Chapter 1 Redeem the merit and receive the entrustment
After a long time, a strange man's voice came from the other side of the radio: "You have indeed helped me a lot to catch this traitor this time, so we will also take credit for the account you helped him escape before, and we will not blame the past." However, I hope that you will be able to forget all that you have been through. The other party stopped at this point, as if waiting for our answer, but Wei Kai held my hand and signaled me not to speak yet.
Not long after, the other party's voice came again: "I know you should be a private detective or something, but I don't want to have much to do with you, although the explosion you made before helped me a lot, but I think the reason why you talk like this is because this matter itself is more beneficial to you." I was just lucky enough to take advantage of it, so I don't owe you anything, and I don't want to lead the battle between you and them to myself, so I'm even less likely to cooperate with you. After this incident, we will be strangers to you, and we will not collect any more information about me, because we have no conflict of interest for the time being, and although we cannot be friends, we do not need to be enemies. So stopping all meaningless investigations and treating it as if nothing had happened, is a good choice for you and me, after all, I have just gotten the handle of your participation in the bombing, as long as you stop all actions that are unfavorable to me, I can also act as if I didn't hear anything just now. What do you think? Although the other party seemed to be asking for our opinion, the slightly forced tone did not give us a chance to deny it at all.
Wei Kai didn't answer, but tinkered with the radio for a long time, and finally turned him off. "Aren't you going to promise him?" I looked at Wei Kai, and the corners of my mouth were just as sarcastic as his.
"I hate promises the most, or what if I promise him now that there is no chance of a comeback in the future?" Wei Kai turned off the fire and motioned for me to get out of the car.
"What about the boss?" I got out of the car, suddenly worried about the Boss's safety, if they really wanted to find out where we were. It will be necessary to find out the interpersonal relationships around us, especially Jin Hao and Zheng Min now have stable social relations, this kind of enemy is on the record, and we are very unfavorable for investigation in Mingke.
"Don't worry." Seeing that I was worried, Wei Kai put his hand directly on my head, they can be so many years longer, it shows that the two of them have quite good coping skills, instead of worrying about them, it is better to think about how we will go back today, now that there is no car, and in the territory of your little lover, we are in danger of being discovered by your new boyfriend at any time, don't think about it anymore when you take the bus, you will definitely meet acquaintances. We can't really walk back, can we? ”
I glanced at Wei Kai: "If you don't mention him, can't you stand it?" I really doubt if I've been in a relationship with him, or if you've been in a relationship with him, and I like to mention him more than I do. ”
"Don't wronged me, I'm telling the truth." Wei Kai looked around, as if he wanted to take me away by taxi. But the tone of his voice is like a full secondary two teenager.
I sighed, not wanting to be angry with this secondary two boy anymore, so I pulled him across the road. "Hey, there's a police station, you, are you really going to hand me over to Li Jing?" Looking at the direction I was heading, Wei Kai panicked in an instant, and even his words became stumbling.
I sneered and rolled my eyes: "You are also afraid, don't worry, now is not the time to arrest you." There is a branch of the training school next to this road, and you can go through another alley from the inside, and you can completely get away from here without being noticed by following me through a few more alleys. ”
"Aren't you going to sell me then?" Wei Kai muttered quietly, then raised his head as if he had thought of something and said, "What if someone you know is also taking classes here?" Wei Kai knew that he had misunderstood me, so he stiffened his neck and argued with me.
I glanced at him helplessly and pointed to the signboard of the training school, which read: "Who do you think will know me?" ”
Wei Kai stuck out his tongue and stopped talking.
"This is the path I found on my own." Walking through the school, I saw that the atmosphere was too dull and found a topic to talk about.
"Huh?" Wei Kai looked at me suspiciously.
"Ah, don't get me wrong." I was afraid that Wei Kai would be confused and hurriedly explained, "But I don't know Wei Kai yet." Didn't I just graduate when I first started to lose my memory? Because my body has not recovered well, and I have missed the recruitment of fresh graduates from major companies to colleges and universities, I have not gone to work for the time being. But fortunately, I accidentally found this training school in the newspaper that was recruiting part-time jobs, so I thought about giving it a try, and I really applied for it, but I didn't want to be a teacher, you know that my level is limited, and I am suitable for their positions like class teachers and life teachers. In fact, it is not a strict life teacher, there are some repeat students living in this training school, and I am responsible for their evening self-study, watching them do their homework and memorize words, answer questions and so on. There are two teachers like me in the whole class, one is in charge of literature and one is in charge of science, and I am in charge of liberal arts, in fact, I am staring at their endorsement, which is very simple, so I take care of their lives, such as ordering meals or something. At that time, it was almost 10 o'clock after work, and if you had to walk for a long time on the main road, or if you had to reverse the bus, it would not only be inconvenient but also not able to catch the last train. Later, when I came to the school early, I walked around and saw a shortcut from the back door of the school to the residential area and then to another block, which was much more convenient, and there was a late bus in that block, so I didn't have to worry about not catching the bus. I laughed when I remembered that I felt a special sense of satisfaction at that time, "Haha, but you have to hurry up when you get off work, the back door of the school is locked on time at 10 o'clock every day, and if you can't get out of the back door in time, you have to take a detour or take a taxi." ”
"You've been working hard, too." Wei Kai suddenly spoke.
I looked at him, and there was more pity in his eyes. I hurriedly shook my head: "It's not hard, it's not hard at all compared to what you have been secretly entrusting while protecting me all these years." ”
Wei Kai suddenly bent down slightly and looked me in the eye: "But you also gave a lot, that disaster gave each of us a lot of suffering, but we all overcame him and stood up strong, didn't we?" We all fought desperately to survive, no matter how it went. So don't feel that we are the only ones who have been wronged and that life is also unfair to you. Okay, don't be upset, laugh and see. Saying that, Wei Kai pulled my cheek and raised the corners of my mouth, and then suddenly lowered his hand with a pout and pretended to be disgusted, "The mouth is so big." ”
"Nasty." I pretended to be angry and hit him, and finally figured out something, after all, the past is in the past, instead of clinging to the guilt of the past and desperately trying to make amends, it is better to commit the obsession in my heart and try to take them to a better life. I will not regret the disappearance of my past, after all, life is full of all kinds of regrets, I will only cherish every day with you in the future, so that this regret will happen less often.
After several tosses, Wei Kai and I finally returned to our old family. Seeing me and Wei Kai appear at the door at the same time, the boss didn't show any surprised expression on their faces.
When Wei Kai and I sat down on the sofa, the boss asked how we were working together, I waved my hand to show that I was too tired to speak, and Wei Kai chose to close his eyes, pretending not to see the boss's inquiring eyes.
"They all rejected our questions in unison, and it seems that the cooperation is good." Zheng Min said to the boss, and the boss made a grimace after hearing this.
"Reporter Zhengda, the wording is seriously wrong." I corrected, "It's not appropriate for the bad guys who smell like each other to collude and use me." After a few minutes of slumping on the couch, I finally had the strength to retort.
Zheng Min raised his left eyebrow, "So it's the best way to describe the two of you!" You're not a good person anyway. Hehe. ”
"You." I couldn't refute what I said, and I cried silently in my heart.
"Alright, alright." The boss came out to play a round, "You two have rested enough, just wash your hands and come over to eat." Eating is a sacred thing, and the piety of food should not be desecrated. ”
I glanced at Wei Kai, who was slumped on the other side of the sofa, he first sensed my gaze, and suddenly jumped up from the sofa: "Eat, eat." He stretched and beckoned me to go to the table.
While we were washing our hands and sitting down at the table to eat, we reported to you all the progress of the commission.
"Looks like you've lost money." After listening to our report, Jin Hao summed up with a blank face, which reminded me of the domineering president I was familiar with when I lost my memory a few days ago.
I buried my head in eating, and after seeing the way I trained people with a cold face, I decided not to mess with him for the time being. Wei Kai, who was sitting next to me, had no choice but to stammer: "Yes, sort of." I didn't think about it that much, I thought it would. ”
"What do you mean?" Jin Hao interrupted Wei Kai's defense: "Think it's science? ”
Wei Kai stopped talking, I only dared to stare at the rice bowl in front of me for a while, and I didn't want to raise my head to attract the firepower to me, although I was sorry for Wei Kai in my heart, but I didn't want to let myself become cannon fodder.
The atmosphere at the dinner table was so awkward, only Zheng Min looked at the two of us with a gloating expression on the corner of his mouth.
In the end, I couldn't stand the low pressure anymore, and I threw my eyes for help to the boss. The boss may not be able to stand it anymore, so he poked Jin Hao's arm: "Just say a few words, it's good to come back safely, it's a big deal to find a way to make up for them." ”
I looked at the boss gratefully, but apparently Jin Hao didn't pay much attention to the boss's intercession, but turned his gaze directly to me and asked a little angrily: "Zhu Xiaozhi, I didn't get a penny of the follow-up money for the commission this time, right?" ”
It's over, calling me by name and surname, it seems that the two of us are really angry. I shook my head tremblingly, and quickly looked at the boss hoping that he would continue to speak for me, but the boss just looked at me helplessly, and didn't particularly help.
"Well, there will be more commissions in the future. We'll just earn the money back then. "I wanted to change the subject.
Jin Hao snorted and looked at Wei Kai: "Then how do you settle the bill for the person you hired to do the preliminary investigation this time, don't tell me to eat the old book." Jin Hao simply put down his chopsticks and looked at the two of us.
"What about eating, you said that you should be pious when eating, what are you doing throwing chopsticks?" In the end, the boss may have taken pity on us, or he may have hated Jin Hao's disobedience to table manners, and stopped us again when he was reprimanded by the sea until the two of us were speechless.
"You don't have to pay them, the people hired before are also Boss Wu's subordinates." Wei Kai lowered his head, and I couldn't see the expression on his face.
I knew he was guilty of almost letting someone else kill me, so I quickly shook his arm and told him not to mind: "That just if, we didn't lose money." ”
At the mention of Boss Wu, the whole table fell silent. "He and his gang know where you live, right?" Jin Hao broke the silence.
Jin Hao nodded, and then immediately shook his head again: "He only knows where I live, but he doesn't know where you live, so it's safe here for the time being." And the boss of Boss Wu said that he didn't want to have anything to do with us, so don't worry about this being exposed. Wei Kai's face showed a rare sincerity, "I won't let them find you easily." ”
Jin Hao shook his head, and the expression on his face changed slightly: "I'm not worried about this, in short, you come back to live, and you can take care of each other later." After saying that, Jin Hao turned his face away.
But his words obviously made Wei Kai's eyes light up, and he confirmed with the boss with some disbelief: "Really? Can I stay with you? ”
The boss nodded: "Yes, I lived separately before, in order to divert the attention of others, and there are also reasons for you to enter the showbiz, we can't have too much contact with you, but now it's different, you better come back and live, you left there." Now you don't have to worry about everyone's privacy, and you can not only take care of each other, but also save unnecessary rent. ”
Wei Kai stared at the boss gratefully, his eyebrows crooked and he looked happy.
"But it doesn't mean that you can get away with the failure of this commission." Jin Hao called a basin of cold water to the atmosphere that was not easy to jubilate.
"Oh. What do you want to do? Wei Kai asked with a pout.
"There's a new commission, but it's dangerous, do you want to take it?" The boss knocked on the table, and Eleven we continued to eat.
"Next week, the publisher will send me to attend the meeting, and I don't have time." Zheng Min directly rejected the entrustment invitation.
Jin Hao also waved his hand and rejected the proposal: "I will start participating in a new project of one of the previous partners tomorrow, so I'm sorry I can't help this time." ”
As soon as I heard it, it was clear that the two of us would take this commission and redeem it. I glanced at Wei Kai with my peripheral vision, and he only nodded slightly, and I looked at the boss resignedly: "What commission?" ”
The boss just wordlessly pointed to the dining table and motioned for us to finish our meal first.
After eating, Wei Kai and I walked into the boss's house, and the boss just confirmed the situation in his current circle with Wei Kai, and after checking the potential threats with him, he talked to him about the details of the several houses he is renting now, and then gave us a brown paper document bag: "This is the commission inside." ”
When we hesitated whether to go out and open it or open it immediately, the boss spoke again: "It's really a special coincidence, you just said that when you passed by the school, I almost called out at the dinner table, and I felt that no matter what, this time the commission will be entrusted to you to do." Although you may metabolize your own subjective bias to look at this issue, it is all coincidental to this point, and it is not appropriate for me to hand it over to someone else. This time, the client used to be a student you taught. ”
"Huh?" I looked at the boss in amazement, "Which training school are you referring to?" ”
The boss nodded: "Specifically, it's not the student, but the student's parents." ”
"Something happened to that student?" After all, it was a student who had taught, and when I heard about it, no one would believe it if I wasn't worried, but I remember that although I only took one repeat student, but in my impression they were all well-behaved, cute and motivated good children, even if I was occasionally a little anxious emotionally because of the previous failure, but the whole year of contact made me red-eyed when I was about to leave, and finally those children got good results in the second year of the exam. After they went to their favorite schools and had their own lives, they slowly lost contact. Seeing each other again, but because of the commission, I can't help but sigh a little.
The boss's hand shook in front of my eyes: "Don't think about it. Your student is doing well right now. It was his cousin who had a problem. ”
"Cousin?" I was secretly relieved to hear that it wasn't my student, but I still didn't recover from my bad mood when I thought of what had happened to his family.
"Maybe you know who I'm talking about? Do you remember when you had a student who always gave you a headache? The Boss asked.
I thought about it, and suddenly I thought of the child who smiled sweetly, but always had a sad face because of the previous college entrance examination failure. "You mean Smiley-Eyed Sister?"
The Boss nodded. Sister Smiley is the nickname I gave to the child, because when the child laughs, his eyes always squint into two curved moons, emitting a soft glow. The real name of the smiling sister is Lin Zhenzhen, because her parents are not at home all the year round, she usually stays at her uncle's house. In order not to spend too much time on the way to and from school, she chose to live in the school.
She is usually very well-behaved, but in the first two months of her arrival, she often cried in the corner of the school that was empty, and because she was a student in the class I led, I couldn't let her consume her will even if I was afraid of trouble. After a few exchanges, I realized that she was unwilling to accept the embarrassment that she was only a few points away from reaching the admission score of her favorite school. In the end, as time went by, her unwillingness gradually wore away, and slowly in addition to her depressed expression, she gradually regained her fighting spirit. As for her brother, I remember seeing a little boy from afar when her aunt picked her up on the weekend. When I sent Lin Zhen to the door, the little boy looked shy, and when he saw the living person, he hid behind his mother. I remember that boy looked like he was in elementary school, so he should be preparing for college now, right?
Thinking of this, I looked at the boss and asked, "What's wrong with his brother?" ”
"Drug use." The boss's expression looked serious, "And now that he has run away from home, his family can't contact him." ”
I was shocked and stared at the boss incredulously: "Are you sure? ”
The boss nodded: "I have confirmed with his family." ”
"Family?" I was a little surprised by the boss's description, "Does it mean his parents or?" ”
"There's no way his parents could have done this with me." The boss closed his eyes as he spoke, a look of compassion on his face.
I had a bad conjecture, and stared at the boss with some hesitation and horror, hoping that he would deny my conjecture. But the boss nodded in surprise: "That's right, his parents have passed away." After his father died three years ago, his mother walked to a construction site in a trance, was injured by steel bars, and was not saved on the way to the hospital. This is what Lin Zhenzhen's mother told me. After her uncle and aunt left, Lin Zhenzhen's parents took her younger brother into their home, because when Lin Zhenzhen was young, she was almost single-handedly brought up by her uncle and aunt, so in return, after they left, they began to take care of the child. However, it may be that the death of both parents hit the child too hard, and it happened at the time of her brother's adolescence, so her brother became rebellious. You know, the words that a bear child says when he is not sensible may be more hurtful than many adults, and often make fun of the death of his parents, which makes him feel extremely anxious and becomes more and more rebellious. At first, it was just a fight and trouble, but after making some friends in society, I often didn't go home and stayed outside. Every time I looked for him, I came back covered with wounds, and the place where I found him later was also in some mixed places. Just last week, Lin's parents spotted him next to a group of people who were in a trance, and then asked him if he had done the same thing. The child never said that they had no right to keep her brother in custody, so they could only take her brother to the hospital for examination, and it was at that time that her brother escaped, and there is no news to this day. The boss lowered his eyes regretfully.
"But this alone has no way to prove that her brother has really done something wrong, only that his cousin is now in great danger." I couldn't believe that the gentle, shy child who would pick up her sister home could not have fallen into such a bad habit.
The Boss nodded, "So now you need to find him and stop him from falling deeper and deeper." (To be continued.) )