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Pear blossoms all over the ground. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the trees, in the air, there are broken petals, white as feathers.

Zhong Xian has never seen pear blossoms.

Pears are rarely eaten.

He even thought that the pear blossoms might be pale pink.

But in his dream, the petals fell all over the world, and the petals were as uniform as snowflakes.

No one had ever told him it was a pear blossom, he just knew.

He drove a new car with a wide compartment and an excellent view. The engine sound is soft. The wheels rolled over the petals. Walk through a quiet street.

He still knew he was dreaming. He's going to see that guy again.

――It seems that he is still Deng Yi, the appearance of his youth, and his body looks slender. Sitting quietly in the back seat of the car, that face was not much different from now.

The bell slowly turned the steering wheel and looked in the rearview mirror. Young Deng Yi's eyelids kept lowering, staring at a notebook in his hand.

Zhong Xian slowly turned his head.

"What's that?"

He didn't expect to hear an answer. In his dreams, he never heard the guy speak.

The sound seemed to come from outer space. still has a childishness that has not retired.

"I can't make up your songs."

"Editor...... Arranger?"

"I might, not be your guitarist."

Suddenly, the beat of the drums sounded, and the rhythm was extremely fast. The sound is getting louder. Gradually deafening.

The bell string woke up.

The hotel room reverberated with a loud, rapid thumping sound, like a drum beating. Someone was knocking the door.

The window was already bright, and he was the only one in the hotel room. He got out of bed. Last night's Deng Yi was as if it had never existed, only the bathrobe that had been worn was still on the bed, proving that he had indeed been here. Zhong Xian still tugged at the sleeve on the right side of the bathrobe, but the person inside disappeared like a snake that had been skinned.

The one who knocked on the door turned out to be Dake, who looked very embarrassed. Dressed in a white hotel bathrobe, he was holding a bunch of stuff in his hands - his coat and backpack from last night.

As soon as Zhong Xian opened the door, Dake rushed in. Throw clothes and bags in the closet next to the door. He glanced at the bed, lifted the quilt and checked it, and made sure that there was no one in the quilt, so he fell down and fell asleep.

"What? Escape the famine?" Zhong Xian stood in the doorway and watched this one.

"You were alone last night?" Dake asked, hugging the pillow.

The bell slammed the door. I went to the bedside table and looked at the time on my watch, eight o'clock in the morning. "You haven't slept all night?"

Dake grinned, as if he was laughing, but it was more ugly than crying. "Lao Tzu doesn't have that spirit anymore. And there was a shot. I don't know how to fall asleep. I woke up with urine just now and found that the woman was sleeping next to me...... Ahem, it feels so bad. I don't want to wait for her to wake up, I don't want to see what she looks like during the day, and I don't want to have any communication with her. You were alone last night?"

"Hmm." Zhong Xian rubbed his hair. His head didn't hurt that much. But I still don't get sleep. After thinking about it, he went back to bed and planned to sleep a little longer.

Where did Deng Yi go?

Zhong Xin felt for his phone on the bedside table and looked. Deng Yi did not leave a message on his WeChat. He probably went to work. To be so early?

"Wake me up at ten." Dake said. "I'm going to have dinner with Mi at noon. I'm sure I'll be able to get back together with her today. ”

"Set your own alarm." Zhong Xian said.

"Huh? What about the policeman? What happened last night? Did he find a woman?" Dake asked.

"Nope."

"Alas, why don't you find one for him, everyone is all the way, so you don't have to worry about it in the future."

"Bad luck. Empty heart. ”

"Next time, you can find one for him first, and then you can do it yourself. I could see he wasn't taking my account seriously. When did he leave?"

Zhong Xin did not answer. Fall asleep.

At ten o'clock, Dake got up on time. The person who bathes, dresses, and cleans himself up looks like a dog. Zhong Xian was also woken up by him. I'm amazed that I'm so sleepy today. Get dressed and get ready to go home and go back to sleep.

"Sir Deng was with you last night." After arranging his hairstyle in front of the mirror, Dake suddenly asked. "There are two cups on the table."

"Hmm. We drank a bottle of IE cognac. ”

"Drinking in the room? What did you do?"

"Just drinking."

"And then?"

"You're sick."

"I'm dumber than you. I just understood that you were all together. You're catching a black cat. ”

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Sir Deng is the sheriff of the black cat. You have to build a deep friendship with him. I can see that he eats your tricks, and at least he won't do anything bad to us if we have a friendship. What will you do next to deepen this friendship? Rebelling against him and becoming his own? When we are on the inside line in Black Cat? I've been with you for a long time, and I'm familiar with your ways. ”

"Cooked hair. Do you think dealing with the police is the same as dealing with the people who do the work?"

"As long as it's human, it's the same. Here's what you said. ”

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[What time did you leave?]

When Zhong Xian left the hotel, he sent a message to Deng Yi.

Deng Yi didn't reply to the message for a day.

Zhong Xian didn't take the initiative to look for him again. He contacted his classmates from middle school. found Pierce, the drummer who was in the school band with him in the group of classmates.

Pierce, whose real name is Thick Skin. When I was in middle school, I was white and chubby, and I spoke softly, unlike most boys. But he is very steady, and he is very good with Zhong Xian.

"So you remember me?" After receiving the call from Zhong Xian, Pi Hou seemed surprised. The tone made no secret of his displeasure. "I'm honored. Do you remember my last name?"

"I haven't seen each other in a few years. How are you? I think of you a lot, and I think about it all the time. ”

"Worried about me? It's okay to say something false. You were the one who alienated me in the first place......"

"Where there is estrangement. Everyone went to different universities. It's inevitable. I called to talk to you about the past. Is it convenient for you? How's it going? It's really worrying, especially since you still owe me money. ”

"You kid. Ha~ Only now looking for me, alas. Thick Skin let out a long sigh. The sound of a chair moving came over the phone. It was as if he was looking for a convenient place to speak. "I'm in Guangzhou, buddy...... It's not far from you. ”

"Remember the school band we had in the first place?" Zhong Xian said affectionately.

"What is called 'that band', we have a name, okay or not. My drums are still there. Now it's old-fashioned. What's the matter with you, deliberately mentioning the band makes me sad? Or do you want to do it again?"

"We're all so old."

"It's not even thirty, you're old, it's meant to be playing."

"You're still as enthusiastic as you used to be. Do you remember all the people in the band at that time?"

"Except for you, keep in touch. Ah Diao really did the music-related industry......"

"Ah Diao is the keyboard, do you remember who our guitarist is?"

"Isn't that just you?"

"How do I remember that there seems to be another person? It seems to be surnamed Deng. Probably only went to rehearsal once, and then never worked with us again. ”

"There is no such person. There's something wrong with your brain. I can't remember any of them. ”

"I've had a bit of a problem with my memory lately. I seem to have forgotten a lot of things. ”

Skinny paused for two seconds. "Are you sick?"

"Hmm. After taking some medicine, it became like this. I met someone who seemed to have been in a band together before. He said his surname was Deng. ”

"Nope. There were only four of us. You, I, a carving, a flying saucer. In the beginning, it was just the four of us, and we didn't even think about letting anyone else in. In order to continue playing the band with you, we went to college in the same city as you. You're like a sophomore evaporating from the world. I'm a fool looking for you everywhere. What can't you tell me at the time?"

"I can't say a word or two. Can you put me in touch with someone else?"

"Okay. Waiting for everyone to scrape you alive. ”

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I got in touch with a few more classmates. Including eagles and flying saucers.

It is even more certain that Deng Yi cannot be his classmate in middle school, and there is no possibility of acquaintance.

The scene in that dream, for no reason.

It seems that his familiarity with Deng Yi does not come from the past.

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In the evening, Zhong Xian and Deng Yi contacted WeChat.

Deng Yi replied: [A one-day meeting was held.] ]

[Don't investigate anything today?] Minister, waiting for your summoning at any time. ]

[The case is cancelled.] ]

[?] --[What does it mean to cancel?]

Deng Yi didn't reply for a long time.

Zhong Xian sent a string of question marks. I sent a few more messages to ask.

---[Clarify,]--[Did Xiao Zhu find it?] --- [Or did his parents drop the case?]

Deng Yi replied late in the evening: [Yes. Xiao Zhu contacted his parents. ]

It seems that Deng Yi doesn't want to say a word more.

Zhong Xian was puzzled.

Then another question came to his mind. Deng Yi had no reason to see him again.

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Zhong Xian drove the car and circled around the area for a long time.

This is the Linhai Development Zone along Chuangye Road. The 'glass curtain wall falling incident' happened at the HY construction site here.

When he first intervened in the project, the two buildings on the site had just finished their foundation work, standing like dinosaur skeletons on the empty suburban green space, waiting for people to continue to fill it with 'flesh'.

This was really a piece of fat in the eyes of Zhong Xian at that time.

Now the construction has begun to take shape. Sleek and modern design - two sub-buildings connect the two wavy arc buildings in the middle. The glass curtain wall of the entire building has been installed, and the whole body is light gray, sparkling in the morning sun.

Zhong Xin got up early in the morning and drove around the area. I want to see what people are coming in and out of here for the past two days. It's about seeing what kind of impact that incident has.

There are no press cars, and there are no police.

As he expected. Everything looks normal. Workers came and went as usual, and the final construction was not affected. I don't even know that there was an accident here the other day. There are many people who do not want the situation to be magnified. It will be the entire chain of interests that suffers. He's just the most hideable part of the chain.

There's no need to mess with it.

In front of the construction site, some people came out. For example, several inspectors of the supervision unit and the construction unit. The clothes are fairly clean and tidy, which is completely different from the construction crew. They wear white or yellow or blue hard hats on their heads, indicating the difference in the unit they belong to.

The men parted at the door. They got in the car and left. It looks like we had just had a meeting in the internal conference room of the construction site.

One of the last waves to come out caught the attention of the bellstrings.

The man was wearing a white hard hat. At this time, he was talking to a few people in front of the door of the construction site.

Zhong Xian drove the car closer. Stopped on a section of road at the entrance of the construction site that is not open to traffic. (It is often used as a temporary parking lot for construction workers.) ）

Zhong Xian stared at the man through the car window.

After a while, the man suddenly turned his head and looked at the Grand Cherokee of the bell strings through a few cars that had just started.

For a moment, both of them were surprised.

The bell simply lowered the window. Smile.

That's right. It's him.

A white hard hat covers his forehead, and he also wears a pair of rimless glasses and a gray jacket. Mixed in with these people, it doesn't seem particularly obtrusive. But it's very different from usual.

Deng Yi was obviously even more surprised, looking at Zhong Xian's car and stunned for a while. Then he said something to a few people around him, and walked towards Zhong Xian's car. While taking off the hard hat on top of his head unnaturally.

Zhong Xian kept smiling.

But in my heart, the river is turned upside down.

How did Deng Yi end up here?

Will the construction party call the police?