chasing the dark

Chapter 157 Tell the Truth

"I didn't know you would come. The house is too messy, so I'm sorry." Lin Yuhua picked up the things scattered on the ground one by one, threw them into the bedroom, and closed the door again.

It was not the first time that her son bumped into her when she took a guest home, but the police came to her door, which made her feel very embarrassed.

Sitting on the side of the small bed, she brushed her curly hair hanging by her ears: "Um... what do you guys do?"

Ye Zhanzhou fixed his eyes on Lin Jiale's face, and went straight to the point: "What did you do on the night of October [-]th?"

"As I said, there was a light on the opposite side, but it disappeared after a while." Lin Jiale pointed in the direction of the balcony, "That's where I saw it."

Lin Yuhua smiled: "That's right, officer, didn't you ask them all that day?"

Ye Zhanzhou shook his head in the direction of Beijin International Building: "I was asking him what he was doing there."

The smile on Lin Yuhua's face disappeared immediately, and she raised her eyebrows: "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to go out after dark! No memory?! Want to fight again?"

"I don't." As if to increase credibility, Lin Jiale's little head shook like a rattle.

However, the desolation that flashed in his eyes was obvious.

"Don't hit me at every turn!" Jiang Yu yelled at Lin Yuhua, "Jia Le, tell the truth."

Lin Jiale said firmly: "Sister, I'm telling the truth, I didn't go to that building."

"Then where have you been?"

After all, he was still a child, so Ye Zhanzhou was stunned by a simple sentence.

"me……"

"Little bastard! I think you are getting more and more courageous! How dare you lie!"

This time, because of the distance, when Jiang Yu clasped Lin Yuhua's wrist, the hand doing the manicure had already touched Lin Jiale's face.

Although some strength was relieved, the child's cheeks were still flushed.

"Can you correct this habit of beating people?" Jiang Yu shook off his wrist and looked at Lin Jiale, "Does it hurt?"

"Sister..." Lin Jiale pursed her lips, got up and rushed to the only person in the room who spoke warmly to him, and put her head on Jiang Yu's neck.

Jiang Yu doesn't like to have too much physical contact with others, even a child.

He was hesitating how to push the person away when he suddenly felt his body loosen.

Ye Zhanzhou pulled Lin Jiale by the collar and pulled him in front of him: "Lin Jiale, I can tell you that we have the evidence now. If you refuse to tell the truth, we will have to take you back to the Public Security Bureau. "

His tone was much harsher than before. Lin Jiale was already afraid of him, and the close contact was even more oppressive, and his thin body trembled unconsciously.

"I said... I... said." Lin Jiale's tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.

Ye Zhanzhou pinched his waist, leaned over and put him on the edge of the bed opposite, let go of his hands and sat back: "I don't want to hear a lie."

Not daring to hit anyone again, Lin Yuhua could only glare at her son.

Lin Jiale wiped away tears with the back of his hand, sobbing and said: "That night I really... got up to pee, and saw the opposite... There was a light on the opposite side. I looked at the window for a while, and the light... disappeared. Well...for a long time It didn't turn on any more, anyway... I couldn't sleep at that time, so I just... went over to look."

"What did you see?" Ye Zhanzhou looked at him and raised his chin.

"A person is... lying on the ground, and... a person is stuffing... things into the bag."

"What did he stuff in the bag? Then what happened, you can tell me clearly."

Lin Jiale sobbed, intermittently telling what he saw that night.

It was a holiday at that time, and after sleeping at night, I lost sleepiness after tossing on the balcony for a while.Out of curiosity, he put on his shoes and walked out of the house.

He has been to the construction site opposite, more than once, and knows where to get in.

Going up the stairs to the third floor in the dark, Lin Jiale didn't go in rashly, but poked his head out to look inside, but he didn't see anything.

He recalled the window where he saw the light just now, moved along the wall, and finally saw a figure at the corner.

Because a shopping mall is going to be built on this floor, the shelf is high, and there are no window frames on the floor-to-ceiling windows, which allows some light from the street to shine in.

When he first saw people, Lin Jiale was startled, and quickly shrank back.

Later, he thought that the light could not shine so far, so he boldly put his head out a little.

The first thing I noticed was that a man was stuffing clothes randomly into the bag, then he changed a pair of shoes and stuffed the shoes he took off into the bag.

He squatted on the ground and pressed the contents of the bag inside.At this time, Lin Jiale noticed something on the ground, like a person, lying there motionless.

After a while, hearing the sound of the zipper being pulled up, Lin Jiale realized that the person might leave.

He didn't dare to delay, and ran back to the stairs lightly.However, instead of going downstairs, he went upstairs one floor.

There was no handrail on the stairs, and the bottom could be seen through the gap in the middle, so he just hid there and looked down.

Sure enough, a person came out and went straight downstairs.

He waited on the fourth floor for a while, but there was no movement downstairs at all.This made him wonder, what are these two people doing here?Why is only one person gone?

Curiosity drove him back to the third floor.

Around the corner, he looked again at the window.

The person who was lying on his stomach before was still there, and his posture had not changed.

Lin Jiale thought maybe he was wrong, if it was a human, how could he not move for such a long time?
He moved slowly and leaned over to see what it was.

As the distance got closer, he finally saw clearly that it was a person.Although the light was dim, because the man's back was facing upwards, vertical and horizontal red marks fell directly into Lin Jiale's eyes.

Startled, he turned and ran.

Construction waste can be seen everywhere inside and outside the unfinished building, and I don't know what was kicked, but it was a loud sound anyway.

He didn't care so much, and ran back home along the way he came.

What Lin Jiale said matched up with the traces at the scene. Ye Zhanzhou asked him if he had seen clearly what the person who walked away looked like and what clothes he was wearing. He shook his head and said that it was too dark and he was too far away to see clearly.

I just remember that person's hair was quite long, with a long braid tied on the back of his head.

Ye Zhanzhou stared at him and asked, "What else?"

Although he has a maturity that does not match his peers, he is still only a ten-year-old child after all.

Lin Jiale's lips moved a few times, just as he was about to say no more, he saw those bottomless eyes staring at his schoolbag.

"Do I have to do it myself?"

Just now, when she heard her son talk about what happened that day, Lin Yuhua's face turned green and pale.At this time, it was so overcast that water dripped out: "What are you hiding? Get it out for me quickly!"

Lin Jiale shuddered, and pulled out the schoolbag from the bed with trembling hands.

(End of this chapter)