Ruan Yu had an afternoon meeting in the evening.

As the winter solstice approaches, the daylight in December is particularly short. She just waited at the entrance of Huanshi for five minutes and saw that it was getting darker.

Because of the traffic jam during the evening rush hour, Xu Huaisong came late for a while, so when she got on the bus, her hands were already blown red by the cold wind.

As soon as he closed the car door, Ruan Yu rubbed his hands at the heating and asked, "How is the trial today?"

"It's still going well." Xu Huaisong didn't start the car immediately, adjust the direction of the heating wind, turned around and picked up her hand and rubbed it gently, rubbed it for a while, lowered his head and sucked his breath at her palm. He lowered his eyes and saw that the scabs in her palm had almost faded. He thought about it and asked, "I'm going to fly to the United States after the winter solstice. I'll go to see the teacher that day?"

"Where are your parents, don't you go back during the holidays?"

"Su City at noon and Hangzhou City at night."

"Then how tired you are to drive, it's not too late to go to my house when you come back from the United States. What's the hurry?"

Xu Huaisong laughed: "How can you not come to the door for a big festival? Don't let me get out of the game if you lose the score."

Ruan Yu let out a "Oh", smiled with his eyes and his lips, and suddenly remembered what Li Shican said at noon.

As early as that time, Xu Huaisong had considered getting married, or he had been rushing to her from the beginning.

Then she thought, she knew why he had concealed that response plan.

Marriage is a decision between two people, and it should be pure and uninterrupted by the outside world. He does not want their marriage to be given any other meaning in her heart.

It is precisely because of his cautious treatment of this matter that although the two have tacitly discussed it, he will definitely not take the initiative to speak up before completely ending his work in the United States.

After thinking about this, Ruan Yu felt that he should not worry. After all, when his domestic career stabilizes, he will have to wait until next year.

Thinking of this, Ruan Yu asked: "When will you come back this time to go to the United States?"

"I can't catch up with New Year's Day."

Sure enough, Ruan Yu's face collapsed instantly: "Then we can't celebrate the New Year together..."

He smiled and looked at her: "What's the best thing to do in the Gregorian years? Love the country more and the lunar calendar together."

Ruan Yu opened her mouth, thinking that it was not her "respecting foreign countries and fascinating foreign countries", but that New Year's Day night in the Gregorian year had special significance for them, but Xu Huaisong looked like he didn't care at all, and swallowed the words back.

Forget it, don't expect men to understand this kind of romance.

Three days later it will be the winter solstice.

Xu Huaisong arranged the plan in an orderly manner. He took Ruan Yu back to Su City early in the morning. After celebrating his ancestors, the family had a reunion dinner, had afternoon tea, and drove back to Hangzhou City.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when it drove to the suburbs. The sunset dyed the mountain road and paved a light yellow dizzy on the road ahead.

Ruan Yu suddenly remembered Zhou Jun. He and his girlfriend happened on the road from Su City to the suburbs of Hangzhou City.

She sighed. Before she could speak, Xu Huaisong knew what she was thinking. She changed her mind and asked casually: "What should I eat tonight?"

"My mother heard that we had a table meal for lunch, so she prepared hot pot." She turned her head to look at him, "Student Xu, are you nervous and afraid when you meet the head teacher?"

Xu Huai Song smiled: "I'm afraid."

Ruan Yu was about to comfort him, but he answered the next sentence: "I have to keep giving you food when I eat hot pot, I'm afraid I won't be full."

“…”

The relationship has really deteriorated. Ruan Yu looked out the window and thought bleakly.

Xu Huaisong looked at her and was about to joke, but suddenly he saw half of the road ahead blocking, with several policemen surrounding the grass on the roadside, and someone was shoveling the ground with shovels.

He quickly restrained his smile and frowned.

Ruan Yu also noticed it and was curious about what he was doing, so he saw a policeman wearing gloves pick up something from the deep pit.

It's a piece of soil covered with soil and rotten so much that it has lost its shape...arm?

Ruan Yu gasped.

Xu Huaisong reached out to cover her eyes and accelerated to drive over.

But perhaps this accelerated move attracted the attention of the police. When the car approached the scene surrounded by yellow straps, it was stopped by a policeman wearing a document in a gesture: "Sir, ma'am, sorry, please show your ID card."

He touched Ruan Yu's head and signaled her to lower her head and not to look out the window. After handing out the ID, he saw the policeman with a look of surprise: "So coincidental, Lawyer Xu?"

Xu Huaisong nodded: "Do you know me?"

He began to laugh: "The incident of your assistance to the police to arrest the suspects has been rumored in our police circle. You were also drunk and knocked on the door of more than a dozen households in Jinjiang City. That matter is also quite famous in our bureau."

“…”

Ruan Yu raised his head suddenly and looked at Xu Huaisong blankly.

He coughed lowly and concealed casually: "Oh, are you handling the case?"

"Yes, the Shanghai Stock Exchange caught a criminal suspect who had escaped for half a year at a concert a few days ago. We asked us to cooperate with the investigation. Isn't it? It's a big holiday to dig up the corpse in this wilderness ridge." After he poured out his grievances, he nodded apologetically at Xu Huaisong, "Sorry, Lawyer Xu, you can go there."

Xu Huaisong did not move now, frowned and said, "You mean, the suspect buried his body here half a year ago?"

He nodded: "Yes, it's a habitual offender. After dismembering the body, he buried it everywhere, and then half of his arm was found here."

Remembering the scene just now, Ruan Yu trembled all over and got goosebumps all over.

He said "Ah": "Sorry, sorry, I scared this lady."

Xu Huaisong turned his head and held her hand, indicating that it was okay, but he had to ask: "If it is convenient, I would like to ask the specific time when the suspect buried this arm."

"We are not able to disclose this...details..."

Xu Huaisong nodded: "Then you just need to tell me if it is the Dragon Boat Festival."

A strange color flashed in his eyes: "How did Lawyer Xu know?"

Now even Ruan Yu forgot to be afraid and raised his head in surprise.

On Dragon Boat Festival, wasn’t that the day when Zhou Jun had an accident?

Xu Huaisong became serious: "I think... there may be a case that requires you to check again."

It was already a little dark after leaving the scene.

Ruan Yu took a long time to recover from this episode and asked, "Will it really have anything to do with the Zhou Jun case?"

Xu Huaisong shook his head: "I don't know, but Sister Zhang and I did have such speculation: If Zhou Jun is not the real murderer, then the evidence is handled very cleanly, which means that the real murderer is mostly a habitual offender, and the habitual offender commits a crime again, it is likely to be to cover up the previous criminal facts. However, we investigated the criminal case that happened in Hangzhou that time, and found that it could be countered, so we gave up this speculation."

As a result, a criminal case in the Shanghai Stock Exchange has emerged.

"What do you mean is that the victim might have been silenced because he accidentally discovered the murderer burying the body?"

"This possibility is not ruled out."

"But the place where the burial body is buried is only on the same road as the victim's death, not the same place."

"If the speculation is established, the murderer will hurry to deal with the scene after the murderer will then bury the body again, and then bury the body again in a hurry. This is reasonable. If it is the same place, the police will find the truth when they investigate the scene."

Ruan Yu showed an expression of agreement on his face. After figuring it out, he shivered again and touched the goosebumps on his arms.

Xu Huaisong held the steering wheel in one hand and grabbed her hand with the other and wrapped it in his palm: "Don't think too much, leave it to the police."

When they drove out of the mountain road and arrived at the Ruan family, they saw Ruan’s parents happily coming out to greet Ruan’s parents. The two of them tacitly did not mention this matter, but when eating hot pot and sautéed pork, Ruan Yu still felt a little uncomfortable.

Seeing that she didn't move too much, Qu Lan frowned and said, "What's wrong with Metaphysics? Do you have no appetite?"

She said softly, not wanting to make her parents worry about Zhou Jun, so she shook her head: "I have eaten too much afternoon tea at Huaisong's house and am not too hungry."

Xu Huaisong knew that she didn't eat too much in the afternoon, and the fundamental reason was the scene on the way just now.

He removed the two plates of bright red meat in front of her, rinsed her with a few vegetables, and put them into her bowl.

With his sharp and considerate care, Ruan Yu blinked at him.

Seeing this, Ruan Chengru also looked at Qu Lan: Is there anything these two children hiding from us?

Qu Lan: It seems to be...

Ruan Chengru began to think with thoughts, while talking to Xu Huaisong quietly, caring about his family situation, parents' health, and sister's grades.

After a round of home-cooked meals, the dishes on the table didn't move much.

Qu Lan said to Ruan Chengru: "Hey, you are really good. Just chatting with Huaisong, and see that he has no time to turn on his chopsticks. Quickly put a plate of beef for the child."

Ruan Chengru picked up the meat and put it into the hot pot.

Ruan Yu looked up and saw this scene. He remembered the piece of arm he saw in the evening. His stomach and abdomen were slightly churning. He couldn't help it. He turned his head and covered his mouth and retching for a while.

Xu Huaisong quickly patted her back: "Do you want to go to the bathroom?" After saying that, he raised his eyes and saw Ruan Chengru and Qu Lan staring at him in a stiff, surprised, and questioning manner.

He was stunned.

Ruan Yu felt uncomfortable and didn't pay much attention to his parents' reactions. He stood up and said, "Yeah, I'll go."

Xu Huaisong came back to his senses, greeted the two teachers, followed her into the bathroom, and closed the door.

Ruan Yu supported the stomach with one hand and the bathroom with the other. After vomiting for a few times, he didn't vomit anything. He whispered with a bitter face: "As soon as I saw that bright red meat, I thought of it..."

Xu Huaisong turned on the faucet to wash her face, and said helplessly: "Your imagination is really..." He paused again halfway through his speech, "Okay, I will eat all the meat when I go back and don't let you see it, okay."

Ruan Yu nodded with his mouth and asked as if he was thinking of something: "But why did your parents look at me with that look just now?"

"I didn't pay attention, what kind of eyes?"

"It's just a kind of..." He frowned and recalled, "'What did you do to my daughter,'"

After the words came to an end, the two of them reacted together.

Oh, terrible, the misunderstanding is huge.
Chapter completed!