This time point instantly aroused Gu Xizhou's vigilance. This day was the day when Zhizhi's parents died, but he didn't know the reason why Zhizhi's parents died. Because Zhizhi never mentioned this matter, Gu Xizhou asked twice. After that, I didn't dare to ask again.
After having breakfast, while Squeak went out, Gu Xizhou saw a 17- or 18-year-old boy walking out from the gate of the community from a distance, holding a trolley case in one hand, and shouting to the people behind: "You still know that there is me like this. Son? Yesterday I was in the hospital for an infusion, and the doctor asked me why my family didn't come! The doctor helped me with the card payment, what are you and my mother doing? Are they more important or me?"
"Forget it, I don't want to quarrel with you, just think about it and talk about it!"
The boy was tall, 1.8 meters tall, wearing a white T-shirt with a huge logo printed on it, dressed like a student.
His hands are clean, with well-defined joints, his fingers are long and evenly white, his jet-black hair is slightly reddish in the sun, a halo falls on his body, his eyelashes form a fan-shaped shadow on his face, and the black eyelashes are slightly curled.
It's just that he was full of anger, and after dragging the trolley case with one hand to vent his dissatisfaction at the entrance of the stairs, he ignored the people who were chasing after him, and dragged the trolley case away directly.
It was the first time that Gu Xizhou saw Zhizhi who was so irritable as a child in the rebellious period. He was obviously a little kid who ran away from home after a quarrel with his parents.
As soon as the eighteen-year-old Gu Zhizhi left, Gu Qing chased after him. Seeing the back of Gu Zhizhi leaving, he reluctantly kicked away a stone beside his feet, obviously a little dejected.
At this time, Gu Qing had more age marks on his face than when Gu Xizhou met him before, but he still couldn't hide his handsome appearance, and his body was straight.
Gu Zhizhi stood aside and stared at Gu Qing, a little lost.
"Ha," Gu Qing felt a little weird when he saw the young and handsome man looking at him. There seemed to be a lot of emotions in the other's eyes that he couldn't understand. "That was my son, arguing with me, I was too busy yesterday.
"He can't walk, but I really don't have time with my mother. There is a case still under investigation..."
Gu Zhizhi was silent. After a while, he found that Gu Qing was embarrassed that no one answered after he spoke. His voice was slightly choked, and he said in a low voice, "He will understand you later."
Gu Zhizhi's father, Gu Qing, smiled helplessly, shrugged and said, "I hope, but in the end it's my fault, alas..."
Hearing what Gu Qing said, Gu Xizhou felt a sudden throbbing in his heart, and then Gu Zhizhi lowered his voice slightly and said again, "He will."
Gu Qing nodded to Zhizhi, and then said, "Why do I feel like I've seen you somewhere?"
Gu Zhizhi looked at Gu Qing with his eyes, "Maybe."
Gu Qing was silent for a while before he hummed, and then waved to Gu Zhizhi, "I'm going back."
After Gu Qing left for a long time, Gu Zhizhi's voice was slightly choked up.
"good."
Gu Xizhou knew that Gu Zhizhi was answering Gu Qing's last sentence, "I'm going back." In the next second, Zhizhi seemed to disappear. Gu Xizhou looked at his empty hands and frowned slightly in discomfort. I saw an unexpected person.
The boy was holding the trolley case, his eyes slightly bent, the corners of his lips pulled, the other finger pointed at Gu Xizhou, and said with a look of surprise: "Uncle, it's you!"
Gu Xizhou was stunned. At this time, the young Zhizhi didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued to talk to himself: "No, you don't seem to have changed at all, and why do I think you look a lot like me?
"Really like it!"
Eighteen-year-old Zhizhi muttered to himself.
The two were standing on the edge of the street. Gu Xizhou lightly raised his eyebrows. After a short silence, the siren outside was shrill and harsh. Gu Xizhou said dullly, "You still remember me."
"Yeah!" Eighteen-year-old Gu Zhizhi nodded affirmatively, "You rescued me in the first year of the first year! Later I met you at school, but... "
Gu Xizhou frowned slightly, "But what?"
"But my parents, Wang Shu, and Tong Jia said there was such a person, but they didn't know what they looked like, as if I was the only one who remembered who you are.
"So uncle, are you a ghost? The ghost that only I can see!" The eighteen-year-old Zhizhi said with a little naivety.
Gu Xizhou glanced at him and said, "College students are still superstitious?"
"I didn't believe it before," Zhizhi's eyes refracted a faint light, "but today I believe it, and you haven't changed at all in six years."
"Ah."
There was a low laugh in his ears, Zhizhi raised his eyes to look at Gu Xizhou, the two of them were speechless for a while, and after a while, Gu Xizhou said, "People who are police officers are very busy."
"How busy are you?" the boy standing aside asked with one hand in his trouser pocket.
Gu Xizhou thought for a while and said, "Cases will always come one after the other, insert one here, and insert one elsewhere, but if you do it slowly, it will be finished. Being a police officer is actually very tiring. I want to resign every day."
"Then why didn't you resign?" The handsome young man asked with raised eyebrows.
Gu Xizhou looked at Gu Zhizhi and replied in a deep voice, "Because of someone."
"Oh, the one you like!"
Gu Xizhou snorted, "Nonsense, he and I are 'good brothers', we like shit!"
The teenager Zhizhi still didn't forget to make a joke on Gu Xizhou, "Hmph, it's not that your words are misleading! Brothers are brothers, you have to say 'someone', what if you are gay!?"
"Go away!" Gu Xizhou had a big head for the eighteen-year-old who was so articulate.
"Thank you, I know you want to tell me about my dad." The young man smiled, looked down at Gu Xizhou, and suddenly he asked, "Uncle, are you really not a ghost?"
Gu Xizhou gave him a look to let him understand, why did Zizhi start to suspect that he was a human or a ghost every day like Si Yu
"no!"
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"Don't get angry and go back to school!" Gu Xizhou said solemnly after talking to Gu Zhizhi for a while.
Gu Zhizhi nodded obediently and obediently: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Seeing that Gu Zhizhi was really obedient and went home, Gu Xizhou was a little astonished. Isn't it said that children in the rebellious period are the most difficult to convince? How could Squeak be so obedient
Gu Xizhou scratched his head, but Gu Qing, who opened the door at home, saw Zizhi, who was dragging the railing box, with a look of surprise in his eyes. Obviously, he didn't expect his son who had quarreled so fiercely just now to turn around and come back.
"What's the matter?" Gu Qing clenched his fist and coughed lightly, trying to put on a little parental air, "Forgot to take something?"
At this time, Zhou Xinyue rushed out, bumped Gu Qing away, and glared at him coldly, "Why are you talking! Your son is not angry, right? Yesterday was all about work, you say... The family members of the deceased were crying so sad, you Dad and I really just worked overtime and forgot about it. Don't be angry.
"Do you still have a fever? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
Hearing Zhou Xinyue's concern, the teenager Gu Zhizhi glanced contemptuously at his father who was forcibly holding the shelf and was knocked aside by his mother, shook his head, and said softly, "I was fine yesterday, mother don't worry."
The teenager Zhizhi returned home and recalled the man he met just now, he didn't even ask the other person's name...
But he knew that the appearance of that person was definitely not an accident. On the day he met the man, Tong Jia, a classmate in the same class, tried to commit suicide the next day. He remembered it very clearly. He later asked about the process of Uncle Wang's case. It is said that a policeman named Fang Ran appeared. , but the strange thing is that everyone doesn't remember what the other party looks like, but for some reason, he feels that Fang Ran is the person who is talking to him today, maybe it's not a human being or a ghost.
The teenager thought so, and at eleven o'clock in the evening, Gu Zhizhi lay down on the bed calmly and went to sleep.
the next day.
"Xiaozhou, there is a milk panel at home, warm it up and eat it by yourself. Your dad and I are going to work!"
"Okay—" The young man squeaked his head and replied without replying, but at this time he had already put on his clothes, stood by the window and looked downstairs. As expected, he saw a familiar person standing at the gate of the community. .
The moment his parents appeared, the young man with facial features like a knife quickly followed.
The teenager Zizhi subconsciously rushed out of the house and followed.
Gu Qing, who was walking outside, raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why do I always feel like someone is following us?"
"Are you thinking too much?" Zhou Xinyue giggled, and the two held hands, just like when Gu Xizhou first saw them, the relationship was still so good.
The two of them were walking on the road when they suddenly saw a child under the age of ten running on the bicycle path, following a bicycle all the way forward, leaving only the skinny hands of the young girl riding the bicycle hanging in the leather bag behind her. thing.
Zhou Xinyue and Gu Qing looked at each other, and the two had a very tacit understanding. Gu Qing went up and grabbed the child and stopped the girl at the same time. They met the child picking up the bag early in the morning!
The girl looked at her bag and made sure there was nothing missing. She thanked Gu Qing and Zhou Xinyue again and again, while Gu Qing turned to the child and said, "Who asked you to steal?"
The kid opened his mouth and murmured, not only the people around Gu Qing could not understand a word.
Judging from the outline of the appearance, this child has deep eye sockets and deep facial features. He should be a child in a remote area. He speaks a local language, but Ning Qing people can't understand a word.
While Gu Qing and Zhou Xinyue went to work, they brought the child back to the police station.
Gu Xizhou didn't know why he wanted to follow Gu Qing and his wife. He knew that the two of them had an accident today, but he only caught a child in a remote area. The child seemed to be only ten years old, and it was impossible to hurt Gu Qing at all. couple.
Gu Xizhou frowned slightly. He couldn't understand why Zhizhi's parents died today. Perhaps curiosity drove him to do so. Gu Xizhou couldn't help but follow the two and followed them to the police station. Gu Xizhou found a shop. Ordered breakfast, then sat at the door and waited.
What he didn't notice was that there was another person following him in the distance.
About half an hour later, Gu Qing, Zhou Xinyue, and two young male police officers came out of the police station with the child. When the three of them came out, they were still talking to the child, but the child kept shaking his head, because The language barrier and the Chinese characters are not spoken, so the two sides cannot communicate at all.
"These immoral guys know that they kidnap these children to steal and beg!" Gu Qing scolded, unable to communicate with the child, Gu Qing said to one of his colleagues: "Wait, let's drive the car farther and control this child. The people who are definitely going to follow us and take the kids back."
"Team Gu, don't worry, we know what to do!"
Apparently they were all familiar with this set of procedures. Seeing the four of them leaving with the child, Gu Xizhou immediately called a car to follow.
There was another man who did exactly the same thing as him.
After Gu Xizhou followed, the car soon drove to the suburbs. Gu Qing and others, as they had said before, put the child in this place and drove away, but in fact they found a place and waited to control this. The person of the child appears.
After waiting for a while, a silver-gray van appeared in the field of vision. After the car saw the child, it parked on the side of the road. The person sitting in the co-pilot rolled down the window and waved to the child who was stealing. The child immediately stepped forward. Followed and ran over.
"Gu team, arrest now?" a colleague asked in a low voice.
"No, keep following, they must have a criminal base. If they arrest them now, the other children will not be able to find them." Gu Qing said in a low voice.
The driver who was driving listened to Gu Xizhou's request and went around here. The driver looked at Gu Xizhou suspiciously in the rearview mirror and said solemnly: "Hey, I said brother, you are following the car that came out of the police station, you Wouldn't it be something bad?"
"No." Gu Xizhou pouted, "Just follow."
"Look, this watch has already hit a hundred..." The master's voice was a little hesitant, obviously suspicious of Gu Xizhou.
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou took out his wallet, took out three hundred pieces and handed them to the driver: "Watch, don't lose it!"
"Okay!" After taking the money, the master seemed to be refreshed and patted his chest, apparently saying 'Hold on me'.
Gu Xizhou breathed a sigh of relief, walked out after eating noodles, and jumped to 2010. At this time, the money used was the new version of RMB, and the money in his bag could be used, otherwise he would take the two that Li Yaomu gave him. For fifty renminbi, he really can't afford the taxi fare, not to mention the one hundred bucks he spends left with an old one-yuan coin still in his trousers pocket.
Following Gu Qing and their car, the car drove all the way to the north gate of Ningqing. There are many houses built in containers nearby. In 2019, such container houses were rare, but in 2010, there were still many houses in the suburbs of Ningqing. Few such houses.
The silver van drove into the small road. Gu Qing and the others figured that it was not far away. If they continued to use the car, it would be easier to lose and the target was too big, so the four of them discussed it, parked the car on the side of the road, and got out of the car at the same time. track.
"This road, as you can see, is full of mud, I have to wash my car when I drive in..." The driver said to Gu Xizhou, scratching his cheeks and looking embarrassed.
The entrance of the taxi is very obvious, Gu Xizhou thought about it, opened the door and got out of the car, and let the driver leave by himself.
As soon as he got out of the car, he heard a quarrel behind him, "Hey, why don't you give me money for the ride? What kind of car do you take if you don't have money?"
Gu Xizhou glanced inadvertently and was slightly taken aback when he saw the juvenile version of Gu Zhizhi. He hurried forward two steps, took out two hundred yuan to the driver and said, "I'll give it to him."
The master took the money, scolded him, and told Gu Xizhou to take care of it before he waved the steering wheel and left.
After the two taxi masters left, Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and looked at the young man Squeak, and said solemnly, "What are you doing with me?"
"Then what are you doing with my parents?" The teenager raised his chin and asked rhetorically.