five years ago.
Bus No. 45.
photo.
Lu Ze's words made Liu Yao freeze on the spot for a moment.
There was a trace of unconcealed panic in the girl's eyes. What happened on the No. 45 bus back then was still a thorn in Liu Yao's heart, so she just watched the news in a daze. , but she didn’t know why this private matter was known to others.
At this time, Liu Yao just wanted to forget everything about the past.
She held her breath for a moment, raised her head and stared into Lu Ze's eyes, insisting:
"No pictures! Nothing!"
"It has nothing to do with me!"
Lu Ze and Li Shiqing looked at each other.
The latter pointed to the TV screen that was still broadcasting the explosion of the cross-river bridge.
"Sister, I am also a student of Jialin Normal University. My name is Li Shiqing."
"At 1:45 this afternoon, bus No. 45 exploded on the cross-river bridge. Nine people on the bus died on the spot."
"The driver of this bus is Wang Mengmeng's biological father, and her mother is also on this bus. Now their family can be described as a family that has been destroyed. There are various signs that the source of this explosion came from five years ago. That car accident before."
"the truth."
"We just want to find out the truth."
Liu Yao looked at Li Shiqing's hopeful eyes, and she was feeling tormented at the moment.
At that time, Liu Yao also thought about helping Wang Mengmeng, who was being molested, to escape from the clutches of the bad guys, but unfortunately she was not as brave as she imagined at that time. She just took a photo and got off at the next stop.
After getting off the bus, Liu Yao quickly called her mother, but all she got was an answer telling her to mind her own business.
"The bad guys are detained for a few days and then released."
"If we know that it was you who called the police and the bad guys remember your appearance, what if they take revenge on you when you go to your school or bus stop?"
"Listen to mother, Yaoyao, it is better for us to do less than to do more."
Her mother's extremely cold yet very real advice dispelled Liu Yao's idea of calling the police.
Only when Liu Yao returned to her dormitory in the evening did she learn from the Internet that the girl got off the bus illegally on the cross-river bridge and was hit and killed.
At that time, the Internet was dominated by online violence against the deceased Wang Mengmeng. Liu Yao, who finally couldn't control herself, posted several posts on the Internet to speak out for Wang Mengmeng, but the replies she received quickly broke her heart.
[I would have definitely stopped him in the car. 】
[If what the poster said is true, then the poster should pay for that little girl’s life. 】
[Why didn’t you stop me when you were in the car? Then aren't you also an accomplice? The police should arrest you! 】
In this way, the girl completely buried her thoughts in her heart, along with the photo that represented the truth.
It was not reopened until today, five years later.
Seeing Liu Yao lowering her head and remaining silent, Li Shiqing came to her senior sister and held her hand tightly.
"Senior sister, I know you must have thought about calling the police over the years, right?"
"I was also on the bus that had the accident today. I saw the faces of Wang Mengmeng's parents."
"Both of them have been suffering from the pain of losing their daughter over the years, and a large part of the reason is that they don't know why their daughter got out of the car, so we really need the photo in your hand."
Li Shiqing did not ask why Lu Ze was so familiar with what happened five years ago.
But Liu Yao's various actions now show that she was indeed a witness to that incident.
"Sister."
"If we back down again and again, we are conniving at those bad guys again and again."
"There is the first Wang Mengmeng, and there will be the second and third Wang Mengmeng."
"Don't you want the bad guy to get the punishment he deserves?"
Tears fell from Liu Yao's eyes.
After a long time, she took a deep breath and slowly raised her head, raising her hand to wipe the tears on her face.
But he still shook his head firmly towards Li Shiqing.
"I checked relevant cases on the Internet."
"I even consulted a professional lawyer."
"Wang Mengmeng's death cannot be attributed to that bad guy in the end. Even if I give you the photo, that scumbag will be released in a detention center for about ten days at best. What's the point of this kind of punishment?"
Liu Yao's words were an acknowledgment that she had evidence of indecency in her hands.
But at this moment, Li Shiqing didn't know what to say at all, because she and Liu Yao had exactly the same idea on this point.
"Punishment is meaningless."
"What really matters is the truth of the year."
Lu Ze finally spoke: "We can forget and forgive, but we must know the truth."
"If Wang Xingde and Tao Yinghong had known the truth earlier, they might not be like this."
"certainly."
"I'm not blaming you. I personally put myself into your situation at that time. No one can ask you to do more. It is completely undesirable to ask others from a high perspective with moral principles."
"At least you were brave enough to take a photo."
Lu Ze's words finally made Liu Yao open her heart.
What happened back then was like a mountain that kept weighing her down. Liu Yao even wondered if it would have been better if she hadn't seen that scene.
However, she couldn't really pretend that she didn't see anything.
At this moment, Liu Yao gradually relaxed and spoke slowly, telling Lu Ze and Li Shiqing what happened on the bus.
She did take obscene photos back then. Although she had changed many mobile phones in the past five years, she always kept that photo in her hand.
"No need to send us pictures."
"Just tell me your network disk account and password."
...
"Sister, she..."
"I have been blaming myself all these years."
For Liu Yao.
Lu Ze didn't think she was a bad person.
As he said before, criticizing others harshly from God's perspective is simply speaking without pain.
Only when people actually experience it will they know what the situation is like.
Feel the same.
It's easy to say.
At this moment, Li Shiqing showed a relieved smile: "What should we do next?"
Lu Ze walked aimlessly on the sidewalk.
Next, he wanted to try it according to his own ideas.
"Let's eat first."
"I guess Officer Xiaojiang will come here again soon."
...
Jiang Feng did not expect that the two passengers seemed to know that he was coming. Li Shiqing and Lu Ze at the intersection even took the initiative to say hello and wave after seeing him. The two of them got into the police car very familiarly, one on the left and the other on the right.
"Why did you come here?"
"We have been waiting outside for you for most of the day after dinner."
"Let's go quickly."
