Chapter 255 Diamond Earrings
During Zheng Jinghuai's brief silence, Luo Xun couldn't tell whether he didn't dare to listen or didn't want to listen, so he hung up the phone.
When I looked down, I realized that there were several cigarette butts on the ground.
The rain was still falling gently and slowly. He stood in the yard for a long time but the heavy rain did not come.
Luo Xun tiptoed back to the room. He didn't know who was living next door, but he kept snoring all night and he didn't sleep all night either.
When Ning Yi saw him in the morning, he rushed over and said, "What's wrong with you? You look so bad. Did Chi Xia break up with you?"
"What's wrong?" Luo Xun rubbed his face: "I didn't sleep well."
"You didn't sleep well?"
Ning Yi tapped the stubble on his chin and twisted his face: "You look like someone has taken your bones and marrow out. Where's your energy? Show it out!"
Luo Xun laughed, straightened his clothes and pulled himself together: "Okay, take it out, let's get to work."
He walked out, and Ning Yi chased after him: "Did you really break up? Not really. Chi Xia doesn't look like someone who would abandon her husband and children."
"You're the one who abandoned your husband." Luo Xun spoke with a few less tones than usual.
Ning Yi chuckled twice: "How do you know? My wife likes to eat puffs the most."
Luo Xun took a breath: "You are really sick."
"Okay, okay, I'm sick."
Ning Yi followed him and touched his shoulder: "What's wrong with you? Is there a result in your case? Isn't this a good thing? Why..."
Before Ning Yi could finish his words, Luo Xun pulled him back a few steps and a car drove in.
"Isn't this your wife's car..." Ning Yi asked Luo Xun.
Luo Xun nodded and saw Lin Wenjue got out of the car first.
The two exchanged glances, and then Chi Xia came down.
"Old Luo." Lin Wenjue called out, "Let's talk."
Ning Yi's eyes flickered between the three people: "Well...you guys chat first, I'll go have breakfast first."
Before leaving, he patted Luo Xun on the shoulder.
Before Lin Wenjue and Chi Xia came over, Luo Xun spoke first: "I called my master last night."
Lin Wenjue forced a smile: "What did you say?"
Luo Xun also smiled, but his smile was bitter: "I asked him, ten years later, he stepped into the police station again, was it for his apprentice or his son."
Chi Xia's heart tightened. She and Lin Wenjue realized at the same time that Luo Xun had noticed it before them.
"The reason we didn't reply to your message yesterday was because we wanted to talk to you in person."
Lin Wenjue came over and pinched his shoulder: "Chi Xia wants to tell you in person."
"I know." Luo Xun nodded: "It's difficult for you too, I know ."
Lin Wenjue didn't know what to say. No matter how many words he said, every word hurt him so much.
"Are you sure it's Zheng Yanbo, right?" Luo Xun looked at Chi Xia and asked about the result first.
Chi Xia nodded slowly: "Yes."
The speculation that was once so close and was overturned countless times last night became a foregone conclusion because of one word. The heavy yet empty feeling of confusion overwhelmed him again in an instant.
After a while, he asked Chi Xia: "The skull..."
"The painting is done." Chi Xia said.
"That's good."
Luo Xun looked at Lin Wenjue: "Old Lin, you go... confirm the identity of the victim. We also need to go to the hospital to check. The secret room in the Tu family should have been built by Tu Guoan after the identity exchange, so the password must start from Tu Guoan..."
Lin Wenjue interrupted him: "I'll do it. I know everything."
"Um."
Luo Xun nodded, not knowing what to say for a moment: "Then...then you go, I'll chat with Chi Xia."
Lin Wenjue looked at Chi Xia and saw that she nodded to him. He responded and left with the portraits of the victims.
"Have you eaten?" After Lin Wenjue left, Luo Xun walked towards Chi Xia: "I'll take you to eat."
"We had some bread on the way."
Chi Xia came over, took out his hand from his pocket and held it: "Let's find a quiet place."
"Where are you going?" Luo Xun looked at him a little confused.
Chi Xia pulled him into the car: "I'll take you there."
After getting in the car, Chi Xia handed him the breakfast and said, "Eat it."
Luo Xun paused, hummed, opened the bag silently and started eating.
Chi Xia drove to the place where Heizi brought them the last time she had an attack. It was deserted, and no matter what would happen next, Luo Xun didn't have to suppress his emotions.
The car stopped and Chi Xia opened the window. The early morning wind blew in with frost, bringing a bit of chilliness.
She said, "I have sorted out all the levels, are you ready?"
Luo Xun's breathing became heavier, and his heartbeat began to speed up again. He wiped his hands on his pants and said, "Go ahead."
Chi Xia pulled his hand over, interlocked their fingers, and slowly repeated to him their analysis at the police station.
She could feel Luo Xun's hands going from dry at first to sweaty at the end.
The light in his eyes changed as she told her story, from anger to restraint, and finally to emptiness and confusion.
"That's probably it." Chi Xia squeezed his hand: "Luo Xun, are you okay?"
The sun slowly rose in the distance, and Luo Xun's gaze moved from the car window to her: "You didn't rest these two days, did you?"
Chi Xia was startled, then smiled: "It's okay, isn't it ugly? I even put on lipstick just to see you."
"Were you also sad when you came out of the detention center?" Luo Xun asked her.
Chi Xia paused and nodded: "Yes, in fact, I have never thought about my father's motive for adopting me. When I heard it from Li Yiming, I actually felt a deep... well, how should I put it, a sense of betrayal, but soon I felt that I didn't seem to have the qualifications to hate him."
What she said to Li Yiming were just reasons she quickly came up with to respond to him and to convince herself.
Luo Xun took out a box from his pocket and handed it to her.
"I was planning to give it to you when I return to Dongzhou."
"What is it?"
"Open it and take a look." Luo Xun raised his chin.
Chi Xia opened the box and her eyes lit up. It was the tooth that Chi Xiao had knocked out by her last time in Yu Ji.
Now it has been polished into an earring in the shape of an OK sign, and is adorned with a small diamond.
"I have disinfected and cleaned it thoroughly. I asked someone to find a master craftsman to make the small earrings you wanted."
Luo Xun urged her: "Try it on."
Chi Xia put on the earrings as he asked, tilted her head and asked him, "Does it look good?"
"It looks good." Luo Xun nodded: "Next time I play with Lao K, I'll make a pair for you."
"Do you keep your word?" Chi Xia asked.
"Of course." Luo Xun nodded: "Are you still sad now?"
Chi Xia shook her head and looked at him: "What about you?"
Luo Xun suddenly stopped talking.
Chi Xia said, "My senior sister, Guilai, and sister Su He, their families all died in drug trafficking. Guilai first lost his parents when he was very young, and later his adoptive father, my senior sister's father, was also wrongfully killed. But he was the happiest one among them."
She played with Luo Xun's long hair: "Later, something happened to my adoptive parents. I was in a very bad state during that time. He said something to me."
"What?" Luo Xun spoke with difficulty.
"People in this world live by comparison. When good things happen, they compare themselves to others. When bad things happen, they compare themselves to others. That way they will feel better."
Luo Xun curled his lips: "He doesn't look like such a philosophical person."
"Anyone who can survive a difficult situation is a philosopher."
Chi Xia breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I thought, anyone can think of this, but most people can't seem to do it."
