Aikang's past is no secret in the public eye, and various sketchy reports are everywhere on the Internet. It's just that many of the details are confusing, and with so many bizarre accidents recently, after the recent Chinese New Year's Eve shooting, I'm afraid it's not just a trivial matter like after-dinner conversation.

"Li Xiaoai and Ai Kang are more or less related, but the recent accident is too difficult to sort out with normal logic." Dong Jian clenched his fist and covered his chin, lost in thought.

"The point is that those suspects are all inexplicably dead!" Liu Lian took over.

The dead suspect, the exotic girl with curly brown hair, where is the clue? Ai Kang, Li Xiaoai, Li Shukang? Who is the target? Why did the brown-haired girl and the car that had not been detected at all end up outside my compound? What went wrong?

"Zhuang Yan? What do you think? Liu Lian cast a suspicious look at me, "You are the most direct party, but you don't say a word today?" ”

I suddenly pulled out of my thoughts, a little at a loss, and pursed my lips and smiled, "No, it's nothing. ”

Li Xiaoai's expression in a daze was exactly the same as yours, and he didn't speak. Isn't it better to speak out and vent when you encounter this kind of thing, as friends and partners, we can help you share it. Liu Lian frowned slightly, revealing a caring look.

I thought for a moment, "Maybe I don't know what to say even if I want to." ”

"Then don't think about it, solve the case and leave it to the police. Let's go to the shooting training ground tonight, and we should use guns to vent our emotions, the most direct. Dong Jian used the tone that used to be in the barracks, and his voice sank.

"Okay!"

Walk through the dark streets and leave the central city towards the development on the edge of the city. The streets and office buildings on both sides are not as brightly lit as daytime on weekdays, the Spring Festival holiday is not completely over, and a large number of companies have not yet entered the normal rhythm. An underground parking garage that doesn't seem to be special, the abandoned fourth-floor underground garage is not dim, and the live-fire training club is full of young people dressed in green or blue camouflage.

"Wow, it's so accurate when your hands are hurt?" In the rest area outside the shooting range, Liu Lian held my target ring with an exaggerated expression as if admiring a work of art.

Seven rounds and ten rings, two rounds and nine rings, and one eight rings. I thought to myself with a paper cup, I really didn't think this was very accurate, in actual shooting, aiming, distance, and environment are not as superior as in the training ground.

"If this had been in the past, Jingfeng would have been off target if he had fully aimed and shot within twenty meters, except for the ten rings." Coming out of the training ground, Dong Jian in the lounge looked at my target ring and shrugged, "This is what the regiment commander told the two of you back then." ”

"Cut, what about yours? Take it out and take a look. Liu Lian looked disgusted and rolled his eyes.

"Zhuang Yan was the second fastest fire and mobile shooting in the regiment back then, except for snipers, there was almost no one to beat at close range." Dong Jian refused to take out his target ring.

"Who's the first? Is that you? Liu Lian asked with a look of amazement.

"Me? No, it's Zhuang Yan's brother. ”

Liu Lian turned to look at me in surprise, "Your brother?" ”

The first in Dong Jian's mouth is Liu Yi, who has already died. I shook my head helplessly with a look of frustration, not wanting to talk about that past again. Liu Yi has been clever since he was a child, his eyes are quick, and he can quickly get started with operating all kinds of firearms, the key is that this kid is very hard in addition to his talent. When I was a child, I played balloons with airsoft guns as carefully as if I were shooting targets, and after joining the army, I became even more obsessed with firearms, but his active personality was really not suitable to be a sniper, otherwise he would never have entered the death rainforest with me that day.

"Okay, don't ask, let's go, let's go and practice again." Dong Jian sensed the waves in my thoughts from my silence.

Liu Lian was still pulled away from the rest area with a questioning face.

A few days later, at the end of February, the Chinese New Year holiday was finally over, and after a lively and festive holiday, people seemed to have exhausted all their physical strength, and went to their respective jobs in despair, but my holiday was still long. I don't believe in coincidence for no reason, and the unprovoked appearance of the curly-haired brown girl that night did catch my attention. But a few days later, at the end of February, she and the mysterious man she had never seen disappeared like air. It seems like a peaceful day, but I am always aware of my surroundings.

"What's wrong? Are you so wary of even playing with your children? Stealing children will not run into the community in broad daylight. Mother's voice came from the porch not far away, and she was preparing to go to work on the first day after the holiday.

"You go and get busy with yours, I'll just look at Jingjing." Seeing my mother leave the community is still inevitably worried, but I really can't explain to her what I'm worried about, I just hope that my luck won't make a big mistake, "Mom, be careful on the road." ”

"I know, I still need you to worry." The mother grinned, although she was stubborn, she could see that her expression was still beautiful.

There was a few days between the end of the Spring Festival and the opening of the kindergarten, and it happened that my injury had not healed, and the time spent with my daughter became a rare comfortable time. I squatted aside and laughed with her, but it was always difficult to let my guard down, even a pedestrian passing by a little closer, a strange car passing slowly could draw my attention. No matter how calm I was on the surface, my heart was always like a stone, and there was no answer to it, and there was no way to remove it from my heart.

Maybe time is the answer, and if I can keep calm like this, my tense nerves will gradually relax.

After admiring her work for a long time, Jingjing clapped her hands contentedly, and then waved her little hand to say goodbye to her sandcastle, while pulling me towards home, "Dad, continue in the afternoon." ”

I nodded at her, and suddenly a familiar figure flashed not far away, turned a corner and quickly disappeared. Liu Suxi panicked and didn't have time to comb her hair, her hair was scattered, so she hurriedly left the main entrance of the community, and then a violent cough came from her and Liu Yi's house, followed by a deep vomiting sound, and her mother's condition sounded worse again.

I frowned slightly, the stone in my heart seemed to sink a little, and when I looked back at the door of Liu Yi's house, I suddenly remembered the scene of sending Liu Suxi home that night. The foreign girl with curly brown hair happened to pass by in front of her house, passed me and turned around, and walked briskly out of the main entrance of the community. It is almost exactly the same as Liu Suxi's figure just now, only one is in the day and the other is at night, one has loose hair and is restless, and the other is calm and relaxed.

Why? What the hell is going on? I kept asking myself, where did I get the answer?

When I got home, my daughter happily turned on the TV, jumped on the sofa, held the remote control, and began to look for her favorite cartoons, I took out my cigarette case and came to the window.

Outside the window, the waves were calm, the sky was blue, and there were no suspicious passers-by in the community except for half-familiar residents. Suddenly, I felt that my over-worrying was a bit unnecessary, could it be that two people who looked similar were inadvertently mistaken for the same person? After thinking about it, I felt that it was impossible, and the probability of such special brown curls and exotic features being misrecognized in China was really low. I took out a puff of cigarette and let myself forget the disturbing thoughts for a moment, but I still couldn't throw them away.

The green dot on the smart watch didn't seem to have shifted in the distance, I don't know if it was because the map scale didn't show it moving, or if she had really locked herself in the room all the time. I wanted to call but didn't know what to say, so I advised her not to be too defensive about the past? I can't even do it myself, and I'm not also vigilant about everything around me, so how can I persuade her to let her guard down?

Fingertips smoke drifted out of the window, and the lonely figure of her sitting alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling window was coming to mind, and my heart was filled with a hint of sentimentality, I sighed softly along the smoke I inhaled, and the hands on the coffee table squeaked and vibrate.

I picked up the phone and looked at Liu Suxi's number, "Hey? ”

"Brother, where are you?" Liu Suxi cried for help.

"At home, what's wrong?"

"My mother, my mother~" Liu Suxi's tone was anxious, but her voice was even more choked.

"You speak slowly."

"My mother's illness can't be delayed any longer, and the doctor told her to go to the hospital, but she doesn't even want to go to the hospital, and I don't listen to anything. I really don't know what to do~" Liu Suxi couldn't cry on the other end of the phone as soon as her voice fell.

The crying was helpless, and I could only wait for her to calm down a little.

"What should I do? How can I persuade my mother? In the morning, I was so anxious to argue with her, but instead of listening, I coughed even more. It turned out that I saw Liu Suxi walking out of the community at that time because of my aunt's condition.

"Calm down, where are you now?"

Her phone tone was unusually noisy, "I'm in the hospital, I asked the doctor a lot just now, but there is no diagnosis report, everything is just suspicious, how can I persuade my mother to come to the hospital?" ”

"Don't worry, you go home first."

"But~"

"Don't do it, come back first and figure it out."

Liu Suxi hesitated for two seconds, "Well~ Okay, I'll go home first." Can you help me persuade my mom later? ”

"yes, okay." I should help her at this time, her mother is also Liu Yi's mother.

At the end of February, at the end of winter and in the early spring, it is the most pleasant season of the four seasons, and the air is cool without wind or waves. But sitting on the bench, Liu Suxi burst into tears, "She just won't listen, it's better to go to the hospital than to take those Chinese medicines every day at home, what should I do?" I searched on the Internet and coughed up blood, but it was very serious, and the hospital also gave me a guess of suspected lung cancer, but my mother just didn't listen to me and went to the hospital. ”

"Have you heard Auntie's thoughts?" I looked at the end of the sea, and there was an empty silence.

calmed down a little, Liu Suxi was slightly stunned, "What does she think?" She just didn't want to go to the hospital for a check-up. ”

Sometimes people's thoughts are as deep as the sea and the sky in front of them, but sometimes they are as close as a painting, but we can't understand it.

"I mean, did you talk to her calmly about her condition, her thoughts, maybe she didn't want to go to the hospital? Maybe Auntie has her own plans. I looked ahead and didn't look at her, and she was looking sideways at me with surprised eyes.

"Talk? How to chat? She is reluctant to go to the hospital~ What should I do? Liu Suxi used her unique faint voice again, as if she was asking herself.

I don't know, the starry sky at night is the same color as the sea at night, and I wouldn't have thought about how to talk to my parents at the age of eighteen, and maybe when I reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, I wouldn't have thought about how to discuss life with eighteen-year-old Jingjing? What an amazing stubbornness. But I know that if you don't say something now, it may be too late when you really want to say it.

"Have you ever sat down and talked to her calmly?" I still looked at the end of the inky blue sea, "Just like we are sitting and talking now." ”

Liu Suxi was silent for a moment and did not speak, she silently buried her head around her slender fingers, maybe she was thinking, but she didn't know how to think about it.

"Then try to talk, now and in the future." I turned my head and continued softly.

"Now? Future? Liu Suxi looked at me with round eyes.

"Well, just communicate with your aunt as if you were chatting with me, or chatting with your classmates and friends, and see what she thinks?"

"It's not the same~" a faint echo.

"Huh?" I'm a little puzzled.

"It's not the same as chatting with you and talking to friends~" She still buried her head, and the sound of the breeze and waves almost overlapped with her voice.

I was a little confused, and I didn't understand the meaning of her words for a while, "I mean to talk to your mother calmly, maybe she will listen to you." ”

Silent...

In an instant, Liu Suxi suddenly figured out something, and suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance, "I understand what you mean, there are some reasons that I didn't understand before, after all, I can only figure it out by saying it." There was always a reason why my mom didn't want to go to the hospital, and I never thought about why she always wanted her to follow the doctor's instructions. Maybe you're right, I used to be too self-righteous. ”

"You're not presumptuous." I smiled.

"You're pretty self-righteous." She raised the corners of her mouth slightly to steal the conversation.

"What?"

"Why do you think you're my friend?" She brushed her hair and got up, "You're my brother, can you just be a friend?" ”

It turns out that she has already forgiven me, in this cool winter at the end of the heart inexplicably a trace of warmth, maybe from this moment on I will treat her as my sister, a very close family, just like when I was a child, there is no longer a trace of estrangement.

But heart by heart, do I think what I understand will be the truth?