Sun Xiaomu sighed and said, "An official has too many faces."
Liu Lihai was not in the mood to argue with Sun Xiaomu on this issue, so he kept walking around the room. Sun Xiaomu said again, "Check out and go back to Lin County."
"Xiaomu," Liu Lihai called her. Sun Xiaomu ignored him and began to change her clothes, preparing to leave. Liu Lihai quickly hugged her from behind and whispered in her ear, "I'm sorry."
As soon as Liu Lihai said "I'm sorry", his phone rang. It was Xiao Zhou. Xiao Zhou said on the phone that no one answered when he knocked on Wu Yueying's door, so he instructed Xiao Zhou to find someone to knock on her door. He had already realized that Wu Yueying was at home and might be doing something stupid. He really did not expect that Wu Yueying, who was always so energetic, would have such a fragile heart. If he had known earlier, he would have gone to see her and cared about her.
Liu Lihai was now really feeling guilty. An ominous feeling lingered in his heart. However, Sun Xiaomu was obviously angry. He pulled Sun Xiaomu's body and said, "Xiaomu, I'm really sorry. I have to go."
"Lihai, I won't stop you. But you have to promise me that you'll try not to get involved. There are many things that you can't solve and can't do anything about. If you really can't, you can come to the provincial capital. Any newspaper will want you. "After saying that, she broke free from Liu Lihai's arms.
"Let's go. I'll take you home," Liu Lihai said as he put on his clothes.
"No, I'll take a taxi back. Take care of yourself. "Sun Xiaomu still did not want Liu Lihai to know where her home was.
At this moment, Xiao Zhou called again. His voice was trembling. He said, "Minister Wu, Wu committed suicide by cutting her wrists. The house is full of blood."
"Hurry up and take her to the hospital. I'm already on my way back." Liu Lihai pulled Sun Xiaomu up and left. When they reached the road, he placed her bag by the side of the road. Without saying a word, he rushed into the night.
？ Sun Xiaomu stared at Liu Lihai's departing car, feeling conflicted. Was this the life of an official? Even a relationship was so disappointing. She had tried her best to understand and tolerate him, but she still couldn't accept the official's lifestyle of changing his face. She sighed, picked up the bags on the ground, and hailed a taxi. In the car, she was thinking about how to explain to her parents that she returned home so late. But thinking was just thinking, her heart clearly drifted with Liu Lihai to Lin County. She was actually so worried about him.
Liu Lihai drove very fast. When he arrived at Lin County, Wu Yueying died because of excessive blood loss. He found a letter and a bankbook that Wu Yueying had left for him in the desk that Wu Yueying had mentioned. In the letter, Wu Yueying said,
"Magistrate Liu, would you like me to call you Little Brother? I'm leaving. I'm really tired. I'm tired of the officialdom that I've been fighting for. After all, the officialdom is a place for you men to play. This kind of struggle belongs to you men. I was originally a superfluous person, a woman who is a disaster in the eyes of many people. I hope that my withdrawal can be exchanged for peace. Then my death will have a little effect and value.
Little Brother, there are many things that you can only understand after experiencing pain. It's only now that I know that the man I've been deeply in love with doesn't belong to me. A woman only has one legal man in this world, and that is her legal husband. That man belongs to me, and other men are all fleeting clouds. Unfortunately, when I understand this truth, it's already time for me to leave. The only person I can trust now is you, and the only person I can ask for help from is you. The money in this bankbook is clean. It's my salary. Please give it to my daughter when the time is right, okay? She hates me to death now. Yes, I'm not a good mother. I've shamed her. I'm sorry.
Little Brother, I'm leaving. I don't know who wants to use this method to kill me. If people really have souls, I'm willing to appear in your dreams after death, so that you can guard against them. The officialdom is a huge battlefield where people kill without seeing blood. Little Brother, don't be greedy. It's not a problem to eat, drink, and play, but don't learn from us. Instead of saying that it's someone else's hand, it's better to say that it's us who dug the trap first. If I hadn't taken the wrong step, I wouldn't have ended my life in this way.
I don't want to take this step, but what's the point of living for a woman who even looks down on her daughter? I don't know if there's another way except to atone for my sins with death. But I'm really not reconciled to my death.
Little Brother, you must take care of yourself. That black hand is still here, you must take care of yourself. "
After reading the letter that Wu Yueying left for him, Liu Lihai's tears flowed down his eyes. How could that careless Wu Yueying in his eyes leave just like that? What does that invisible black hand want to do? Will the next target be him? Liu Lihai's hand holding the letter trembled, and the page of paper floated down from his hand. In the house filled with Wu Yueying's smell, the page of paper floated in the wind like a ghost. He was shocked and chased after the page of paper for a few steps. It wasn't until he held the page in his hand again, folded it carefully, and put it in his pocket that Liu Lihai's heart was a little relieved. This page of paper was the most precious trust of a woman, and also the most helpless trust of a woman. The officialdom was like a battlefield. Women should take a detour, but there was Wu Yueying, and there was Leng Hongyan. There would be more such women who would integrate into the officialdom and fall into it. While desperately chasing power, they would lose their original ideals and beauty.
Liu Lihai didn't know how he walked out of Wu Yueying's house. His first thought was to find Wu Yueying's daughter, and he hoped that she could see her mother for the last time. After he started the car, reason came back to him. He hurriedly called Liu Shouwang and told him the news of Wu Yueying's suicide. Liu Shouwang was so shocked that he didn't speak for a long time. After the surprise, he instructed Liu Lihai on the phone to try not to let the media get involved in this matter, and he and Shi Zhilin rushed back to Lin County as soon as possible. Yes, Lin County was in Liu Shouwang's hands. Accidents happened one after another, and he always felt powerless. When he first stepped into the magical land of Lin County, Liu Shouwang was full of confidence. But now, he was full of an indescribable sense of fear for Lin County, just like Liu Lihai. For Wu Yueying's sudden suicide, Liu Shouwang's back was oozing cold sweat. He knew about the officialdom, but he didn't expect that a pair of hands would reach out to Wu Yueying, which was equivalent to reaching out to Gong Daojin. At this time, Liu Shouwang's heart was so complicated that no words could express it. In addition to instructing Liu Lihai, what else could he say and do? This was the first time that Liu Shouwang felt such a failure as the secretary of the county committee.
After hanging up the phone with Liu Shouwang, Liu Lihai called Shi Zhilin. Shi Zhilin was very calm. It was not known whether he learned about this from Liu Shouwang, or whether he had always kept himself out of anything. He just asked Liu Lihai to listen to Liu Shouwang's arrangements on the phone, and then hung up.
After these two phone calls, Liu Lihai felt even more sad. If they could care about Wu Yueying after the nude photos scandal, if they could put themselves in a woman's shoes, would they be able to save her life? Liu Lihai assumed so. Although he knew that the officialdom rejected hypothetical imagination, he still had some hope that such an assumption could save Wu Yueying's life.
The next day, Liu Lihai found Wu Yueying's daughter at the Lin County Experimental High School. It was after class. Wu Yueying's daughter looked very much like her, so Liu Lihai saw her at first glance. He stopped Wu Yueying's daughter. The girl looked at Liu Lihai strangely and asked, "Do I know you?"
"You don't know me, but I know you," Liu Lihai said.
"What's the matter?" The girl looked at Liu Lihai coldly and asked.
"I'm your mother's colleague. She, she's in the hospital now. Can you come with me to see her?" Liu Lihai tried to calm his tone.
"I don't have a mother." The girl said these three words resolutely and was about to leave. Liu Lihai was anxious. He grabbed the girl and said, "You, your mother committed suicide."
The girl trembled, but she quickly broke free from Liu Lihai's hand and said, "I don't have such a shameless mother." After that, the girl turned her head and ran away, but Liu Lihai clearly saw that the girl kept wiping her face with her hands. She must be crying, and crying very sadly.
Liu Lihai then knew that the nude photos scandal had deeply hurt the little girl's heart. This might be a shadow that she could never overcome in her life. In an era where there was no privacy, in a small county abandoned by traditional civilization, the little girl could not forgive Wu Yueying for bringing this kind of harm to her. Even if Wu Yueying apologized with her death, the little girl was unwilling to recognize this mother again.
When Liu Lihai left the school, his footsteps were as heavy as a heavy chain. He didn't know how he walked into his car and how helplessly he left Wu Yueying's daughter. He just deeply felt sorry for Wu Yueying. He couldn't let her daughter understand her mother, and he couldn't let her daughter see her for the last time.
In Liu Lihai's world, there was no kind of cruelty like now. It was a true and deep family, but it was destroyed in addition to hatred and endless harm.
At this time, Liu Lihai felt that he had suddenly matured a lot from the incident of Wu Yueying's suicide. He knew that when it came to the issue of style, the pressure and harm that women suffered were far above that of men. After Gong Yue cried, she forgave her father, but Wu Yueying's daughter was not even willing to see her mother for the last time. While he was grieving for Wu Yueying, he was also worried about the culprit behind it. The person who spied on other people's privacy and exposed other people's privacy to achieve his goal was really hateful. He didn't know whether the person's goal was to target Gong Daojin or Wu Yueying. And could Wu Yueying's death really be exchanged for peace in Lin County?
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