"To be honest, I'm not convinced of his character, but I don't think there's anything particularly awkward about it, let alone distrust. As for him leading the case, there were a few times when I did have a disagreement, or a disagreement. But he is in charge and has ideas, just like an American Vietnam War movie, even if the lieutenant is a nerd and coward, a group of veterans who are the highest sergeant still have to obey his command, so I obey his arrangement and do business, not to mention that he is not the kind of nerd coward in the movie. ”

When Yu Gong ordered Xing Tian to pull over and asked him if he trusted his criminal police captain, Xing Tian thought that he was testing whether he still trusted Yu Gong, the leader of the foul team. At present, he has followed Yugong for the longest time in the group, and has always had absolute trust in this old customer and behind-the-scenes boss of Dongyuan Printing Factory, who is more than ten years older than him. However, this time, Xing Tian suddenly realized that in this "forbidden land" operation, he really developed a sense of distrust of Yugong, which was definitely the first time after joining the group. After a hurried reminiscence, he found that this feeling seemed to begin when he heard Yu Gong describe the upright "Lao Jiu" secretary who needed protection in the cave for the first time: "Lao Jiu is an upright person, and he can't tolerate the bully head snake who bullies his father and fellow villagers, and now he dares to dismantle the platform of this group of head snakes, even if he is not afraid, they will definitely take revenge on him." ”

In fact, even if he didn't realize it, since the "forbidden land" officially became a new action of the group, he conveniently questioned the prestige of Yugong from a certain angle. Using the power given by the leader to expand the leader's insistence on private affairs into official affairs, and then returning this power to the leader to deal with this enlarged problem with his own hands, and replacing it with another person who has eaten official meals at the yamen for decades, should have known how much of a nameless fire would be lit in his heart if Yu Gong was a scheming bureaucrat, and how badly this fire would eventually burn himself. Fortunately, Yugong, who has cooperated with Xingtian for many years, is Yugong, not a bureaucrat.

In the van on the side of the road, Xingtian, who thought that he had figured out the idea of Yu Gong's question, did not organize the language of his answer along this line of thought like Dante, and trembled and used a pun to speak earnestly and satisfactorily, so that Yu Gong who felt questioned could listen comfortably through various extraneous meanings. With his friendship with Yugong and the mutual understanding between the two, he replied truthfully. It doesn't matter what he thinks, just say whatever he asks. Xing Tian thought so. He was already thinking about how to answer the question that Yugong was about to ask, "Then do you still believe me?"

"All in all, you still trust him, until now, right?" "So to speak. But it doesn't matter if I trust him or not now. I'm no longer a criminal policeman, I'm now in charge of the Market Sheriff's Office. "Lao Jiu, he is my captain. To put it mildly, I trust him more than you trust the captain of the criminal police. ”

Xing Tian never expected that Yu Gong's question would bring out such a sentence, and after a moment of surprise, he immediately weighed the weight of these words. Although the foul team does not accept resumes, his colleagues know more or less about the background, experience and even private life of each team member, but Yugong's "resume" is a mystery. Aside from his tacit relationship with the Dongyuan Printing House, even Xingtian, who was second only to him in qualifications, knew nothing about him and his living conditions, and could only speculate that his hometown might be located in the Northwest Region based on his not-so-distinct accent. He never took the initiative to talk about this topic with the members, and everyone was embarrassed to ask him, and it was also inconvenient to ask Director Zhang. Although the other five people each had a big question mark about it, none of them had the courage to solve it, or even talk to their colleagues about it, perhaps because it was far more difficult and risky to do so than to track down the target. At this moment, although the sentence that Yu Gong himself uttered was short, it obviously contained a lot of information and emotion, and it involved a privacy that the group members had never heard of. Sure enough, Yugong said: "More than twenty years ago, in the northwest, he was my captain. He, me, and my teammates, we ...... Oh yes, 'How can you say that you have no clothes, and you are with your son,' which is probably the same as we were back then. ”

Yugong seemed to be caught in the endless past, and Xingtian was already dumbfounded. "Now, my teammates are gone, and some of them will never be seen again. Only he and I are still in touch, he ...... He saved my life!"

"He saved my life!" Xing Tian was on the road 50 meters away from the main gate of the Dayangtun Village Committee compound, and his mind was filled with memories like yesterday's Yu Gong, and Yu Gong chewed out these words in a low tone that was almost inaudible, like the sound of thunder echoing in his ears. Suddenly, he felt that his shoulder was tapped, and he didn't have to guess to know that it was Zhuowu.

"I say, comrade driver, comrade driver?" called Zhuo Wu in a low voice. "If you have something to say, don't call it 'comrade comrade'. Xingtian also didn't let go of his voice. "You shouldn't have been called a few times. I said, standing in this position, is it easy for the two of us to create public opinion pressure on that 'old nine'? Why don't you sit on the side?" Following Zhuo Wu's eyes, Xing Tian caught a glimpse of the villagers passing by and kept throwing curious glances at them, and some idlers who were standing far away poked their heads in this direction. "Yes. Big reporter, don't look back and let people be the secretary of the 'old nine' has style or economic problems!"

Before leaving the cave, Yugong put on makeup for the two of them. Zhuo Wu, who is posing as a reporter, appears more mature and sleek in appearance, while Xing Tian, the "driver", becomes an inconspicuous coolie. The "photographer" Yu Gong did not carry a camera when he entered the village committee, so at this time, the two media workers were wearing "TV" vests, one holding a microphone in one hand and a satchel in the other, and the other holding a camera like a submachine gun, poking at a place not far from the village committee. Seeing an old persimmon tree on the side of the road, Xing Tian pointed and said, "Go there and rest for a while." ”

The two of them took refuge in the shade of the tree, hid the interview equipment in their hands that had already been damaged by the malfunction, and took off their vests. "This time we're too conspicuous, not hidden at all. Xing Tian looked at the compound of the village committee and asked Zhuo Wu, "How long has Yugong been in?" Zhuo Wu looked at the watch, "I guess we will have to wait at least 20 minutes." According to the normal interview procedure, if you want to gather more useful clues, his 'in-depth interview' usually lasts half an hour. "You've done interviews, aren't you an editor?" "I've interviewed some of the authors -- celebrities who are going to make biographies there, or people who want to make a name for themselves with the biographies we give. Zhuo Wu pretended to scratch his hair and spread his hand to cover his face. He didn't want to mention his previous work, but since Xingtian asked, he couldn't avoid it. "No wonder your interviews are all fake, and they are not all fake. Xing Tian looked up at the sturdy branches of the persimmon tree, "You just said that you had to wait for 30 minutes, and I think it will take another hour." "If Dante went, three hours would have been spent, and the style of the foolish man ...... This kind of thing tends to be quick and quick to retreat, right?" "Hehe, it's pretty easy to summarize. But don't forget who he went to meet today, and they couldn't have patronized the interview. "Do they want to reminisce about the past?" "Reminiscence, searching for clues, will be, public and private." "You say, how deep is the friendship between Yugong and 'Lao Jiu'?"

Xing Tian glanced around with the corner of his eye, there was no one nearby, stripped off the camouflage of reporters, passers-by no longer paid so much attention to them, and the idlers who hoped for the excitement were far away after all. He moved his ass and sat close to Zhuo Wu, and said softly: "'Lao Jiu' used to be the captain of Yugong. "Captain, what team?" Zhuo Wu noticed Xingtian's caution, and spoke in the same low volume, "SWAT team, special team, fire brigade?" "He didn't say this, and I didn't ask. Xing Tian looked at the village committee compound again, and then said, "At least I'm not the basketball captain." ”

Hearing this, Zhuo Wu smiled. "Oh, by the way, you and Dante were on the basketball team when we were in college, right?" "Yes, but I wasn't a captain, and neither was he. "That's okay, the point is...... So, if you and Dante meet again after more than twenty years, try to think about what will happen to you then. "Seriously, I hope that such a touching scene of reunion after 20 years is best seen in a class reunion-like occasion than in an unending action. "If he saved your life during a brawl on the court twenty years ago, and now someone wants his life, would you still wait for the reunion?" "Wait, what do you mean...... Could it be ......" "Yes, 'Lao Jiu' saved Yugong's life, when he was the captain of Yugong." ”

"He saved my life!" the fool's deep voice echoed again.

Yesterday, before the van started again, the sound woke up in a daze like a dream, and he was speechless. He knew that Yugong had lowered his voice so low to hide his uncontrollable mood swings. This makes Xingtian not know whether to express consolation or understanding. For a while, there was silence in the car, and later, Xing Tian took it upon himself to twist the key, and the engine of the van rumbled again. Later, they returned to the mountains, parked the van in a secluded place, and took the discarded interview equipment to the cave to meet Zhuo Wu. Later, there was a group fight in the "chess and card room" in the village......

Until he entered the cave, Yu Gong did not ask Xingtian to keep what he said on the road secret. For a moment, Xing Tian thought that he was going to give such an order, and at that time they were about to enter the Hebei section, and Yu Gong, who had been silent for a long time, turned his face to him, clearly having something to say.

"I don't mean to repay him for saving his life at all costs, but simply to say that, based on what I have known about him over the years, I trust him and trust him with my life. Yu Gong's words once again surprised Xingtian.