Atonement (novel)

Prologue: What crime have I committed?!

A silence broke through the sky. In the cell, the prisoner sat silently on the ground covered with rust and blood.

A man walked over, quietly unlocked the heavy door with the key, and stepped inside.

"What are you here for?" The prisoners knew him, but still kept their heads down.

"I can save you, as long as you beg me." The man spoke slowly and methodically. He also knew what the prisoners would say.

"Impossible." The prisoner was determined, without the slightest hesitation, "You don't think! ”

The man shook his head helplessly, sighed and said, "Hey, after so many years, you should have woken up a long time ago, right?"

What the man cared about was the accident that was originally considered an accident seven years ago, which took the man's dearest sister-in-law. Later, everyone stopped investigating, but the man was not reconciled, sitting in front of the president's high-end computer day after day. The kung fu paid off, and he finally found out: this incident is not so simple at all!

An anonymous person online has been commenting on this seemingly ordinary "accident." He said it was an instigation of murder and put a lot of proof surveillance pictures on the Internet: The first, a man with a very unclear face, and a woman who was very similar in stature and appearance to the deceased went into the seabed with a woman who was very similar in stature and appearance to the deceased. In the second picture, the man and the woman were safely out of the seabed fishing, but the woman's movements were stiff, and a closer look found that she was vaguely holding a small fruit knife on her waist. In the third, the woman ran pale to the middle of the road. In the fourth picture, the woman is crushed under the wheel by a large truck speeding in, and the blood and flesh are blurred and unsightly.

Some people on the Internet who are idle or prefer to be punched will wear pictures in a boiling manner, and every 5 videos on the whole vibrato will have a view of this comment. The public security department did not find that there was a video, could not confirm whether what he sent was accurate, and there was no way to do anything, but through long-term on-site exploration, the police believed that all the evidence pointed to an accident, and what this gentleman said was nonsense!

The gentleman was then officially silenced.

Unfortunately, such an important possible information is gone, and the man is very angry and disappointed. He jerked up and went to the bathroom to take a shower, trying to slow himself down.

The sound of rushing water came from inside the door, and the man was silent. His name is Song Huan, the president of a news company, and he is very good-looking and full of spirit. He started from scratch alone, starting from junior high school, going out to work as a handyman after school to earn money, climbing hard for several years, and suddenly surpassing too many of his peers after graduating from college and becoming a successful person who attracted attention at a young age. At this time, he was only 24 years old.

Someone must have been jealous of his outstanding talent, so they killed his cherished relatives in an attempt to crush him! Song Huan knew that this was the greatest possibility. Or maybe it's just something the guy is trying to warn...

The prisoner in the cell was named Tong Xianfu, a rich man, a 17-year-old minor, and a full-fledged child. Usually, he often speaks out and does rough things, and many people do not look favorably on him. However, he is a typical image of the "fried brother" in the hearts of college girls who have never seen the world, and college girls are activists who account for more than 60% of the comment area, and since then Tong Xianfu's reputation has risen and he has become the object of public discussion.

Journalists from other newspapers once asked Song Huan: What do you think of Mr. Tong Xianfu's daily style? Song Huan didn't say anything specific, he was just silent for a long time before he said, "I'm not sure this is true, because I haven't seen him hit people." ”

As soon as the news came out, it was on the hot search, and it was too hot to be true. There was a round of cynicism in the comments section, followed by another wave of praise. Often, people are like this.

However, on that day, in a smoky alley, On the way home from the newspaper office, Song Huan was dragging his heavy body step by step, lighting a cigarette with the Zhonghua brand in his hand, silently inhaling and spitting out, when he happened to see tong punching and kicking a student in the corner, while cursing dirty words in his mouth, and it seemed that he could not stop. The students' faces were covered in blood, their uniforms were torn to the point of disbelief, their hands were dead on their heads, they endured, they didn't scream, and they looked depressed in the rain.

Bullying scene! Song Huan did not go over to help the victims or stop the perpetrators, but hurried away like the others, as if he hadn't seen them at all. When he got home, he understood: "Three people becoming tigers, most of them are true." I am afraid that I am too stubborn, such an obvious bullying, I still insist on contradicting everyone? It doesn't make sense. In fact, he just didn't want to believe that a high school student who was still underage could be so brutal and cruel. He was more afraid to believe.

The sound of the water stopped, and Song Huan thought a lot, a lot. Absent-mindedly, he walked out of the bathroom and dried his hair. In the spacious room, he was alone. The old mother who is far away is just 52 years old this year, and she has suffered from advanced stomach cancer. It's not that he doesn't have the money to go to the doctor for surgery, it's just... The mother would not let me. She kept stubbornly saying, don't ask a doctor, don't ask a doctor. Doctor, she was not at ease. She wants to live on her own. can...... Song Huan knew that over the years, her mother's brain was not good. He also tried to think in terms of his mother's unusual brain circuitry, but he ultimately couldn't accept it.

In the cell, Tong Xianfu cried and shouted, "You! You might say, what crime have I committed?! ”

Song Huan was silent for a long time, and slowly spoke: "Seven years ago, you killed my relatives!" Now I... Only my mother. His face was extremely bleak, and he couldn't see his expression clearly.

"On what basis do you say I killed you?!" Tong Xianfu's face was not much better, and he insisted like crazy, "I said, I didn't kill, I didn't kill!" When I was not yet an adult, you did not believe it, and it was understandable that I thought it was a child lying. But now I'm 24, and at your age, you're still wronging me?! Oh, ridiculous!! ”

"You can't be unreasonable!" Song Huan was very angry, "Do you know what I saw back then?" ”

"What?"

"You beat people up on street corners!" He's still wearing your school uniform! ”

"So what?! I'd love to! Besides, he owes me! Tong Xianfu stood up shakily, with a heavy anger.

"Stop! You've beaten someone, so the police also have evidence that you killed someone! If you admit it, everything is easy to say. Then you don't have to spend it here, I'll take you directly to see the ancestors!" In the face of the big man in front of him, the 31-year-old Song Huan was also considered to be happy and scolded without scruples, and his mood was immediately much more comfortable, but it was not enough. He has always had a clear love and hatred, and now he has voluntarily changed his position to become the head of the prison, and all affairs in the prison are managed by him, especially this person with the surname Tong, he can report that "Tong Xianfu's attitude is extremely improper, please give him a severe punishment."

"Dreaming!" Tong Xianfu arrogantly sprayed his saliva at Song Huan, rolling his eyes, "I have the right to freedom!" ”

"What freedom do you have as a prisoner?" You ruined it with your own hands! Eh, you wouldn't have thought that minors couldn't go to jail, would you? Hahahaha! Song Huan laughed, and his voice broke through the sky.

"Shut up!!" Tong Xianfu's face slid down a few drops of crystalline liquid, "Did you think I was easy at the beginning?" I am a poor person who has no ability to be bullied in turn, am I easy?! ”

"Even if that's the case, why did you kill my sister-in-law?!"

"What evidence do you have that I killed her?!" You mean it! ”

"Because you have obvious motives!"

"What motive?"

"You know that I saw you beating people with your hands, so you were afraid that I would pass it on, so you prepared to kill my relatives to block my mouth!"

"Fart! I didn't know it at all! ”

"No matter how cunning you argue, you don't deserve my trust." Song Huan's tone suddenly calmed down, he took a few breaths, and said, "Don't waste time with you." ”

"Roll! Net wronged good people..." Tong Xianfu collapsed on the dirty bed and closed his eyes, as if isolated from the outside world.

Song Huan didn't want to say anything more, so he threw up the iron door and left.