You’re My Belated Happiness

It was already evening after Ruan Yu finished the afternoon meeting.

As the winter solstice approached, the days of December were particularly short. She just waited for five minutes at the door of Huanshi to see that the sky had become dark for one degree.

Because of the traffic jam in the evening rush hour, Xu Huai-song arrived a while late, so that when she got in the car, her hands were already flushed by the cold wind.

As soon as he closed the car door, Ruan Yu rubbed his hands at the heater and asked, "How about today's trial?"

"It's going well." Xu Huaisong didn't start the car right away, adjusted the heating wind direction, turned around and took her hand and rubbed it gently, rubbing for a while, lowered her head and breathed into her palm, looking down to see that the scabs on her palm had almost faded. Now, after thinking about it, I would like to ask, "I will fly to the United States after the winter solstice. Going to see the teacher that day?"

"Where are your parents, won't you go back for the holidays?"

"Suzhou at noon, Hangzhou at night."

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

Xu Huaisong laughed: "How can there be a reason not to come home during the big festival? Don't let me lose the game."

Ruan Yu said "Oh", put aside his eyes and pursed his lips and smiled, suddenly remembering what Li Shican said at noon.

As early as that time, Xu Huaisong had considered getting married, or in other words, he rushed to her from the beginning to the end.

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

The matter of getting married is a decision that belongs to two people. It should be pure and free from outside interference. He didn't want their marriage to be given any other meaning in her mind.

And it is precisely because of his prudence in handling this matter that although the two of them can talk tacitly now, he will definitely not take the initiative to mention it before completely ending their work in the United States.

Thinking about it this way, Ruan Yu felt that he should stop worrying. After all, he would have to wait until his domestic career stabilized until next year.

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

"It's too late for New Year's Day."

really. Ruan Yu's face collapsed in an instant: "Then we can't celebrate the New Year together..."

He smiled and looked at her: "What's great in the Gregorian calendar, love the country more, just use the lunar calendar together."

Ruan Yu opened his mouth, wanting to say that it was not that she was "worshiping foreigners", but that the New Year's Eve of the Gregorian calendar had a special meaning to them, but Xu Huaisong swallowed it back, looking indifferent.

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

Three days later is the winter solstice.

Xu Huaisong arranged the plan in an orderly manner. Earlier he took Ruan Yu back to the city of Suzhou. When he had sacrificed his ancestors, the family had a reunion dinner, afternoon tea, and drove back to Hangzhou.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when I drove to the suburbs, and the setting sun stained the mountain road, paved a faint yellow halo on the front road.

Ruan Yu suddenly thought of Zhou Jun. He and his girlfriend happened on the road from downtown Suzhou to suburbs of Hangzhou.

She sighed. Before she could speak, Xu Huaisong already knew what she was thinking. He turned her mind off and asked casually: "What to eat tonight?"

"My mother heard that we had a table meal at noon, so she prepared a hot pot." She turned her head to look at him, "Xu classmate, I'm going to see the class teacher, so don't you be nervous, are you afraid?"

Xu Huaisong smiled: "I'm afraid."

As soon as Ruan Yu wanted to comfort him, he listened to the next sentence: "If you eat hot pot, you have to keep cooking for you. I'm afraid I won't be full."

"..."

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

Xu Huai-song glanced at her, just about to say a joke, suddenly saw that the road ahead was half-sealed from a distance, and some policemen were surrounded by grass on the side of the road, and some were shoveling the ground with a spade.

He quickly reduced his smile and frowned.

Ruan Yu also noticed, and was curious about what he was doing, when he saw a gloved policeman picking up something from the pit.

It's a piece of soil covered with soil, rotten out of shape...arm?

Ruan Yu gasped.

Xu Huaisong stretched out his hand to cover her eyes, and drove past her speedingly.

But perhaps this accelerated action attracted the attention of the police. When the car approached the scene surrounded by yellow belts, it was stopped by a policeman wearing a badge: "Sir, ma'am, sorry, please show your identities." certificate."

He touched Ruan Yu's head and motioned to her to lower her head not to look out the window. After handing out the certificate, the policeman looked surprised: "What a coincidence, Attorney Xu?"

Xu Huaisong nodded: "Do you know me?"

He began to laugh: "The fact that you assisted the police in arresting the criminal suspects has been raged in our police circles. Also, you were drunk and knocked on the door of a dozen households in Jinjiang City at 302. That matter is also pretty good in our bureau. famous."

"..."

Ruan Yumeng raised his head and looked at Xu Huaisong in a daze.

He coughed and concealed it casually: "Oh, are you working on a case?"

"Yes, the Shanghai stock market caught a criminal suspect who had escaped for half a year at a concert a few days ago. We are required to cooperate with the investigation. No, the corpse will be excavated in this wilderness for the festival." He finished. Kushui, sorry to nod to Xu Huaisong, "Sorry, lawyer Xu, you can go there."

Xu Huaisong didn't move this time, frowning and saying, "You mean, that suspect buried the body here half a year ago?"

He nodded: "Yes, it's a habitual offender. After the corpse is buried everywhere, half of his arm will be found here."

Recalling the scene just now, Ruan Yu trembled and got goose bumps.

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

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

"This... We can't disclose the details..."

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

A strange color flashed under his eyes: "How does Lawyer Xu know?"

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

Dragon Boat Festival, isn’t that the day Zhou Jun’s accident happened?

Xu Huaisong became serious: "I think... you may have to trouble you to look up a case again."

Leaving the scene, the sky was a little darker.

It took a long time for Ruan Yu to relax from this episode and asked, "Will it really be related to Zhou Jun's case?"

Xu Huaisong shook his head: "I don't know, but Ms. Zhang and I did speculate like this: Assuming that Zhou Jun is not the real murderer, then the evidence has been processed very cleanly, indicating that the real murderer is mostly a habitual offender. Maybe it was to cover up the fact of the previous crime. It was just that we investigated the criminal case that occurred in Hangzhou at that time, and we didn't find that we could match the number, so we gave up this speculation."

As a result, there is now a criminal case on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

"You mean, maybe the victim was killed because he accidentally discovered that the murderer was burying the body?"

"Do not rule out this possibility."

"But the location of the burial and the death of the victim are just on the same road, not the same place."

"If the speculation is true, after the murderer commits the attack, he rushes to deal with the scene, and then hurriedly changed places to bury the body again. This is reasonable. If it is the same place, the police will discover the truth when they investigate the scene."

Ruan Yu had a look of approval on his face. After he figured it out, he shuddered again and touched the goose bumps on his arm.

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

After driving out of the mountain road and arriving at Ruan's house, they saw the father and mother Ruan who Huanhuanxi came out to greet. The two of them did not mention this matter tacitly, but Ruan Yu still felt a little uncomfortable when eating hot pot shabu meat.

Qu Lan saw that she hadn't moved her chopsticks too much, frowning and said, "What's wrong with Yu Yu, don't you have any appetite?"

She whispered "Ah", not wanting her parents to worry about Zhou Jun's affairs, so she shook her head: "I have had a lot of afternoon tea at Huai Song's house, and I'm not too hungry."

Xu Huaisong knew that she didn't eat much in the afternoon, and the root cause was the scene on the road just now.

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

Ruan Yu blinked at him, receiving his sharp and considerate attention.

Upon seeing this, Ruan Chengru gave Qu Lan a wink: Are there any things these children are hiding from us?

Qu Lan: It seems like...

Ruan Chengru began to ponder with his mind, while quietly chatting with Xu Huaisong, caring about his family's situation, parents' health, and younger sister's grades.

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

Qu Lan said to Ruan Chengru: "Hey, you are so true. Just go and chat with Huai Song to see if he doesn't have time to move his chopsticks. I will give the kid a plate of beef."

Ruan Chengru made two consecutive "Oh" and took the meat into the hot pot.

Ruan Yu looked up and saw this scene, remembering the arm that he saw in the evening, his stomach and abdomen were slightly churning, he could not hold back, turning his head to cover his mouth and retching.

Xu Huaisong quickly patted her on the back: "Do you want to go to the bathroom?" After speaking, he raised his eyes and saw Ruan Chengru and Qu Lan Qiqi staring at walnut-sized eyes, looking at them in a stiff, surprised, and questioning posture. he.

He froze.

Ruan Yu felt uncomfortable, and did not pay much attention to the reaction of his parents. He stood up and said, "Well, I'll go down."

Xu Huaisong recovered, greeted the two teachers, followed her into the bathroom, and closed the door.

Ruan Yu supported his stomach with one hand and the sink with the other. After vomiting for a few times, he didn't vomit anything. He whispered with a bitter face, "When I saw the red and bright raw meat, I thought of..."

Xu Huaisong opened the faucet to wash her face, and said helplessly: "Your imagination is really..." Halfway through, he paused, "Okay, I'll eat all the meat when I go back, so you won't be able to see it. Right."

Ruan Yu narrowed his mouth and nodded, then 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 look?"

"It's just kind of..." He frowned and thought about it, "'What did you beast do to my daughter' in the eyes."

The voice fell, and the two reacted together.

Oh, oops, the misunderstanding is big.