27

In fact, deep down, Zhong Xian never felt that there was really something serious wrong with his memory. Although he may find that he has forgotten the name www.biquge.info of an acquaintance and forgotten a common number string, these are just small things, and those who have been forgotten may be suddenly remembered. But the important things, such as the experiences of each day, the specific things that happened and the people he met, how can he forget and cannot forget.

He hadn't seen the girl. The girl shouldn't have seen him either. She was able to call his name, probably because Zhu had told her about it, or because she had seen a group photo of a company event, and then the girl remembered him. This is the most plausible explanation.

The girl only needed to say this, but she didn't say a word. When Deng Yi repeated the question for the third time, Zhong Xian felt that he might be suspected again, which made him deeply annoyed.

Zhong Xian directly reminded the girl: "Xiao Zhu mentioned me to you, right?" ”

The girl hesitated, her eyes wandering rapidly, and she leaned forward, as if planning how to escape. Then she nodded.

"That's it." Zhong Xian finally waited for her to nod and immediately turned to Deng Yi and said. "Otherwise, there is no other possibility."

Deng Yi stared at the girl, the dark pupils were motionless, he still wanted to confirm: "Is it the first time you have seen this surnamed Zhong?" Are you going to hide it from the police? He confirmed to the girl for the fourth time, his tone a little tougher.

The girl looked frightened, and she shook her head. "It's not...... Not the first time I've seen you. ”

Zhong Xian was stunned, and then looked at her helplessly. He thought the kid was talking gibberish.

"Where was the last time you saw him?" Deng Yi continued to ask.

"Before...... In the guesthouse. ”

"What?" Zhong Xin felt his brain congested.

"In the hotel? Take your time and don't rush. Deng Yi's voice became gentle, and he moved closer to the girl, which was equivalent to blocking between Zhong Xian and the girl, as if he was afraid that someone would interfere with the girl's answer. Zhong Xian had no choice but to say nothing and watched this scene silently.

"Brother Zhu, he took me out...... Once, one day in the first two months of my arrival," the girl whispered, "he said he wanted to take me to meet his buddies, and he wanted to talk to them about business and cooperation...... If we can make his buddies happy, we'll have the money...... He said that I was his wife and that I should also contribute......"

"Is the buddy he took you to see the one in front of you?" Deng Yi stretched out the index finger of his right hand backwards and pointed at the bell string. Zhong Xian frantically put his hands in his pockets.

The girl nodded.

"Nothing!" Bell String muttered in protest. The girl was too frightened to speak. Deng Yi turned his head and stared at Zhong Xian, who immediately waved his hand at him, "You continue to ask." I'm far away. He took a few steps back.

"You forgot." The girl looked at Zhong Xian, who was five steps away, "Brother Zhu also bought two bottles of wine to bring to you, because you like to drink." She began to fumble in the pocket on the side of her skirt, and after a while she pulled out an old black Huawei phone. Deng Yi moved lightly to her side. The girl tinkered on her phone for a while, and then asked Deng Yi to look at it. Gradually, Deng Yi's eyes staring at the girl's mobile phone screen became more and more serious, and then he snatched the mobile phone from the girl's hand, slid it back and forth with his index finger, and two minutes later, he glanced at Zhong Xian, who was deliberately standing far away, and walked towards him with the girl's mobile phone.

"Look at it." Deng Yi handed the phone to Zhong Xian, and grabbed the latter's shoulders to push him away so that he could speak.

When Zhong Xian took the mobile phone, he saw a photo on the mobile phone screen - the background was a hotel room, there were wine bottles and wine glasses on the table in the middle, several people were huddled together, and only the faces of three people could be seen in the photo, and the one in the middle was Dake, and behind him was Zhong Xian, who was drinking with his head held high. One of Dake's arms was around Xiao Zhu, and the other person next to Xiao Zhu only took half of his body.

Zhong Swiped his finger to look at the other photos, swiping back was a selfie of the girl's own life, and forward was still a photo of the person in the hotel, and the people in the photos seemed to have been taken without knowing it. I finally found a different one, it was a selfie of the girl in the hotel, she stretched out two fingers to make a cute shape, the photo only shined on her head and smooth shoulders, white and tender, as if she was not wearing clothes, and the person in the background was Zhong Xian.

"What is this?" Zhong Xian was puzzled, and hurriedly swiped back the screen, and finally saw a half-length selfie of the girl. Then it dawned on him. It's not that he forgot, it's that the girl's appearance has changed dramatically. The girl in the photo is much more fashionable than it looks now, wearing a black bandeau bodysuit, long hair that reaches to the waist, waterfall-like, and a round face that looks narrow and small, with heavy makeup and false eyelashes. What the lower body is wearing, the photo does not shine. The figure is much thinner than now, and the round and earthy village girl in front of him is like two people.

Zhong Xian handed the photo back to Deng Yi to see. "I've seen it, but I didn't expect it to be a person. And......" he hesitated for a moment, but decided to say it directly, "and, I didn't know who brought her at the time. You see her dressed like this? I thought it was someone who recruited the chicken. This one...... What is Xiao Zhu doing? I have a girlfriend who doesn't know how to toss. I also saw a photo of Xiao Zhu showing off among his colleagues, which is not at all like it is now, nor is it like what it looks like in this photo. That one is much more pure and beautiful, and if you don't identify it carefully, it's hard to see that these three are the same person. ”

Deng Yi took the phone and didn't look at the photo of the girl with heavy makeup, obviously he had seen it just now. He just stared at the bell strings with a pair of shining eyes. "What were you doing?"

"You mean in the picture? Let's have a normal party. ”

"Is there a co-worker party?"

Zhong Xian shook his head: "No, it's to accompany customers." Only me and Dake, and the others are related people on the GT company's project, how can Xiao Zhu be there? If I'm not mistaken. There shouldn't be him. But the photo can't be fake, maybe he came later, and he came after we had eaten and drunk. ”

"That is to say, you are entertaining customers, and after eating, you went to the hotel to accompany you."

"That's what it means."

"What do you want to do at the hotel?"

"It's just to keep playing and keep them happy. It's all about work. Those people ......," Zhong Xian shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Is it a collective call for chickens?"

Zhong Xian was stunned. At this time, Deng Yi became a policeman in his eyes. He immediately denied: "No! ”

"Then how do you think this girl is the chicken who called it? And you choose to continue playing in the hotel? Why is it a hotel, is KTV bad? ”

Zhong Xian opened his mouth and closed it again, as if he had been greatly wronged, "Isn't there any chicken in KTV?" God, that's how you look at me. ”

"If your customer has this special request, will you not be satisfied?"

"Yes. I admit that it will, no matter what the client asks, how could I pass up the opportunity. But I'm not going to go into battle to call chickens myself. I'll leave this kind of thing to Dake...... Leave it to someone else. "This seems to have become a difficult problem to solve, and no matter how you answer it, it is full of loopholes." Myself...... Won't spend money on a woman. He had no choice but to say so.

"I'm sure you don't." Deng Yi said. "In order to please customers, for the sake of luxury cars and famous houses, and for the future interests, endure some disgusting and let go of some principles, but this is not impossible to do."

Zhong Xian didn't want to say more. It's just going to get darker and darker. "If you don't believe it, forget it. Does this have anything to do with Xiao Zhu's disappearance? ”

Deng Yi didn't say anything more, he turned around and walked back to the girl. The girl was still standing cautiously in the corner. Officer Deng gave her the phone back.

"Has your brother Zhu told you how to be happy with his buddies? What did you do? Deng Yi asked gently.

"I will do whatever he tells me to do. I don't understand. The girl replied honestly.

"Did he make you dress like that? The hair is fake, right? Still wearing such heavy makeup? ”

The girl nodded, her face flushing again. "I don't think it's good either."

"What are the specific things he asked you to do, can you tell me?"

"Drinking, talking, running errands......"

"Anything else?"

The girl thought seriously.

"Sleep with them?" Deng Yi reminded her, "Did he say that he could make a lot of money in this way?" ”

Although Deng Yi's tone was very calm, the girl was still startled, she glanced at the front casually, and then lowered her head: "No." I'm his wife. And not stupid. She lowered her head deeply.

28

Leaving the old and remote factory,

The two men walked among the dead silence of the grass and the trees. The shells of dead unknown insects scattered on the road occasionally make a crisp sound under their feet, and they keep their heads down as if they are looking for a lost item, and their eyes are still inevitably getting mud on their shoes as if they were looking for a place to land on the muddy ground.

Zhong Xian felt annoyed, knowing that in such weather, he couldn't keep it clean, but he still wore too much and ruined a good pair of shoes. Deng Yi walked in front of him. Zhong Xian knew that the guy must have a lot of thoughts in his head and couldn't figure it out, so he kept silent and quietly moved behind him.

Deng Yi paused at a stone and looked up: "The scenery here is really good. ”

The bell strings followed him, and the wind blew through the barren meadows, through their hair, and toward the bushes. The eyes here are full of green, not as neat and beautiful as the green area in the center of the city, but there is more of a natural beauty of sparse silhouette, with green and verdant winding ups and downs. Zhong Xin couldn't help but take a deep breath, because he thought that oxygen should be the most abundant here,

"Are you still going on a trip?" Deng Yi spoke slowly. "What scenery can solve the confusion in your heart. You can't even enjoy the scenery in front of you. ”

Zhong Xian didn't know what the other party meant by this, so he was silent.

Deng Yi continued: "I think you yourself know that tourism can't solve your problems. ”

Zhong Xian looked down at his soiled shoes, feeling sleepy in his heart. This surnamed Deng is really powerful, like a roundworm in his stomach. "Ask whatever you want." He said. "But if you want to ask me if I've slept with that girl, I'll tell you, I haven't touched a finger of her."

"I didn't doubt that." Deng Yi turned around and smiled at him, staring at him with a pair of bright eyes. "It's a pity ......"

"It's a pity?" Zhong Xian asked with a tense face.

The light in Deng Yi's eyes bent into an incredible shape, and there was a looming sadness in his expression, as if something had made him feel lost.

"Pity me?" Zhong Xian asked deliberately. "Did I break any law?"

Deng Yi's gaze turned away from his face, drooped down, and then raised it again for a moment to look ahead.

"What a man!" He said, and continued to walk forward.

It was as if something had shattered with this sigh of emotion.

Zhong Xian stood in place in a daze. He didn't understand why he felt bad. He took a deep breath and caught up with Deng Yi.

"Are there any other arrangements for today? Sir？ You don't have time for lunch. Let's find a place to have dinner, I'll please. Zhong Xian sincerely flattered all the way.

Deng Yi glanced at him, "You have to go out of the car and 'blood', even if you help me, you don't need to do this." ”

"Haven't I been idle lately? I'm afraid you'll doubt me. I want to quickly find out the suspicion. Zhong Xian said with a grin. I'm not asking you for nothing, I have a request. ”

"Say, I don't have to say yes."

Zhong Xian said clearly: "You can doubt me. You can also investigate me. It makes me uncomfortable, but I know it's what you have to do. I have only one request, whatever you suspect, please ask me directly, don't hide it from me, give me a chance to explain, and don't make judgments and conclusions directly. ”

Deng Yi didn't answer him immediately. They hadn't been until they had reached the car before he nodded slightly.

"You promised?" Zhong Xian hurriedly confirmed.

Deng Yi nodded again. "Okay."

"Then you ask."

"Ask what?"

"Do you dare to say you don't doubt it now?"

Deng Yi took one last look at the sky in the suburbs and opened the car door. "I doubt it, but I can't ask anything right now."

After they got into the car, Deng Yi spoke again. "Ask someone who has nothing to do with the case. You don't travel or go to work, so you plan to follow me like this? ”

"Actually, I had a plan. I've scheduled a month of travel and the next month to start a new project. Zhong Xian said. As you said, I also feel that travel may not be useful to me now. used this month to accompany you to solve the case, but ......"

"Then you're planning to pester me every day." Deng Yi sighed, a little dragging but showing that he didn't hate this. "How do I remember that you are a person who always keeps your distance from others."

Zhong Xin started the car, and at the slight sound of the engine, he searched for answers in his head. "You're not like anyone else." He started the car and drove slowly. "We talk differently. What you say to me, I sometimes wonder if it's my hallucination, how can anyone really care about my psychology and my problems? It doesn't matter what your purpose is, you're not the same as anyone else. ”

The car pulled off the dirt road and onto a relatively wide road.

Zhong Xian didn't hear Deng Yi's response, he turned his head and saw Deng Yi's eyes looking at him very intently.

They stared at each other for a full ten seconds. The wheel rolled over a stone. The bell strings braked immediately.

"Why are you staring at me without looking at the road?" Deng Yi said slowly.

"Why are you staring at me again?"

"I'm staring at you to wonder why you're staring at me."