Exclusive Memory Chapter 9 Part 3

 Even though we were standing in the dark, we still occasionally caught the attention of others. So, Mu Chenghe asked Xiao Li for the key, opened the car, and sat in the back seat with me.

I choked for a while, and finally calmed down. 

The moonlight spilled on the ground through the gap between the buildings. I turned my face at an angle and saw the half crescent moon. There is an old residential building opposite. Someone from an unknown household closed the door vigorously after returning home, so all the voice-activated lights on several floors were turned on, and after a few seconds, the orange lights went out in a uniform manner.

I said: "When I was young, I thought voice-activated lights were amazing. Our family moved from the county town to the urban area, and it was the first time I knew there was such a thing. At that time, small things would make me very curious, so I was alone in the corridor. It kept making noises to make it light up. Later, I gradually experimented with it, trying to figure out how loud the sound could just make it light up.”

When I grow up, I feel that many people's hearts are like this voice-activated lamp, waiting for a voice that can break through its boundaries, and once it appears, it will fill the room with light. But during the day, facing the sun, it will also be inferior and unable to shine.

Just like I love Mu Chenghe, but I dare not tell him because of my low self-esteem and timidity.

Yes, I love him.

I once questioned this kind of love, I was afraid it was worship, dependence, obsession, and sustenance, until I saw Chen Yan's body. I thought a lot at that moment, I even wondered what it would be like if it was me lying there.

Who will come to see me, who will be sad.

When life came to an abrupt end, what made me regret and regret the most.

I took out my phone and sent the text message stored in the outbox to Liu Qi, turned off the phone, and called Mu Chenghe: "Teacher Mu."

"Huh?" He turned around.

I said, "Can you give me a hug?"

Mu Chenghe's eyes froze on my face for a second, then he opened his arms to welcome me into his arms, and drew them tightly.

I remember the first time he hugged me, it was on New Year's Eve that year, when the New Year's bell was ringing, he gave me a gentle hug like a gentleman.

I put my hand on his back, and suddenly felt my heart contracted suddenly, and that feeling spread to my limbs, and my hands and feet trembled slightly.

I rested my head on his shoulder and smelled the pine-like smell again. The moment I closed my eyes, tears rolled down my eyes.

Love, yes, but it is so difficult to say.

I'm afraid that once I say this word, it seems to blaspheme him.

The day I learned of Chen Yan's death, I broke up with Liu Qi.

Mu Chenghe returned to City A by car early the next morning.

Liu Qi's answer to my text message was relatively calm, he only called back and asked me: "Why?"

"We're not a good fit."

"I suggest you think about it first, we don't have to meet for the time being."

"Liu Qi..."

"Is it enough to think about two months?"

"It's not about the two of us, I thought it through."

"A month?"

"It's just I..."

"Okay, just one month." Then he quickly hung up the phone.

My heart was in a mess and I didn't have time to take into account his feelings. Sometimes I think women are really soft-hearted and cruel species.

The murderer who killed Chen Yan, through the surveillance video of the property and the collection of several clues, the police easily came to a conclusion.

"Remember what happened when you were here during the Spring Festival and escaped from the prison? " Mom said, "The murderer is that man's son."

"Why?" I asked.

"After the man was arrested, the death sentence was suspended and executed immediately. The high court issued a review opinion on the death sentence not long ago. He was shot last month."

"What does this have to do with Chen Yan..." I thought it was absurd, but before I finished my words, I realized the connection, and immediately became a little angry.

"Maybe the murderer wants the other party to experience the loss of a loved one."

"But Uncle Chen is just a matter of routine. This is the law, not a personal grudge." I said.

My mother didn't continue this topic with me, but instead said: "You stay here for a few more days, and don't go out alone at night."

"How long will I stay?"

"Stay as long as I say you can."

"However, Zhao Xiaotang found a job for me in their company, and I will be going to work in a few days."

"Then don't go there, it's best to stay in City B with me and find another job."

I glared at her, "You weren't like this before."

Mom stopped folding clothes, looked at me for a while and then said slowly: "Tongtong, Mom can't imagine that if it wasn't Chen Yan that day, it was you...if it was you..."

She didn't say any more, and then pretended to collect things, avoiding my gaze.

I said, "Didn't my father ask someone to tell my fortune for me before, saying that I would live to be eighty-eight years old and die in good health?"

She smiled: "You just like to hear your dad talking nonsense to you."

Because it was a vicious incident , the provincial government attached great importance to Chen Yan's case, and the Public Security Bureau issued a Class B warrant on the Internet. At noon a week later, the murderer was arrested in a county town two hundred kilometers away.

For that moment, I took a car with Xiao Li to the detention center and waited for him. However, after seeing that person, I didn't know where to vent all the accumulated resentment and anger. The real culprit in my imagination should have a face full of fierce eyes, even with many scars and many previous convictions. Only such a person can do something that is inferior to a beast.

However, that is only a half-old child, who looks younger than me, and I don't even know if he is eighteen years old. With a crying voice, he kept saying to the people next to him: "Uncle, I was wrong. Uncle, I was wrong. I was really wrong."

Later I learned that his father poisoned because he dug coal in the private mine in the village. At the end of the year, the foreman had been dragging everyone's wages. His mouth was poisoned to death, so he was sentenced to death with a reprieve.

During the Spring Festival, his wife couldn't stand the blow and hanged herself. During the funeral, he asked the prison to allow him to go back and see his wife for the last time. There are regulations in the prison that allow inmates to go out to visit relatives who have passed away, but this regulation does not apply to criminals on death reprieve.

So, he wanted to escape by himself.

Link after link like this, finally, the chain of tragedy was tied to Chen Yan.

I told Mu Chenghe the truth on the phone.

He was silent for a long time, then sighed lightly.

Back in City A, life has undergone a series of changes. First of all, because I didn't go to work in time, Zhao Xiaotang's company directly dismissed me.

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