After the mess was cleaned up, Ji Ran and Bai Xingchen switched places and sat outside the courtyard. Just came out of the fire, Ji Ran can be said to be completely gray now, but she didn't pay much attention to it, patted the dust on her body, and found that some of it couldn't be taken off, so she gave up.

Bai Xingchen handed over a bottle of water, and the lid had been opened.

Ji Ran was so thirsty that he took two sips.

"Aren't you going to go about your business?"

"I don't have anything to do. ”

Bai Xingchen naturally sat down beside her.

"You just ...... It kind of scared me. ”

"Huh?"

Ji Ran reacted suddenly, anyone who received a sudden distress call would be a little panicked.

"It seems that there is a point, the matter is a bit urgent, and I don't know ...... to find"

"Why was the first thought of asking me to save her, and if I was too late, do you know what would happen?"

Ji Ran was stunned, Bai Xingchen's topic jumped too fast, just looking at his serious appearance, Ji Ran thought about it, and still said his thoughts honestly:

"There's nothing wrong with a child. ”

Ji Ran said a little ambiguously.

"The sooner she was saved, she would have suffered less damage and the shadow of the future would have faded. It was cruel for her to feel the complexity of the adult world too early. ”

"What about you?" Bai Xingchen stared at her, as serious as if he wanted to see through her every movement and expression.

"I'm ....." Ji Ran smiled, his throat that was burned by the smoke has not fully recovered yet, and there is a bit of hoarseness in his laughter:

"Many times I feel that I am alone anyway, the world will not turn without me, and no one will be unable to live because of my departure, so when I talk about it, I always feel as if life has no meaning, so let's do more meaningful things, I think no matter what personal thoughts you have, saving a small child is still meaningful. ”

"Of course, it's great to say that, but I'm still afraid of death. ”

Ji Ran knocked Bai Xingchen on the shoulder with a water bottle, with a smile on his face:

"Thank you again for being there this time. ”

***

Ji Ran appeared in Gao Yecheng's sight again, it was already the end of the banquet, and it was reasonable to come and say goodbye to the protagonist.

When she went up to say hello, Yang Ting was also there.

Ji Ranquan didn't bother to pay attention to what she thought now, so he easily became a monk with Gao Ye, and the two sides tacitly skipped what had just happened, just like there had never been any discordant episodes in the banquet.

Ji Ran, who has been sleepy after some things, is now full of thoughts of going home to rest, so naturally he doesn't care much about the eyes of the people around him, and after saying goodbye, he left.

It's just that she didn't notice that Yang Ting is paying more attention to her now than in the past. When she and Bai Xingchen walked over, Yang Ting had already noticed the two of them.

just watched Ji Ran say goodbye and leave quietly, and after Bai Xingchen also sent it out, he looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, and said casually:

"It seems that Ji Ran and Mr. Gao's Bai Xingchen have a good relationship, and during the time they worked together before, they seemed to stay together a lot, and they always felt like they had known each other a long time ago. ”

She said it intentionally, and the listener naturally listened to it in their hearts.

Gao Yecheng's eyes narrowed under the lenses, revealing some solemn taste.

***

"Xingchen, you've been following me for five years, haven't you?"

This was the first sentence that Gao Yecheng dropped when Bai Xingchen was called into the office. The words were calm, but according to the experience of such a long time, Bai Xingchen intuitively felt that there were definitely important words hidden under this calm.

"Yes, ...... years"

"Needless to say, kind words. Gao Yecheng laughed twice, stood up with his originally sitting body, and walked to the side:

"I've seen it lately, you and Miss Ji seem to be quite familiar?"

Bai Xingchen's heart jumped at the moment, he was a little nervous, and he mentioned Ji Ran for no reason, which was definitely not a good sign.

"Sir, you may have misunderstood, Miss Ji and I are not the kind of relationship you imagined. ”

Gao Yecheng waved his hand:

"I know, I know, young man, but you also know that Miss Ji has a special profession, so I have to mention it more, after all, love is such a thing, it is too easy to blind the eyes of you young people. ”

Bai Xingchen understood the meaning of his words, Gao Yecheng was worried that Ji Ran approached him with intentions, and he was also worried that he would not be able to withstand the beauty trick.

Even if he has been by his side for five years, Bai Xingchen has thought that his trust in himself is so weak, but he still smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Yes, I see. ”

Gao Yecheng's favorite thing about Bai Xingchen is that he is smart, and with a light and clever sentence, he can hear what he hasn't said yet.

"There is no grass at the end of the world, are you right?"

He didn't need Bai Xingchen to answer, because he immediately took the next sentence:

"And there is no need for those who are disobedient to stay. ”

He stretched out his hand to take the fish food placed on the fish tank, and with a bang, all of them were poured into the fish tank with no more than five or six fish, and the greedy fish swarmed up, frantically pecking at the dense fish food, this scene made people look at a layer of goosebumps.

"Tell someone to come over tomorrow with another wave of fish. ”

Gao Yecheng clapped his hands and looked at the scene in the bathtub with satisfaction.

"Alright, you go down. ”

As soon as Bai Xingchen left, Gao Yecheng called another assistant to come over.

"What does Mr. Gao command?"

"There is a person named Ji Ran, check for me, if there are any secrets. ”

***

At this time, Ji Ran and Liang Qiong went around for a long time before finally entering the corner of the city.

Rows and rows of temporary board houses stand on the riverbank, and the original white board body has been stamped with various stains after years of natural baptism.

During the day, many people go to work, and there is a sense of decadence and loneliness.

This is where the person who intended to kidnap Gao Xinya lived before, and according to the information found by Ji Ran and Liang Qiong, he has been staying here with his wife for the past half a year and has never moved.

Ji Ran searched for the numbers sprayed with paint on the board room and stopped in front of a door.

Although he was a little resentful, Ji Ran's intuition told him that if he could learn what happened to him, maybe it would also be a key to open Gao Yecheng's dark space.

She knocked on the door, but no one answered for a long time.

He glanced at Liang Qiong and knocked again. There was a creaking sound of the door opening, but it came from the door panel next to it.

"Knock on what, I don't know if there's someone next door!"

The pair of dripping eyes saw two women dressed as weak and weak city people, and felt that there was no threat, so they loudly expressed their dissatisfaction.

"Excuse me, do you know where the people living next door have gone?"

Liang Qiong took the first step to ask the question, and the other party glanced at her with an impatient face:

"How could I possibly know. ”

As she spoke, she was about to close the door, Ji Ran stretched out her feet, pressed against the door frame, and stopped her movements, and the woman was about to scold with a displeased face, when she saw a red ticket stretched out in front of her.

She swallowed her saliva and met Ji Ran's grinning face.

"Sister, let's make it convenient, we are really looking for him in a hurry, very urgent. ”

stared at Ji Ran for a long time, the look didn't seem to be fake, the woman thought about it, revealing her whereabouts can still make money, this kind of good thing is not something that can be encountered often, so she quickly reached out and grabbed the red ticket, touched it with her hand, and put it into her pocket with confidence.

The expression has also changed a lot:

"That family, I went out two days ago, and I haven't been back yet," she said, brushing her hair behind her ears and glancing disdainfully at the closed door.

"The day I left, I had a stinky face, I didn't care when I talked to her, like someone owed him a lot of money, not that I said, I lived so poor for half a year, who was rare......."

"Is anything unusual happening these days?"

Ji Ran was afraid that she would talk too far as she said it, so she quickly interrupted when she saw the signs of small talk, and cut back to the topic.

"Something out of the ordinary in our little place." The woman didn't want to speak, and when she reached the end of the sentence, she felt that something was wrong.

"If it's unusual, just yesterday a few people in suits went in to search for something, and the movement was very loud, and that expression looked like I wanted to eat people......

"And then?"

Interrupted twice, the woman was visibly impatient, but she replied anyway after reading the money.

"And then they left, and I don't know anything else. ”

Ji Ran and Liang Qiong glanced at each other, and probably guessed what the situation was, there was no news from the police, it seemed that Gao Yecheng had decided to deal with it privately this time, and cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

For a moment, the expressions of both of them were a little solemn.

It's still late.

"I'm thinking about ......"

It was farther away, and when there was no one around, Ji Ran said solemnly.

"Not a good idea. ”

"I haven't even said it, you know?" Ji Ran smiled bitterly.

"You can't continue to inquire, people are now in Gao Yecheng's hands, and he will definitely take what happened to him to heart, at this time the performance is too obvious, and it will only lead to burning. ”

Liang Qiong grabbed her arm and forced her to stop.

"I'm serious, and to be honest, I think you've been moving a little faster lately. ”

"What is a good rhythm, is it best to keep moving?"

"A lot of things can't be rushed. ”

"Okay, I got it. ”

Looking at Liang Qiong's expression, you can know that she is highly serious now, and she has always been unable to fight anyway, Ji Ran didn't bother to fight anymore, but just answered obediently. Then she withdrew her hand and put it in her pocket, and took a few steps forward, her eyebrows twisted.

After just a few steps, he stopped again, with a serious face.

"I always felt like I didn't have much time to wait. ”