Chapter 255 Light
"Mom, didn't you give the baby away?" Tang Xue suddenly asked.
"Huh?" Zhou Yi was stunned by this sudden question.
"Baby, he..." Tang Xue bit her lip and asked tremblingly, "Is he still alive?"
These two questions caught Zhou Yi off guard, because from these two questions, it seemed that Tang Xue had completely confirmed that she "knew nothing and was deceived by her mother."
Zhou Yi wondered, could this also be Yao Fenfang's teaching? To make Tang Xue look more innocent?
But why bother? Isn't it the safest way to keep silent?
Zhou Yi calmed himself down and asked with a smile, "Why do you feel that way?"
This rhetorical question was obviously beyond Tang Xue's expectations, and she was obviously panicked.
Obviously, the person who taught her to ask those two questions did not expect Zhou Yi to throw the ball back by asking a counter-question.
"Did you find anything unusual?" Seeing that she stopped talking, Zhou Yi took the initiative to ask.
But Tang Xue returned to her state of not answering any questions.
In the end, Zhou Yi had no choice but to give up, leaving the bread and paper cup behind and leaving.
The moment he closed the door, he heard Tang Xue sobbing softly inside.
Zhou Yi returned to the office and told Qiao Jiali and Shi Tao about the situation.
Then he waited alone until Gu Changhai and the people from the technical department came back. During the on-site investigation, he found a kitchen knife and a hammer hidden in the innermost part of the closet in the master bedroom, wrapped in a bed sheet. Blood stains were found on the bed sheet, which required further testing and analysis.
At the same time, blood residues were extracted from many cracks in the bathroom. After the squat toilet was dismantled, a piece of bone about five millimeters in size was found stuck at a bend in the sewage pipe. It has been sent for forensic testing.
Zhou Yi came out of the Municipal Bureau and rode his bicycle into the silent city.
It was so quiet around me, just like the day I was reborn.
But he didn't know how much evil and sin in human nature were hidden beneath such tranquility.
His figure gradually faded away, leaving only his shadow, which was elongated by the moonlight, like a lonely traveler.
…
Zhou Yi returned home and opened the door to enter the house.
Just as I reached out to turn on the light, someone sat up on the sofa.
Zhou Yi couldn't help but startled, but when he looked closely and saw that it was Lu Xiaoshuang, he breathed a sigh of relief and closed the door.
"Xiao Shuang? Why didn't you go back?"
Lu Xiaoshuang rubbed her eyes, calling out "Brother Zhou." Then she looked up at the wall clock and was startled awake. "Ah, it's over. How did I fall asleep?"
He stood up and was about to walk out.
Zhou Yi grabbed him and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go back to school."
"You must be sleepy now. The dorms are closed at this hour. Let's just stay here tonight. You sleep in the room and I'll sleep on the sofa."
Lu Xiaoshuang waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no, I'll just sleep on the sofa. You've been tired all day, you need to rest well."
"It's okay. It doesn't matter where I sleep. My mom says I sleep like a pig. I can sleep with just a pillow."
Lu Xiaoshuang scratched her head embarrassedly: "I saw that your room was a bit messy, so I cleaned it up, and then thought I would sit for a while and then go back. In the end, I don't know how I fell asleep."
"Oh, by the way, Brother Zhou, cake." Lu Xiaoshuang opened an aluminum lunch box on the table, with the name of the Ergang factory printed on it.
It contained a box full of fresh cream cake, but it didn’t look very good, as it seemed to have been weighed down with a spoon in order to add more decoration.
"There's so much! I can't finish it all by myself." Zhou Yi said as he turned and went into the kitchen. He took out two spoons and handed one to Lu Xiaoshuang. "Let's eat some together. It's getting warmer now. It'll go bad easily if we leave it out until tomorrow."
"No, I've already eaten."
"The main thing is that I would be too full if I eat so much, and I wouldn't be able to fall asleep soon, so please help me share some of the burden." Zhou Yi was really not hungry. The cafeteria aunt gave him too much in the evening, so he didn't feel hungry at all.
Lu Xiaoshuang took the spoon and said, "Then... I'll just eat two bites. If I eat more, I'll get fat."
The two of them started eating cake from their lunch boxes when Lu Xiaoshuang suddenly cried out, "Oh no, that's bad."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yi asked hurriedly.
"I forgot to bring birthday candles. I should have lit them, let you make a wish, and then blow them out." Lu Xiaoshuang said while biting her lip.
"What's the big deal? No need. I'm not a child. Why should I make a wish?"
"That won't work. Do you have any candles at home?"
Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Zhou Yi could only smile helplessly and look for candles.
But when he only found a half-used white candle, the corner of his mouth twitched: "This doesn't seem very auspicious."
So he stuffed it back in and spread his hands towards Lu Xiaoshuang.
"Wait a minute, I have a solution." Lu Xiaoshuang said, ran into the kitchen, then took out a box of matches, picked out the best one and gently inserted it into the cake.
Then she took out another match and said to Zhou Yi, "After I light it, make a wish quickly. You have about... five seconds. No, you also have to blow out the match; you can't let it go out on its own."
Zhou Yi was at a loss for words. Who uses matches to make birthday wishes?
But seeing Lu Xiaoshuang staring at the match seriously, the countdown had already begun.
"Three, two, one, go."
With a crackling sound, the match in her hand ignited the cake, and a weak flame shot up. Zhou Yi quickly closed his eyes and made a wish.
At the last second before the match burned out, he opened his eyes and blew out the flame.
Lu Xiaoshuang smiled contentedly and said to herself, "Mission accomplished."
Then he carefully scooped away the cake that was stained with matches and asked, "Brother Zhou, what did you wish for?"
Zhou Yi pretended to be mysterious and said, "I can't tell you. If I tell you, it won't work."
"Oh, then eat quickly."
Zhou Yi thought to himself, what wish should I make? He closed his eyes and started counting down, thinking of three, two, one, and then he opened his eyes and blew out the match.
As they ate the cake, Lu Xiaoshuang said, "Brother Zhou, I feel like my uncle and aunt seem to be worried today. They've been sullen and seem to be forcing a smile."
Zhou Yi immediately remembered that today Ergang announced the first batch of laid-off employees.
On this day in my previous life, I returned home from get off work at the police station as usual and learned the news from my parents. The whole family was immediately in a heavy mood. My mother sighed and my father looked worried.
Zhou Yi knew that he couldn't help, so he could only comfort them by saying that at least he was working, and if he tightened his belt, his salary could still support a family of three.
But the fundamental problem is not where the next meal will come from, but what to do with such a large group of people.
And this was just the beginning. There were more to come, batch after batch, until the Huang Xiaomao incident ignited the workers' emotions.
But in this life, he had already prevented Huang Xiaomao's father from jumping into the river to commit suicide, so theoretically, Huang Xiaomao would not become the fuse that ignited the workers' emotions.
But even without Huang Xiaomao, there will still be Liu Xiaomao and Zhang Xiaomao.
If the root cause is not resolved, anyone can become the fuse of a bomb.
The last time Zhou Yi rescued Huang Xiaomao's father, he had already thought about it. Instead of letting others become the fuse, it would be better to take the initiative into his own hands and let his father Zhou Jianguo play the role of the fuse.
It seems that before going to work tomorrow, I have to go back to the old house and talk to my parents about what to do next.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yi said: "It's okay, I guess there's something going on at the factory, it will be resolved later."
Zhou Yi discovered that Lu Xiaoshuang, who said she would only eat two bites, had already eaten half of it without realizing it.
The two of them started digging from the two ends of the lunch box. At this time, Zhou Yi's lunch box was less than half finished, while Lu Xiaoshuang had already eaten more than half.
Seeing Zhou Yi suddenly stop eating, Lu Xiaoshuang looked up puzzledly and asked, "Brother Zhou, why don't you eat?"
Zhou Yi pretended to frown and said, "I ate too much for dinner at the bureau. You don't know how big the duck leg the cafeteria aunt gave me is." As he spoke, Zhou Yi gestured, and then asked Lu Xiaoshuang to eat the rest of the cake and not waste it.
"I originally brought it for you, but I ended up eating it. I feel a little uncomfortable." Lu Xiaoshuang said with an embarrassed smile.
"No, thank goodness you overslept, otherwise you know how miserable it is to eat cake alone."
Lu Xiaoshuang shook her head repeatedly, and said with some inferiority, "I... have never eaten birthday cake. When I was a child, my mother would make me stir-fried pork with green peppers. On my birthday last year, my grandmother made me a bowl of noodles with two poached eggs."
Zhou Yi's heart trembled. Lu Xiaoshuang lowered her head with a faint smile on her lips. The black hair hanging down in front of her forehead shone slightly under the light.
He almost forgot that she had always been a girl who worked hard in a difficult life. But recently, she had become much more cheerful, which made him almost forget how difficult the road she had been walking was.
"Xiaoshuang." Zhou Yi called softly.
Lu Xiaoshuang raised her head and looked at him.
"I feel like you've been different lately." Zhou Yi looked into her bright eyes and said, "There seems to be light in your eyes."
Lu Xiaoshuang looked at him infatuatedly. Hearing this, she smiled and said, "Because I'm looking at the light."
…
Zhou Yi got up very early and went to rest after eating cake last night.
At Zhou Yi's insistence, Lu Xiaoshuang went to sleep on the bed in the house, and Zhou Yi spent the night on the sofa.
It’s just that the sofa is too soft. It’s fine for a short nap, but if you sleep for too long you’ll feel very tired, so I just got up early.
When Lu Xiaoshuang woke up, Zhou Yi had already placed hot buns and soy milk on the table.
"Brother Zhou, why are you up so early?"
"I'm going to my parents' house and buy you breakfast. Remember to eat it. The towels and toothbrushes are new. Just leave them there after you use them. I'm leaving first." Zhou Yi changed his shoes and went out directly.
Lu Xiaoshuang saw that it was still early, so she folded the quilt that was crumpled up on the sofa, then hummed some cheerful music while brushing her teeth.
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