In the middle of the night, Xia Liuyi opened his eyes. What came into view was a television, showing the evening news.
"The police surrounded and blocked an office building in Yau Ma Tei at 10:33 a.m. today and took away some of the staff. The person concerned said that the case is currently in the stage of investigation and confidentiality, and the details are inconvenient to disclose..."
He was still a little dizzy, tried to get up, but found that he could barely move—his hands and feet were handcuffed to the four bedposts with four handcuffs, pulling him into a long big character.
He turned his head to look around and found himself locked in an unfamiliar basement. It was empty, with only a bed, a TV, a sink for washing and a toilet. The door was hung with a heavy iron lock, making it an airtight cell.
He Chusan was sitting beside the bed with his back to him, watching TV intently.
Xia Liuyi was surprised and dazed. Just as he was about to call out He Chusan, the picture on the TV suddenly changed.
"At 12:15 this morning, the police surrounded a private house on XX Road. Nearby residents said they heard a fierce gun battle here. After the gunfire continued for a while, the house exploded..."
The ruins of the villa blocked by the police's yellow line suddenly came into view. The familiar street scene and the remaining bricks and tiles completely awakened his mind and memory, and a harsh roar resounded in his mind - that was Qinglong's villa, it was He sent Cui Dongdong to the place where the leading account book was taken! Why are the police surrounded there? ! Why did the shootout and explosion happen? ! What about Dongdong people? !
Television footage showed several paramedics emerging from the rubble carrying two stretchers filled with body bags, a strand of charred hair leaking from the edge of one of the bags.
Xia Liuyi's breathing suddenly became rapid, his limbs struggled violently, and the handcuffs that were cuffed to the head of the bed made a violent "tinkling" sound.
Only then did He Chusan notice Xia Liuyi's sobriety. He turned his head to look at Xia Liuyi, stood up and approached the head of the bed, "Awake?"
Xia Liuyi stared at He Chusan and pulled the handcuffs hard, "What's going on?!"
He Chusan stated calmly, "Qin Hao is an undercover agent. I gave him your criminal information and helped him carry the Xiaoqitang. I also put the explosives in the villa."
Xia Liuyi looked at him in surprise, completely unable to believe what was happening in front of him, completely unable to believe every word that came out of He Chusan's mouth. But the rubble on the TV screen was a stark reminder that it was happening.
"What did you say? Why did you do it?" he hesitated.
He Chusan reached out and stroked his face gently, his warm fingertips slid down the bridge of his nose along his frowning brows, as if he was a little baby who never grew up, playing with him gently. he.
His eyes wandered along Xia Liuyi's face along his fingertips, and said softly, "You forgot what I said, I always wanted to lock you up, handcuffed to the bed, and wouldn't let you go anywhere. ."
Xia Liuyi felt the cold afterward, and the blood all over his body seemed to be flowing backwards. He finally realized that something was wrong, "Don't talk crazy, what do you want to do? Where is Dongdong? Where is she?"
"I really don't want to make you sad," He Chusan said, but he continued, "When the explosion happened, she and Xiao Luo were surrounded by the police in the villa."
The two black body bags in the TV screen just now appeared in Xia Liuyi's mind, and there seemed to be a thunderous bombardment in his ears. He froze for a long time, still unable to believe, "What the hell are you talking about?"
He grabbed the handcuffs and wanted to reach out and hold He Chusan, "San! What's wrong with you?! Did someone threaten you?!"
He Chusan took advantage of the situation and grabbed his wrist, pulled off the delicately shaped cufflink on the sleeve of his shirt, and broke it with force, pulling out the bug hidden in it. He picked up Xia Liuyi's leather shoes on the foot of the bed, and removed a locator from the heel.
He showed Xia Liuyi these two things, "Your mobile phone, your car, and your office all have these. I know your whereabouts and purpose very well."
He took out an old notebook from his clothes and shook it in front of Xia Liuyi's eyes, "Is this what you asked Sister Dongdong to go to the villa to find? I took it out in advance, and she didn't find it until she died."
Xia Liuyi stared blankly at the notebook in his hand - it was the leading account book of Xiaoqitang, a thing that should not be associated with the clean, innocent, pure and shy He Chusan in his mind. All this presented in front of him caught him by surprise. If it was anyone else who put him in such a situation, he would still be able to think calmly and deal with it calmly, but now his mind is blank... Is this person in front of him really He Chusan
He stayed for a long time before he made a hoarse and weak voice, "Why?"
He Chusan leaned over to his ear and smiled lowly, "Aren't you going to do something dangerous? I abolished your gang, locked your hands and feet, and killed your military advisor, let's see if you can survive. doing what?"
"Are you crazy?!" Xia Liuyi finally roared out.
"Yes, that's it," He Chusan said, "be louder and be more angry."
Xia Liuyi's throat was choked and blocked, and he could no longer make a sound! He looked at He Chusan in astonishment, feeling that the other party had lost his mind!
"Forget it, that's enough." He Chusan said, touching his cold cheek.
He Chusan turned off the TV and walked to the basement door. The bodyguard standing outside immediately locked the door, and He Chusan's footsteps drifted away.
Xia Liuyi lay rigidly on the bed, his heart was numb, and it was like a dream.
…
He Chusan walked up the stairs to the small building and closed the side door leading to the basement. On the sofa in the living room sat Grandpa Qiao and his teacher. Kevin was standing beside them, bending over to pour wine for them.
"Brother He, have a drink?" Master Qiao said warmly and hospitable like the owner of the house, motioning for Kevin to fill He Chusan with a glass.
He Chusan sat down opposite him generously and took the wine glass that Kevin handed over. "Master Joe, did you hear me?"
"I heard! Hahaha!" Joe was overjoyed, his old face wrinkled with laughter! "Brother He did a great job! I think Xia Xiaoliu is going to be pissed off by you! Back then, you provoked the war between Heyi Society and Xiaoqitang by yourself, and you escaped from my place by yourself. I knew you were not easy! This time, I played Xia Liuyi and the poor guy around, and it was easy to get on the throne. It's really young and promising! Hahaha!"
"Where, thanks to Mr. Qiao's trust in me, he promised to help me be the faucet, and he also provided me with manpower and explosives. Otherwise, where would I be able to play alone?"
"But what are you doing with Xia Liuyi?" Master Qiao suddenly stopped smiling, with suspicion and murderous intent in his eyes.
He Chusan smiled, "If you don't see the faucet stick, don't change your words."
Master Qiao asked suspiciously, "You haven't found the faucet stick yet?"
- This is an old rule in the arena: every leading boss will secretly choose a person he absolutely trusts to keep the leading stick for him; in the event of an accident with the boss, the stick holder can convene the elders, help the crowd, and choose another story. People; only when they are recognized by everyone and have a leading stick in their palms can they become a real leading boss. At that time, Xu Ying killed Qinglong but he was unable to take the position, because Uncle Yuan, who kept the dragon head stick for Qinglong, refused to show up.
He Chusan said, "Now Xia Liuyi has run away, Cui Dongdong is dead, but the dragon head stick of Xiaoqitang has not appeared - I guess Cui Dongdong is Xia Liuyi's stick bearer. As long as there is no news of Xia Liuyi's death, as long as there is no news of Xia Liuyi's death. If the dragon head stick did not appear for a day, he was still the head of the Xiaoqi Hall, and I was his acting head.
He stopped talking, took a taste of the red wine, looked at Mr. Qiao, and smiled slightly, "Besides, don't you think that he slept with me for so many years for nothing? I should ask him for it. come."
"Oh!" Master Qiao tasted the taste in his smile and laughed loudly, "It turns out that Brother He has endured humiliation for so many years! Hahaha!" He approached He Chusan while laughing, and asked with a wretched expression, "Hey , In the eyes of your 'that kind of person', like Xia Liuyi, is it very cool to fuck? Especially exciting?"
"Master Joe wants to try?"
"No, no! I don't have this hobby! Hahaha!" Master Qiao leaned back on the sofa, his face crooked with a wrinkled smile, and he didn't notice the icy color that flashed across He Chusan's eyes for a moment.
The atmosphere was warm and friendly again, and the two of them were happy, and they greeted each other respectfully. Master Qiao patted Kevin's back, "Kevin is helping you, are you satisfied?"
Although Kevin worships under the name of Xiaoqitang, in fact, from the very beginning, he was the person who stabbed Qiao into Xiaoqitang. After He Chusan took the initiative to ask Master Qiao for cooperation, Master Qiao assigned Kevin to He Chusan, on the one hand to provide manpower help, and on the other hand to monitor He Chusan's every move.
He Chusan smiled, "Of course I'm satisfied."
"Then I'll give him to you! If there is anything you need brother in the future, just tell him and let him come back to me."
He Chusan glanced at Kevin with a smile, knowing that this was because Master Qiao was worried about him and wanted Kevin to stay and continue to monitor him. "Okay, thank you brother Joe. I'll give you another toast."
…
After a while, Master Qiao took the master to get up to say goodbye, and went out of the courtyard to get into the car. With a cigar in his mouth, he swallowed with his mouth open, and said to the master who had just been silent in the room and had a weak sense of presence, "What do you think?"
"In order to save this kid, Xia Liuyi was willing to give him away even in good places, but he turned his head and stabbed Xia Liuyi at the tip of his heart. He is a ruthless character." Master said, "But he is really good at making money and laundering money. , Xia Liuyi didn't necessarily save him because of his lover relationship, I'm afraid he still can't bear the money he made. This kid is very useful to us, but he has too many hearts, Master Qiao, you can't trust him in the future. "
Grandpa Qiao laughed loudly and patted his thigh. "I know that it is necessary to use people with suspicion, and people who are suspicious also need to be used."
…
He Chusan stood in front of the living room window and watched Lord Qiao's car disappear at the corner of the road. Looking back at Kevin standing behind him, "What did Mr. Qiao tell you just now?"
"Let me continue to monitor you and urge you to kill Mr. Xia." Kevin said.
He Chusan smiled, "Coax him first, and report to him every few days that I tortured Mr. Xia."
"Yes." Kevin replied. He didn't turn his head to look in the direction of the basement, and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Xia is so angry, what are you going to do with Mr. Xia? Are you going to close it like this?"
He Chusan shook the red wine in the glass.
"Shut it up and let him reflect on it."
…
Qin Hao came out of the ward and looked at the two people waiting outside.
"Brother Jiabao, tomorrow people from the Political Department will come to conduct an internal investigation on the two of us. Brother Jiahua asks us to go back to rest early and deal with it seriously tomorrow."
Xie Jiabao glanced at the ward regularly, nodded and said goodbye. Lu Guangming stood beside him without moving his nest, looking at him with a slight smile as if he knew Qin Hao very well.
Qin Hao has known Xie Jiahua for many years, and has never met his "friend". He looks at him with a cold and scrutiny, "Brother Jiahua let you in."
Lu Guangming slipped in, closed the door and walked to Xie Jiahua's bed, incredulous, "You actually want to see me?"
Xie Jiahua leaned on the hospital bed, his face ashen, took the photo of him drinking with Qin Hao in front of him, and said coldly, "Explain."
Lu Guangming looked at the photo and was very at a loss, "Explain what?"
"Did you shoot this?! What does this have to do with you?! Or are you the mastermind behind the scenes?!" Xie Jiahua said angrily. The only person who had followed him and witnessed him meet Qin Hao was Lu Guangming. He couldn't think of another person who could take this photo!
Lu Guangming picked up the photo and looked at it carefully. Xie Jiahua couldn't imagine that he would still pretend, and he wanted to smash him when he picked up the pillow. Lu Guangming hurriedly raised his hands, "Thank you Sir! You have wronged a good person for breaking the law!"
What kind of man are you? ! Xie Jiahua almost scolded.
"Look carefully," Lu Guangming held the photo in front of him, "this photo is fake. Someone cut out your profile, pasted it on the person who was drinking with your undercover brother, and then re-shot it. Maybe because the two photos were taken in a bar or a disco, so the light looks about the same. But if you look closely at your face, there is a shadow in a different direction."
"Do you think, if I did it, do I need to do this?" Lu Guangming said innocently.
Xie Jiahua grabbed the pillow with one hand, grabbed the photo with the other, and observed it carefully. The quality of the photo was blurry and the light was dim. After looking at it for a long time, he realized that there were indeed several different lights, and he did not wear a similar collar when he met Qin Hao. He was excited just now, but he didn't notice these tiny details - Qin Hao must have been impatient and didn't think about it.
He put down the pillow, holding back his anger, but not less suspicious, "How did you know I was admitted to the hospital?"
Lu Guangming smiled and said, "I was at the explosion site. I eavesdropped on your police force's internal broadcast."
"..." Xie Jiahua raised the pillow again.
"Hey, don't, don't," Lu Guangming hurriedly said, a pillow is more uncomfortable than a fist - it will ruin his new hairstyle, "I'm doing business, I suspect that Cui Dongdong went to Hao Chengqing's former residence to fetch a cavalry. Tang's leading account book, otherwise she has no reason to rush there after being rounded up. I wanted to take a look at it secretly, but when I got there, I saw that you were blown away... "
"You said you're not young anymore, why are you acting so impulsive? You rush in without checking." He actually taught Xie Jiahua seriously.
Xie Jiahua, who was eight years older than him, silently raised his pillow again.
"Really don't, really don't, okay, okay, I won't say anything," Lu Guangming said while retreating, "I'll come to see if you're okay." By the way, listen to the corner.
"You'll be fine, I'll go by myself." He said wryly.
Xie Jiahua kept glaring at him until he closed the door and retreated, then threw the pillow and lay back in frustration, feeling that his actions just now were quite naive.
He didn't believe that Lu Guangming was simply looking to see if he was okay. Based on his past experience, the more this kid pretended to be innocent, the more he had a ghost in his heart. But he couldn't think of what benefit Lu Guangming could get by interfering with this matter. What he couldn't understand even more was why He Chusan had the audacity to use the police, and tried his best to squeeze out Xia Liuyi, kill Cui Dongdong, and sit in the position of talking about Xiaoqitang. He felt that He Chusan was not such a greedy and mad person, and he couldn't see the purpose of He Chusan.
Xie Jiahua stayed up all night, rang the bell and asked the nurse on duty to get a pen and paper, drew a diagram of the relationship between the inside and outside of Xiaoqitang, and wrote down all the major events that happened since the day Hao Wei, the father of Hao Chengqing, founded the gang, and the process of changing the leaders of the previous sessions. , Xia Liuyi's abnormal behavior after his succession, and the key information he has in every incident.
He bit his pen and pondered while writing, and before he knew it, the sun was rising.
He threw away the pen and paper, got out of bed, walked to the window, and made a phone call.
"Hello? Duan Sir? I'm Ah Hua, sorry for disturbing you early in the morning."
"It's nothing, a slight concussion, thank you for your concern."
"Yes, I want to ask you for help. I want to contact the Thai branch of Interpol and apply for information about a drug lord named 'Kim Mile'. I heard that last year Thailand focused on cracking down on him and his criminal gang. …Yes, I would like to know when 'Kim Maitreya' first started in the drug business, his past experiences..."
"Okay. I'll leave this to you, thank you."
After making the call, he pushed open the window to let in the fresh air, took a deep breath amid the chirping of birds and insects, rubbed his temples and turned around—I saw Lu Guangming standing at the door of the room smiling, not knowing what to steal. How long have you been listening.
"..." Xie Jiahua.
He was tossed again and again by this man's indomitable cheeks, and he was completely numb, and he had no energy to get angry again.
"What are you doing here again?" he said as he sat back on the bed.
"Seeing that you are alone here with no one to take care of you," Lu Guangming picked up the lunch box in his hand, "bring you a breakfast."
"I… "
Before Xie Jiahua finished speaking, Lu Guangming suddenly slanted to the side, and was pushed aside by the seven or eight young men and women who poured in behind him. These young people rushed to Xie Jiahua's bed like sparrows.
"A Tou!" "A Tou, we're here to see you!" "A Tou! Are you alright? We didn't come over yesterday because we were afraid of disturbing you to rest, and we dared to come to bring you breakfast when it was dawn!" "You Shengjian There are buns, rice rolls, pineapple buns, milk, coffee..." "And the porridge that my grandmother made for you!" "This fool B also bought you a hamburger, can a patient eat a hamburger?! "Why can't patients eat hamburgers?!"
Xie Jiahua was surrounded by his subordinates, and the hall was lively and warm. He looked out from the gap in the crowd and saw the back of Lu Guangming leaving. The lunch box was left alone on a small cabinet by the door.