In fact, before Zhang Boming made up his mind to invite him, Ah Gui had been wearing a hat and mask, and had gone to the entrance of the university to watch in a low-key manner several times. He even saw students running for exercises early in the morning from a distance. At that time, apart from his proud brother Xie Xing, there was also a young student who left a very deep impression on him, mainly because Xie Xing took the trouble to give him an off-site commentary every day:
"Have you seen the person at the front of the team? He called Jiang Ting, my roommate!"
"The department is stable in the top three, occasionally first, and the shooting score is super!"
"Playing basketball is also very good, and the layup is super handsome!"
…
Wu Yu was bumped into by Jiang Ting on the day he stepped into the OUHK for the only time in his life. This was purely an accident. Otherwise, it should have been a very ordinary day for Jiang Ting.
The sun came out before going out that morning, Jiang Ting hung his washed uniform outside to dry, but at noon the sky suddenly became cloudy, and the humidity seemed to be brewing a heavy rain. He remembered that Xie Xing seemed to have no classes during this time, so he sent a text message to his roommate to ask him to help him collect the clothes, but he didn't wait for a long time to reply, maybe because the phone was out of power, the phone could not be connected. But he had no choice but to rush back to the dormitory immediately after class. As soon as he entered the room, it was completely cloudy, and the raindrops that were big beans cracked down.
"You won't help me collect the uniforms that you will be using tomorrow, and I sent you a text message and didn't see it or something..."
During that time, Jiang Ting just thought Xie Xing was a little weird, so he would sneak out and disappear at every turn. When he asked, he had an appointment with Zhang Boming, and he often served double meals in the school cafeteria. At that time, he seemed to feel something faintly, but no matter how rich a young Jiang Ting's imagination was, he couldn't think of A Gui's existence at once, let alone wearing Xie Xing's clothes, lying on Xie Xing's bed, and having a figure that resembled Xie Xing's back. The person who does it is not actually a solution.
"By the way, Zhang Boming asked you not to go fishing." Jiang Ting turned his head to look at the back of the upper bunk, and frowned, "Why are you two going out so much during this time, you shouldn't make up for that class anymore, do you understand?"
Ah Gui faced the wall in the dark room, not daring to say a word.
"Undo?"
The reason why Wu Yu was lying on Xie Xing's bed was purely because of his desire to experience it. Otherwise, he should have left the dormitory ten minutes ago and went downstairs to meet Zhang Boming. Unexpectedly, it was these ten minutes of small greed that made him be caught in a jar by the "legendary Jiang Ting".
Jiang Ting stepped forward suspiciously and knocked on the bed frame twice: "Are you alright?"
"… "
"Excuse me? Are you sick?"
Agui's throat was muffled, and it sounded very hoarse and indistinguishable. The next moment he felt someone climb up along the bed frame, and then he put a hand on his forehead: "The temperature is not high, is it a low-grade fever?"
Ah Gui lowered his voice again, sounding rather weak.
Fortunately, Ah Gui and Xie Xing are basically the same person from the perspective of their backs, and Jiang Ting and his roommate are not the kind of intimate relationship that can forcefully turn people over with his shoulders, or climb up on the bed and lean side by side. . Jiang Ting's personality is not easy to entangle, and his physical contact with people only ends with touching his forehead. After thinking about it, he said, "If you are not feeling well, don't go to the evening self-study. I will go get you a bottle of water and come back, drink more. hot water."
For the third time, Ah Gui gave a positive "uh", and finally heard the sound of footsteps go away, the bedroom door opened and closed, and at that moment, a cold sweat ran down his back, and he got up and was thrown to the ground, and he didn't dare for half a minute. Stopped and ran straight out the door.
If it weren't for this episode, Ah Gui's day trip to the university campus would have been considered the most glorious and perfect day in his life. But for Jiang Ting, when he finally lined up to fetch water and came back and saw that the bed was empty, his inner feeling could be described as dazed and suspicious.
Was that really the solution just now
Even if Xie Xing has always been a little naive and a little out of touch, he can't suddenly become like this abnormally, right
What happened to him during this time? Did you suddenly fall in love
Jiang Ting was full of doubts in his heart. He wanted to talk to Xie Xing several times, but the other party's attitude of denying it on the surface and avoiding it repeatedly made him even more sure that there was a ghost in it. After a period of inquiries and observations, Jiang Ting finally confirmed his worst guess: 80% of the time this kid is in love, and the other party is from outside the school.
—Dating in the police academy in those days was not a trivial matter. Maybe it would cause a big problem. If the other party was an unknown person outside the school, it could even turn into a very serious problem.
In the face of all kinds of severe possibilities, Jiang Ting finally took action.
It was a weekend of staying at school. Xie Xing slipped out of the school again under the pretext of "going out fishing with Senior Brother Zhang". What he didn't notice was that this time he had a pair of calm eyes behind him. Jiang Ting followed him through the streets and alleys, twisting and turning. After more than ten minutes, he lost track of a particularly complicated alley, so he took note of the route and the alley name and retreated temporarily.
When Xie Xing was snoring in the upper bunk that night, Jiang Ting secretly got up again, took advantage of the little privileges he had accumulated, silently walked out of the school gate, followed the route again to the alley during the day, and stood still. After stepping, he looked around at the dark courtyard walls.
The surrounding courtyard was dilapidated and quiet, and a beam of moonlight slanted through the fence, reflecting the curving bluestone road underfoot.
His first thought was: fortunately, at least it didn't look like an obscene place like a dark prostitute's den, a video room, a shampoo room, or a gambling den like an illegal chess and card room.
The second year is: wait, the clothes in the yard seem to be Xie Xing's clothes? !
A very familiar light blue shirt was hanging quietly on the clothesline. As the night wind swayed gently, Jiang Ting stepped on the bluestone and stepped forward. He couldn't help but feel stunned and subconsciously touched—
At this moment, there was a sonorous movement in the dark, and the strong wind suddenly pierced!
Jiang Ting wanted to hide, but it was too late, and his heart sank. In the next instant, Li Feng brushed past his face, "Duo!" With a loud noise, it was nailed into the mud wall, the handle of the knife trembled, it was a dagger!
Jiang Ting's pupils shrank, and he took a few steps back like lightning, hid in the darkness in the corner, and then the door was pushed open with a "squeak-" sound. A thin and tall figure walked down the moss-covered stone steps, turned his back to Jiang Ting, pulled out his dagger, and stood there, as if hesitating for something.
After a while, he finally turned slightly sideways, and his eyes turned to the barren courtyard.
- With this action, the moonlight reflected a small side of his face and fell into Jiang Ting's unbelievable eyes.
"Sorry, I didn't see it clearly just now." The man said calmly: "It seems that Xie Xing has caused you trouble."
The clothes that were not collected in the rainy day, the back of the dark room facing the wall, the traces left by the hurried escape, the strange behavior of Xie Xing during this period of time... All anomalies were strung together, and they appeared in Jiang Ting's mind. An astonishing answer.
But he didn't make a sound, didn't move, and tried his best to suppress his uneasy heartbeat.
The two of them just stood there in the moonlight, and the other was hidden in the dark, and couldn't hear any other sound except each other's breathing. For a long while, Jiang Ting saw that the man opened his mouth, as if he wanted to explain something, but after a moment of hesitation, he closed it again.
"Thank you for visiting me." In the end he said steadily and briefly, "It's getting late, go back early and be safe."
Then he took the dagger and turned back to the dilapidated hut. He didn't glance at the corner where Jiang Ting was hiding, and closed the door with a creak.
Jiang Ting walked slowly back to school. He walked alone through the quiet street in the middle of the night, slowly and carefully thinking and analyzing the thrilling fog behind this incident from beginning to end. When he stepped into the bedroom door, combined with Xie Xing's whereabouts since this period of time, the time when various abnormal signs began, and various details in daily life that had been ignored, he had almost guessed the whole thing, even Zhang Boming. I can only guess how much was involved in this matter.
So when he grabbed Xie Xing from the upper bunk and slapped him awake, he avoided all the twists and turns, and asked bluntly:
"You dare to ask Zhang Boming to steal an outsider with a criminal record into the school, do you want me to report to the school office, or just call 110?!"
Xie Xing woke up immediately, opened his mouth to look at Jiang Zing in the dim bedroom, hesitated for a while, and finally sighed helplessly:
"Jiang Ting, I was wrong, I just didn't think how to tell you..."
"If you also have a brother hiding in the dark, you'll find a way to pull him out too."
- "The invisible brother in the dark depths".
It was as if a steel needle had pierced into the most secret corner of Jiang Ting's heart, causing his whole body to convulse instantly and his ear drums rumbled.
But on the surface it was just a blink of an eye. Jiang Ting took a deep breath and settled down:
"What the hell is going on, tell me exactly now."
As Jiang Ting expected, Xie Xing suddenly ran out of school so anxiously and frequently because the situation outside the school had changed a little. Zhang Boming felt that the time was ripe after observing Agui's performance after returning from the OUHK campus. Finally, he confessed to the brothers that he was not yet formed.
He wants Agui to take the initiative to return to Ma Yin, and continue to lurking in the border drug gang to become an informant of the police.
Xie Xing's first reaction was: go back to the border? Still undercover? no! What a joke!
After all, Xie Xing is not a freshman who has just entered the university. He knows that undercover is a tightrope walk, and he definitely doesn't want Ah Gui to take the risk of being shattered. But Zhang Boming thought more than him and was more practical: First of all, Agui, as Mahin's bodyguard, was registered with the Burmese government. No explosion for two years, ten or eight years, and one day it will definitely explode, and the first explosion will definitely affect the future of Xie Xing; secondly, being a black citizen and being a citizen are two completely different concepts. Having entered the OUHK campus once, he has seen with his own eyes how his peers enjoy a life full of light and hope. Can he go back to the darkness? Is he willing
For Ah Gui, the beautiful life of that short day was like the purest drug being injected directly into the bloodstream. How could he not become addicted
In addition, what Zhang Boming didn't say is that Thayer's drug delivery to the mainland was already serious. Thayer's drug cartel is deeply rooted and extremely difficult to destroy, and it occupies the poppy garden closest to the Yunnan-Yunnan border. A large part of the smuggled drugs seized at the border every year can be related to him, and it has long become a major concern for the domestic anti-drug system. . The public security department has sacrificed countless human and material resources and even blood for this drug lord. If a nail that pierces the heart can be placed beside him, it will definitely be an exciting form for the tense form of the border drug fight. good news.
As for danger, Zhang Boming's view is very direct: everything is dangerous these days, why don't you do it because you are afraid of death? Lin Zexu's Humen selling cigarettes has to risk being settled by the autumn queen!
Ah Gui is very aware of Zhang Boming's unspoken selfishness, and he also knows why he, a drug dealer, Ma Zai, was invited to the university campus. He is a person who has never been given goodwill by fate, and of course he knows that everything is hidden behind the bait. with sharp hooks.
It's not that he was unwilling to take the bait, but because of many hesitations and concerns, he did not immediately express his position to Zhang Boming.
Passing one or two news casually and destroying several small and medium-sized transactions is a completely different concept from being undercover for a long time. He knows what the end result of the traitors in the organization is. He also knows how weak the Myanmar government is in the face of big drug lords like Thayer. Since ancient times, they have been undercover in the Golden Triangle, and more people died at their own hands than at the hands of their enemies. a lot of.
Is Zhang Boming really reliable? Can you convince higher-level people? Handling one or two drug-related cases is two different things from supporting intelligence work for a long time. Can the Chinese public security really become a solid backing behind the "drug dealer's horse"
But what if you don't agree to Zhang Boming first, and if you pass this village, the store will disappear
Agui pondered between agreeing and taking a long-term plan, but he did not expect that his undecided attitude would fall in Zhang Boming's eyes, which made things extremely complicated later, and even involved Xie Xing in a fatal whirlpool.
At this time, another incident suddenly happened, and Ah Gui was caught off guard on the spot. He had to stop thinking and make a decision immediately. The broker hired by Mayin actually came to the door.
That day, Xie Xing found an opportunity to stay out on the weekend, and took Jiang Ting to the secret courtyard at night, intending to formally introduce Ah Gui and Jiang Ting to know each other, but he didn't expect to see the lights dimly lit at the alley from far away. . Jiang Ting grabbed Xie Xing and pulled it into the corner. Through the cracks in the bricks, he saw three or four people taking A Gui out of the yard, one of whom was still babbling: "Miss knows that you are trapped here and can't get out, so you are worried. It's incredible. We take advantage of the low wind these days and leave the country quickly via Yundian..."
Jiang Ting tightly covered Xie Xing's mouth, even though he himself had to grit his teeth so as not to make a sound.
Ah Gui was wearing a black hoodie, with his hands in the pockets of his jeans, and the headlights reflected the bridge of his nose and a small section of his chin under the brim of his hat. The corners of his mouth were pale and cold, as if he had never mentioned it in his life, and he walked to the open car door, suddenly pausing slightly.
"What's the matter?" Several other people became nervous.
"… "
Agui turned his head, the empty bluestone path under the moonlight was reflected in the depths of his pupils, and he said calmly for a long time: "I originally thought that you might come these days, but I thought it was the night before or last night..."
After a pause, he said in a low voice, "Actually, I've been sitting in this yard waiting for you."
Xie Xing's hot tears hit Jiang Ting's fingers drop by drop, smearing into the cracks of his fingers.
"Ah? What? I'm sorry, I'm sorry," the broker explained, rubbing his hands in a daze, "It's a little late, in fact, the eldest lady is in a hurry, and we tried our best..."
Ah Gui did not answer the broker. He finally retracted his gaze and got into the car door. The red taillights gradually disappeared in the depths of the night, leaving only the empty and quiet courtyard behind him.
"...he's been waiting for me, he's waiting for me to bring him back..."
Xie Xing was half-kneeling at the corner of the wall, pressing one shoulder against the rough brick wall. After a long time, a suppressed choking finally came out of his arms:
"No matter how much it costs, no matter how many years it takes, I must bring him back from hell..."
Jiang Ting slowly crouched down, reached out and patted his roommate on the back.
The pale moonlight in the middle of the night, the dilapidated deep alley, and Xie Xing's blood-hot oath together constituted the most bleak memory of that late autumn in Jiang Ting's mind. .
In his junior year, Xie Xing suddenly dropped out of school without saying goodbye.
Jiang Ting hurried across the hallway of the dormitory, opened the door with a bang, and saw the bare upper bunk bed and the spotless shiny table top. All traces of Xie Xing's existence have disappeared, and the smart, cheerful, high-spirited young man has since withdrawn from his life, and he has not even had time to say his last goodbye.
He ended up on that road, and at the end of the road there was someone he wanted to save.
The bedroom was unfamiliarly quiet, Jiang Ting slowly sat beside the bed, and sat motionless for a long time.