When it was almost eight o'clock in the evening, Qiye stood in front of the mirror and cleaned himself up. In order to cover up the knife wound on his arm, he deliberately wore a long-sleeved shirt.

The first time I didn't carry a guitar and went out to perform empty-handed, Qiye felt very awkward, as if some part of my body was missing, and my whole body was uncomfortable. He looked around the room for a while, and finally took a pick from the bedside drawer and put it in his pocket, and then he felt a little more at ease.

I didn't have time to eat dinner, so I bought some bread and drinks at the convenience store downstairs, and prepared to simply pad my stomach in the car, in case I passed out with anemia later.

Boss Li's villa is 18 kilometers away, and it takes about half an hour to get there by taxi. Qi Ye waited on the side of the road for a few minutes, and never saw an empty taxi, so he wanted to use the mobile phone app to call a car over. He reached out and saw only a plastic paddle in his empty pocket, and then he remembered that his phone was still plugged into the plug board to charge.

Qi Ye raised his hand to look at the time, and couldn't help but curse in his heart. Just as he was about to turn around and go home to get his phone, a big strong hand suddenly pressed tightly on his shoulder. He trembled with fright, and with a twitch of his brain, he slowly raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender.

The people behind him were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter. Qiye heard a familiar voice, and immediately turned around and saw Xiaolong standing in front of him with a helmet.

"Damn, you scared me to death, I thought it was the loan sharks." Qi Ye let out a sigh of relief, looked at Xiaolong with very complicated eyes and asked, "Didn't you go out to hide from debts?" How did you get here? ”

Hearing the word "debt avoidance", Xiaolong touched his head in embarrassment, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Xiaoqi, I've caused you trouble these days......

Qi Ye waved his hand and asked him not to say these polite words to himself. "I'm in a hurry to get out now, let's talk about it when I get back."

"Are you going to a bar show?" Xiaolong couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he saw that Qiye didn't bring a guitar.

"I'm going to Boss Li's house now, he is having a party in the villa, and he invited me to sing a few songs. I happened to talk to him about borrowing money. Qiye explained as he walked in the direction of home. I forgot to bring my phone when I went out, go back and pick it up. If you don't have anywhere to go, just wait for me at home. ”

"No wonder you didn't answer the phone when I called for a long time just now." Xiaolong followed Qi Ye and walked a few steps behind him, and suddenly remembered something important, grabbed Qi Ye and asked, "You want to borrow money from Boss Li?" ”

"yes, what's the problem?"

"That's a big problem." Xiaolong showed a nervous look, as if Qiye was going to do something very terrible. "Xiaoqi, do you really not know, or are you deliberately pretending to be confused? That Boss Li is rumored to have a special hobby, do you think he will lend you money for nothing? ”

"What do you mean?" Qiye frowned, feeling a little unhappy.

"That's what it means, why do you knowingly ask."

"Even if that'......" Qi Ye knew what Xiaolong wanted to say, which was also a reason why he deliberately avoided Boss Li and didn't want to get closer to that person. But the reality is that the debt collector will come to him at any time to trouble, and he has no time to borrow this money from others.

After thinking for a moment, Qi Ye clenched his fists and said to Xiaolong resolutely: "As long as I can solve the problem of money quickly, I don't care what I do." ”

"You don't talk nonsense!" Xiaolong roared angrily, "Dude, even if you go to rob a bank, you can't make such a sacrifice." ”

Qi Ye smiled bitterly and shook his head, "For you and Uncle Long, I can do anything, because ......" Qi Ye sighed and said silently in his heart: Because I owe you too much. There are truths that you will never know, and I will keep this evil secret until the day I die.

"Let's go, go home!" Xiaolong grabbed Qiye's arm and dragged it in the direction of the door. Qi Ye's wound was dragged to the pain, and he screamed and said, "What are you going to do?" Let go of me! ”

Xiaolong didn't know that Qiye had been stabbed last night, so he completely ignored his resistance and dragged him all the way to the house, feeling like an elder teaching a disobedient child.

When he returned home, Qiye's wound had cracked, and blood was running down his cuffs to his slender fingers. Xiaolong was startled after turning on the light, looked at Qiye's arm nervously and asked, "You, what's wrong with you?" ”

Qi Ye was afraid that Xiaolong would be worried, so he hurriedly hid his hand behind his back, and replied with pain: "It's nothing, I accidentally fell when I went downstairs yesterday." ”

"Xiaoqi, don't lie to me. Did those two debt collectors come to you and get you in trouble? ”

Qiye turned his head away and didn't say a word. Xiaolong suddenly became angry, and shouted at Qi Ye: "What kind of injury is it? Let me see. ”

"You don't have to look at it, it's really nothing ......"

"Dude, you're bleeding."

"Maybe you ripped off the thread from yesterday......"

"Holy." Xiaolong glanced at Qi Ye in surprise, "You pig's head, why didn't you say it just now?" Then he had to take off his clothes to check the injury. Qi Ye hurriedly took a few steps back, stretched out a hand between the two people's bodies, and said angrily and funny: "Xiaolong, I was just stabbed by that scar man, you don't have to be so nervous." ”

"I'm sorry, but I bothered you." Xiaolong slowly calmed down and said regretfully, "If I hadn't gone out to hide from the debt, this wouldn't have happened." It's me who is so unproductive, I'm sorry......"

"Forget it, since you're a brother, don't say these apologies. Anyway, it's too late, I'll call Boss Li, and we'll find another way to borrow money. ”

After tossing for most of the day, Xiaolong finally clumsily helped Qiye re-bandage his wounds. The two of them sat on the sofa in the living room, and while Xiaolong was smoking a cigarette, he asked Qi Ye curiously, "Have you figured out what the murder case is about?" Are the police still suspecting you of being a murderer? ”

"I don't know, it seems complicated, one died, another died. However, my suspicion of the crime is basically cleared. ”

"That's good." Xiaolong breathed a sigh of relief, "I almost thought you had done something stupid when I saw you appear in front of me in a panic that afternoon, with a knife hidden in you." ”

"I said I wouldn't, and you didn't believe me at the time."

Xiaolong laughed embarrassedly twice, "No way, because your appearance is too suspicious." ”

"It's okay, I'll forgive you this time, don't make an example." Qi Ye thought back to what happened a few days ago, and he also felt that the performance at that time was quite funny. Indeed, the psychological state of people when they do bad things will be very different from usual. Qi Ye has never been good at concealing and lying, so in front of Officer Gu, he feels that his heart may be exposed at any time.

"Xiaoqi." After silently smoking a cigarette, Xiaolong showed a rare serious expression, "There is something I can't make up my mind about and want to discuss it with you." ”

"Is it about Uncle Long?" Qiye asked guessingly.

Xiaolong nodded and said, "You went to the hospital to see my dad before, and you probably know his condition." Although dialysis can keep him alive now, it is not an option to continue like this. The reason why I borrowed so much money from loan sharks was because I wanted my dad to have a kidney transplant as soon as possible. But ......"

"Is it a problem with the kidney?"

"Yes, resources are scarce, and the success rate of matching is very low. My dad's condition is already very serious, and I am afraid that if I continue to wait, his body will not be able to bear it. ”

"So what?" Qiye looked at Xiaolong seriously, and his mood began to tense inexplicably.

"Actually......" Xiaolong swallowed his saliva and confessed to Qi Ye, "Recently, I have been contacting organ traffickers through black intermediaries, and I think this is the only way to save my father's life now." Just this afternoon, they contacted me and said that they had found a suitable donor and asked me to give an answer as soon as possible, so that they could arrange a time in the operating room to operate on my dad. I was a little scared, I didn't know if the surgery was safe and reliable. Xiaoqi, what do you think I should do? Did I make the right choice? ”

Qiye thought about it for a long time and found that this was indeed a difficult thing to choose. Although he has always regarded Uncle Long as his father in his heart, he is not Uncle Long's son after all, and he has no right to make decisions for Uncle Long's life. If there is no surgery, Uncle Long can continue to sustain his life through dialysis, although I don't know how long it will last, but it is better than a failure of the operation and a life. However, as far as he knows, this kind of transplant is generally carried out in a regular hospital, and the success rate is not much different, so you can take a risk, but such a suggestion, Qi Ye is not easy to speak directly as an outsider.

"That ......" Qi Ye thought about it, and didn't know what to say, so he asked thoughtlessly, "The trade in living organs is illegal in my country, right?" ”

Xiaolong shrugged his shoulders, meaning: Does this need to be said? "But that doesn't matter anymore, does it? As long as I can save my dad, I don't care if the kidney source comes from a regular channel. ”

"What do you think? Have you made up your mind to let Uncle Long have surgery? ”

"Of course, I want to solve my worries once and for all, and I also want to ask your opinion."

"Brother." Qi Ye put his hand on Xiaolong's shoulder and said seriously, "It's really not good for me to express my opinion casually on this matter. All I can say is that whatever decision you make, I will respect your choice. ”

The little dragon lit another cigarette and fell into deep thought. Through the swirling smoke, Qiye seemed to be able to see that there were two forces in Xiaolong's mind engaged in a fierce struggle.

After a while, Xiaolong snuffed out the cigarette butt in the water cup that was temporarily used as an ashtray, and said with determination: "Then let them arrange surgery for my father as soon as possible." ”

Qi Ye nodded slightly, "If there is anything you need my help with, just ask." ”