"Brother Fan, aren't we just going to make an appointment to eat together, how can I come back after eating!" Xue Ling'er shook Li Fan's arm coquettishly.

"Oh oh! yes! I'm a little busy with my brain, what do you want to eat?"

"There's a new music bar in front of you, let's go see it, okay?"

"Okay! Let's go there!" Li Fan suppressed his frustration, forced a smile, and took Xue Ling'er's hand and walked towards the music bar together.

After entering the music bar, the two found a booth in the corner and sat down. In the stereo, Cai Qin's classic old song "Forgotten Time" is playing:

Who is knocking on my window?

Who's tickling the strings?

That forgotten time......

The two of them were listening fascinated, and the waiter came over with the menu and began to enthusiastically introduce the dishes and order songs.

"Can you order a song?"

"yes! The song that is playing now was ordered by the beautiful woman over there!"

Li Fan followed the waiter's gaze and saw that there was a short-haired beauty wearing a black tight sweatshirt sitting alone on the card seat in the other corner, which was Nie Qingqing, the criminal police captain of the Coal City Police Station who came to the company to investigate Su Qiaomei's disappearance a few days ago.

Seeing Nie Qingqing, a nameless fire in Li Fan's heart immediately surged up, and he said in a low voice: "Ling'er, you can order food, anything, I'll go over and ask that person something!"

Without waiting for Xue Ling'er to speak, Li Fan stood up, slowly walked to Nie Qingqing's seat, and sat down opposite Nie Qingqing without saying a word, staring straight at Nie Qingqing with two indifferent eyes.

Nie Qingqing didn't look at Li Fan, his eyes were still fixed on an oil painting on the wall where a family was having a happy dinner, and said coldly: "Is it appropriate to harass other women in front of your own horses?"

"Hehe, I didn't expect that such a cold-blooded and ruthless person as you would appreciate Cai Qin's song!"

Hearing this, Nie Qingqing glanced at Li Fan, and said in a colder tone than just now: "Do you want to autopsy the police have their own considerations, you don't need to be taught by a small citizen like you, if you are not satisfied, you can go to the Municipal Legal Committee to complain, don't get in the way of this girl's eyes!"

"You ......" Li Fan was choked by Nie Qingqing's words, stood up and left.

Back in his seat, Li Fan was still angry, glaring at Nie Qingqing with angry eyes from time to time.

Xue Ling'er looked at the side for a while, lowered her head and thought for a while, and said, "Brother Fan, is she your former girlfriend?"

When Li Fan heard this, he looked at Xue Ling'er with a surprised face and asked, "Ling'er, why do you think so?"

Xue Ling'er looked at Nie Qingqing's delicate appearance and hot body, and said with a lonely expression: "Generally, only couples who quarrel will be like this!"

Li Fan gasped and said, "If I, Li Fan, had found a cold-blooded girlfriend like her, I would have died a long time ago!" After speaking, he glared at Nie Qingqing fiercely.

Although it was quite far away, Li Fan's high-pitched words were still heard by Nie Qingqing.

I saw Nie Qingqing glaring back at Li Fan with cold eyes, gesturing at his throat with the palm of his right hand, and at the same time sticking out his tongue and rolling his eyes, then turned his head and continued to look at the oil painting on the wall.

"Look, look, is this a woman!" Li Fan was once again enraged by Nie Qingqing's provocative actions.

Xue Ling'er was amused by Nie Qingqing's actions, and comforted Li Fan and said, "Don't pay attention to her, it's good if it's not your girlfriend, I'm here to accompany me today, I'm happy, let's order a song!"

Li Fan took a few deep breaths, slowly calmed down, took the song list, glanced at it a few times, and saw a song, Faye Wong's "Chess Pieces".

This song reminded Li Fan of Su Qiaomei, who died tragically, and remembered the ordinary people around him who were at the mercy of others, and felt sad for a while.

"Just order this song!"

The waiter looked at the name of the song and told the song table with a walkie-talkie. After a while, the DJ's voice sounded in the stereo: "Let's enjoy the song ordered by Mr. Li at Table 9, Faye Wong's "Chess Pieces""

Want to get out of your control

But he walked into the battle situation you arranged

I didn't have a strong defense

There is no way back

I want to escape from the trap you have set

But it fell into another predicament

I didn't have the courage to decide to lose

There was no luck in escaping either

I'm like a chess piece

It's up to you to decide whether you're going to go or what you want to do

I'm not the only general in your eyes

But it's an inconspicuous creep

I'm like a pawn

It's up to you to come and go

Raise your hand without regrets, you never hesitate

but I am in your hand......

Li Fan's mood slowly fell to the bottom with the music, and he sighed and said to Xue Ling'er:

"Ling'er, don't you think that ordinary people are like chess pieces, as the lyrics say, they can't escape the realm controlled by the powerful, and they can't ......help themselves?"

Perhaps influenced by music and Li Fan, Xue Linger said with emotion:

"Then what's the solution, just take my job search today, except for the old Chinese medicine hospital where your mother works, all the hospitals in Coal City are opened by the Chen family, I studied Western medicine clinical medicine, and finally got a doctorate, and it is impossible to do anything else, if you want to stay in Coal City, you can only work for the Chen family, is it difficult to change careers or drink wind at home......

"It's the Chen family ...... again" Li Fan ate a few bites of food in distraught, and inadvertently glanced at Nie Qingqing in the corner over there.

If you don't look at it, after looking at it, Li Fan was stunned on the spot, only to see Nie Qingqing still silently staring at the oil painting on the wall, but his face was full of tears at some point.

She's ...... What's wrong? Moved by the song? Or is it the painting? That painting is ...... Oh, a happy dinner for the family...... Is it homesickness? Such a cold-blooded person can also be homesick? No, the tears are not fake, she may not be the kind of person I imagined......

The cool breeze in the evening came, Li Fan took off his suit and draped it on Xue Ling'er's body, and took her smooth little hand to stroll along the path of Central Park.

From time to time, there are a few couples in love on the benches on the side of the road, but more of them are students who come here to endorse.

What awaits them when they enter society full of hope? It is an unshakable pattern of interests, and it is a variety of social rules that are set up for ordinary people and the powerful do not need to abide by......

Li Fan was thinking about it gloomily in his heart, and at the same time looked at the path ahead with gloomy eyes.

After looking forward to it for a few years, today I finally went on a date with my sweetheart, Xue Ling'er didn't notice the loneliness in Li Fan's heart at this moment, and was immersed in incomparable happiness, looking at Li Fan with tender eyes and saying:

"Brother Fan! there's an empty chair, let's go sit for a while!"

"Oh...... Okay, I'll buy a newspaper cushion for the chair. ”

There was a newsstand on the side of the road, Li Fan bought a newspaper casually, the two walked to the empty bench, Li Fan took out a newspaper and handed it to Xue Ling'er, and unfolded one himself, and was about to spread it on the bench, the two news on the newspaper attracted Li Fan.

One is that a corrupt official was found to have embezzled hundreds of millions of public funds, but he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, performed well in prison, and was released from prison after three years.

The other is a young man who went to an ATM to withdraw money, encountered a machine failure, spit out an extra thousand yuan, the young man did not report to the bank, quietly took the money, was found out afterwards, and was sentenced to life imprisonment......

Li Fan crumpled the newspaper into a ball and threw it into the trash can next to him, Xue Ling'er was stunned when he saw it, and asked, "Brother Fan, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh...... It's nothing. Ling'er, I haven't watched a movie for a long time, why don't I take you to the movie?"

"Okay!" Xue Ling'er stood up excitedly when she heard this, took Li Fan's hand and walked out of the park.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Fan returned home after sending Xue Ling'er back, and saw that the lights were still on on the back balcony, and walked over to see that Father Li was sitting on a wicker chair on the balcony drinking.

Li Fan walked into the balcony and sat down on another rattan chair, took out a cup, poured himself a glass of red wine, took a sip and said, "Dad, is there anything bothering?"

Father Li didn't answer his son's question, his melancholy eyes were still staring at the dark night ahead, and said, "You're also here to drink, are you in a bad mood?"

"Oh, something happened to a colleague......"

"You're talking about Su Qiaomei!"

"Dad, you know?"

"It's all in the newspapers, who doesn't know about Coal City! The police forcibly cremated the body without an autopsy, you think that the life of ordinary people is too low, and you feel a little lonely, right?"

“...... Dad, what are you worried about? Are you also dissatisfied with this social situation?"

"Hehe! Dad is long past your bookish age. I heard that there is a very talented and righteous official in Shengjing who may come to power in a few years, and now instead of complaining about the general environment all day long, it is better to deal with the small environment around you, so that you and your relatives and friends can live as well as possible, isn't it?"

"So what are you bothering about?"

"I'm not annoyed by the unfairness of the environment, but because I can't think of a solution to the problems around me. ”

"Take care of what is going on around you......"

"Yes! No matter what the general environment is, you are already in the middle of the right and wrong of the small environment, you can't do nothing, just wait for social justice!"

"yes...... We are already in the middle of the rights and wrongs of the surrounding environment...... You can't do nothing......"

Lying on the bed after washing, Li Fan couldn't sleep for a long time, and Su Qiaomei's voice came from his ears again: "Brother Fan, I'm bothering you for my business......"

"Qiaomei, this is not just your business, do you think you are the first girl to be ruined by Chen Fugui?

"Brother Fan, I'm already dead, I don't want you and my parents to get into trouble again, or ...... Forget it...... Anyway, the vitality of the small wooden knife can only support me for three more days...... Woowoo woo ......"

"Qiao Mei! Each of us is already in the middle of right and wrong, can we avoid tomorrow if we avoid today? Today is a colleague, tomorrow it may be the turn of a relative or friend......

"Brother Fan! you're going to get in trouble!"

"Don't underestimate Brother Fan, Chen Fugui will get the punishment he deserves, and your parents and I won't be in trouble, believe me!"

"I believe you!"

The next morning, Li Fan went to the bank and took out 30,000 yuan from his card, together with Ding Feng's 100,000 yuan and 1,300 yuan donated by everyone in the company, and remitted them to the bank account of Su Qiaomei's father provided by Su Qiaomei with a virtual identity, and then got on the bus to Su Qiaomei's house.

Sitting on the seats in the last row of the bus, Li Fan looked at the empty bus with lonely eyes, and Su Qiaomei's voice sounded in his ears:

"Brother Fan, why did you send so much money to my father! That's your own money!"

"Your parents have to repay their debts, and they have to go back to their hometown to live, hundreds of thousands are barely enough, Brother Fan still has some savings at home, don't worry. ”

"Brother Fan...... Thank you...... Woowoo...... You're a good person......"

"Later, you must persuade your parents to leave the coal city with your ashes early tomorrow morning and go back to your hometown in the countryside!"

"Yes, they should get out of this place too!"

Walking through the dirty alley, Li Fan knocked on the wooden door of Su Qiaomei's house.

Father Su opened the door and saw that it was Li Fan, so he hurriedly let him into the house and closed the door. After asking Li Fan to sit down on the chair, Su's father and Su's mother also sat down slowly on the edge of the bed.

"They...... They forcibly cremated Qiaomei's body...... No one avenged us......!

"Dad, Mom, don't be sad, take my ashes back to my hometown in the countryside! My daughter is dead, you two elders should take care of your health...... Woo woo woo ......" Su Qiaomei conjured up her body and sat on the edge of another bed.

When Su's father and mother saw Qiaomei come out, they trembled and walked forward a few steps, stopped again, didn't dare to stretch out their hands, stood in place and cried.

Li Fan stepped forward and helped them back to the edge of the bed and sat down, waited for their mood to stabilize a little, and asked, "What kind of work are you doing now?

"We are all sanitation workers, we haven't been to work for a few days, and we have been dismissed by the unit......"

"Is there still a house in the countryside?"

"There are also a couple of ancestral houses...... Relatives and friends in the village helped to watch it......"

"Don't worry, some friends have donated money to you, and what is enough for you to pay off your debts has already been credited to your bank account. ”

"Then thank them for me, you are all good people......"

"Money must not be exposed, and no one should be told about receiving this money. ”

"Good, good!"

"Dad, Mom, you can go back with my ashes tomorrow morning! Leave early, don't get into any more trouble!"

Su's father wiped his tears, gritted his teeth and said, "No! Dad is going to petition and avenge you!" When Su's mother heard this, she cried again.

"Dad, don't go! You can't fight those people, if something happens to you again, who will take care of your mother......!

"Don't go, do you want you to die in vain?" Woo woo woo ......," Su's father said, leaving another tear of pain.

Seeing that Qiao Mei couldn't convince Father Su, Li Fan thought for a while and said, "Uncle and aunt, people didn't believe in gods and ghosts before, but now you have seen Qiao Mei's ghost with your own eyes, do you believe it?"

"Letter! Although Qiaomei is dead, she can still meet and chat with us in the future!"

"Mom, Dad, I can only stay for two more days, and after two days I can't keep anymore, I can't stay with you...... Woowoo woo ......"