"By the way, the preliminary autopsy results of that female corpse are out." Suddenly, Huang's team thought of something and said: "The girl had taken a large amount of sleeping pills, it was a suicide, and she was five or six months pregnant before her death."

  "What about his identity?" Li Mingyao asked.

  "The girl's name is Li Hongling, she is seventeen years old." Just as Huang said this, Principal Liu suddenly thought of something and asked: "Li Hongling? Didn't she go back to her hometown?"

  "What? You know him." I asked.

  "This little girl's family is quite poor, and she's a miserable child." Principal Liu said: "I still remember that rainy day when our school received a child from a poverty-stricken mountainous area."

  ……

  In a poor mountainous area near a certain town in Hunan, the people on the mountain work in the fields under the scorching sun, their skin tanned dark by the sun, and their trouser legs always have black mud that can't be washed off.

  They are neighbors, the boy is called Zhang Qingqi and the girl is called Li Hongling. The two families are neighbors.

  Since they were young, both children have been exceptionally intelligent. The villagers, under the call of the village chief, donated money to send them to study in Chengdu, a big city.

  The two were also very competitive, with exceptionally excellent grades in reading, and even the teacher couldn't help but praise them.

  But because the two were poor, they were always looked down upon by the people at school. Every time, the two would hide in a corner of the school and pour out their own sufferings to each other. As time went on, the two also developed some vague feelings for each other.

  But neither of them said it out loud, instead they agreed to study hard and take a good university exam together.

  Li Hongling loves snow, she thinks snow is the purest color in the world, clean and not like the complexity of the city. Even these students have to compare and show off their wealth every day. In her opinion, being able to afford a house and live in the city is already a very happy thing, she dare not ask for too much, nor can she ask for too much.

  Li Hongling likes roses very much and can gaze at the picture of a rose in her textbook for several minutes.

  Zhang Qingqi then told her: "Wait until I make money in the future and I will definitely buy a big bunch of roses to give to you."

  At this time, Li Hongling always blushed and lowered her head, then nodded slightly.

  When they graduated from junior high school, the two originally enrolled in a good high school in Chengdu. However, because one of their classmates' uncles was a member of the Education Commission, he grabbed a spot, and Li Hongling was unable to enter that high school, instead being assigned to this military school.

  At that time, the village's income was not high to begin with, and they also had to pay for two people's tuition fees. So Zhang Qingqi gave up his opportunity to continue studying and became a beggar, which was a shameful profession in other people's eyes but a high-paying one in his own eyes.

  He kneels down to beg at the gate of the school every day, and every day there are different people passing by to mock him, but Li Hongling rushes to the school gate to chat with him after class, always making his begging process not so boring.

  At this time, he would always make himself look a bit more decent by tidying up his dirty clothes, wanting to save face in front of Li Hongling's classmates, but what he got instead was ridicule and those classmates' mockery of Li Hongling.

  Although so, Zhang Qingqi and Li Hongling did not care about other people's eyes.

  Zhang Qingqi actually also knew that the profession of begging had a certain deceptive meaning, and even everyone despised this profession, but no one thought about who would want to be a beggar.

  Zhang Qingqi could go out to work, but he was worried about leaving Li Hongling alone at school. Moreover, he was too young and the salary from working outside would not be as much as begging money. He wanted to earn tuition fees for Li Hongling and save money so that in the future when Li Hongling graduated from university, they could return to their hometown, buy a house and get married.

  If days go by like this, although life will be full of ridicule, there won't be any big ups and downs.

  But one day, a female classmate who had always looked down on Li Hongling said she wanted to take Li Hongling out to have some fun. Li Hongling didn't think much of it and thought about going out to see the world, so she followed her out.

  As a result, this female classmate took Zhang Hongling into a massage parlor.

  The boss of the massage parlor told Li Hongling that as long as she sold herself once, she could get 3,000 yuan.

  Li Hongling was about to leave when the boss of the massage parlor covered her nose with a cloth soaked in anesthetic.

  When Li Hongling woke up, she found herself lying on a small bed with her clothes disheveled, and there were 3,000 yuan placed beside the bed.

  Li Hongling understood what had happened to her, and at that time she wanted to commit suicide, but she couldn't bear to part with Zhang Qingqi, who had endured the cold eyes of others and became a beggar for her sake.

  Li Hongling walked out of the massage parlor with tears in her eyes when it was raining outside, which just happened to dilute the tears she had shed.

  When she finally saw Zhang Qingqi kneeling at the school gate begging, she rushed over and hugged Zhang Qingqi, bursting into tears.

  Zhang Qingqi listened to Li Hongling's tearful account of the events, and immediately picked up a wooden stick from the ground and rushed towards the massage parlor that Li Hongling had mentioned.

  The night of the city is cold, and the heart of the people in the city is even colder.

  When Li Hongling received the news, she rushed to the hospital and only saw Zhang Qingqi's corpse. Zhang Qingqi was beaten to death.

  Li Hongling didn't cry, after suffering too many blows in one day, she would forget how to cry. Li Hongling only saw a rose tightly grasped in the right hand of Zhang Qingqi's corpse.

  Zhang Qingqi's promise has been fulfilled, but it is already a case of "the things have changed and the people are gone". The person holding the rose has long since lost their body temperature.

  Li Hongling used that humiliating three thousand yuan to buy a thin coffin for Zhang Qingqi, and buried him in the suburbs of Chengdu.

  After returning to school, Li Hongling no longer attended classes and spent her days making phone calls to report the massage parlor. Five months later, the police finally raided the parlor, and Li Hongling appeared on the scene to testify that the owner of the parlor had killed Zhang Qingqi.

  The boss of the massage parlor was sentenced to only five years in prison. No matter how hard Zhang Hongling reported and made a scene at the court, it had no effect whatsoever. In the end, someone even gave her 100,000 yuan to stop making trouble.

  She finally sent 100,000 yuan back to her hometown, bought a bottle of sleeping pills, walked into the mountains behind, took the sleeping pills and ended her short life.

  "Perhaps Zhang Ge and I shouldn't have come to this city, it's too prosperous, so prosperous that it covers up its original ugliness."

  ……

  "This is what happened to the girl, I also heard it from the police roughly." Principal Liu said after finishing this matter: "I originally thought she had left school and returned home, unexpectedly, ah, her last words were actually her last words, which was found by the police in her pocket just now."

  I took a deep breath after listening, and there was an uncontrollable anger in my heart.

  That Huang also kicked a tree beside him and scolded: "Damn, which massage parlor boss is it? What's his name, I'll go back and kill him, damn his mother."