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Chapter 120 Watershed

Zheng Wei's return from his lost cause almost cut off contact with the brothers Zheng Xin and Zhang Xiaolong, but he still provided a place where they used to hang out, which was a small Internet cafe near the urban-rural fringe of the Blue Lake District. The trio basically made that place their home.

The police did not make any effort, so they squatted there until Zheng Xin was arrested and interrogated overnight. Zheng Xin confessed to the crime of killing Zhang Xiaolong.

Zheng Xin claimed that he and Zhang Xiaolong had a very good relationship at one time, because Zheng Wei stopped playing with them, and the two became brothers at the end of last year.And because of the excitement of Zheng Wei going to learn how to cook, the two made an appointment to go south to work together after the Spring Festival.

When they arrived in a developed city in the south, they had no academic qualifications and more skills. They could only find a hard job. They worked more than ten hours a day, but they didn't actually earn much money. They didn't have the past happiness. I just want to collapse and sleep, nothing else.

The two of them felt that they were bored, and the calculations were not as good as the old days, and occasionally they could make a small fortune to improve their lives.

The two were on the verge of retreating. At this moment, a girl in the factory who was also from Hongshan Township, Blue Lake District met the two of them.It is the age of youthful blood. I used to squat in my hometown to dawdle, and few girls would talk to them. Finally, there was a girl with a decent appearance who was willing to make friends with them. It was impossible for the two of them to talk about their thoughts. .

Both of them wanted to develop that girl into a girlfriend. Zheng Xin was more thoughtful and taller than Zhang Xiaolong. After some flirting with him, the girl became closer to him. He didn't show his mind to Zheng Xin, but those who hang out with each other for a long time, even if they were tricked at the time, they can understand it later.

About a week before the incident, Zhang Xiaolong bought a train ticket back to Blue Lake with the little money Zheng Xin had saved.Zheng Xin was very angry at Zhang Xiaolong's leaving without saying goodbye and taking away his hard-earned money.Later, when he wanted to further develop with that girl, he was rejected by others, and he kept asking why Zhang Xiaolong left him without saying goodbye...

Zheng Xin was very angry, thinking that Zhang Xiaolong must have called that girl and said something bad about him, thinking that he was not authentic, and that the girl didn't choose him, so he shouldn't meddle indiscriminately, as a brother , I should be happy for my brother, how can I deliberately tear down the stage behind his back.

The girl refused thoroughly. After thinking about it, Zheng Xin felt that there was no point in staying there, so he bought a hard seat and returned to Zhonghai with the last little money he had.

Zheng Xin wanted to find Zhang Xiaolong for an explanation, and mainly wanted to get back the few hundred dollars he had saved.

Zheng Xin was quite clear about Zhang Xiaolong's "work trajectory". Sure enough, he met Zhang Xiaolong that night at the intersection of Binjiang Avenue and the street where the crime occurred.

Because the two of them have been pulling car doors for a long time, they knew how to avoid the surveillance probes. Although they had a big fight in the street, they tried to hide in the shadows as much as possible. At this point, the plastic brotherhood between the two parties was completely broken. His money was returned to him, but Zhang Xiaolong said he had no money.

The two started fighting, and then Zheng Xin took out the dagger he had prepared a long time ago, stabbed it into Zhang Xiaolong's abdomen, and then pulled out the dagger in a panic and ran away. He threw the dagger into the river, and his body was stained. He took off the bloody clothes and washed them, because they were all black, and there were no obvious traces under the street lamp.

Then, while fleeing in a hurry, Zheng Xin was robbed...

Throughout the interview process, the police repeatedly emphasized that although these two men were adults, in fact, left-behind children and children from divorced families accounted for more than [-]% of juvenile crimes.Both of them have been wandering on the edge of crime for the past few years. They both lack family education and the restraint of family affection, and their concept of crime is very vague.

Afterwards, Lu Beicen asked a sociologist from the Academy of Social Sciences to conduct an interview on this issue. The expert said: Human beings have always had the same body of good and evil. It is the persistent social legal and moral education that guides people to develop in the direction of goodness. Only by actively restraining one's behavior can one become an adult with a sound personality.

Whether it is Zheng Xin or Zhang Xiaolong, these are missing. They have lived in the dark corners of society for a long time, and the boundaries between good and evil and morality have long been blurred, let alone the law.

Lu Beicen was actually deeply touched by these realities. Her adoptive parents used to be laid-off workers from a company in Xiajiang. They lived in the factory dormitory since childhood. Laid-off workers abound. After one or two years of chaos, their children start to go to middle school, and most of their parents start to go south to work to make a living.

Once the adolescent children lose their restraint, they will float like a kite with a broken string.

The county No. [-] middle school that Lu Beicen attended was the only junior high school in the county. It was more like a typical hodgepodge. The school had no choice but to divide the classes according to their grades. I am struggling, and there are two cattle herding classes. As long as there are no fights or troubles, it is the basic requirement of teachers and school leaders.

Students in the cattle-herding class dropped out everywhere. By the third year of junior high school, the two cattle-herding classes were merged into one class.There are also very good students who were affected by family changes and lacked constraints. In the end, they failed to enter high school and even stepped out of other boundaries.

When Lu Beicen and Fang Nan were in elementary school, they had a mutual good friend named Yuan Fang.

When I was in junior high school, it was always the beginning of the flowering, starting from a little girl to a slim girl.Yuan Fang is also very beautiful, and her figure is fully developed, unlike most of their girls who are still skinny.

At that time, Yuan Fang was most favored by male classmates, and the number of boys who wrote love letters to her could not be more.At the beginning, Yuan Fang's parents were very strict, almost picking her up and dropping off from school, either under the eyes of her parents or in the sight of the teacher, everything passed smoothly.

In the second year of junior high school, Yuan Fang's parents experienced a full set of laid-off and divorce. Yuan Fang also became a poor child with only one grandmother from a young princess. Both parents went to work in the south.

Soon, Yuan Fang fell in love with a boy from the cattle herding class. No matter how Lu Beicen and Fang Nan tried to persuade her, she just thought that boy was good and said that he was the only boy in the world who loved her.

In the third year of junior high, Yuan Fang dropped out of school suddenly. Lu Beicen and Fang Nan couldn't believe it. Although Yuan Fang's grades have regressed, she has a good foundation. As long as she studies hard, she can still catch up.

The two made an appointment to find Yuan Fang, only to find that she was lying at home with a pale face, because she almost lost her life because of the abortion.

Lu Beicen and Fang Nan were busy with their studies, and Lu Beicen's family had a lot of troubles at that time, but they only managed to keep their minds on the textbooks every day, so that they survived.

After graduating from junior high school, Lu Beicen came to Huxia and studied in a private high school. Occasionally, he got a little news about Yuan Fang in Fang Nan's letter. It is not too much to use the bad luck. Now 26 years old, married and divorced , got married again, and the boy who said he was the only boy in the world who cared for her back then has long gone.

Thinking of her middle school days, Lu Beicen always remembered a pair of eyes, because of the gaze of those eyes, she endured a period of uncertainty.

In the first year of junior high school, it was the time when her adoptive father beat her and her adoptive mother the hardest.

The laid-off adoptive father has nothing to rely on all day long, except to beat them and drink.The adoptive mother was busy making a living at that time, and sometimes she dared not go home after school, and boys from the cattle herding class approached her and asked her to eat outside together.

One day, she met her neighbor's elder brother, who led her out of the group of people, took her to dinner alone, and looked at her with gentle eyes.

She will always remember that look, with a little smile, she opened her schoolbag, looked at the red checkmarks inside, and then helped her organize the schoolbag, with a gentle and firm voice: "Hey, you have to study hard , our mother is not easy, don't mix with those people in the future, I will watch you. "

Lu Beicen was very puzzled at the time. The elder brother next door was a negative teaching material in the mouths of the adults in their entire factory compound. Even the adoptive mother shook her head and sighed slightly when she talked about him.She didn't dare to ask, and didn't know where to start, but her intuition told her that perhaps his difficulties could not be understood by outsiders.

A long time later, especially when I think about it now, Lu Beicen suddenly understood that his father died young, his mother could not read a basket, and he had a younger brother and a younger sister to support. The family's livelihood is gone. The coldness and cruelty he showed in the past, I'm afraid it's more because he is worried about being hurt. A family of four can't even keep their land. The dormitories in the factory area have always been full of monks and too few.

From that day on, Lu Beicen seemed to suddenly become clear-headed, but she probably would never forget that look in her eyes. Many times later, when she met him on the road, he always smiled at her so gently , In fact, he is not much older than her, is he?Probably three or four years old.

On this midsummer night, when the rain was pouring, Lu Beicen thought of this person again, this person who had disappeared from her life. She hadn't heard from him for a long time. Knowing where she moved to, it has been ten years since she left there.

She didn't know when she would have woken up, or simply sunk, if there wasn't that gaze projected in her heart, the watershed of fate always appeared inadvertently, cause and effect, good and evil, intertwined Regardless, it is the root of the complexity of human nature.

(End of this chapter)