Listening to Li Xiaoai's incoherent words, the female nurse had no choice but to shake her head helplessly, "If you change the medicine today, you don't need to be hospitalized again, this ward is still reserved for patients who need it." ”

"But change the dressing?" I endured the pain and got up and sat back on the hospital bed, while Li Xiaoai rolled over to the other side and stood up.

"Just come to the hospital at intervals." The nurse began to remove the bandage on my left hand.

"Okay."

The mobile phone on the bedside table rang suddenly, and Li Xiaoai handed it over to me and glanced at the screen, "It's Lao Di calling." ”

I took it, "Hello? ”

"Zhuang Yan? The killer has been found, you know? Lao Di's tone was not calm, but a little anxious.

"Well, I know, not long after I hung up the phone last night, the police were notified, and the alert on my side was lifted." My tone was calm.

"Lifted? Not at all, when the police found the murderer yesterday, the murderer had already been killed, and I had already confirmed with the police station, so the danger on your and Li Xiaoai's side has not been lifted. Things are too bizarre, Dong Jian and Qiu Shao have returned, and we will come to the hospital at noon today to meet you and hand you over. Lao Di's words made my calm heart ripple again.

I tightened my eyebrows unnaturally, and Li Xiaoai's expression also clouded again, "My injury is fine, why don't we meet at the company at noon." ”

"You were discharged so soon?"

"Well, if there is no problem with the examination at the hospital, it should not affect normal activities, I will step up the procedures after the examination, and see you at the company at noon." I turned my head to look at my left hand, which was changing the dressing, and the slightest movement still caused a sharp pain.

"Alright then, do I need to call a taxi to pick you up?"

"Thanks, no." The dazzling morning light outside the window turned white at some point.

There are enough pedestrians on the streets on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the fog of the whole day of the new year makes people have to enjoy reunions at home, and the holiday after the sunny day finally makes people feel good to relax and enjoy this great time. Although it was only a day after leaving the hospital gate, it felt like a world away, and the whole incident seemed to fall into a deeper vortex after the fog cleared all day. For some reason, I had a faint illusion that I was not just an unrelated bystander.

Li Xiaoai and I sat in the back seat of the taxi, each looking out the side window, what was she thinking? I was speculating, but I could vaguely sense that she wasn't thinking about the past, but worried about the future.

"You're so badly injured that you need to rest for a long time, right?" She didn't turn her face and still looked out the window, but there was a hint of loss and grief in her tone.

I seemed to understand what she was worried about, "Don't worry, Dong Jian and Qiu Shao are both more professional than me, and Lao Di has already summoned them back overnight." ”

"But—" she twisted her eyebrows, turned her eyebrows, and said just two words, and then there was no more.

"How?" I looked her in the eye.

“... It's nothing~" She turned her head again to look sideways out the window.

Although I no longer spoke, it was as if I had been twisted by her, and my wound was sore and sore.

The office building is empty, and no one will choose to work overtime during the Spring Festival holiday, except for the lights on the top floor defense shield. Li Xiaoai and I got out of the elevator one after the other, Lao Di was discussing something with Dong Jian and Qiu Shao in the office area, when he heard the elevator door ringing, and the three of them turned around together.

"Zhuang Yan, how are your injuries?" Dong Jian ran over with vigorous steps.

"It's fine."

Lao Di's wheelchair was a little slower, and Qiu Shao followed him with a serious expression. Although they have worked together for a short time, I can rarely see Qiu Shao and Dong Jian's expressions so solemn, Lao Di is still the same as before, and he is unhappy about everything.

"I knew I should have left you on Chinese New Year's Eve." Lao Di's voice was hoarse and a little heavy.

"I stayed that day, but what should happen in the future will happen sooner or later, and now it's finally over, and it's lucky that nothing big happens." I breathed a sigh of relief.

"How long will it take for the wound on my hand to recover?" Qiu Shao stared at my tightly wrapped left hand.

"At least for a month, fortunately there were no injuries to key tissues." I replied.

"Then you can take care of your injuries." Qiu Shao patted me on the shoulder with one hand and looked behind me, "Miss Li's affairs will be left to us." ”

Only then did I realize that Li Xiaoai had been standing behind me as silently as air, and I turned to look at her. Li Xiaoai was staring at me with a resentful look in her eyes, like a child abandoned by her father.

"Hello Miss Li, I am Qiu Shaoqiu when we meet you for the first time, I wish you a happy New Year." Qiu Shao crossed me to greet Li Xiaoai.

"Hello." Li Xiaoai looked away and greeted Qiu Shao with a smile.

"Xiao Ai, you're not hurt, are you?" Lao Di came to her in an electric wheelchair, with a look of love.

"No, Uncle Di, thank you." Li Xiaoai behaved very politely.

"That's good, Zhuang Yan is indeed conscientious during this time, and you can recuperate well for the rest of the time, so you don't have to worry about it anymore. In addition, the bonus will allow Liu Lianbao to report the finance directly to your card and go back on vacation. Lao Di glanced at my left hand and looked up at my eyes, nodding from time to time as if in recognition of my work, as if he was rejoicing.

I didn't know what to say, my heart felt like a big rock had fallen to the ground, but I was always a little relieved, "Thank you." ”

Li Xiaoai's faint gaze never left me, and the resentful eyes that were abandoned without discussion were like needles, piercing my back again and again, making people very uncomfortable. But intellectually, I am completely incapable of protecting myself from being injured at any time, and even if I am completely in perfect condition, I can survive in the current situation where I may be assassinated with a gun, and I think most of it is due to luck.

"No thanks, calling you here is to let you and Dong Jian and them hand over the work, and there are many things they don't know very well. In short, we must not let our guard down until Aikang's matter is revealed. Lao Di admonished.

"One person is not enough." I'll be brief.

"Huh?" Dong Jian questioned.

"That's right, we didn't have enough people in the previous arrangement, and the current situation is not enough to protect Xiaoai alone." I looked around and explained to everyone present, and finally my eyes collided with Li Xiaoai, she still twisted her eyebrows and looked very reluctant, "In a team of two, one change a day, I think this is more appropriate, otherwise I think it's all luck." ”

"Wasn't it okay for the two of us to rotate before?"

"But now there's a problem, and now we are likely to face a murderer with a gun, we all understand this without much explanation." I accentuated my tone, Dong Jian had never participated in actual combat, and the only ones who had really crawled in the rain of bullets were me and Lao Di.

"I agree with Zhuang Yan, and I suggest finding the logistics department to provide bulletproof vests." Lao Di stood in a completely understandable position.

"And a bulletproof vest?" Qiu Shao spread his hands a little reluctantly, that kind of thing would be very uncomfortable to wear on his body for a long time.

"Or else?" Lao Di asked rhetorically, "Can you still draw out manpower now?" ”

No one questioned it anymore, no one broke the silence, and for a short time everyone was thinking about their own thoughts. Is this a big deal? Maybe not, it's just a tiny part of our work. Is this a trifle? It can't be counted, it may be able to save lives at critical times, and it may be more than one life. If the killer had been shot twice that night, Li Xiaoai and I probably wouldn't have been able to stand here and talk to them.

"Let Cheng Luchen come back and cooperate with Qiu Shao, Liu Lian and Dong Jian will team up, and it's decided." Lao Di's tone is indisputable, and in his opinion, there is no room for any omission in Li Xiaoai's safety.

"Miss Li, do you have anything else to add? I don't think you've been very happy, so if there's anything wrong, you can just tell us. Qiu Shao seemed to sense the emotions of Li Xiaoai, who was speechless.

"Little love, do you want to say anything?" Lao Di also looked behind me.

"No... No, Uncle Di, you can arrange it, I just think about when the police will be able to solve the case, and I can live a normal life without danger. Towards the end of the holiday, I need to go back to Hong Kong to complete my final studies, and iKang will be left to law firms and accounting firms, with foreign shareholders also participating. My father didn't want me to meddle in the Aikang Group when he was alive, and I'm afraid he didn't want me to take care of it when he left. Li Xiaoai has stated her plans to leave the SAR and return to Hong Kong to complete her studies may be the best way for her to distract herself.

"Keeping you safe in Hong Kong is also up to them, no problem. It's just that Hong Kong's gun control is not as strict as that in the mainland, so we need to be more careful. Lao Di admonished.

Li Xiaoai looked at Lao Di and nodded slowly, she wanted to say something and stopped, but after all, she didn't speak again.

"Zhuang Yan, you can go back and rest first, and leave the rest to us. The police may need your cooperation in investigating previous incidents recently and will often contact you. Lao Di has already got the exact information about what happened before, so there is no need to ask in detail, "Regarding the murder of the murderer, no one has a clue at present, you usually have to be more careful." ”

"Well, then I'll go back first, hard work!" I waved goodbye to the crowd.

After turning around, I will rub shoulders with her, we just can't respond to each other, I can only bend the corners of my mouth lightly, but there is some reluctance in my heart, "Goodbye, take care." ”

She didn't say goodbye, her eyes were fixed on me.

I walked straight to the elevator, and for a short distance I could feel her gaze tugging at my back, but there was no reason for me to turn around or even stop.

The elevator door opened, and I stepped in, wanting to look back at her, but my neck seemed to freeze and didn't move, until the moment the elevator door was about to close, Li Xiaoai ran to the door quickly.

"Thank you, goodbye." She waved at me, smiling as if she had only seen her before, the cherry blossoms blooming in the cold wind were not real at all.

The elevator door closed and kept going down, and I was left empty in the empty metal box, until the moment I stepped out of the elevator, I felt as if I was separated, where should I go? All of a sudden, there was no direction.

When I returned to the residence, everything seemed to be empty, and the feeling of exhaustion hit, I lay heavily on the bed, closed my eyes, and was a little unaccustomed to lying quietly and falling asleep like this. Recalling the scene when the elevator door closed just now, the goodbye sentence was paired with Li Xiaoai's false and beautiful smile, which seemed to mean never to be seen again. I was unwilling to take out the smartwatch from my pocket only to find that the green dot had disappeared, and then I remembered that she had been punctured.

The past seems a little unreal, and if you look closely for the fragments, there is nothing but those thrilling scenes. In fact, we don't have anything to do with each other, and we don't even know each other at all, so what am I still thinking about?

I laughed out loud laughing self-deprecatingly, imagining a lonely wolf on the grassland looking up at a swan flying in the sky, the sky in the background and the beautiful swan like a clean painting, but for the wolf it was just a painting, not reality.

No matter how fast the wolf runs, no matter how wide the field of vision is, there is only that grassland, and she will eventually soar in the sky.

Thinking about it, I fell into a deep sleep...