The night fog started to rise, Xie Lan lived in the old neighborhood, at the junction of the three districts where "the father doesn't care for the mother, but the mother doesn't love it", just in response to the sentence "three monks have no water to eat", the leaders of the three districts If you don't want to manage it, if you don't manage it well, it will only bring trouble, and if you manage it well, it may not count as your own political achievements. So although the location is okay, the law and order has not been very good. The robbery and robbery of roosters have occurred from time to time. Even the plants along the road are not pruned. A lively barbaric mass.
On the way back, I met Tan Bo. Tan Bo sells pancakes during the day, and chuanchuanxiang or hot and sour noodles at night. Anyway, a mobile snack car can do business wherever it is parked.
It's just that the place Tan Bo chose is too remote, and the weather is not good tonight, so the business is particularly bleak. Xie Lan had a good relationship with this old man, and sometimes passing by his snack cart after get off work, he would take care of his business. Tan Bo is also kind, knowing that Xie Lanshan is the "Elvis" in the community, and often gives him boiled chicken breasts and pig livers, and let him go back to feed the cats.
Xie Lanshan said, "Go back early, it's going to rain."
Tan Bo raised his head, pointed at a light pole on the road, and smiled at Xie Lanshan, saying that I found that the street light was broken, so I left a light for this girl who was going home, this road is too slanted and too dark , afraid of accidents.
The thick clouds in the sky blocked the moon, and there was no starlight. If there were no snacks, the lamp on the ceiling would be out of sight.
While they were talking, a young girl rushed towards them in a hurry, and when she saw Tan Bo from a distance, she walked slowly, as if she had calmed down.
The heat in the incense pot was bubbling, and Tan Bochong greeted the girl and said with a smile, "Today is half an hour later than before."
"The head nurse has temporarily assigned a task." The girl approached and said, "Tan Bo, you used to be free from rain or shine, but you didn't set up a stall last night. I don't dare to go this way!"
Tan Bo scratched his head, quite embarrassed: "I had a stomachache yesterday."
Xie Lan smiled, remembering that Tan Bo has always been a warmhearted person. How hot is it? For everyone, it seems that they want to burn out the light of the rest of their lives at one time. Everyone in this world knows him, and anyone who mentions him will give a thumbs up. Once, at the entrance of the bank, a middle-aged woman was robbed by a speeding car thief just after raising 100,000 yuan, and she stumbled a big somersault. , crying in a hurry. Tan Bolu? Injustice, shouted, pushed his snack cart and hit it - the thief was startled, and the wheel slipped and he fell out. The thief fell to the ground and got up again. Lao Tan chased him behind him. He chased him for two blocks. He didn't let go when the other side showed his knife. He subdued him before the police arrived.
This 100,000 yuan is the life-saving money for the woman to replace the kidney for her uremia son. Seeing that Bo Tan was in the draw and the snack cart was smashed, she had to take out 500 yuan to thank him, but Bo Tan refused to accept it. In the end, the police presided over and asked the woman to send Tan Bo a pennant, which read in gold letters on a red background:
Good people live in peace.
The night wind was clear, and there was a little rain in the night sky. Tan Bo watched the young nurse leave, turned his head and smiled at Xie Lanshan again. This old man has been poor all his life, but he never seemed to be afraid of poverty, and always smiled when he met everyone.
"There have been robbery cases around here. Last time, a young girl who was working at night was robbed and was almost molested. I saw your city bureau's police cars were dispatched this morning, and the news also said that there was a big incident. The case." Seeing that Xie Lanshan did not deny it, the old man sighed, "Although this place is remote, it is an intersection. If something really happens, I can see it at a glance. It's a pity that I'm leaving soon, and I won't be able to get out of the stall for a few days. "
Xie Lanshan was slightly surprised: "I haven't heard you mention it during the day, where are you going?"
The old man said that he was leaving the city, and that his daughter was doing well in the south and wanted to pick him up.
"When will you leave?" Xie Lanshan had never known that the old man had a daughter before. He had been living in that kind of cheap rental house, alone, getting up early and late at night to make a living.
"Come on, this week at the latest." Tan Bo suddenly looked gloomy, "I've been in this place for almost ten years, and when I think of leaving, I always feel that the roots are gone, and people are particularly unsteady."
Listen, I actually don't want to go.
"It's good to be old and enjoy yourself." Xie Lanshan moved his mouth slightly, but did not persuade the stubborn old man to close the stall.
Before leaving, he deliberately looked back, Tan Bo was about to be over 7 meters tall, and his spine was bent by the years, and he looked even shorter, but because he worked hard when he was young, he was still sturdy and strong. .
Under the lonely light, such a lonely figure is inexplicably reassuring.
Back at home, Xie Lan was bored. Thinking of what Ding Li said to him during the day, he suddenly had an impulse to go to Tianya to search for the post between him and Mu Kun. However, he sat in front of the computer for five minutes, and Mu Kun's name had already been typed in the search bar. Finally, he restrained his own curiosity and emptied it word by word.
Go into the bathroom, turn on the cold water, and fill the tub.
He took off his clothes, took a deep breath, and sank into the water again.
Forgot when he developed this habit, Xie Lanshan closed his eyes and lay at the bottom of the bathtub, closed the door tightly, controlled his breathing, and wrestled with himself.
Underwater apnea seems like everyone can do it, but it is actually a skill that requires skills. It is necessary to put aside distractions, endure pain, and explore limits and concentrate fully.
After holding his breath for more than five minutes, Xie Lan could clearly feel that his heart rate dropped and his blood pressure changed, but his consciousness was still very clear.
It was only when he was dying that he could control himself from thinking about his undercover time, about guns, drugs, overdose prostitutes, or teenagers dying on the street.
Also, the man who appeared in his dreams many times, covered in blood, seemed to be a victim of a tragic death under Mu Kun's hands.
Xie Lanshan had a good time when he first returned to the police force, and the propaganda articles in the team bragged about him, saying that he was a sharp knife that went straight into the poison's nest. Even more than one film and television company approached him and wanted to make his experience into a movie. But Xie Lanshan did not have the glory and contentment of the hero's return at all, only the deep daze and lingering fear after escaping from hell.
Thanks to the hard training in the police academy, Xie Lanshan was the fastest among the undercover agents sent out to "get ahead". He was steady and silent, acted reliably, never risked his life in a fight, and was a decathlon, capable of speeding, sniping, and carrying artillery, so he was quickly appreciated and kept up with a small leader under Mu Kun.
In a small town less than three kilometers away from the China-Myanmar border, Xie Lanshan hung out with the little leader in a bar. After a few glasses of spirits, the little leader started a conflict with others.
The reason is that he fell in love with an apparently underage girl, but the other party refused to obey him. During the pulling, another apparently underage boy, claiming to be the girl's friend, jumped out to scold and scold.
Mu Kun's subordinates are all hyenas. The little boss still has a heart for girls, but he is rude to the boy dressed as a gangster. Seeing that the little boss was about to draw a gun, Xie Lanshan was quick-witted, pushed him on his wrist in time, slammed the gun back into the opponent's arms, then quickly picked up the wine bottle and slapped the boy on the face.
In fact, he was slightly delayed in the moment of exertion. The pain is of course, but it will not be seriously injured, and it will not be fatal.
The little leader said with a gloomy face: "The wine bottle is not broken."
Xie Lanshan said nothing, raised his hand and burst the bottle with his head.
"Why don't you get out now!" He turned around and scolded the boy with two foul words, and he said to the little boss, "Brother, forget it, you are a big man, and you are not worth taking seriously with such a kid. "
The little boss seemed to have been persuaded by Xie Lanshan, and was helped by Xie Lanshan to walk out of the bar, but just after taking two steps, he suddenly picked up the half-broken beer bottle on the bar and stabbed the boy's neck fiercely.
The young man couldn't dodge in time, and when he fell to the ground, he looked at Xie Lanshan in disbelief.
The sound of a police car was faintly heard in the distance, and the drug dealers in the bar were scattered like mice.
Only Xie Lanshan froze in place. After three or five seconds, he reacted instinctively, took off his T-shirt, and tore the boy's wound.
The young man held Xie Lanshan's hand tightly, and called him with tears in his eyes, begging him: "Big brother... I am also... Chinese, save me... "
The large artery on the left side of the neck was torn, and as soon as the boy opened his mouth, blood spurted like a gushing, splashing all over Xie Lanshan's face.
The little leader scolded behind him: "Xie Lanshan! Do you want to be arrested, what the hell?!"
But Xie Lanshan was unmoved. He raised the boy's left arm above his head and used a professional triangular bandage to compress him to stop the bleeding. With all his strength, he pressed the boy's cervical spine.
But the bleeding still wouldn't stop. The boy's eyes gradually slackened, and his breathing stopped.
Until the police bullet rubbed his ear, another drug dealer shoved him into the car and cursed: "Idiot, everyone is dead!"
"I can't tell, you are still a living Bodhisattva!" After getting rid of the police car's pursuit, the little leader held a gun against Xie Lanshan's forehead, looked at him viciously for a long time, and squeezed out a sentence from his teeth, "If it wasn't for Mu Kun I want to see you by name, and I'll shoot you right now."
Xie Lanshan was covered in blood and did not speak. He was used to being silent at such moments.
"I don't understand, why did Boss Mu want to see him?" Another drug dealer in the same car was not convinced.
"I can fight, and I can fight well." The little boss is still cherishing talent after all, "You can hide in the rainforest for three hours, covered with leeches and motionless, and then turn around and single out three special police officers, can you be a beast? "
"Fighting well?" The man snorted, "I think he looks good."
Xie Lanshan was taken to meet Mu Kun in such a confused way. When they met for the first time, in front of him, Mu Kun showed a gorgeous long saber with his left hand, and with a knife on his back, slit a woman's throat.
He's left-handed, his movements are crisp, and he's used to knives.
At that time, Xie Lan was less than a meter away from this person.
Licking the blood on the knife with his tongue, Mu Kun put the long saber into the scabbard, then put his arms around Xie Lanshan's waist from behind, and pressed against his? To save a person like this, you see, this is not a waste.
This person is a local poppy farmer. He has no grievance with Mu Kun. Mu Kun did not explain why he killed her.
Ironically, this murderous Mu Kun only treated him differently, even if someone suspected his identity, he turned a deaf ear.
Xie Lan? Remember that one day later, Mu Kun squeezed his chin lightly and said half-truly that there are ghosts in your anti-drug team.
Xie Lanshan didn't change his face, and denied without a trace, you mean our country's anti-drug team? Which province's anti-drug corps, or which city's anti-drug detachment
Mu Kun is a cunning and suspicious person. He must dig the background of this person to the bottom of the sky in front of a person, and he has also tried countless times like a surprise attack. The more concealed it is, the easier it will lead to suspicion, so he never concealed from Mu Kun the fact that his father used to be an anti-drug police officer, nor did he deny that he had been expelled from the police academy.
"My dad liked to make some friends in your country's police station before he died, so that it would be convenient for him to deliver goods to the mainland. But after he died, that line was cut off." Fortunately, Mu Kun was just testing him again, and he was very close. Then he told him a secret, "I'm still investigating, I'm going to give you a gift to let you know the real cause of your father's death."
Mu Kun said that he told Xie Lanshan that there was an inner ghost in his father's anti-drug detachment, and they gave him the code name "disciple".
Mu Kun didn't have time to find out, because Xie Lan betrayed him soon after, and he was wiped out in a joint anti-drug operation by China, the United States, and Myanmar, and he disappeared without a trace.
Recalling these old events, Xie Lanshan, who was submerged in the water, unconsciously touched the bullet pendant on his chest. After a brief stroke, his fingers suddenly squeezed the bullet tightly, and the blue veins on the back of his hands protruded and extended, as if spreading. The vine plant, the muscles of his whole body were tensed in this strange posture.
He opened his eyes in the water, gleaming in the dark.