart as he was, he suddenly realized something——Yijia Village, surnamed Yi, a remote village, addicted to gambling, a small gambling house at the entrance of the village...

A name suddenly appeared in my mind——

"El Beihai."

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This is the place where the murderer who killed Qin Ciyan lived!

Xie Qingcheng had seen photos of Yijia Village from newspapers. After the Qin Ciyan incident, many reporters flocked to Yijia Village to take pictures of Yi Beihai's former residence.Until now, the loess house has not been demolished, but the door is closed tightly, with dense cobwebs, and it looks like a broken wall.

Xie Qingcheng walked outside the old house, staring at the bricks and tiles.

Slowly, his eye sockets turned red.

I don't know if it's hate or hurt.

Just as he was engrossed in watching, suddenly someone grabbed his wrist, it was He Yu.

Xie Qingcheng: "You—"

"Let's go, don't look at such an ugly broken house. It's bad luck to look at it too much."

As He Yu said, he covered Xie Qingcheng's eyes with his other hand, forcibly turned his face away, and said without denying, "Hurry up and go to that school with me."

He Yu's attitude seemed to be comforting, but also seemed to be unreasonable.

"..."

Xie Qingcheng couldn't give an accurate characterization of his behavior. He Yu has been too weird recently, always talking to himself in such a rigid way, as if he owed him 500 million projects.

But it is true that He Yu never did the same stupid thing as before.

He Yu: "Let's go."

Xie Qingcheng remained silent for a while, then pulled his wrist out of He Yu's palm.He didn't like being controlled by others, especially when the other party was a boy so much younger than himself, but he knew that He Yu's guidance was right, so he just adjusted his cuff buttons, calmed down, and said: "It's all right. I can go by myself."

He really looked away from Yi Beihai's old house by relying on concentration, put his hands in his coat pockets, with serious eyes, and walked in front of He Yu.

He Yu looked at his back——

Although the man looked ugly when he turned around, his figure was still tall, tall, and strong, as if nothing could destroy him except death.

Xie Qingcheng...

He Yu silently read his name in his heart, and chased after him.

The two came to Yijia Village Hope School.

When Zhao Xue was studying at the school, it used to be called Yijia Village Hope Primary School. Later, it was reorganized and merged, and became a nine-year consistent education system. The primary school, junior high school were integrated, so it got its current name.

As soon as Xie Qingcheng saw the principal receiving them, he knew that the situation was not optimistic.

The principal is very young, in his early thirties.Obviously not the old principal who helped Zhao Xue back then.And when they had a simple exchange with the new principal, their hearts sank to the bottom - the old principal had passed away many years ago.And other teachers in the school also have a lot of turnover.

Most of the teachers who came to the countryside to support teaching did not stay for long, only a handful of them stayed for five or six years, and none of them had contact with the person in charge of Renheng High School.

"Is the file also unavailable?" He Yu asked.

"There used to be an archive in the village, but a fire broke out a few years ago, and Renheng's materials were also stored there, and now there is nothing..."

——The archives building on fire.

When He Yu and Xie Qingcheng heard this, they were even more sure that all of this was closely related to the Chengkang Mental Hospital and the Shanghai Radio and Television Tower case.This series of modus operandi is too similar to be called a coincidence.

But the problem is already obvious: the other party did not leave any clues that can be traced.

With the passage of time, people who know the truth have been washed away like a big wave, and it is difficult to find them.

At the end of the day, Xie Qingcheng and He Yu had almost nothing, and when it was dark, they returned to the farmhouse together.

The farmer prepared some meals, Xie Qingcheng ate some and went back to the house to rest.

He Yu looked at his tired silhouette, and he could tell that he was worried just by a single figure.

He thought for a while and asked the peasant woman, "Auntie, are there any better restaurants nearby?"

"There is a good one, but it's a bit far away, and it takes more than 30 minutes to walk there." The woman was a little worried, "Is it because the dinner doesn't suit your appetite?"

"Ah, no. I'm very happy to eat." He Yu smiled, "It's just that my friend is not feeling well, and I'm afraid to disturb you, so I want to go to the restaurant to buy some food for him."

The woman understood, and asked again, "Is that gentleman your brother?"

"...That's right."

"The young man is really kind to your brother. Look at you two, brothers and sisters are respectful."

He Yu smiled without saying a word.

The woman was very enthusiastic, and it happened that her husband was going to the fields, and he said that he could pick up He Yu along the way, and He Yu readily agreed.

It turned out that the man was driving a tractor.

He Yu: "..."

There is nothing to be picky about in this backcountry. It is better to sit on a tractor than to walk alone for 10 minutes at night without lights.

He Yu then became a CEO who traveled thousands of miles on a tractor to buy food for Dr. Xie.

Fortunately, the dishes made by that restaurant are indeed delicious. Although the store is small, it is clean and refreshing.He Yu ordered a few stir-fried dishes to take away, remembering that Xie Qingcheng was always coughing recently, so he asked the store to help him make a stewed pear paste with rock sugar, then got on the tractor and went back.

As soon as he returned to the room, he saw that Xie Qingcheng had already fallen asleep.

There was only one bed in the room, and Xie Qingcheng obviously didn't want to sleep with him, so he made a bed on the floor.

The news of He Yu coming home woke him up from his light sleep.

"where did you go?"

He Yu walked to the table and took out the packing boxes from the plastic bag one by one, and the room was instantly filled with the smell of food.

"I'm not used to eating at night, so I went to a nearby restaurant and bought some. Do you want to eat?"

Xie Qingcheng: "...don't eat."

He Yu's hand holding the chopsticks paused, a little gloomy: "I ordered too much, if you don't eat, I'll pour it all down."

"Can you stop wasting food like this?"

"Then you should get up and eat with me."

Xie Qingcheng had no choice, coughed, got up from the floor and sat down at the table.

But when he saw the dishes on the table, he frowned slightly, then moved his eyes up and landed on He Yu's face.

"What's wrong? Not to your taste?"

"No."

Where is it not to my liking.It is obviously too appetizing.

Pepper Chicken, Mapo Tofu, Tomato Beef Brisket Soup, Stir-fried Sweet Potato Vine...

Although they are all home-cooked dishes, they are all dishes that Xie Qingcheng would like to eat.

It wasn't something He Yu would like to eat.

He Yu is very delicate, sea urchins should be from Sardinia, oysters should be from Ireland, and beef must be from Japan if you don’t eat anything from Australia.And he doesn't eat spicy food, he doesn't eat hemp, and he doesn't like vegetables that much.

But based on Xie Qingcheng's understanding of He Yu, it is unlikely that He Yu would buy him some extra meals.

This idea persisted until He Yu took out a jar of rock sugar pear paste from the paper bag, and pushed it to his hand with a straight face.

Xie Qingcheng: "..."

He Yu: "What are you looking at? I'm afraid that your coughing at night will disturb my sleep."

Xie Qingcheng glanced at him. He is straightforward and doesn't like to be twitchy. Since He Yu really bought it for him, he said openly: "Thank you."

He was upright, but He Yu's thoughts were not pure, so he turned his head away: "Eat slowly, I'm going to wash up."

The washing place in the farmhouse was really crude, and He Yu felt uncomfortable looking at it, so he washed it reluctantly, put on his clothes and went back to the house immediately.Xie Qingcheng had already cleaned up his things, leaning against the window, drinking pear cream sickly while looking at the gray field outside.

He Yu walked over, and for a moment, he really wanted to hug this man's thin waist from behind, then kiss the cinnabar on the back of his neck, the green veins on the side of his neck, his drooping eyes along his lonely jaw, and finally kiss him. to his thin lips.

He wanted to kiss him, he wanted him, thousands of times.

But He Yu knew that was not what he should do.

He loves Xie Qingcheng, but he doesn't want to lose himself, and he doesn't want this kind of love to cause more harm to Xie Qingcheng. Xie Qingcheng has already endured enough feelings, and He Yu feels that he can pour them into his body casually. Something heavy would crush him and shatter him to pieces.

As if feeling his gaze, Xie Qingcheng turned his head and coughed lightly. Tall, strong and fragile were miraculously blended in him: "It's getting late, you go to sleep, and you have to continue the investigation tomorrow."

He Yu just wanted to agree, but when he saw Xie Qingcheng's other hand resting on the window lattice, he was taken aback for a moment, and then his face suddenly darkened.

——Damn it!Xie Qingcheng is still smoking!

Moreover, he drank cough pear cream and smoked at the same time!

Young people are drinking wolfberry tea and playing disco, and menopausal men are even more amazing. He can contribute his own strength to the country's tobacco industry while drinking cough ointment.

He Yu was really startled by him, and also annoyed by him.

He walked to the window and snatched Xie Qingcheng's cigarette with his hands.

"What do you smoke?"

"...Marlboro."

"Who asked your brand! I said what do you smoke!"

He Yu hissed and extinguished the cigarette by the wall, and threw it outside. He hated Xie Qingcheng very much: "You smell like cigarettes all over your body, it smells so bad. You are not allowed to smoke any more."

Xie Qingcheng didn't make trouble with him either, he pushed He Yu away: "If you don't smoke, don't smoke. Go to sleep."

He Yu said, "What are you doing on the floor, it's a double bed."

"..." Xie Qingcheng felt that the young man is really casual.

Why is he laying the floor? Is there any need to ask?

He has slept with He Yu so many times, and he didn't think it was particularly important before. The last time was the last time. That time he actually got unprecedented pleasure from the lingering with He Yu. "Unprecedented" is genuine, which means that he has never experienced this feeling before, whether he had resolved it with Li Ruoqiu or by himself.

He thought of what he did with He Yu that night, especially when he took the initiative, he felt it was too ridiculous and dangerous.

He simply felt that He Yu had played a trick on him.

How else would things have turned out that way?

When he woke up the next day, smoking an afterthought cigarette, and seeing the boy sleeping peacefully against his neck, an alarm bell rang in his heart, knowing that he must never have this kind of relationship with He Yu again.

If there is no relationship, the best way is to reduce unnecessary contact.

Xie Qingcheng looked at He Yu soberly and calmly: "It's not suitable for the two of us to share a bed. What is the reason? You are so smart, you should be very clear."

He Yu: "..."

"You are young, I will give you the bed, I am going to rest, thank you for your dinner."

Xie Qingcheng wanted to lie down and rest as soon as he said that, but Xiaonian's hands and feet were faster than him, and he had already occupied the bed.

"I won't fight for the bed with my uncle." He Yu said with a sullen face, "I'm the chairman of the student union, and it's my job to respect the old and love the young. You can sleep on the bed, you are old, don't hurt your back when you turn around."

Xie Qingcheng saw that he was really persistent and didn't want to waste this time.

What's more, his mind was already heavy, and he really didn't have the strength to argue with He Yu anymore.

He gave He Yu another quilt on the bed, then sighed, took off his coat, and lay down on the empty double bed.

"Go to sleep, I turned off the light."

"it is good."

However, in the quiet night, both of them were sleepless.

Needless to say, He Yu, young people usually sleep late and seldom sleep, but Xie Qingcheng is because of too many things and too many thoughts, tossing and turning in the dark, sighing softly, but he can't sleep well no matter what.

Although Xie Xue's illness is not serious for the time being, as long as the new medicine is not found, she may be in danger at any time, and he is not at ease at all.

There is also Yi Beihai... This is Yi Beihai's hometown, and it is also Lu Yuzhu's hometown... These inconspicuous little people have turned up turbulent waves. They all came from this remote Qingli County. Could it be a coincidence? ?

Then he thought of Qin Ciyan again.

Xie Qingcheng's heart throbbed uncontrollably.

He closed his eyes tightly, but couldn't fall asleep no matter what.

In the middle of the night, it began to rain outside the window, the rain was torrential, and the wind broke into the house with damp and cold air.

The quilt was getting thinner, Xie Qingcheng coughed harder, the coughing got worse, he couldn't stop, in a drowsy state, he vaguely heard movement behind him, before he could react, he felt a familiar warmth——

He Yu went to bed and hugged him from behind.