When Hui Zhonghui woke up, it was already 1 a.m. the next day, and his dizziness after a hangover made it difficult for him to distinguish his environment for a while. Xu Zhonghui lifted the military coat covering his body, struggled to sit up from the bench, rubbed his eyes, and then raised his head and tried to observe the things around him in the dim light.

"Oh, you're awake? But it's enough to sleep. ”

Xu Zhonghui squinted his eyes at the source of the voice, and saw a man in uniform standing up from his seat in the reception window inlaid with huge glass. With a "click", the uniformed man opened the door on one side and walked out inside.

"This is the police station?" Xu Zhonghui saw the place he was in clearly through the light from the reception window, which was the only light source in the entire case reception hall, and asked in surprise, "Why am I at the police station?" ”

"Do you remember what happened before?" The man in uniform did not answer the rhetorical question.

Although he was not yet fully conscious, Xu Zhonghui remembered what he had done in the afternoon, because he had drunk a lot of red wine, and he was feeling thirsty at this time.

"Comrade policeman, can you give me a glass of water?"

Hearing this, the uniformed man stopped his progress and walked towards the other side of the hall, where a water dispenser was placed. The man in uniform took out a disposable water cup from the locker under the water dispenser, took half a cup of hot water from the water dispenser's water outlet, and mixed it with some cold water, and then walked towards Xu Zhonghui again.

"Thank you." Xu Zhonghui took the water cup from the uniformed man and drank it all, "Can you pour me another glass?" However, in the middle of the conversation, the hand handing the water cup stopped in mid-air, "Have we met?" ”

"Well, it looks like I'm awake this time." The man in uniform took the water cup and went to pour Xu Zhonghui another glass of water, "My name is Ge Bin, I am Anxin's high school classmate, we met outside Anjia's villa yesterday afternoon. ”

Xu Zhonghui was silent, just staring at the back of Ge Bin pouring water in a daze.

Ge Bin returned to him with a glass of water and looked at him with extremely complicated eyes: "There is a good saying, 'borrow wine to drown sorrow, sorrow is even more sorrowful'." No matter what troubles you encounter, drinking will not solve the problem, but will delay it. ”

Xu Zhonghui didn't hear it, but just sipped from the water cup, this time he drank very slowly. After half a glass of water, he spoke: "Just now you said that we met yesterday afternoon, which means that it is now past twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, how long have I slept here?" Without waiting for Ge Bin to answer, Xu Zhonghui began to rummage through his pockets, "Where is my phone?" Did you get off the bus? After rummaging for a while, he looked up and asked Ge Bin, "Where is my car?" ”

"The car is parked in the garage." Ge Bin replied truthfully.

"Where's the garage?" Xu Zhonghui stood up as he spoke, and staggered towards the outside of the hall.

"You can't drive like that, can you?" Ge Bin stopped Xu Zhonghui.

Xu Zhonghui smiled dumbly and said, "Yes, then I'll go back." This shouldn't be far from my house, right? The car is parked at your place, I'll pick it up tomorrow, okay? ”

Ge Bin took a step across and stopped in front of Xu Zhonghui, blocking his way.

Xu Zhonghui said dissatisfiedly: "I just parked the car on the side of the road to drink, and I didn't drink and drive, so you have no right to detain me." As for illegal parking...... I admit that I was wrong, I am willing to accept the punishment, you can give me a ticket......"

"That's not it." Ge Bin showed an unspeakable expression.

"Anything else?" Xu Zhonghui glanced at Ge Bin with an inquiring eye, "If not, I'm going back." ”

"Something happened to your family." Ge Bin struggled to squeeze out such a sentence.

He couldn't understand why it would be so difficult to tell the truth. Maybe it's because this is a matter of peace of mind, as the so-called "care is chaos"!

"What?" Xu Zhonghui didn't seem to hear Ge Bin's words clearly, and asked again, "What did you say?" ”

Ge Bin stared at Xu Zhonghui, took a deep breath, and said word by word: "Just when you were drunk and unconscious, your liquefied gas tank leaked, and An Ran died of poisoning because of inhaling a large amount of carbon monoxide gas. ”

After Ge Bin finished speaking, he put on a posture of being ready to fully deal with all kinds of overreactions that may occur after Xu Zhonghui was shocked by the bad news. However, he waited silently for a long time, but Xu Zhonghui was as still as water as water, and he didn't react at all. He stood motionless like a statue, his eyes staring into the distance with empty eyes and no expression on his face.

"Xu Zhonghui......" Ge Bin called cautiously.

After a long time, Xu Zhonghui's eyelids finally blinked, and then the lines of his face began to distort, accompanied by the sound of unbridled laughter, his body trembled uncontrollably.

This reaction caught Ge Bin by surprise, and he was a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, after just a dozen seconds, Xu Zhonghui restrained his wild demeanor.

"It's okay, at least she won't feel a little pain when she walks like this." Xu Zhonghui's expression was gloomy, and he said in a difficult voice, "She has lived a very painful life in the past few months. Since there is no cure for this disease, and living is torture for her, death is not necessarily a means of relief. Immediately, Xu Zhonghui said to Ge Bin, "Where is she now?" ”

"I've been picked up by the funeral home."

"Did you help contact the funeral home?"

"No, it was Enron's father who contacted him personally."

"An Huaisheng?" Xu Zhonghui sneered, revealing an expression of disgust.

"Hmm. Yesterday, I saw that you were drunk like that, so I called Anxin directly. An Huaisheng came with her. ”

"Finally, he still has humanity." Xu Zhonghui said contemptuously.

In Anxin's description of avoiding the important and trivial, Ge Bin knew that he and An Huaisheng did not have a good relationship, but he didn't know what kind of grievances and entanglements the two had and how much the relationship had deteriorated, so in the face of Xu Zhonghui's headless comment, he didn't want to talk at will, so he simply pretended not to hear it, changed the topic, and said: "After dawn, you remember to contact Anxin." She specially instructed her before going back, saying that she wanted to discuss the aftermath with you, and let you call her when you sober up. ”

"It's really hard for her."

It was another headless sentence, and Ge Bin still didn't know how to speak. At this moment, Xu Zhonghui had already walked towards the door.

"Wait." Ge Bin called Xu Zhonghui again, "Are you going back?" ”

"Is there any other place I can go?" Xu Zhonghui's rhetorical question was full of bitterness.

"I think you'd better find a hotel for one night." Ge Bin suggested.

"Why?" Xu Zhonghui was puzzled.

"Although we closed the valve of your liquefied gas tank, we don't know if there will be another leak. I don't think it's safe for you to go back now, so it's better to live outside during this time, go back and ask a professional to come to the door to test it, and then live back when it's sure it's safe. ”

Diametrically opposed to Ge Bin's cautious attitude, Xu Zhonghui waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "Even if there are other leaks in the liquefied gas tank, it has been several hours, even if it is a full tank of gas, it should be leaked by this time, right?" I have no other skills, a single one, a hard life. Don't worry, it'll be fine. As he spoke, he reached out and patted Ge Bin's shoulder, "I understand your kindness." The car was left in the garage of your police station for one night, and I will come back to pick it up after dawn. By the way, who do I go to pick up the car when I get there? ”

"Just look for me."

"What time do you get off work?"

"If you don't work overtime, you usually leave work at half past five."

"Early in the morning?"

"No, afternoon."

"Aren't you on overnight duty? Don't you need to go home to catch up on sleep? ”

"I'll go upstairs to the dorm room for a while after the shift is over."

"The police are lucky."

"There are a lot of things to do at the end of the year, and there is no way."

"Alright, I'm leaving."

After seeing Xu Zhonghui leave, Ge Bin nestled into the dilapidated swivel chair behind the reception window. Originally, the early morning was the time when the human body felt the most sleepy, but after the toss just now, Ge Bin was completely sleepy. At this moment, all he was thinking about was the affairs of the An family, the sudden death of An Ran, the mutual hatred between An Huaisheng and Xu Zhonghui, and the appearance of Chu Chu with tears in his eyes.