Chapter 1 Friends I haven't seen in a long time
Sister Zhu Mu went back to work without going home with me. "Aren't you going to sit at home? At least have a meal with me and my dad before leaving. I took her hand and coquettishly.
Sister Zhu Mu looked at me like an alien and asked, "And you still have an uncle?" ”
"Hmm." I nodded vigorously, "Let's have a meal together." ”
Sister Zhu Mu frowned slightly, she glanced at Li Jing and swallowed the words in her stomach. I think she has something to say to me, and she seems to have something to say to me these days, as if it has nothing to do with her case, but in the end she chose to remain silent. When I was about to get on the train and leave, she touched my head: "I need to get better soon." I looked at her suspiciously, why should I have said this to her, right? She ignored my doubts and turned to Li Jing: "Thank you for helping me find out the case, Xiaozhi, please take care of me in the future." Li Jing habitually frowned, and finally nodded solemnly. Sister Zhu Mu waved at us and stepped into the train. Watching her back disappear, I always felt that everything that happened during this time was so unreal.
"What do you think?" Li Jing patted me on the head.
"Nothing." I waved away the hand he had placed on top of my head, "But I originally wanted to take you to relax, but in the end, I bothered you to investigate the case." If it were someone else, I might still feel guilty, why don't you have it at all? ”
"If you can have a third of the intelligence and courage you had when you fought with me against the suspect next time, you wouldn't even dare to breathe." Li Jing's ridicule with me made me feel like punching him every time. What a nasty guy.
When we were still arguing, my mobile phone rang, it was a text message from a friend, it seems that there is a meal tonight, because my friend went to the field to develop after graduating from college, and rarely comes back except for business needs.
For dinner, we chose a small restaurant that I liked when I went to school, the shop was still a small one two years ago, and today I have rented the tobacco and alcohol shop next to it, and changed it to a chase room, but if you catch up with the meal, you still have to wait in line.
"It's still so lively." Friends sighed.
"yes. It was only when I came here that I felt that I had returned to the old days when I had no quarrels with the world, and I felt so satisfied when I thought about eating an extra ice cream at noon, and I was much happier than I am now. Listening to my friend's exclamation, I also remembered my student days, "I'm here to do business this time." ”
"Sort of, sort of." My friend smacked up.
It may be that I have been with Li Jing for too long, and I have become particularly sensitive to people's subtle expressions and reactions, and I can't help but put down my chopsticks and say, "How can I be so divided?" Is there something going on? ”
My friend shook his head and smiled reluctantly as if comforting me: "It's nothing, eat first." ”
Seeing that she was unwilling, I didn't ask any more questions, and the two of them finished dinner silently, and my friend went for a walk in the nearby street park. Maybe it's because of the rain today, there was no one in the park at night, and the feeling of purity reminded me of the days when I watched the stars on the playground in college, although there were few stars in the sky at that time, but the feeling of making a wish to the sky with a dream was something I never experienced since I left the campus.
"It's so quiet." I sighed, "As soon as I quieted down, it was easy to remember when we were in college, when you made a wish that you would build a machine that could help you with makeup." ”
After speaking, I heard my friend next to me laugh: "Now I don't need to be like that earlier, I have been in class for so many years, and I have learned to make up." It's you, it seems, you still have the same fantasy of being a superman as before. ”
"Huh?" I looked at her for some reason.
Under the street lamp, her skin showed a sense of transparency because of the perfect makeup, beautiful like glazed porcelain, I saw her slightly tilt her head to look at me: "I heard Zheng Min say that you are now working as an amateur detective with a doctor, saying that you once scolded the principal of other people's houses for some children's things." ”
"How can that be called a child's thing, it's a social problem." I muttered dissatisfiedly, and added to emphasize it: "Very strict zhòng social issues." ”
My friend looked at my angry appearance, but changed the melancholy just now and laughed: "Our Xiaozhi has really not changed at all as everyone said." After arguing with me for a while, my friend's expression suddenly became stern, and she held my hand and pleaded: "Xiaozhi, can you do me a favor?" You must promise me. ”
Her attitude suddenly made me feel at a loss, and I remembered my friend's hesitation at dinner, and in my panic I could only nod my head in agreement: "Okay, okay." What's going on? ”
Someone saw that I agreed, and breathed a sigh of relief, before slowly saying, "Can you take me to meet the doctor who is your partner?" ”
"Li Jing?" I looked at my friend curiously, "Are you sick?" ”
The friend nodded: "Yes." It's a heart disease, a very strict heart disease. ”
I originally wanted my friend to see a psychiatrist, but seeing that she looked like she had to find Li Jing, the words that came to my mouth made me swallow it back.
After work the next afternoon, I took Li Jing and my friends to a Sichuan restaurant near the hospital, and after ordering Mao Xuewang and Mao Cai, I remembered that I hadn't made a formal introduction to the two of them. "Li Jing, this is my good friend Luo Ying from college, she said yesterday that she wanted to ask you for help with something."
Compared with the enthusiasm of those boys I have seen before for Luo Ying, who used to be the school flower, Li Jing just nodded almost coldly and said hello, and sometimes I can't help but recall whether the Li Jing who took the initiative to invite me to dinner when I met Li Jing for the first time is another personality of the indifferent Li Jing now. I laughed inwardly at my imagination and pulled my thoughts back to the table. Luo Ying snorted and didn't know what to say, so I had to ask for help: "By the way, Luo Ying, what did you say yesterday to ask Li Jing to help?" ”
As soon as Luo Ying wanted to speak, Li Jing stopped her: "Let's finish the meal quietly first, and then talk about what she wants to say, otherwise you will waste this pot of Mao Xuewang, which is just right." ”
Luo Ying may not have received such treatment, she was a little bored for a while, turned her head to look at me for help, I patted her: "Don't ignore him, he is the kind of conceited man in the world who only himself and food can't live up to, I'll talk about it after eating in a while." ”
Li Jing glared at me across from me and began to pick up the dishes. The atmosphere was softened by the delicious dinner, and Luo Ying began to talk about the pastries in her hometown: "It's rare to eat such authentic Sichuan cuisine." ”
"But I feel like my tongue is numb." I made a crying expression, and although it tasted good, my tongue was really uncomfortable.
"That's what my grandfather cooked in Sichuan. If you can't get used to this heavy taste next time, you must remember to ask her to put less peppercorns on you. But this hemp is just right for me, I'm a person who even eats hot pot with a lot of sesame oil. "Compared to me and Li Jing's flushed faces, Luo Ying didn't react at all. Luo Ying saw that the two of us were about to die, so she beckoned the waiter to send us glutinous rice cakes, and then sat on the side and stared at us with a funny face.
"How did you find this store?" After Li Jing eased up, he wiped the spicy tears and complained to me with a smile.
"I just read the rave reviews on the Internet, saying that it was very authentic and decided to come here to eat, how did I know that this place would be so authentic!" I'm almost unconscious of my tongue by now, okay?
After the lively meal, and there was no longer any embarrassment between the three of us, we decided to go to a nearby café to explain Luo Ying's affairs clearly. Following the principle that you can't drink coffee at night, the three of us ordered juice to drink. Drinking juice in the café, I think the clerk must have thought we were crazy, but maybe it was because there were not many people at night, the waiter sitting at the bar was just lazily nestled in his chair and squinting, and when a customer asked him for something, he would half-open his eyes and hand over the candy or stirring spoon that the customer wanted.
"Say, what do you need me to help me ask Xiaozhi to find?" Li Jing finally began to care about Luo Ying's troubles.
Luo Ying waved her hand: "Actually, it's not a big deal, I want you to help me find a friend." ”
"This should be more appropriate to the police, right? Or go on the radio and post a missing person notice? Li Jing turned the glass in his hand, and the blue translucent liquid in the cup drew a beautiful arc with the rotation of the cup.
"I can't let anyone know I'm looking for him." Luo Ying pursed her lips, "Actually, I know where he is." ”
"Then you go to him yourself, what do you want Li Jing to do?" Regarding Luo Ying's inconsistent words, I really can't understand what she wants to express now.
Luo Ying looked at me embarrassed: "Xiaozhi, do you remember Peng Wen?" ”
Hearing this name, my eyes instantly widened: "You, what are you looking for him?" Isn't that man bad enough for you? Do you know where he is, you, are you crazy? ”
Luo Ying knew that I was angry, so she didn't bother with me, she just looked at Li Jing and said embarrassedly: "Xiaozhi's current state is normal, if you understand what happened before, you will especially understand why Xiaozhi was angry at me just now." But I still hope that you will help him no matter what the situation. I told you to go to him in the hope that you could help him solve some problems for me. ”
"Help him?" Li Jing and I said in unison, I was just about to lose my temper, Li Jing stopped me and said softly: "Xiaozhi, you first listen to what your friend needs us to do, and then lose your temper." I leaned back on the couch seat in the café angrily, angrily ignoring them, but I still kept an ear to find out why Luo Ying was looking for Li Jing to help the man who had hurt her deeply.