When I came out of prison, it was almost noon.

During the half-hour journey back to Changshan City, Zhu Jinchuan's face was gloomy, and he didn't want to say a word, so Ling Li also consciously zipped up his mouth, and the two of them remained silent.

Ling Li secretly glanced at Zhu Jinchuan, who was concentrating on driving.

She doesn't like to talk much, and it's also because of her personality, but Zhu Jinchuan is obviously able to speak well, in the inquiry with Qin Xinghai just now, he didn't talk too much, but he was kind and seductive, and he could speak in a few words Qin Xinghai's eyes lit up, and his conversation skills were super superb, but he could hold back his words to the extent that he only said two or three words to her in the same car for five hours, and it seemed that he really hated her.

Thinking of this, Ling Li was a little self-deprecating, wishing the big Chrysostom was naturally born to coax the parties, and talking to her as a rookie can't get a name or profit, so naturally cherish words like gold.

When he arrived in the city, Zhu Jinchuan parked his car in front of a specialty store and took the initiative to ask her, "Do you want to buy some special products to go back?" Changshan's fruits and tartary buckwheat tea are good. ”

Ling Li was in a fugue, and when he heard him say this, he turned his head in some surprise and shook his head again: "Don't buy it." ”

Now Taobao is extremely convenient, and it is a waste of resources to move back some special products that can be delivered directly by placing an order online and waiting for the courier's little brother to deliver them.

Zhu Jinchuan didn't persuade her much, left Ling Li alone in the car, and went to the store to buy a lot of fruits, as well as some gift box packaging, and threw them into the trunk of the car.

Then, he knocked on her car window again and said, "Come down, have lunch and then leave, and go directly to the capital." ”

For lunch, there is a small shop on the side of the road, which sells Changshan's specialty mutton rice noodles.

The shop is shabby, but it tastes really good, with thin white rice noodles dipped in a white and delicious mutton broth, and thin slices of lamb and chopped green onions and coriander floating on the noodles.

Not only does it look good, but it tastes good. The mutton is not fishy, fat and tender, the soup is thick and mellow, the rice noodles are also very chewy, if the clear soup is a little greasy, you can also add some millet pepper, or let the boss come to a few slices of sour cabbage to relieve greasy.

Ling Li had been hungry for most of the day, and the fragrant smell made her drool, and when the boss brought the bowl, she was busy lowering her head to eat. Not only did a small bowl of rice noodles finish quickly, but even the soup was gone, and as the food went down, the heat traveled to her limbs, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on the tip of her forehead and nose.

After eating it all, she realized that it was very indecent for her to eat just now, and she didn't know if it would attract Zhu Daxiang's cold eyes again.

When she raised her head anxiously, she realized that Zhu Jinchuan was no longer at the table, but standing under a big tree outside the hotel, with a cigarette between his fingers, looking up at the lush canopy above his head.

In a subtropical climate area like Changshan, the four seasons are like spring, even in winter, the daytime temperature is basically above 15 degrees, and the roadside trees are lush all year round, covering the sky and the sun.

Ling Li took out a tissue, carefully cleaned the corners of her mouth and fingers stained with oil, brushed her hair again, took out a small mirror and carefully observed that there were indeed no slots, before she came out of the store, stood beside Zhu Jinchuan, and shouted with low eyebrows: "Director Zhu." ”

Zhu Jinchuan turned his head to look at her, then looked back at the table of the shop, and asked, "Finished eating?" Is one bowl enough? ”

Ling Li thought of the bowl that she had eaten cleanly, and nodded a little weakly.

However, Zhu Jinchuan didn't make a fuss about her food, and only said lightly: "Rest for a few minutes and leave." ”

Ling Li nodded, suddenly remembering what he said to Qin Xinghai in prison just now, he couldn't help but be curious, and asked for a while: "What did you mean by the so-called time, place, and people?" ”

Zhu Jinchuan pursed his thin lips, with a hint of a smile in his eyes: "First, from the perspective of timing, in the past two years, major unjust, false and wrongly decided cases have surfaced every year, and the defendant's long-term appeal cases, from the central to the local, have paid unprecedented attention, this is the time of day;

Second, judging from the situation in Funan, the new president of the Provincial High Court is a typical scholar-type judge, a hardliner, and the court style under his leadership has also been a lot tougher.

As for the people, I'll sell it first, and when that day comes, you'll naturally know. ”

Ling Li didn't understand what she heard, but although she was full of doubts, seeing that Zhu Jinchuan didn't want to say deeply, she closed her mouth knowingly and stood silently.

Zhu Jinchuan took a sip of his cigarette, and suddenly looked up at the shade of the tree on the top, and his voice was slow and distant: "Do you know, what kind of tree is this?" ”

This question made Ling Li a little stunned. What's going on? Isn't this kind of thing about popular science plant species the style of Nanzhiyi? How did you get to Zhu Dazhuo?

Although she was confused, she still answered honestly: "I don't know." ”

Zhu Jinchuan lowered his eyes and said softly: "This is the jacaranda, a famous landscape tree, but this tree likes a warm climate, only in the subtropical places in China, there are not many places to plant, and it is even more rare to see it." ”

Seeing the nostalgic expression on Zhu Jinchuan's face, Ling Li was even more confused. How do you look at it, Zhu Jinchuan is not like a person who likes to gossip, how could he suddenly talk to her about trees?

He took a deep breath of his cigarette, slowly exhaled the smoke, and continued: "Both sides of this road are full of jacarandas, which bloom in April and May every year, and bloom in a blue-purple landscape, like a dreamy fairyland. When the wind blows, the petals fall gently, and the ground is full of fine pieces of purple, which is very beautiful. ”

Ling Li quietly took a look at the jacaranda in his mobile phone, and when he saw the shape of the flowering, he suddenly yearned for the scene described in his words, imagining what a beautiful scene it would be for the slender branches covered with purple like clouds.

She was still in a fugue, Zhu Jinchuan suddenly turned his head, and his eyes flashed with a glimmer: "Do you know, what is the flower language of jacaranda?" ”

Ling Li shook her head in a daze, still wondering in her heart, why is a serious person like him associated with romantic flower language?

Moreover, Zhu Jinchuan never does things without a purpose, he asked her such an unpopular thing, which one is this singing?

After a few seconds, Zhu Jinchuan sighed slightly and said slowly: "The flower language of jacaranda is to wait for love in despair. ”

She was stunned for a moment, and replied, "Huh? ”

Waiting for love in despair, what kind of GUI is this? Is Zhu Dazhu describing his own state of mind?

But why did you say this to her? She is not a confidant eldest sister, but she can still listen to the middle-aged with facial paralysis talk about her love life, how should she answer this?

Could it be that she should enlighten and enlighten Zhu Jinchuan, and hypocritically say "It's okay, there is always such a person waiting for you", or simply say honestly, "Don't wait, continue to despair"?

Ling Li couldn't help but think about it for a while, and always felt that this matter was a little strange.

Zhu Jinchuan suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said, "In other words, this flower is also called the flower of a single dog." You stand here like this, and you are a match for this tree. ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Ling Li anymore, lowered his head and pinched the cigarette in his hand, and walked straight to the car parked on the side of the road.

When he got into the car and closed the door, he poked his head out of the window and shouted to Ling Li, who was standing still: "Get in the car, go, do you really want to stay here and wait for the flowers to bloom?" ”

Then came a soft, but pleasant laugh.

Ling Li looked down at his blue-purple coat, thought about what Zhu Jinchuan said just now, and finally understood, and his eyes widened suddenly.

Zhu Jinchuan is this, is this joking with her?

The corners of her eyes twitched again, and Zhu Daxiang's joke with no beginning and no end was so cold that she didn't even have the mood to laugh dryly.

She rolled her eyes, silently spit out in her heart, and followed Zhu Jinchuan into the car.

The car drove along the main road in Changshan city for more than ten minutes, and it didn't take long to drive on the ring highway and drive out of the city.

This time out of the city, it is to go from the subtropical zone to the temperate zone, and rush back to the capital directly.

Zhu Jinchuan, who was still in the mood to make fun of her just now, had a gloomy face for a while, his eyes were looking straight ahead, and he had a thick aura of "don't approach the living".

Ling Li couldn't help but slander, this person is too difficult to serve, and the next journey is afraid that he will have to open the five-hour administrator ban mode, which is really boring. So, he simply closed his eyes and leaned against the car door, silently pretending to be asleep.

As the body swayed, she pretended to be really sleepy. When she awoke from a short sleep, she found that she had passed through the tunnel that seemed to separate the plain from the mountains, and the car had once again entered the mountains.

The sky was a little overcast, and the clouds were getting thicker and thicker. Zhu Jinchuan's face also became darker and darker.

Ling Li cautiously glanced at him sideways, and then silently shrunk her neck, for fear of causing Zhu Daxiang, who was in a bad mood, to retaliate against her.

It's just that within a few minutes, Ling Li knew what his solemn face was for.

Once you pass the tunnel, the elevation begins to rise and the snow falls. Gradually, it actually fell and sprinkled with salt to cover the sky.

The road was slippery and a little icy, and even though Zhu Jinchuan's off-road vehicle had a four-wheel drive mode, it began to slip a little, and he had to reduce his speed.

"In this weather, I'm afraid the distance will increase by at least a few hours, be mentally prepared, and you may only be able to reach the capital at night."

Zhu Jinchuan glanced at the speed of forty kilometers per hour on the dashboard, and the expression on his face was also a little irritated.

Ling Li honestly said "oh", she didn't dare to express her opinion, let alone complain, even if she wanted to get rid of the low pressure around Zhu Daxiang as soon as possible, but the sky was not beautiful, what could she do?

As the snow became heavier and heavier, Ling Li's heart couldn't help but sink.

By the time she arrived at Bodhisattva Gang, the service area where she had stayed, in just one day, it had become a world covered in snow.

Several centimeters of snow had been piled up on the eaves, which looked white and soft, and the branches of the trees by the roadside were also covered with snow, and occasionally a gust of wind blew, swaying and falling a layer, and it was not long before it was covered again.

Snow rarely falls, even in the so-called cold winter affected by the El Niño phenomenon, in the coldest days, at most a light and thin light snow comforts the people who are looking forward to it, and the snowdrop-like snowflakes turn into water when they fall to the ground, and rarely accumulate them.

She had never seen such a heavy snow of feathers falling from the sky before.

Zhu Jinchuan parked the car in the parking lot of the service area and said to Ling Li: "Go to the bathroom, the next service area is more than forty kilometers, and this ghost weather may not be able to arrive when." ”

Ling Li nodded and opened the car door, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, he was dismounted by the low temperature below zero outside the car.

She got out of the car tremblingly, tightened her thin coat, and cautiously walked to the bathroom more than ten meters away, regretting that she should have worn thicker.