bookrebus Chapter 24 There's no turning back
Chapter 24 There's no turning back
Su Xiaoxiao didn't expect that Qiu Mingzhang was Uncle Zhang who swept the streets.
She would sometimes run into him on the street, and Uncle Zhang would always greet her.
She couldn't connect him with Qiu Mingzhang. Although Qiu Mingzhang had been in prison for twenty-five years, he was actually only fifty-three years old, while Uncle Zhang looked to be at least sixty years old.
He also lives in the urban village, not far from Su Xiaoxiao's home.
When Su Xiaoxiao found him, he was standing on the street corner looking in a certain direction with a broom in his hand.
She followed his gaze and saw a high-end office building, one of the top office buildings in their northern district.
At this time, several people were standing downstairs, dressed in suits and ties, dressed like elites, surrounding the person in the middle like stars surrounding the moon. The person in the middle wore glasses, had a slightly fat figure, carried a briefcase in his hand, and had a smug look on his face.
Su Xiaoxiao has seen this man before. He is the lawyer named Hu Weiqiang. It is said that he is the best criminal defense lawyer in Jingzhong City. He has the capital to be proud.
Su Xiaoxiao sighed. Qiu Mingzhang must be envious of them. If he had not been imprisoned that year, he might have had the opportunity to become one of these elites.
"Uncle Zhang, what are you looking at?"
Uncle Zhang turned around and was a little surprised to see it was Su Xiaoxiao.
Although they had met and greeted each other, that was all. They didn't even talk a few words.
"Are you looking for me?"
"Yes, Uncle Zhang, I'm looking for you."
"Is there a problem?"
"I want to talk to you about the case from that year, the case where you robbed and injured someone."
When Uncle Zhang heard that Su Xiaoxiao wanted to talk to him about the case from that year, he was stunned for a moment, but quickly returned to normal.
"Those are things of the past, don't mention them anymore. I already know I was wrong." Uncle Zhang lowered his head and clenched the broom in his hand nervously, as if he really was a sinner who had turned over a new leaf.
This made Su Xiaoxiao feel very uncomfortable.
"I know you didn't do that back then. You were wronged. I want to help you."
Uncle Zhang raised his head, his eyes full of disbelief. It was the first time in all these years that someone said he was wronged.
Every time he cried out for injustice, they would just tell him to be honest and not try to escape the blame, and no one ever believed him.
The little girl in front of him actually said she wanted to help him.
"Thank you, but I don't need it."
No matter what her purpose was, he was grateful to her for believing that he was wronged, even though she, a small police officer, could not help him much.
"Uncle Zhang, I really want to help you." Seeing that Qiu Mingzhang didn't seem to believe her, Su Xiaoxiao became a little anxious.
"You are mistaken. I was wrong in the case back then. There is no injustice."
Qiu Mingzhang smiled, his expression calm.
Whether his case was unjust or not is meaningless to him now.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't know that while she was talking to Qiu Mingzhang, an uninvited guest came to the pedestrian street.
At the night market.
Aunt Su was busy frying noodles, and Xiangnan was helping her beside her. Whenever he was in a bad mood, he would come over to Aunt Su.
Chatting with Aunt Su and helping her with some work will help you calm down.
Just like when I was with my mother, no matter how hard it is, there is always a warm place in my heart.
At this time, a stretched Bentley drove over and stopped at the entrance of the pedestrian street. An old man with white hair and beard got out of the car. He was wearing a black Chinese silk shirt and holding a wooden cane in his hand.
He glanced at the noisy pedestrian street and frowned.
"is it here?"
"It's right here." The young man next to him glanced at his face and said, "Mr. Fei, there's actually no need for you to come to a place like this. I can invite her to come and see you."
"Need not."
"She has three other children?"
"Yes, two daughters and a son, but they are not here now."
"Are you sure the big one is Spider-Woman?"
"Yes."
The old man shook his head and walked straight towards the pedestrian street.
"You don't have to follow."
He walked to a place not far from Aunt Su's fried noodle stall and stopped, looking at Aunt Su, who was dressed very simply.
Xiangnan said something that made Aunt Su laugh so hard that she cried, and she didn't even notice that someone was watching her.
She didn't notice, but Xiangnan noticed. He turned his body to the side, deliberately avoiding the old man's sight.
"Yalin." The old man took two steps closer and spoke.
Aunt Su was busy asking a customer if he had any dietary restrictions and didn't hear it.
"Yalin." The old man raised his voice.
This time, Aunt Su heard it, her hand trembled, and the spatula fell to the ground. She hurriedly squatted down to pick it up, rinsed it with water, and came back to continue her work.
"Yalin." The old man raised his voice again, and this time there was obvious anger in his voice.
At this time, Aunt Su had adjusted her mood and skillfully put the fried noodles into the plate. Then she looked up at the old man with her usual smile on her face.
"Sir, would you like some fried noodles?"
"Yalin, it's been more than 20 years. How long are you going to be angry? Look at what you have become now? Is this the life you wanted?!"
"Uncle, you've got the wrong person. There's no one named Yalin here. My last name is Su." Aunt Su pointed to the sign of "Su Ji Fried Noodles" next to her and said, "If you don't eat fried noodles, please move aside and don't interrupt my business."
"You, you..." The old man pointed at Aunt Su. He had condescended to see her, but she put on airs.
The old man was so angry that he threw his sleeves and turned away.
Aunt Su stared at the old man's back, stunned.
Xiangnan walked out and looked at the old man's back, wondering how come Aunt Su was actually from the Fei family?
When Su Xiaoxiao arrived at the pedestrian street, she saw Aunt Su and Xiangnan staring blankly ahead.
"Hey, what are you looking at?" Su Xiaoxiao looked in the direction they were looking, but saw nothing.
"I didn't see anything." Aunt Su and Xiangnan said in unison.
Su Xiaoxiao gave Xiangnan a blank look. What was going on? Why did she look like an outsider?
She had heard from Aunt Su that Xiangnan would sometimes come to help, which surprised her a little. She thought it was just the young master's impulse and for fun, but she didn't expect him to come again today.
"Tell me, what is your purpose in getting close to my mother?" Su Xiaoxiao pulled Xiangnan aside and pushed him against the wall with her arm.
"I want to say that I have no purpose, do you believe it?" Xiangnan raised his hands with a smile, forming a gesture of surrender.
"Do not believe!"
Xiangnan is a prodigal son. Shouldn't he be like Zhao Wei and Chen Nansheng, spending his days drinking and carousing like a fool?
It's not like she hasn't seen his arrogant side before. The last time he went to the criminal investigation team to testify for Zhao Wei, he looked so shameless that she wanted to slap him twice.
If she said that he came to help Aunt Su just because he was bored and wanted to do something good for fun, she wouldn't believe it.
His mother has passed away, could he be...
"She's my mother, don't try to snatch her from me!"
Su Xiaoxiao was very angry. She finally had a mother in this life, and no one could snatch her from her.
"I'm not planning on snatching my mom from you."
Xiangnan was helpless. He was amazed by Su Xiaoxiao's magical train of thought. He did like Aunt Su and the homely atmosphere here, but he had never thought of stealing someone else's mother.
"you swear!"
"Okay, I swear. You can let me go now. People will think you want to hold me against the wall."
Su Xiaoxiao looked around and saw that some people were looking at them strangely, so she had to withdraw her hand in disappointment.
"Xiao Xiao, don't bully Xiao Nan."
Aunt Su brought over two servings of fried noodles, one for Su Xiaoxiao and one for Xiangnan.
Su Xiaoxiao was worried and had no appetite.
"Why are you so sad? Spider-Man is also in trouble?" Xiangnan saw that she was frowning and looked like she was worried. "Tell me about it. Maybe I can help you."
"You can't help me." Su Xiaoxiao poked the noodles in the plate with chopsticks.
"Even if I can't help you, maybe it can open your mind."
That's quite true.
"Then tell me, if a person has been wronged for decades and no one believes him. Now the opportunity comes and someone says he wants to clear his name, but he says he has never been wronged, what do you think is going on?"
"Then you really asked the right person. Based on my many years of experience in reading detective novels, if he is truly wronged and now does not want to accept help from others, there are usually only two situations."
"Which two?" Su Xiaoxiao became interested.
"One is that he is scared and has given up and doesn't want to bother with it anymore; the other is..."
"Speak quickly and don't be shy."
"He stopped trusting others and decided to take matters into his own hands."
"How can I solve it myself? If he had evidence, he wouldn't have been wrongly accused back then."
Xiangnan tapped Su Xiaoxiao's head with chopsticks.
"You are so stupid! Why would you need evidence if you can solve it yourself?"
Xiangnan stretched out his hand and wiped his neck, and raised his eyebrows at Su Xiaoxiao.
"do you understand?"
I understand it, but I still can't figure it out.
"Now that someone has expressed his willingness to help him, why does he want to take revenge on his own?"
"It's simple, because he may not be able to turn back."
I can't turn back, does that mean he has already started? Su Xiaoxiao was frightened.