The rain is still falling outside, and for now, this rainy season will not stop anytime soon.

It is already rainy in the south, and during the spring and summer flood seasons, the water level of the Yunhe River rises by three or four meters in just one week, which is not a rare thing. What's more, now under the influence of the monsoon, the entire city is likely to be flooded.

Lin Ming and Zhou Yunkai walked along the edge of the old street, and although the rain was heavy, it was not enough to flood their homes. But the road became a river, and the yellow water swept the whole street.

"What, don't worry?"

Zhou Yunkai held a large black umbrella and walked in front casually.

Because the street shop did not allow the two of them to be side by side, Lin Ming followed behind him, and said as he walked: "That's not true, it's just that I'm afraid that you will be emotionally unstable, so I have to watch you a little bit, in case you get excited, lose your mind, and play something else, it's easy to have an accident." ”

"It's nice to have you as a brother." Zhou Yunkai said calmly: "After calming down, I was a little scared. To be honest, I didn't expect such an idea. I always think that if I see through other people's hearts, I can manipulate them at will, but in fact, even I don't see through myself. ”

"It's normal." Lin Ming said: "Some criminals look like honest people from the outside. Even in the first half of his life, he was a good law-abiding citizen. But once the evil in his heart is ignited, he will become a ruthless murderous demon, and you should have seen more examples of this than I do. ”

Zhou Yunkai has always been a half-righteous and half-evil person, as can be seen from the two groups of people he dealt with in Changyi at the beginning. He does things by any means. As long as he can achieve the desired effect, even if it is a shady method, he can do it completely.

Li Mo's incident proved this truth in the same way.

How could an upright and kind person incite Li Mo's sworn enemies in the Eighth Middle School to come together to attack Li Mo in the alley?

So Lin Ming knew very well that Zhou Yunkai had never been a living bodhisattva. Rather, it is a living Hades.

Even ordinary people, once the evil thoughts in their hearts are ignited, they may become murderous demons. Not to mention a character like Zhou Yunkai, who is already vacillating on both sides of good and evil. Once he completely falls to the evil side, the consequences for this world are really unimaginable.

Zhou Yunkai smiled bitterly: "In your eyes, will I become a ruthless murderous demon in the future?" ”

Lin Ming sighed: "Brother, you and An Ye are the two smartest of our brothers. In the courtyard, you have been a role model for others since you were a child, a leader for everyone, and a well-behaved and obedient student who loves to learn in the eyes of teachers and parents. Learning can rely on copying and diligence, but IQ can't deceive people. The way you two look at us, in fact, everyone understands that it is not on the same level. To be honest, even if you and An Ye go to the Mizuki Junior Class now, we must not be surprised. Because in the future, you and An Ye are destined to go to the world's top universities and have a brilliant life. Because of this, you should be more aware of what your state today means. ”

"What does that mean?"

It means that you are indifferent to human life, ignoring all laws and regulations, and using your own subjective consciousness to manipulate the lives of others. With your clever mind, you should understand. When a person begins to ignore life, it already means that he is not very far from the road of sin. ”

Disregard for life.

It's about taking human life seriously.

Even his own life has been seen very indifferently.

What would such a person, coupled with his highly intelligent mind, do once he embarks on the path of crime?

No one can predict.

Zhou Yunkai looked up at the distant sky in a daze, gray, thousands of drops of rain fell like countless arrows, piercing his heart, making his heart full of gloom.

After a moment of silence, he shook his head and said, "I know, I will listen to you in this matter, and I will pay attention to proportion." ”

The two walked to the intersection of Xiangchun Road, and Lin Ming stopped: "If what Yuan Hao said is the truth, then finding out Hu Jie is a good thing to eliminate harm for the people." But..... I hope you can solve it in the right way, bad people, and there is a law to sanction. And not by your means. ”

"Well, I know what to do. Go back first. Zhou Yunkai nodded and disappeared into the rain.

Lin Ming looked at his back, and after a long while, he turned around and went back.

Originally, I happily accompanied my cousin to the game hall to play games today, but there was a little hooligan who wanted to rob my cousin's money, so naturally there was no way to continue. When Lin Ming went to the game hall to find Gong Jie, he was playing slot machines sullenly, constantly pressing scores, and obviously didn't have the heart to play games anymore.

In fact, in game halls, this kind of thing is very common. Most of the thugs, at most, will rob you of a few in-game coins. There are also some people, like Sun Zhuo, who may be tempted to come directly to blackmail you when they see you revealing your wealth.

How rampant are the gangsters in this era? In his last life, when Lin Ming was a sophomore in high school, he played games in the game hall with a classmate in the class. also encountered a gangster extorting money in the game hall, and at that time, the classmate resisted like Gong Jie, and smashed a gangster's finger with a stool, and the nails were turned open, and the blood was smashed.

This made the gangster furious, and he also drew a dagger to prepare to teach Lin Ming a lesson. Fortunately, the owner of the game hall was as productive as Yuan Hao, and immediately stopped those thugs and forced them to get out. As I said before, those who dared to open a game hall at that time not only had strong social relations, but also had to have a certain status in the road, and the entire game hall occupied three facades, and more than 20 idle people in society were the subordinates of the game hall owner, and they gathered over. The group of thugs didn't dare to mess with the owner of the game hall, so they left in disgrace. Back then, both of them were relatively big-hearted, young, and ignorant, so they didn't care about these and continued to play.

It wasn't until seven or eight o'clock in the evening that Lin Ming and the classmate were satisfied and went home in a leisurely manner.

As a result, the next day, Lin Ming heard the news. The gangsters actually followed the classmate to the house, forcibly kicked the door open, and took the guy to simply prepare to enter the house to retaliate. Unexpectedly, at that time, several uncles and aunts of that classmate were eating and playing mahjong at his house, and there were quite a few of them, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

This is not the key, the key thing is that the second uncle of that classmate was a deputy director of the police station, and the law and order were chaotic in those days, and even if the police were off duty, they were armed with guns. The result of the matter was self-evident, and with guns pointed, the gangsters all went to the prison to pick up soap.

But it does reflect a big problem. In those days, Internet cafes, game halls and other entertainment venues were indeed very chaotic. Not to mention that gangsters will bully children, even ordinary members of society may come to you to "borrow" money.

This time, Lin Ming and Zhou Yunkai were there, Lin Ming's combat effectiveness was off the charts, and three benches were overturned, and Zhou Yunkai deterred Yuan Hao and changed the whole situation.

Otherwise, my cousin is afraid that it will be more than just a violent beating.

"Let's go."

Lin Ming went up and patted his cousin on the shoulder, although Sun Zhuo's people were punished, and his cousin also took revenge himself, but he was really bad, his cousin was now dirty and full of footprints, but fortunately, he protected his head, and there were no traces on his face. Otherwise, when you go home, you will definitely be discovered by your aunt.

Helping Gong Jie clean the dust on his body, the two brothers left the game hall. Yuan Hao, who was at the door, saw him leaving, and said with a flattering smile: "Lin Shao, just call me next time you come to play, and you can play whatever you want here." ”

Lin Ming nodded and went downstairs.

When I got home, it was already more than 7 o'clock in the evening, and there was a Passat parked downstairs, and when I went upstairs, I saw that my father Lin Changqing was practicing calligraphy on the living room table, and the TV was broadcasting the news that the heavy rain had recently caused some road blockages.

"Dad."

"Second uncle."

Lin Changqing replied and continued to wave on the rice paper.

After asking his cousin to go to the room to play on the computer by himself, Lin Ming came over to take a look and found that his father wrote Li Bai's poems.

There will be times when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea.

The writing is powerful, and the pen is quite imposing. Seeing that Lin Ming nodded frequently, he is worthy of being a person who has the courage to resign from his official position and go to the sea to do business two years later, this strength and poetry are still very bold and ambitious.

"Dad, so happy, you're going to be promoted?" Lin Ming looked at this word, and then looked at Lao Lin's eyebrows with a slight joy, and suddenly remembered something.

The old director, who had worked in the Bureau of Statistics for more than 30 years, retreated to the second line two years ago, and most of the entire bureau was presided over by Lao Lin, inside and out. Because the relationship between the upper and lower levels is well adjusted, and Lao Lin is quite good at taking care of the Statistics Bureau, and he is the first executive deputy director and a member of the party group, so he is basically the heir to the next director by default.

But what Lao Lin didn't expect was that at the end of 02, after the old director retired, a director suddenly parachuted down from above, and Lao Lin was still in his original position, without an inch. also took back the power held by Lao Lin, so that he was completely hollowed out in the bureau.

In the previous life, Lin Ming didn't know much about this, and he didn't know the specific situation, but he only heard that he came down to gild, and he had a very good background. In the officialdom, not to mention that Lao Lin will tell him, Fang Lan will not reveal half a sentence.

At that time, Lao Lin was sad and depressed every day, and after working for a year and a half, under the persuasion of his mother, he finally mustered up the courage to resign and go to the sea to do business.

Now it seems.

It turned out that my father didn't have the courage to resign and go to the sea at all, but he was forced to do so, and he was so pressed that he couldn't raise his head, and there was no way.

If you think about it, it's also a normal thing. After all the hard work, he was mixed up with the cadres at the department level and sent to ordinary counties, which are officials at the level of county magistrates and county party secretaries. How can ordinary people have the courage to resign and go to the sea, they can only be forced to have no choice, and the work pressure is high, so they break the kettle and abandon everything to give up their lives.

Otherwise, a fool will throw away the iron rice bowl.

"What nonsense."

Lin Changqing put the pen on the inkstone and picked up the rice paper to look at it carefully.

From time to time, he nodded with satisfaction.

Lin Changqing's education method is very different from Fang Lan's, because he doesn't educate his son at all. Usually facing his son, most of the time he chats calmly, greets each other with a smile, and does not suddenly change his face like his mother. Except for the time when Lin Ming had to ask for leave to make Lao Lin mistakenly think that he was absent from class, he only had a small frenzy, and it was rare to see him lose his temper with Lin Ming. Probably because of his personality, Lin Ming has been a human being in two lives, and he has basically never seen Lin Changqing quarrel and fight with people like shrews scolding the street with a red face and a thick neck, and cultural people always have to be more reserved. Don't look at Fang Lan giving Zulin Changqing face outside, it is a natural worship of the uneducated to the educated, and it will not lift the husband.

But this also indirectly shows that Lao Lin still has a very high status at home. I have been dealing with officialdom for most of my life, and I have learned some skills to control it. Although he was beaming with joy in his heart, he was still very calm and said very reservedly: "Don't go out and talk nonsense about these shadowless things, you know?" ”

"Oh."

Lin Ming sighed, shrugged his shoulders and went back to the bedroom.

He can only express sympathy for what happened to his father next year, and he can't provide any help. Because he can't change anything, and he doesn't want to change anything.

The work of the statistical bureau is quite boring and boring, and the statistical work at the grassroots level is very hard. Lin Changqing is very ambitious, and even such a Qingshui Yamen is well organized up and down, which obviously proves that he is a very capable person.

So for people like Lin Changqing, what he needs is not a fixed place, but a place where he can show his skills. This venue is not necessarily limited to officialdom, but also in shopping malls. Lin Ming felt that as long as he was happy, it would be fine, not like the next year and a half, as if his brows were about to become a mess.

Therefore, in Lin Ming's opinion, instead of continuing to sink into that quagmire, it is better for Dad to come out and break outside. Instead of being limited to being a cow's tail in the Qingshui Yamen of the Statistics Bureau, maybe after coming out, he will find that there is a broader world outside, waiting for him to do a big job.

In fact, Lin Changqing's success in the mall in the future also proves that this is not wrong.