Chapter 251 "Empty Monument" (End)

The screen is completely black.

Intermittent news broadcasts sounded: "... Our city has recently solved a major case, and a people's policeman died gloriously on the job... There are still criminals at large... The police will continue to investigate..."

The picture gradually brightened, a hand turned the door handle, and the door opened and closed.

Qin Jue calmly walked to the desk and sat down, opened the drawer and took out the diary that had appeared before.

She placed the diary in front of her and lowered her head to read through it.

From the first year of high school to March and April of the next semester, the pages were messy and the handwriting was scrawled. The only things written cleanly and neatly were the thoughts of those young people.

In May, the diary went blank.

In June, there are only a few lines of words.

"She cried. She cried very hard to the newspaper. I said it was impossible many times, but for some reason, she just believed that the policeman who died in the news was Nie Xingliang."

"She is with Lu Qiu."

The boy who was kind, honest, and silently guarded appeared in front of Lin Rou at the most critical moment, and exchanged sincerity for sincerity.

Qin Jue's eyes dimmed slightly, then quickly returned to normal.

yes……

Wouldn't it be a good thing to have someone to take care of her?

Qin Jue finished flipping through the diary and paused briefly.

Suddenly, she laughed and picked up the pen.

The screen flashed to the scene on the edge of the playground that day, with the school uniform jacket covering Lin Rou's head.

Qin Jue is a senior student.

The uniform for the first year of high school is red.

Like hijab.

May 21, 13:12 to 13:14.

During these two minutes, Lin Rou smiled and lifted up her red hijab.

She is his bride.

Qin Jue laughed unusually happily, stamping his feet with laughter, and his whole upper body was shaking with joy. His smile was filled with success and happiness.

She laughed for a long time.

Then he put his elbows on the table.

Tears pierced the page, and a cry escaped from the throat.

Weird and unpleasant sounds were played from the speakers on both sides of the stage, extremely harsh, penetrating into the eardrums of the audience.

Grief is like a sharp knife, stirring the listener's heart.

This is a one-sided ceremony.

The words are filled with childish possessiveness and deep love.

"What?"

Lin Rou's voice sounded, and Qin Jue was no longer on the screen.

"Really? Why didn't he tell me?"

Lin Rou looked at the unseen person with frustration and sadness, "Dad...are you sure? Are it really his biological parents who came here? It's not because..."

Isn't it because Lu Qiu and I are together?

"It's true." The middle-aged man's voice appeared outside the screen, "Xiao Jue's parents came to find him, and he went back to live with them."

"Where are the contact information? Didn't you leave any of them?" Lin Rou's face was full of regret, "I see that he didn't take away his mobile phone at home..."

"Yes." Lin Rou's father said, "But it's okay. We will definitely meet again if we are destined to meet each other, right? We don't know what Xiao Jue is thinking. Maybe he will figure it out after a while."

Lin Rou nodded slowly.

"By the way." Father Lin asked again, "Have the results of the physical examination come out?"

"Um."

Lin Rou knew that her father was trying to divert her attention, and her heart warmed, "Don't worry, the illness last year was completely cured. The doctor said that I am very healthy now."

"That's great."

The man smiled and said, "My daughter can live a carefree life. Dad has no other wish. He just hopes that you will always be healthy and happy."

"Oops..." Lin Rou glanced at him sheepishly.

"What's there to be shy about? You are my father's biological daughter. Who else should I be nice to if I am not nice to you?"

The man's words were horrifying.

…

A few years later.

Lin Rou, who graduated from university, was dressed maturely and put on light makeup. She was holding a bouquet of elegant colors in one hand and holding Lu Qiu's arm in the other.

"I'm sorry that I have to have you come with me every year."

She sighed softly and looked at her boyfriend apologetically.

"It's okay." Lu Qiu looked at Lin Rou with the same eyes as before. She was the only one in his eyes, silent and affectionate.

She said that the policeman was Nie Xingliang, that was it.

Lu Qiu trusted his girl unconditionally.

The two of them slowly walked into the Martyrs Cemetery. Most of the tombstones here were blank, with only numbers engraved on them.

Lin Rou found the location at a glance and squatted down in front of the empty monument.

Lu Qiu also squatted down and carefully swept away the dust in front of the tombstone so that Lin Rou could put the flowers in her arms on it.

"I can't tell."

Lin Rou looked at the tombstone and murmured, "I just felt...he must have done something important at that time, and then..."

"Um."

Lu Qiu never said much, but gently held Lin Rou in her arms, telling her with actions that she was always there.

Lin Rou leaned on his shoulder, tears rolling down silently.

"I don't know...I don't know..." she said softly, "I always feel that I have missed something...it feels so uncomfortable..."

So does Nie Xingliang, and so does her brother Qin Jue.

Neither of them said goodbye and left quietly.

Especially Qin Jue, there is really no news. Countless messages in Feixun have never been answered, and it seems that she has completely disappeared from her world.

It was precisely because Lin Rou knew nothing that she felt doubly sad.

The two of them finished sweeping the tomb, walked out of the cemetery and took the car back.

They had already met their parents. Lu Qiu bought a few bags of fruits and vegetables in the supermarket downstairs and carried them upstairs.

"Huh?"

The two men passed by policemen in police uniforms.

Lin Rou's father finally showed up. He stood by the door and saw his daughter and prospective son-in-law. He smiled and held the door open for them.

"Dad, did the police just come to our house? What's wrong?"

Lin Rou asked as she walked in the door.

The man with a few gray hairs slowly closed the door with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, they said there was an investigation, but they found the wrong person."

"oh."

Lin Rou nodded without doubting his presence.

…

Police office.

"Hey, how's the situation?"

"How about what? It's unnecessary."

The policeman who entered the door put down the record and said helplessly, "That anonymous report letter was written without any evidence. I went to ask today, and that house——"

He lowered his voice: "The father of that family adopted an orphan more than 20 years ago. Unexpectedly, he was a psychopath. He also participated in 'that case' and later voluntarily surrendered."

"Oh, surrendered?" the policeman on the office chair muttered, "then he still has a conscience, um, how many years will he be sentenced?"

The policeman from before shook his head: "Hey... the prison system was not perfect at that time. You know, there was no one in that place. Originally they were just detained waiting for the court, but the incident a few years ago became very troublesome. Big, a genius police officer died, and the higher-ups wanted to intimidate them, so they locked up all those people together."

"Oh, are they the group of prisoners who were rescued?" the sitting policeman said with inexplicable emotion, "Oh, that police officer is really a benchmark. He sacrificed himself so that all the criminals were brought to justice. Plus The case of the minor prisoner who surrendered has been successfully concluded, and his spirit will surely rest in peace in heaven."

Seeing his colleague's expression a little strange, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Just listen to what I have to say."

The policeman from before sighed, "The minor was locked up with a group of other accomplices... Think about it, why did they go in?"

The expression of the policeman on the office chair froze, and he cursed "cool" for a long time.

"Where are the others?"

The colleague shook his head again: "No."

"At that time, the verdict had not yet been handed down. The group of adult criminals with criminal records may have been stimulated and attacked 'one of their own' in prison."

"this……"

The sitting policeman looked helpless.

After all, these are all old things, and mentioning them now is just a sigh.

"Forget it. I heard that what the juvenile criminal did was quite unscrupulous. Well, let's call it retribution."

His colleague said "Yeah" and was quite emotional.

"It is estimated that the person who wrote the report letter learned about the backwardness through some channel. He thought the prisoner was still in the Lin family, so he reported it to the police anonymously."

The policeman said, dumbfounded, "It turned out to be a mistake. The father of that family said that the juvenile criminal left their home on his own initiative at the end of the first half of the first semester of high school. He did not stop him at that time. No one knew that he actually surrendered. "

"Oh - are you scared? I remember at that time, the mastermind seemed quite crazy, and he threatened many accomplices to come over."

The policeman on the office chair sighed, "He is a minor after all. It is normal to surrender voluntarily. It's a pity. He could have been reformed."

"No."

"By the way, doesn't he have any family members?"

"Family? He was originally an orphan. His biological parents have never been found, and the family who adopted him did not know that he committed the crime. However, this kid was quite conscientious and did not involve the family. He disappeared later, and I don't know where the ashes are kept. It’s time, well, who knows, let’s go to work.”

The busy figures of the two police officers gradually faded, and the scene turned to black.

The title slowly appeared in the center of the screen, two words in running script.

"Empty Monument".

The most evil go unpunished.

The brave die generously.

The cowardly man runs thousands of miles away.

Ordinary people survive the mundane world.

innocent,

Sacrifice unjustly.

It is recommended to read Chapters 3-8 and 3-9.