Chapter Twenty-Three: The Storm is Coming
East City, East of the Waterfront.
Chen Xiaoyu is not good at taking care of others, but fortunately, Zhang Yunxian's body has been transformed by the cosmic essence, and his recovery ability is far beyond that of ordinary people, and he does not need to be taken care of like ordinary injured people.
After only half a day's work, Zhang Yunxian already felt that his wound was almost healed.
"What's going on outside?"
The "bread" that was lying quietly at the head of Zhang Yunxian's bed suddenly pricked up his ears and shouted twice towards the door, "Wang, Wang!"
Chen Xiaoyu opened the curtain a gap, glanced at it, and said happily:
"Today is New Year's Day, I'm worried about you, I don't even remember such an important day, someone in the community is setting off fireworks, do you want to come and see?"
Zhang Yunxian said "oh!" and lay back, not interested.
The bread screamed twice, and he felt very bored, and ran back to Zhang Yunxian's bedside, his body curled up into a snow-white ball, and his fluffy appearance made Zhang Yunxian a little lovely.
Bread did not reject Zhang Yunxian, allowing his hands to stroke back and forth on his snow-white fur, and from time to time he made a comfortable snort or two.
"How did you spend New Year's Day before?" Chen Xiaoyu saw that Zhang Yunxian's mood didn't seem to be high, and he had nothing to say.
"I am an orphan, and every New Year's Day in the orphanage, there will be some very caring people who come to visit us with gifts...... Zhang Yunxian said in a low voice.
"Perhaps, I was born with an indifferent temperament, and whenever I encounter these moments of celebration and excitement, I always prefer to be alone, so every time, I always hide and wait for those people to run out before coming out......"
"After the age of twelve, every New Year's Day, Xiaomei spent it with me, you don't know her, she is really a very kind, even a little silly little girl, never complains to me about how hard the days are, only makes me happy in a different way, never thinks I'm boring, but now ......"
Zhang Yunxian spoke in a very soft voice, but Chen Xiaoyu listened very seriously.
"Then where is she now?" Chen Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask.
Zhang Yunxian didn't know how to answer, so he didn't speak.
Although Chen Xiaoyu is very arrogant on the surface, but in the end she is a girl, her mind is still quite delicate, seeing that Zhang Yun is idle and does not speak, she also faintly guesses something in her heart.
"Anyway, the new year has begun, make a New Year's wish, or whatever gift you want, I'll give it to you!"
Chen Xiaoyu looked at Zhang Yunxian's liking for bread, and couldn't help but say: "Otherwise, I'll give you the bread, how about it?" Your personality is so boring, you must have a lot of things in your heart that you don't know who to tell to, so you can tell bread in the future." ”
Bread seemed to understand a little, looked up at Chen Xiaoyu, and then at Zhang Yunxian, and at the end, put his dog head, known as the "Smiling Angel", on the side of Zhang Yunxian's bed, and arched his nose a few times on him, showing a very happy look.
Zhang Yunxian couldn't help laughing, stretched out his hand to gently soothe the head of the bread, and said to Chen Xiaoyu:
"She's very close to me, and I'll thank you, but I have something to do lately, so you should help me and take care of her for a while, and I'll pick her up after I'm done with what I'm doing." ”
"Great, then it's decided!" Chen Xiaoyu puffed his hands excitedly.
Zhang Yunxian asked a little strangely: "You are the third lady of the Chen family in Xijing, don't you need to go home for today's big holiday?"
Chen Xiaoyu's face turned red, and she said embarrassedly: "I told my parents that I went out to find my classmates to have fun." ”
Zhang Yunxian said "oh!" again, stopped talking, and the room was quiet for a while.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am the Night Man!" Chen Xiaoyu wore a mask of Bao Gong's face mask and pretended to pose in various exaggerated poses in the room.
"Fight injustice, eliminate violence and peace, and do the right thing for heaven, it's me, that's right!" she learned the tone of the old students in Peking Opera, and Zhang Yun couldn't stop watching it.
"Can you tell me, what kind of experience is it to be a night hero? Are you happy when you clean up those bad guys, or are you more happy when you are admired and praised by everyone?" Chen Xiaoyu suddenly asked seriously.
Zhang Yunxian thought about it very seriously and said: "No, being a night hero, when I am happiest, it is when I kill Song Lihui and Meng Ping with my own hands." In fact, this city is full of darkness, dirt and crime, no matter how powerful the night man is, I can't finish the work of a scavenger alone, my original idea was to take revenge, and now it has not changed. ”
After a pause, he said: "I am a pessimist, these twenty-two years of difficult life have made me more aware that there are always more wicked people than good people in this world, I used to have no ability, I could only be slaughtered by others, and now I just want to do my best to help the weak people in this city who have suffered unfair treatment, that is, people like me before, in my own way, to seek a little justice for them!"
This is the first time Zhang Yunxian has revealed his heart to others, he has always been a boy who doesn't like to talk and has a lot of ideological baggage, he is stuffy in his heart, he doesn't care what others say about him, and he doesn't care about other people's world.
It may be that today is the New Year, Liu Xiaomei is not around, Zhang Yunxian feels a little lonely, and it just so happens that Chen Xiaoyu's simple and scheming appearance makes him have some desire to talk.
"Night Man, do you know what my Chen Xiaoyu's New Year's wish is?"
"You say it, come and hear it. ”
Chen Xiaoyu suddenly twisted a little, "Forget it, don't talk about it, let's keep it in my heart!"
Zhang Yunxian said "oh!", and lowered his head to appease the bread again.
The fireworks outside the window became more and more brilliant and brilliant, illuminating the night sky in the east of the waterfront, through the yarn-woven curtains, Chen Xiaoyu looked out happily, and said softly in a voice that only he could hear: "My hero of the world, he finally appeared ......"
West of the city, Qinwang Street, Cheng's house.
The Cheng family retains the Chinese festival tradition, and the red lantern is hung in front of the door early.
"Where is this girl, Wushuang?" Cheng Yingying watched his two sons sitting on the table and gobbling up, as if they had never eaten in their lives, but they didn't see the figure of their youngest daughter, and couldn't help but ask his wife beside him a little strangely.
The Cheng family is based on martial arts, and the old man wrote the four-character family motto of "serving the country with loyalty", and there are four Cheng Yingying brothers and sisters, each with a pair of them hanging in their homes.
The third generation of the Cheng family basically joined the army to serve the country in accordance with the requirements of the old man, and took the path of the military.
Cheng Yingying's eldest son Cheng Bufan and second son Cheng Xiaodong are no exception.
The two sons are tall and mighty, tiger-backed and bear-waisted, and at first glance, they have inherited Cheng Yingying's "excellent" genes.
"You two eat slowly, this is at home, not in the army, don't worry!" Cheng Yingying's wife, Wen Lan, looked at her two sons with a loving face.
Hearing Cheng Yingying ask her where Wushuang was, she said helplessly: "I don't know what evil this girl has fallen into, she has been crying in the room for a day, saying that it is for a wanted criminal called what night man, what is going on, she didn't say anything when I asked her, I had to ask Mother Wu to bring her some food." ”
Cheng Yingying frowned and said: "This girl is really spoiled, let her go to the army, she wants to go abroad to study, she finally came back, it's not good to stay at home, and she has to take over the mess in the Cloud Palace, it's better now, for a wanted criminal to die or live, I really don't know what to say!"
Cheng Xiaodong, who was eating with his head bored, wiped his mouth and said to Cheng Yingying and his wife: "Dad, Mom, you, you are a little wrong to blame my second sister, that Yexia is really a great hero, and now the legend of him is all over the western capital, and there must be an unknown insider story about him being wanted!"
Cheng Bufan also nodded and said: "Night Man killed the only son of Mingyuan Gang Song Mingjie, this matter has spread, and it is understandable that he is wanted, but I heard that hundreds of policemen surrounded and killed Night Man in the Meng family the night before yesterday, and invited the famous Wu Laodao to help, but he was stunned and ran away by Night Man, what a good man!"
When Cheng Yingying heard that Wu Laodao had gone, he suddenly became interested and asked: "Wu Laodao didn't leave him behind, is it impossible?" Could it be that this night hero is also a person with strange abilities?"
Cheng Xiaodong was about to speak, but was preempted by the eldest brother.
Cheng Bufan looked admiring and said: "Dad, you don't know, this night man has made too much noise in Xijing recently, and many high-level people in the army have been alarmed, rumors in the rivers and lakes, this night man is faster than lightning, even bullets can't catch up with him, and his strength is even greater.
Cheng Xiaodong took advantage of the eldest brother's drinking water, and hurriedly interjected and continued: "Wu Laodao is powerful, my buddies from the SWAT team told me that if it wasn't for Wu Laodao's help last night, they would not even be able to catch up with the figure of the night man with hundreds of people." It's because of Wu Laodao that the night man was shot six times by the police's snipers, six shots, he was stunned that he didn't die, and finally killed Wu Laodao, the body was found early yesterday morning in the East Third Ring Road, and the night man hasn't been found yet. ”
Cheng Yingying was stunned when he heard this, he just led the team to the Southwest Military Region and engaged in a military competition for half a month, why did there be such a big news in Xijingcheng, and no one told him.
"Dad, this night man is not a murderer at all, he is full of evil, notorious bad guys, hundreds of policemen at the scene that day, he didn't kill any of them, with his ability, this is simply an easy thing, he is not the kind of person who kills innocents indiscriminately. ”
Cheng Yingying looked back, it turned out that Cheng Wushuang didn't know when he came out, standing behind him with tears in his eyes, hearing them talking about the deeds of the Night Man, he couldn't help but open his mouth to defend him.
"What's the matter with you and Night Man?" asked Cheng Yingying puzzled.
Cheng Wushuang wiped his tears and sat in front of Cheng Yingying, pear blossoms brought rain, looking like I was pitiful, and said in a hoarse voice:
"Night Man, he saved my life!"