It was another breezy day, another sweltering afternoon, and although it was close to dusk when the outside temperature was close to 40 degrees Celsius, the area around Upper East City's Second Beach was still crowded, and as far as the eye could see, the entire beach was crowded with people, like canned sardines.

At this time, under the umbrella of a cold drink stall near the highway at the barrage dam of the beach, a short-haired young Asian man of medium stature and average height, wearing dark sunglasses, jade pendant, orange short-sleeved T-shirt, khaki shorts, and brown leather sandals was standing in the shade under the parasol, licking a popsicle in one hand and flipping through the screen with his mobile phone in the other, as if looking for a number.

Soon, he seemed to have found the number he needed in his mobile phone, and immediately dialed it, and it didn't take long for the call to be connected.

"Hello? Is it Sheriff Black Cat? Yes, I'm one ear. The man said softly, "I went to the cold drink stand you said at the second beach, why didn't I see you, where are you?" What the? Do you see me? In front of me on the right? A flashing black run? ”

Speaking of this, the man looked up to the right front, and sure enough, he saw a black Zhipao SUV less than fifty meters away, flashing warning lights.

"I see, it's over." After the man finished speaking, he hung up the phone, put it in his pants pocket, and then looked at the popsicles that had not eaten a lot, hesitated slightly, and simply ate most of them in three or two bites, and then threw the few remaining popsicles into the trash bin next to him, and slowly ran towards the black wisdom.

Soon, the man walked to the driver's seat next to the car, and looked inside, and there was a short-haired beauty wearing a gray short-sleeved sweatshirt sitting in the driver's seat where the window had been lowered.

Delicate facial features, snow-white skin, heroic eyebrows, and that calm look...... That's right, exactly like in the photos.

As if she found the man looking at herself, the woman frowned slightly, and then lowered the window: "You have one ear?" ”

"It's like a fake!" The man took off his sunglasses and inserted them into his pocket, and then he smiled a little unnaturally, "What? Am I so bad as in the photo? ”

"Hmm." The woman nodded, then looked the man up and down, and finally stopped at the amber pendant around his neck, "The pendant is good, people...... Fair. ”

"Thank you for the compliment, I'm deeply honored to be able to say so-so with a beauty like you." The man smiled, "As for this pendant, I bought it at a roadside stall in the night market before, and it's not expensive, it's only twenty yuan, if you like it, I'll give it to you." ”

"Just kidding, don't mind, although you're not a handsome guy, you have a good smile, and you look pretty reliable." The woman smiled slightly, tilted her head to the passenger seat, "Let's get in the car first, get in the car and say, it's hot outside." ”

"Okay." The man nodded, then turned to the passenger seat, pulled the door and got into the car.

After the man sat down in the passenger seat, he stretched out his right hand and said with a smile: "Hello, Sheriff Black Cat, I am one ear, meet for the first time, come, shake hands, I wish us a successful cooperation." ”

"I'm not busy with this one yet." The short-haired woman turned her head to look at him, "First of all, let me introduce myself, I'm a police officer, a criminal policeman." ”

"Huh?" The man was stunned, then nodded, "Oh." ”

"What I said is true, aren't you afraid?" The woman squinted slightly, staring at the man's eyes.

"Why am I afraid?" The man wondered.

"Generally, when a scammer encounters a policeman, he will subconsciously be afraid of a weak heart." After the woman finished speaking, she suddenly took out a black document from her body and slapped it on the center console of the car, "This is my police officer ID, I didn't lie to you, it's really a police officer...... I mean, if you're a liar, you'd better explain it as soon as possible, then I don't bother to care about you, everyone will just act like they haven't seen anyone this time, and just disperse with each other. ”

"So you thought I was a liar." The man smiled slightly, and then took out an ID photo from his trouser pocket and gently placed it on the center console, "That, this is my ID card, I don't believe you can see it yourself." ”

glanced at the man, and the woman really took the ID card and looked at it carefully.

Finding that the other party began to look at the ID card, the man smiled slightly, took the police officer card, and looked at it himself.

Inside the police ID card is a simple ID card-like thing, with a photograph and a police officer number underneath.

"Wen Jing?"

"Cheng Yuan?"

After reading each other's names, the two looked at each other again, and then, the man named Cheng Yuan smiled and nodded, and the woman named Wen Jing looked back and forth at each other's appearance and the photo on the passport, and then nodded.

"At first glance, it doesn't look like a liar." Wen Jing returned her ID card to the other party.

"Do I look like a liar?" While receiving the ID card, Cheng Yuan returned the police officer card to the other party by the way, "Or is it your policeman's professional habit?" Always doubting everything? ”

"I can't talk about professional habits, it's just ......"

"Just what?"

"The information you registered with the matchmaking agency says that you are 1.8 meters." Wen Jing looked up and down, "I don't think you look like it, so ...... You know. ”

"Ahem, this question, uh......" Cheng Yuan touched his nose, "This, that...... I didn't mean to lie to you, yes, it was my friend who told me that filling in this kind of information should be slightly retouched, and it should be ...... Well, I did falsely report my height, it's my fault, but, although I don't have 1.8 meters, I'm also 1.76 meters, this is not too embarrassing, right? ”

"As you can see." Wen Jing said lightly, "I am one meter seven or eight tall, the same as the information registered, even if I only wear flat shoes, I am only a little taller than you." ”

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

"Okay, okay, height is a minor issue." Seeing Cheng Yuan's face flushed and starting to scratch his head, Wen Jing smiled slightly, not thinking much about herself, and said with a softened face, "It's me who spoke inappropriately, this, anyway, we are just pretending to be a couple, and we can help each other, and when we finish dealing with each other's families, we will go back to our own homes and do our own things, and we don't come to real, so it's okay to make do with it." ”

“……”

"I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing again, don't you mind." Wen Jing suddenly apologized, "I usually speak like this, I want to change it, but I can't change it...... Anyway, thank you, it's true. ”

"It's okay." Cheng Yuan smiled bitterly, "It's my information that is wrong first, and I deceive people first, and besides, if you say that you are helping each other, you don't have to thank me specifically." ”

Indeed, Cheng Yuan's meeting with this woman named Wen Jing this time was not a common meeting with netizens, or a blind date, just for a very simple but somewhat uncommon purpose - to find a temporary girlfriend to go back to the business.

Cheng Yuan is now twenty-seven years old, from the time he came to the Upper East City to start college, until he stayed and worked after graduation, he basically stayed in this city to live, counting, he has been in the Upper East for more than seven years.

More than seven years is not a short time, especially for a young person, it can almost be said to be the most golden years.

He only knows that although he lives in the big international city of Upper East City, he is not proud at all, and he is not like the protagonist of those legendary novels, what fame he has made, and what achievements he has made may be that he finally has a household registration in Upper East City recently, in short, he is an ordinary foreign landing household.

Because of the working environment, income level, family situation and his own surname and other factors, he has been single since he broke up with his ex-girlfriend the year before last, and he is a classic single otaku.

Originally, this was nothing, after all, he had been single for so long, he had passed the impulsive period, or that women's hunger and thirst were not serious, so he was not very eager to fall in love and get married, and he was not very interested, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with being single, at least he could be very free, and he didn't have to worry about his girlfriend's affairs.

But he thinks like this, it doesn't mean that others are like this, so since last year, he has always been nagged by his family about marriage, and he will be pulled back to his hometown to go on a blind date at every turn, but he can come and go, and the model of buying cabbage in the vegetable market has made him even more bored.

Since last Monday, I don't know if my mother has come to menopause, she calls him several times a day, and nagged about marriage in three sentences, which makes him very annoying. Then, last weekend, in order to make his mother's nagging a little less, he actually lied that he already had a girlfriend, so that they should not worry, and they should not take him on a blind date, but it was okay not to say this, as soon as he said this, the next day, that is, on Sunday, his mother suddenly came from his hometown and said that he had to see his girlfriend and check it, otherwise he would not leave.

There was no way, Cheng Yuan had no choice but to go to a matchmaking center under the staff of a friend, and said his requirements, wanting to find a temporary girlfriend to deal with the scene, but he didn't expect that there was really a similar service, and there happened to be a woman who had the same needs as himself, and this woman was Wen Jing.

That's how I met Wen Jing, and then chatted with each other through the QQ number of the marriage center's information, and everyone understood that each other's purpose was the same, and the other party was also unbearable for the family to urge marriage, and planned to find a temporary boyfriend to go home on a business trip, so they hit it off, and immediately planned to help each other, and deal with the parents of both parties first.

Of course, Cheng Yuan was also suspicious before, after all, it was his first time in this matter, plus the no-makeup photo of Wen Jing given by the matchmaking center, it was quite beautiful, it was said that such a beautiful girl would not have a boyfriend at the age of twenty-six, and it was said that she had never been in love, so she was quite suspicious of whether it was a liar, if he didn't think he had nothing to deceive, he really didn't plan to go.

But now that I came, I looked at the other party's real height, thought about the other party's identity, and added the surname Gelaipai that showed up soon after contact, so comprehensively, I suddenly felt that it was really reasonable for her to be single all the time - at least Cheng Yuan felt so.

"By the way, look at the information, are you doing IT?" Wen Jing suddenly asked again.

"Well, you could also say that." Cheng Yuan nodded, "But that's a modified name, in fact, I'm just a code farmer." ”

"Code farmer? What do you mean? ”

"It means that the working hours are long, there is no fixed holiday, there is no fixed rest, the income is not high, and they are just the lowest level of mechanical programming, that is, migrant workers in the IT industry."

"Oh, in this way, you don't have to be presumptuous, those IT giants heard that this is also the case."

"Hehe, yes." Cheng Yuan smiled faintly and stopped talking about this question, "By the way, you don't plan to discuss this with me in the car on the side of the road." ”

"That's right." Wen Jing nodded, "Then where do you go next?" ”

"Huh? What the? Cheng Yuan was stunned.

"I'm asking where to go next." Wen Jing swept her sideburns and continued, "Initially, you are okay, although it is a bit wooden, but at least it is quite pleasing to the eye and relatively honest, so I decided to cooperate with you." So then, shouldn't we find a place to sit down and have a good talk, such as getting to know each other better, and then talking about each other's family and other details, and then make a battle plan for each other's situation? ”

"Well, that's what I said." Cheng Yuan nodded, "I really have to find a place to talk." ”

"That's it, since I chose the time and place for this meeting, then I will let you choose the place to sit down and talk in detail." Wen Jing smiled slightly, "It's always fair, isn't it?" ”

"Huh." Cheng Yuan smiled indifferently, "Although you say so, to be honest, I'm not familiar with this area." ”

Speaking of this, he looked around, and then continued: "Don't look at me in this city for seven years, but I usually stay at home, and my usual range of activities is also near my home, this place, I know, but I haven't been here much, so it's really hard to say if you let me choose." ”

"It's okay, if you're not familiar with it, you can go to a place you think is familiar." Wen Jing patted the steering wheel, "Anyway, I'm already off work, I have time, where do you want to go, I'll send you." ”

"Still don't." Cheng Yuan smiled and shook his head, "The place where I live is full of people, it's not suitable for a beauty like you, it's better like this, I remember there is a floating restaurant near here?" I heard that it was an old cruise ship, but I had only heard about it before, and I had never been there, so since we were here, why don't we go there and give it a try? ”

"A restaurant on the water? You mean that water palace? ”

"Yes, yes, that's it." Cheng Yuan nodded, "I've seen it on group buying." ”

"That's a good idea." Wen Jing nodded, "But today is Friday, and it's already past five o'clock in the afternoon, usually at this time, the restaurant you mentioned is already overcrowded, and there is no place to find a seat to talk about, and it is not a good place to discuss things." Well, so be it, if you can trust me, why don't I take you somewhere? ”

"Oh?" Seeing Wen Jing's indifferent expression, Cheng Yuan smiled slightly, "Believe, of course you can trust it, if the police can't believe it, I really don't know who else to trust in this city." ”

"Since you say so, then let's go at once." Wen Jing smiled slightly, "Remember to fasten your seatbelt." ”