Chapter 014: Death

"Occupation?" didn't hear Xu Jingjia's answer, Fu Liangtao asked again.

While Pang Jitong breathed heavily in dissatisfaction, Xu Jingjia subconsciously lowered his eyes and spit out a few words with difficulty: "Unemployed."

"Why?" Fu Liangtao then asked, gesturing Pang Jitong with his eyes to record Xu Jingjia's reaction.

"I want to ...... I should be what people call the gnawing old people......" Xu Jingjia replied, tilting her head slightly, obviously not wanting to talk about this issue more.

"Why?" Fu Liangtao looked at Xu Jingjia intently and asked again.

「… Not why." This time, Xu Jingjia replied bluntly, her face was not red and her heart was not beating.

After a long while, Fu Liangtao still did not continue to ask.

Pang Jitong raised his eyes and looked at Xu Jingjia a few times, he didn't know what kind of image the old people should look like in the hearts of the public, but for a while, he couldn't connect the three words "gnawing the old people" with Xu Jingjia in front of him. Although in the past few years as a policeman, Pang Jitong has become more and more aware of the truth that "people can't look good", and Xu Jingjia in front of him is indeed more casual and sloppy than ordinary girls......

Thinking of this, Pang Jitong's gaze gradually revealed a little contempt and disdain.

"This is important?" Looking at the reactions of Fu Liangtao and Pang Jitong, Xu Jingjia asked in surprise.

Fu Liangtao's gaze turned around Xu Jingjia's face, and he decided to change the topic and asked, "Miss Xu, do you like to read poetry?"

Xu Jingjia gently "scared?" sighed, feeling unclear about Fu Liangtao's question. She paused before replying, "I prefer novels to poetry."

"What about the stage play? Do you like to watch stage plays?" Fu Liangtao asked again.

Xu Jingjia didn't answer this time, and even Pang Jitong, who was making a record, stopped his pen and raised his eyes to look at Fu Liangtao with the eyes of a monster. As for whether to write down these two questions together, Pang Jitong felt very hesitant.

At this moment, Pang Jitong began to suspect the reason why Fu Liangtao chose to investigate Xu Jingjia. In Zhou Muqing's Fangtu account, there are countless photos with different friends, men and women, why did Fu Liangtao choose Xu Jingjia alone?

Fu Liangtao was unimpressed by Pang Jitong's reaction, and seemed to be fully focused on Xu Jingjia, and continued to himself: "I have seen a stage play, starring veteran stage actor Ruan Manlu, which is very good-looking. The story is about a goose that flew over the snow, and when it accidentally left claw marks on the snow, and after the goose flew away, no one knew where it went."

Pang Jitong couldn't imagine that Fu Liangtao really talked to Xu Jingjia about the stage play, but Xu Jingjia looked disinterested, and his face was even darker than just now. After thinking about it, Pang Ji still recorded Fu Liangtao's words, and if there was really a deletion later, he would copy it again.

Pang Jitong peeked at Fu Liangtao again, secretly thinking that Fu Liangtao's eyes were too serious, and he should change the topic of family interest.

"Shouldn't it be an eagle?" Xu Jingjia asked suspiciously.

Pang Jitong didn't expect Fu Liangtao and Xu Jingjia to really talk.

Fu Liangtao smiled when he heard this, did not answer Xu Jingjia, and changed the topic and asked, "Miss Xu, you said that you like to read, so have you read Milan. Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life"?"

Hearing Fu Liangtao's question, Pang Ji and Huer remembered what Brother Cong told him before lunch: "Be careful, our leader is an out-and-out workaholic. Nothing else but work could get into his eyes. ……

I'm sure he definitely thought about letting you go in ten minutes, but he changed his mind for fear of frightening you, a newcomer. Alas! Enjoy this lunch...... It's not easy for us!" Pang Jitong seemed to be able to feel the temperature of Brother Cong's hand on his shoulder when he said this.

So, can Pang Jitong understand Brother Cong's words that Fu Liangtao has no love experience because he is addicted to work? Otherwise, Xu Jingjia rarely accosted her, why didn't Fu Liangtao answer? Otherwise, Xu Jingjia only said that she likes to read novels, but Fu Liangtao discussed such a profound work with others at the beginning?

"Yes." Xu Jingjia replied, paused, and said, "However, I don't understand it."

"Of course you don't!" Hearing Fu Liangtao's tone of voice answer as it should be, Pang Jitong's heart couldn't help but rise, and he heard Fu Liangtao laugh again: "I also listened to a friend of mine who studies philosophy to explain to me, and I understood the meaning behind the story." Hearing this, Pang Jitong's heart went back again, after all, fortunately, Fu Liangtao still knew how to shorten the distance between the two sides.

"Seriously, this book was my bedside book until the man explained it to me. When I have insomnia, I can't read three pages before I fall asleep. Miss Xu, do you need me to tell you?" Fu Liangtao's sincere and rich baritone voice makes people feel comfortable and useful in their ears. This sentence seemed to be an invitation to lead Xu Jingjia to the topic he wanted to talk about.

Xu Jingjia didn't say anything, but the way she looked at Fu Liangtao showed that she still wanted to hear Fu Liangtao talk about it.

Fu Liangtao then said: "The story quotes a philosophical concept called the return of eternal calamity, in which Nietzsche proposes that everything that happens in the world is constantly cyclical and repeated, and all accidents are actually inevitable. However, at the moment when everything is happening, one can never go back to the point in time when the decision was made."

Pang Jitong and Xu Jingjia both listened to Fu Liangtao's eloquent conversation, and they didn't seem to understand this sudden philosophy class. I have to say that such a topic is quite consistent with Fu Liangtao's elegant temperament, and the words slowly spoken by the baritone make people feel like a spring breeze. Even Pang Jitong's perception of Fu Liangtao has also been raised to a higher level.

"The male protagonist of the story, Thomas, is a doctor who never stops for any woman until he meets the heroine, Theresa. Until he meets the heroine, but Thomas is still Thomas, and the things he juggles between different women are still repeated. And although Thomas made compromises out of love, he always regretted it when it was a foregone conclusion." Speaking of this, Fu Liangtao paused, staring at Xu Jingjia's face for a moment.

"You say, Li Bingde, has he read this book?" As soon as Fu Liangtao's question came out, Pang Jitong, who was thinking about it, was stunned by the pen in his hand, and he wasn't sure if he had thought too much about it just now.

Could it be that Fu Liangtao said so much just to bring out this one question?

"Probably not." Xu Jingjia replied calmly without thinking, as if only Pang Ji and the same person had not yet reacted.

"So, you know him well and know his interests?" Fu Liangtao asked again.

"No, I'm not familiar with Li Bingde. It's just that I seem to have heard from a friend that he's only interested in playing games." Xu Jingjia replied again.

"You said you don't know Li Bingde well? What kind of unfamiliar method is it?" Fu Liangtao asked, finally bringing the investigation back on track.

"We've only done a few group presentations together." Xu Jingjia replied.

"No private contact at all?"

"Not exactly, because karaoke was still popular at that time, and the classmates would occasionally ask out in a large group. Sometimes, we would exchange messages about our homework in the faces, but just like that, there was no other private communication."

"Then when did you and Li Bingde meet?"

"He and I were high school classmates, and I had to repeat Form 5 before entering the preparatory department, and that's when we met."

The so-called Foundation Department is a two-year senior secondary curriculum taken by students before entering university in the old academic system in Hong Kong, namely Secondary 6 and Secondary 7. This old academic system has now been replaced by the three-three-four academic system, and the secondary school curriculum has changed from the original five-year secondary school and two-year senior high school to the current three-year junior high school and three-year senior high school.

Pang Jitong listened to the fluent conversation between the two, and suddenly only his own emotions were drawn by the conversation between the two of them just now, but as the protagonists, they were indifferent.

"Excuse me......" Xu Jingjia asked with a little hesitation, "Can you tell us a little bit about what you are investigating?"

Because of Xu Jingjia's words, the atmosphere suddenly became calm again, and Pang Jitong, who had been writing hard, was even more vigilant because of her words, and looked at Xu Jingjia with a slightly sharp look.

Xu Jingjia smiled uncomfortably, as if she wanted to ease the atmosphere, but to no avail. Xu Jingjia could only say: "In my impression, Zhou Muqing and Li Bingde should have no intersection. I'm just curious......

Fu Liangtao's face was not visible, and he examined Xu Jingjia's face without a trace, and said word by word, "We are investigating the deaths of Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing."