After sending this voice message to Xiao Ai, I sat down leaning on the lamppost, I was quiet, but there were a bunch of people around me who were eager to try to play the ring toss game, which made me a little irritable, but I didn't want to leave this place, so I habitually closed my eyes, and after making the world dark, it was not quiet but quiet, and the night that belonged to me came like this.

Since the "Wutong Hotel" is on fire, Tulip Road has a bit of a humanistic atmosphere, so it will attract some wandering singers to come here to earn some travel expenses, I once thought that if the old alleys are not demolished, there are many cafes like "Mood Coffee" in those characteristic old houses, which will definitely become a different landscape, so as to attract more people to come here to tell stories and experience a different life.

In my bosom, a sound of vicissitudes came from another corner with the wind, someone was playing the guitar, singing a song called "To Dali", in such a song, I suddenly found that my heart really did not belong to the city. You don't have to go to Dali as sung in the song, as long as you can leave.

I don't even want to imagine what it would have been like if the original coffee shop hadn't been closed down for fire reasons.

I just feel tired and tired living in such a change of world, but I still can't stop missing my lover, even though she is someone else's bride!

I wiped a handful of tears, but my hand was pricked a little by my beard, which I hadn't shaved for a long time, so the pain worsened, and I didn't want to open my eyes to see the world. I don't feel like it's an escape at all, just an explosion of self-preservation on the edge of despair.

……

I didn't know where the light flashed, I subconsciously opened my eyes, and saw Chen Yi standing in front of me, the camera of the mobile phone was facing me, and it seemed that she was taking a picture of me just now.

She walked up to me and asked, "You only left in the morning, why did you come back again?" ”

I asked, "Didn't you leave in the morning and come back in the evening...... You don't live here anymore. ”

Chen Yi sat down next to me and didn't answer, but showed me her mobile phone, which was my photo on the screen, and she said to me: "Look, do you already look like a 40-year-old middle-aged man in your phone?" A beard on his face and hair growing! ”

"Then you can call me uncle in the future."

Chen Yi smiled, patted me, and said, "Don't take advantage of me." ”

I glanced at her, then threw another cigarette into my mouth, lit it and replied, "What kind of advantage is this, when you are sloppy in the future, I can also call you Auntie." ”

"When have we ever been so fair with each other?"

I took a puff of cigarette and she pulled it out of my hand, still like she used to think of my health as she used to be. This has invisibly shortened the distance between us, but in the flowing time, we have not been like this for a long time.

I didn't answer her, but finally smiled. After a period of silence, he said to her, "At noon today, I saw Yang Jin. ”

I looked at Chen Yi, thinking that she would be surprised, but I didn't want her to look at me with a speechless expression. I instantly understood that she was entrusted by Jin Qiu to come to me on purpose, otherwise there would be so much fate between us.

Sure enough, after a while, she said to me, "I know you're back in Nanjing, but Auntie is still waiting for you at the hotel, so I think you should at least give her a call." No matter how many grievances you have in your heart, it can't change the fact that you are mother and son. She really wants to see you! ”

"But I don't want to see her at all." At this point, I smiled disdainfully, and then said, "Actually, I really want to ask you what the hell is she doing...... No, I want to know what she's been doing all the years she's been away. Are you getting married and having children again? If that's the case, then what do you want to do when you come back to me, anyway, it's all replaceable in her heart, including Nanjing, where she lived, and my insignificant son. ”

Chen Yi didn't answer positively, just shook his head and said, "Maybe I underestimated the grievances in your heart, and you have a grudge against your aunt...... Actually, I'm just like you, I didn't know that my aunt was back until Jin Qiu just called me. So I don't know more about my aunt than you over the years......"

"So you're here to be a lobbyist today?"

"It doesn't matter to me if I'm a lobbyist or not...... I just knew that you were back in Nanjing, so I wanted to come and see you. But just like the other day, you don't look the same, and you're still so unhappy. ”

I put my hands on my head and kept looking at the somewhat potholed ground, but what I remembered was Yang Jin waiting for me in the restaurant: she had been sitting calmly, but as time went by, she couldn't sit still, so she looked out through the clean floor-to-ceiling window, and her mood was lost...... It's like more than ten years ago, when I was lying on the wooden door and watching the quiet alley waiting for her. None of us will wait for the results.

In the gusts of hot wind, the wandering singer not far away changed his song again. I looked up at him, he was really a man who carved loneliness into his soul, living a life without a fixed place, but why did he live like this? Are you also expecting someone who has lost to show up at a coffee shop on the corner?

Thinking of this, I wanted to go to Xiao Ai even more, but I forgot that the person sitting next to me was Chen Yi.

Chen Yi pushed me and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

"Cranky, nothing in particular......"

Chen Yi smiled, and then asked me again, "Will you go back to Shanghai tomorrow?" …… I'm going to see grandma with your car. ”

"I'm going to Taipei, and I'm coming back just to get a Taiwan entry permit."

Chen Yi replied in a joking tone: "Even if she leaves and gets married, you will find her at the ends of the world to keep her; But I just took a nap, but you are like a rootless dandelion, with the wind, swishing away with a swish! ”

I looked at her and questioned, "Dandelion is not a bullet, where is there a whooshing movement?" ”

"Although the dandelion is not a bullet, it leaves a bullet-like movement in my heart...... It made me sad for a long, long time. ”

I looked at her, but I didn't know what to say, because I couldn't figure out the metaphor of the dandelion and the bullet, I just knew that I had let go of my love for her and had gone far, far away. It just corresponds to her for a long, long time.

My silence was exchanged for Chen Yi's melancholy eyes. This time, it took a long time for her to whisper to me, "Jiang Qiao, did you really love me?" Or do you simply not know the boundaries between love and dependence? ”

I looked at her in amazement, for the first time since we broke up, she questioned my love for her. I also realized that I had put her on the edge of my life for too long, but I used to like her so much.

"Have you really ever loved me? …… I'm talking about love! ”

I was still silent, and I had doubts about myself.

Chen Yi smiled self-deprecatingly, and after a long time replied on my behalf: "Some people think that love is very simple, and I used to think so. But after this experience with you, I overturned that idea. Because love really needs to be contrasted to be reflected, just like the status of me and Xiao Ai in your heart. Although there is no winning or losing in love, there is no right or wrong...... However, I still can't understand why I lost you...... Is it really because I verbally gave up on the relationship? If so, why is Xiao Ai now married, but you still want to go to Taipei to find her? What kind of renunciation will there be, more radical than marrying another person? ”

I pondered for a long time in her words, but just like this complicated starry sky, no one really has the ability to find out how many planets are twinkling, so in the end I couldn't get an answer, but I told her, and I don't know why these two different behaviors appeared to me.

Yes, I gave Xiao Ai all the persistence that I had not been able to give Chen Yi before. But is this really a debt to Chen Yi?

That's what I'm really thinking about.

……

In a short silence, Wu Lei, who had been in charge of investigating the fire in the piano shop, came to me and Chen Yi, and I got up and asked him, "Officer Wu, are you here to find me?" ”

"Passing by, I just got off work and want to go to the Wutong Hotel for a drink."

"I ask you to ......"

Wu Lei smiled, he agreed, he looked at Chen Yi, and asked me again: "What, just the two of us, don't you invite Chen Yi to have two drinks?" ”

Chen Yi also got up and said to me and Wu Lei: "You have to find the right person to drink, you can drink it, I will drag it down!" ”

She said and left, then walked across the road. Wu Lei looked at her back and said to me with a little teasing: "Looking at her affectionate appearance, I really don't doubt that there will be some story between the two of you." ”

"Yes, a story that can't be told overnight."

Wu Lei smiled and asked again: "She is such a famous host, why did she have something to do with you, a small boss of a piano store?" I think it's an open case! ”

"When she was young, when she was still in her mother's womb, her mother and my mother liked to get together when they had nothing to do and sit in the alley knitting sweaters...... Otherwise, how could someone like me have a chance to know her! ”

Wu Lei smiled noncommittally, and then led me in the direction of the "Wutong Hotel".

……

After ordering beer and some cold dishes, Wu Lei and I chatted while eating, and I habitually asked him, "Is there any new progress in the case?" ”

He sighed: "There is no progress, but the pressure on the above to close the case has increased...... But this also points the spearhead of the crime more clearly at Li Zishan of Jinding Real Estate, because once there is evidence to prove that she is the mastermind behind the fire in the piano shop, she will face the charge of attempted arson and murder, which is not a small crime, so it is precisely because of her fear that I have my current resistance. ”

I handed him a cigarette, lit it for him, and then said to him: "Officer Wu, let's talk something from the heart, in the current situation, do you really have the confidence to continue to investigate?" ”

He took a puff of his cigarette, and then said firmly: "I was born in a police family, my father used to be an anti-narcotics policeman, and the cases he faced were more complex and dangerous than ordinary criminal cases, but he never flinched...... I will never forget Jì, the moment he was martyred......"

Wu Lei exhaled heavily, he pinched the wine glass in his hand and "creaked", and after a long time, he said again: "At the last moment of his martyrdom, he did not forget to tell me that he wanted to be a policeman who truly lives for justice, because for you unarmed citizens, the police are the last guarantee you can rely on." If even the police lose their pursuit of justice and the insight to distinguish between good and evil, then this society is really finished! ”

With that, he smiled thoughtfully, and in the flickering light, I saw the shocking scar on his neck, which was the medal left by his pursuit of justice, and I admired his courage and valuable perseverance.

I toasted him a glass of wine, and after he drank it all, he said to me from the bottom of his heart: "Jiang Qiao, living in this world, who do you say is not afraid of death?" …… I'm also afraid of death, really scared! …… But as a police officer, I don't have the right to be afraid of death, because our industry is destined to live in danger, if we also choose to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages because we are greedy for life and afraid of death, do you dare to imagine what the world will become? ”

I shook my head, signaling that I couldn't imagine.

His expression became stern, and he added: "I admit that there will be a few black sheep in the police system, but most of them will still believe in justice and fairness as their profession. So, I hope you can trust me and give me a little bit of time as well. Even if this case is finally forced to close, I will investigate it to the end. Unless, there is ironclad evidence that it really was just an accidental misfire! ”

"I believe in you."

……

This night, Wu Lei seemed to be trapped by some kind of unwillingness, he drank a lot of wine, and I was going to Taipei tomorrow to find Xiao Ai, so I stopped ordering and didn't drink too much.

Seeing that he was walking a little fluttery, I said to him with concern: "Wu Lei, I'll send you across the street, and stop the car for you, I think you're a little drunk!" ”

"I'm fine, my house isn't far from here...... It's a short walk away, so it's just a good time to take a walk and think about something. ”

After Wu Lei finished speaking, he took away the hand I was holding him, and then walked along the sidewalk to the opposite street, and I turned around and prepared to leave.

At this moment, a piercing brake sounded, followed by a thrilling collision, and when I turned my head, Wu Lei had already collapsed in a pool of blood. About ten meters away from him, there was a black Accord, the headlights had been shattered, and the airbags in the front seat had all popped out.

With everyone's horrified expressions, the world seemed even darker...... And none of those passing cars stopped, and after they bypassed Wu Lei's side, they sped up their speed, as if they were glad that this qiē at this moment had nothing to do with them!