Xin Yongchu committed suicide by slitting his throat with the pop-up tab on a can of Coke.

He asked the prison guard for Coke at noon. He said he wanted to drink it. The red can was also festive and could give him a hint of the New Year. Because Xin Yongchu had always been very peaceful, usually sitting in meditation or reading and writing, the prison guard guarding him didn't think much of it.

After all, it’s New Year’s Eve and it’s just a bottle of Coke.

Xin Yongchu asked for a Coke, turned his back to the camera, sharpened the pull tab in the cracks of the tiles, and hid it in his palm. On New Year's Eve, there were two more prison guards than usual. They came in with copies of last year's Spring Festival Gala, which was broadcast on TV

After dinner, most of the prisoners gathered in front of the screen in the small room to watch. The TV only had one channel, and what the guards watched was what the prisoners watched.

After Xin Yongchu saw that the TV started to play, he took the easy-to-open ring and walked to the half-stop of the sink, and cut his own trachea with force. He didn't know how he did it, but he didn't scream in pain.

Friends found out that the person had already expired and could not be saved.

There are a lot of suicides and self-mutilations in detention centers, but usually they are caused by swallowing toothbrushes, swallowing foreign objects and cutting their wrists. A few years ago, there was a death case where a toothbrush was used to insert the trachea. Since then, the toothbrushes in the detention centers have been specially replaced with soft round tips.

Immortal.

This was the first time that Xin Yongchu died this way. The easy-to-tap tab was so small that it is enough to imagine how much determination it took to remain silent in this long and torturous death pain.

When Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin arrived at the scene, the body had already been put into a body bag and transported to the side. Because the circumstances of the suicide were relatively clear, photos were taken at the scene for documentation and were not retained. Several prison guards were there to clean up the blood stains.

There is a lot of blood.

Xin Yongchu might have cut a major artery, and buckets of blood were all over the baffle and the ground. Buckets of blood were brought out and passed by the two of them. When Huo Ranyin saw it, he stood next to Ji Xun, as if to put a distance between him and Ji Xun.

Inquiry and blood.

Ji Xun felt that Huo Ranyin might have misremembered his PTSD at this moment.

He is afraid of sharp points, not blood.

Huo Ranyin found the prison guard on duty: "Where is the suicide note?"

The reason why he called Huo Ranyin on New Year's Eve was because Xin Yongchu left a suicide note and placed it under his pillow, folded in a square shape, making it easy to find.

Huo Ranyin unfolded it.

The suicide note was not long, only three lines. Ji Xun stood nearby and saw it.

"I'm sorry that silver nitrate has caused so much trouble.

If only I had known about Officer Cai earlier.

This is the only way to atone for your sins."

After reading the suicide note, Ji Xun took another look at the body bag.

The yellow bag contained an object that was still human-shaped, but its spirit had dissipated from the body and the world along with the blood.

Xin Yongchu died.

Huo Ranyin put away the letter, walked to the body bag, opened the bag and made final confirmation.

He is such a person. No matter how complete the paper file is, you can't rest assured. You must take a look at it in person.

He saw Xin Yongchu's neck, which was bloody and bloody.

He looked back at Ji Xun.

Ji Xun looked away from Huo Ranyin. The next moment, he heard the sound of the zipper being closed. Huo Ranyin pulled up the body bag again and said to him: "Okay, let's go back."

Xin Yongchu only has a mother whom he has not contacted for a long time. For the sake of humanity, his body will be transported back to his place of origin and cremated with the help of the judicial department. As for whether his mother is willing to bury him, that is not the decision of the police.

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Of course, most of these are handled by the detention center and have nothing to do with Huo Ranyin. He only needs to be responsible for the first case of Xin Yong.

When they were about to go back, there was a commotion at the prison guard's office. One of the guards who was cleaning up the blood suddenly threw down his mop, squatted on the ground and buried his head. His intermittent voice was mixed with crying: "What is this! I don't want to take off my police uniform."

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He was the prison guard who handed the Coke to Xin Yongchu, and he was also Xin Yongchu's correctional prison guard.

In recent years, the prison system has been tightened, and prisoners are strictly guarded against anything happening to them in prison. If a prisoner commits suicide, the assigned prison guards will be punished at least, and in more serious cases, they will no longer be able to wear the police uniform.

It’s New Year’s Eve, and last year’s Spring Festival Gala is still shown on TV. The Spring Festival Gala skits try their best to amuse audiences across the country. The inmates in the detention center are amused, but they just laugh with their mouths in their mouths. They hold on to curious things.

, looked at the prison guards gathered around with interest, and the prison guards also surrounded their crouching companions.

They whispered to comfort their companions, but they were all prison guards on duty and had to be punished to some extent.

These pale words of comfort became more silent the longer they were spoken.

Finally, amidst the laughter from the TV, the squatting prison guard stood up again and continued to clean up the scene together with the other prison guards.

Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin walked out and got into the car again.

There was no one on the street anymore. The two spacious asphalt roads were cold and cold, and under the bright street lights, they led to a dark road ahead.

In the past two years, no cannons are allowed to be fired during the Spring Festival in the city, and the flavor of the New Year has become less and less. There is only silence under the bright lights on the steel and concrete buildings.

"Accident?" Huo Ranyin said.

Ji Xun was silent for a few seconds before he realized that Huo Ranyin was talking about Xin Yongchu.

"It's a very painful death." Ji Xun's tone was very cold and he didn't answer the question.

Huo Ranyin turned up the air conditioner in the car and played soothing car music. He closed his eyes and seemed to be daunted by the bleak street scene. He said: "After all, he can't escape the morality in his heart."

The presence of Cai Hengmu in the court made the logic of his behavior seem so ridiculous, so his already strong sense of morality destroyed his inner world that was crumbling because of murder."

Ji Xun said with some sharp irony: "When he committed suicide, he did not expect that a prison guard would lose his job because of him. If he had known, he would not have chosen to die like this. What about moral sense? The emotional moral sense afterward cannot be restored.

anything."

Huo Ranyin suddenly opened his eyes in the cold color reflected outside the window. He did not turn around, but quietly observed Ji Xun through the rearview mirror. He said words that had nothing to do with the inquiry in his eyes: "This

Will this sense of morality appear in Lian Dazhang?"

If Xin Yongchu was judged by morality, will Lian Dazhang be judged by morality as well?

This question actually doesn't make much sense.

But Ji Xun seemed to be caught up in some of his own thoughts, so he became silent. He unconsciously put a hand to the place where Huo Ranyin inserted the car key, touched it there, and woke up after feeling nothing.

He retracted his hands, put both hands on the steering wheel, and looked straight ahead at the road.

Huo Ran didn't miss a single detail. The music in the car stereo played one after another, and the street lights outside the window cast a weird halo on the windshield.

Keychain.

Chronicles.

He curled his lips.

No one spoke a word for the rest of the journey. When they returned to Huo Ranyin's house, the dumplings on the table were completely cold, and the cold dumplings had an unappetizing wet sheen.

The orange-red wine on the table suddenly became very attractive.

Ji Xun picked up the remaining half of the glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp.

He drank quickly, and the alcohol hit his head, causing him to squint his eyes.

Huo Ranyin poured the dumplings on the table and put the plates in the dishwasher. When he returned to the living room, Ji Xun had already walked to the back of the bar and started mixing drinks for himself.

"Ji Xun, you'll get drunk if you drink again." Huo Ranyin's tone was flat.

The wines in Ji Xun's hand were all high-alcohol wines. High-alcohol wines are inherently easy to get drunk, and if you drink them together, you will only get drunker.

"Indeed." Ji Xun's tone was frivolous, "I can't drive anymore, so I can only stay at your place for one night. I see your sofa hasn't been used yet, so why don't you lend it to me to sleep on?"

"It's up to you. I can't drive you away if you want to stay." Huo Ranyin didn't object. He said nothing, went to the bedroom to get pajamas, and then entered the bathroom.

Ji Xun's wine was mixed, but at this moment he suddenly felt it was boring, so he simply put down the wine and came to the sofa.

The plastic film on the sofa was still there, glowing coldly under the light.

Ji Xun casually tore off the plastic film twice and was too lazy to move. The half cup of Tequila Sunrise alcohol that he had just drank hastily began to work in his body, devouring his strength and spirit, and using it as fuel for burning.

, steaming his flesh and bone marrow.

He felt tired and warm.

He closed his eyes.

When the colorful field of vision closed, his hearing began to come into play. He heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom, the sound of water rushing - rushing -, Huo Ranyin was among them, rushing to a fast-paced song

Battle bath.

What a boring man, Ji Xun thought. He's already thirty, and he doesn't want to soak in the bathtub for a while?

His thoughts began to wander again, turning away from Huo Ranyin and towards his surroundings.

He also heard the familiar voice of the Spring Festival Gala host, and this year's Spring Festival Gala had also begun.

There was also the sound of wind and the occasional car horn.

After eating the New Year's Eve dinner that represents reunion, it seems that people are separated again on the day of reunion.

Suddenly, a cold smell came to my nose, a bit like mint and a bit like the ocean.

When the moist feeling touched his skin again, Ji Xun, who had his eyes closed, was surprised to realize that it was Huo Ranyin who had come out of the bathroom. But he did not open his eyes. Fatigue enveloped him. He wanted to keep his eyes closed like this until the end of the world - or at least

Until the sun comes out again.

"drunk?"

Huo Ranyin's voice rang in Ji Xun's ears.

Ji Xun responded vaguely. Normally at this time, the person who came to disturb him would have the awareness to walk away, but Huo Ranyin didn't. Not only that, Ji Xun also felt the sudden weight on his body. Huo Ranyin

Sit on it.

All this happens in an instant.

When Ji Xun opened his eyes in surprise, he met Huo Ranyin's pupils. Under the light, Huo Ranyin had a pale and translucent face. His facial features were all exquisite, including eyes, nose, lips, ears, or...

Elegant in form or handsome in description, even if you pick them out one by one and observe them individually, they are enough to arouse pity.

Now, this beautiful face faced him.

The water droplets in the other person's hair dripped onto the back of his hand.

"Is it such a surprise?" Huo Ranyin repeated what he said in the car, and then he smiled slightly, "Xin Yongchu's death was not such a surprise to you. But after you came out of the detention center, you have been in a bad mood because of Xin Yongchu's death.

Death reminds you of someone else."

"Your sister also died on New Year's Eve."

He looked at Huo Ranyin.

The smile on Huo Ranyin's face was like a fog, and this fog, accompanied by his words, sneaked into Ji Xun's heart.

Ji Xun breathed out. He had no reaction to being poked in a painful spot. Instead, he moved closer to Huo Ranyin. His eyes were wrong, as if he wanted to prove what he said with his unflinching eyes: "I said it before I went there.

, there are no good scenes, no good feelings. Huo Ranyin, you think of me too much like a glass doll."

"Of course it's not because of your sister's death. Everyone knows that this is the injury in your heart, this is the pain in your heart. But Ji Xun - Ji Xun, they don't understand that the real pain in your heart is not this."

Huo Ranyin covered Ji Xun's eyes with his wet hand, and placed the other one on his heart.

His voice was very low, as if he was telling a secret of the night.

"It's because of you..."

"Stabbed your sister with a knife."
Chapter completed!