Gu Jingzhi stayed in school after graduating with a Ph.D., and then started preparing for pregnancy. When she gave birth to her son, she and Fu Hongbin were already in their thirties.
Fu Hongbin's mother was no longer around at that time. Before Gu Jingzhi was about to give birth, her parents discussed letting them move in together.
The area of this old house is large enough for five people of three generations. In addition, Gu's mother has retired and can take care of her grandson at home.
So, when Gu Jingzhi was discharged from the hospital, she went directly to her parents' house.
Living together under the same roof, the Gu family's parents' impression of Hong Bin gradually changed. This is not to say that it was not as bad as before, but from a parent's point of view, they did not think that this man would bring happiness to their daughter.
But when she saw him busy outside all day and rushing to do housework when he came home, Gu's mother felt more and more that although his son-in-law's conditions were a little poor, he was still good in other aspects.
Fu Hongbin got along more and more harmoniously with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and the two old men gradually regarded him as their own son.
In a harmonious family, everyone is a beneficiary. The old couple enjoys having fun with their grandchildren, the young couple has no worries, and their work is getting better and better.
It was at that time that Fu Hongbin was transferred from the grassroots police station to the Economic Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
But no one can escape the natural laws of birth, old age, illness and death. When the children were in elementary school, Gu's mother passed away. A few years later, Gu's father also passed away.
Gu Jingzhi sighed: "When my parents passed away, Lao Fu was busy working and taking care of the children, and at the same time he fulfilled his filial piety before bed. To be honest, he did a better job than my biological daughter. Without him, I really wouldn't be able to do it.
Know how to survive those days."
"He is a good son-in-law, a good husband, and a good father. Now that I think about it, I really didn't fulfill my responsibility as a wife. It's a pity... I woke up too late and I have no chance to make up for it."
Gu Jingzhi shed tears and Duanmo took out a few tissues from the tissue box on the coffee table and handed them to her: "Professor Gu, don't be too sad. I don't think Fu Bureau wants you to be like this."
"We have been married for so many years, and we have almost never blushed. He will let me do everything. Even if he occasionally loses his temper and loses his temper, he will not quarrel with me. But I don't understand, how can he
I have the heart to leave my son and me behind."
Duanmo persuaded her for a while, and when she calmed down, he took out an evidence bag from his bag: "Professor Gu, do you think this belongs to you?"
In the evidence bag was a knife, the same one Fu Hongbin used to commit suicide.
Gu Jingzhi took a few deep breaths, took it and looked at it carefully: "It belongs to our family. We bought it when we were traveling during the National Day the year before last. Look here, it was accidentally caught on fire."
The end of the wooden handle is indeed missing a little bit, and the color is darker than the surrounding area.
"Self-driving?" Lu Wuchuan asked.
Security checks at airports and stations are very strict now, and a knife as big as this will definitely not pass.
"Yes." Gu Jingzhi nodded, "That year, my son just went abroad, and I was always thinking about it. It happened to be National Day and we both had nothing to do, so Lao Fu said, let's take a quick trip.
, we drove out in the car. To be honest, after so many years of marriage, this was the first time we traveled alone. We didn’t prepare anything in advance. If we needed anything, we bought it on the way. This knife was bought to peel fruit.
I took it home and kept it in the storage room."
Lu Wuchuan asked again: "Where's the scabbard?" A knife like this that cannot be folded usually comes with a scabbard, but he didn't find it in their house.
"I don't know where it was lost on the way. I didn't use it when I brought it back. I just put it in a cardboard box. Who knew that Lao Fu would actually dig it out." Gu Jingzhi sighed longly, "Alas...
…Had I known it, I would have thrown it away.”
There are no ifs in the world, and no one can predict what will happen in the future. No matter how regretful you are, the facts will not change.
Duan Mo put the evidence bag back into his backpack and heard Lu Wuchuan ask: "Professor Gu, how do you contact the Bureau when you are on a business trip?"
"Making a phone call is a real phone call." Gu Jingzhi said, "You young people may rarely use this method, but Laofu is like this. Registering for WeChat is necessary for work, but it is not used much. He said
The Chinese language is vast and profound, and the same sentence with different tones can produce several widely different meanings. Relying on simple words alone is too misleading."
This is true. There are jokes on the Internet about misunderstandings caused by text chats. But WeChat is not just about typing, it also has other functions.
So, Duan Mo said: "Wouldn't it be more intuitive to have voice and video chat?"
"Lao Fu only video chats with his son. After all, he is far away and can't see him for a long time. He won't know about other people..." Gu Jingzhi said.
Lu Wuchuan asked: "Do you have other mobile phones and accounts?"
"He only has one mobile phone. He also has a WeChat account. He logs in on the PAD at home and uses it to video chat with his son."
Gu Jingzhi stood up and took out an eight-inch PAD from the drawer under the TV cabinet: "This is what my son used to use at home. We all use this to communicate with him."
She turned on the screen to show the two of them that it had all the software for learning and education, guitar tuning, videos, and popular games, shopping, and ordering food in recent years. It could be seen that it was indeed used by half-grown children.
In addition to a few public account push notifications, there is only one chat record in WeChat, and the other party's avatar is a close-up of an anime character.
"This is my son." Gu Jingzhi clicked on the photo in the record.
The young man with a handsome face was standing on the green field with a rugby ball under his arm, a smile on his energetic face. His eyebrows were somewhat similar to Fu Hongbin's, especially his eyebrows, which were very thick and prominent.
Below the photo is a video call record lasting 43 minutes and 25 seconds, at 8:54 pm on May 19.
"Professor Gu, can we contact your son at a convenient time?" Lu Wuchuan asked.
Fu Hongbin had a video call with his son on the evening of the 19th, and committed suicide on the night of the 21st. Perhaps it is not certain what he said to his son during the last video call.
Gu Jingzhi hesitated: "Can you wait for two more days? I haven't told him about this yet. He has an exam the day after tomorrow. I want to wait until he finishes it."
"Okay, you can give him my contact information at any time, as long as he is suitable." Lu Wuchuan wrote down his mobile phone and social account on the notepad, tore out the page and handed it to Gu Jing
Of.
Asked: "Also, can we take this back?" He was referring to the PAD.
Gu Jingzhi had no objection, and Lu Wuchuan handed the PAD to Duanmo and asked her to put it away.
Then he asked: "Do you know who Fu Bureau has friends with whom he often hangs out?"