In the evening, Tang Xi took a picture of the pile of presents on the table with her mobile phone, and sent it to Moments along with the picture taken the day before yesterday. With text: 365 days countdown.
In one more year, this body will be considered an adult.
The gifts were all given by her classmates during the day, not only Cheng Yihang, Shi Rui, Qi Sihui, Xia Shuang, but most of the students in class nine actually gave her gifts, and even some from other classes. However, there is no imaginary scene of a strange teenager holding a gift and stammering a confession with a blushing face. Ninety-nine percent of the people who ran over to give small gifts were girls. They were not expensive things, even small biscuits baked by girls, cross-stitch embroidery, etc., and she accepted them with a smile.
In addition, her name in the school beauty ranking finally surpassed Tang Jing in one fell swoop, and she had to lament the fighting power of the girls.
After sending to Moments, she cut WeChat first, and opened a MMS message from a stranger in her text box.
These days, due to the development of various chat tools, few people use the MMS function that comes with their mobile phones. After all, if you want to send pictures and materials, how can WeChat be so convenient and fast
It was an old photo. The woman in the photo was wearing a well-tailored cheongsam, her long black hair was tied into a bun, and a hosta was inserted obliquely. She had gentle eyebrows and a generous temperament. beauty.
However, Tang Xi was troubled by the fact that this photo was decades or even a hundred years ago at least. The woman in the photo is still alive, even if she is still alive, she is still a white-haired old woman. How is it possible to find someone
She couldn't help but want to scold that fool, there is only name and photo and no other information, is there such an unreliable person! Anyway, some life experience or something? I won’t talk about the photos, pure pit. Name? Go to the Internet to search, and there can be tens of thousands of women named "Bai Meiling"! How to find this
He spoke so affectionately, as if there had been a period of unresolved love between humans and ghosts, but unexpectedly... didn't, know, know anything!
Just when she was having a headache, the door clicked, and Chu Li came back.
"So early?" Tang Xi was a little surprised.
"There are no cases recently." Chu Li shrugged, "Perhaps the murderer has to stop and prepare to go home for the New Year."
"Shouldn't it be to get a ticket before the end of the year so that you can go home for the New Year?" Tang Xi tilted her head.
"That's theft and robbery, and it's not under the control of the Serious Crime Squad." Chu Li raised his eyebrows.
"It seems to be." Tang Xi suddenly realized.
Chu Li conveniently hung the coat on the coat rack, and then saw hot meals floating out in a line.
"Mr. Chu is back, we can eat!" Aunt Zhang said enthusiastically, not caring that Chu Li could not see or hear him at all.
Tang Xi supported his forehead, turned around and repeated.
Chu Li said "Thank you" with a stiff face, and then said, "It's already 7:30, and you haven't eaten yet?"
"Think about something, forget about it." Tang Xi replied honestly, "It just so happens that you are back, so there is no need to heat it up again."
Chu Li was startled, and walked into the kitchen to help bring out the last bowl of soup: "Eat first, what else can make you think about it for so long?"
Tang Xi sat across from him, picked up chopsticks to pick up vegetables, and said distressedly, "I'm thinking, with a photo from decades ago and a name, how likely is it to find this person in the vast crowd."
"That's it?" Chu Li looked at him.
"You have a solution?" Tang Xi heard his implication, and his eyes lit up.
"Eat, I will tell you after eating." Chu Li knocked on the table.
"Oh!" The most difficult problem is expected to be solved, and Tang Xi immediately relaxes and eats.
The three dishes and one soup are all simple home-cooked dishes, and the portion is just a little bit more than dinner for two people. Tang Xi doesn't like to eat overnight food and doesn't want to waste it, so she especially admires Aunt Zhang's style.
After eating soon, Tang Xi couldn't wait to put the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, staring at him with burning eyes.
"Okay, send the photo to my phone." Chu Li said with a smile.
Maybe it's because Tang Xi has always seemed to be omnipotent, so it's rare to see her embarrassed and needing his help, which makes her look like a 17-year-old girl.
"Ding dong~"
He lowered his head to look at the photo, then sent an email, and said calmly, "Wait a while."
"Oh, who did you send it to?" Tang Xi asked curiously.
"Xiao Xiao is in charge of network technology and back office in the team." Chu Li said.
"It's Xiao Xue, the four-eyed girl with several computers on her desk?" Tang Xi thought for a while before remembering.
She is familiar with most of the field work of the serious crime team, but the little girl Xiao Xue is thin and small. She can't see anyone when she sits behind the computer. She is introverted and doesn't like to talk. unfamiliar.
"Yes, she is a technical talent that Bureau Tan and I have been poaching for a long time." Chu Li was a little proud.
Tang Xi actually still doesn't understand what Xiao Xue can do, can he find it in the population file database? Although it is not difficult to have the police station as a backer, where can I find photos from decades ago!
"Here we come." Chu Li looked down at his phone, and after a while, he forwarded it directly to her.
Tang Xi was taken aback, and opened WeChat, only to see that the first thing that was sent was a split-screen photo, the one on the left was the beauty in the cheongsam, and the one on the right was a gray-haired old lady.
"This is a method used by the police to hunt down fugitives. The principle is skull imaging technology. First, software is used to guess what the person in the photo will look like decades later, and then compare it with the photos in the information database." Chu Li explained. Dao, "However, none of the ones you provided have a matching rate of more than 95%. Maybe it's because the age is too old and the error is too big, or the person is no longer there and deleted from the information database. What you see now is After the comparison, the highest matching degree is 70%"
"What's her name?" The more Tang Xi looked, the more she felt that the old lady looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.
"Bai Dongmei." Chu Li replied.
"Surname Bai?" Tang Xi was shocked.
The similarity is high, and the surname is Bai. If it is not the person, it is very likely that they are related!
"En." Chu Li nodded, and then saw the next message sent by Xiao Xue, and couldn't help but froze for a moment.
"What?" Tang Xi asked.
"Bai Dongmei..." Chu Li hesitated before saying, "She is the honorary principal of Jiangnan No. 1 High School."
"Huh?" Tang Xi blinked, and then remembered why the photo looked familiar, wasn't it the one posted on the school's honor wall!
The founders of Yigao are all in their 80s this year. Since they retired 20 years ago, they have held the title of honorary principal.
Suddenly, she slapped her head, and took out the crumpled parent meeting notice from her schoolbag, read it carefully, and suddenly became happy: "It just so happens that this parent meeting of the third grade, the school I invited Principal Bai and a few outstanding graduates to come back and give speeches to the students, so I should be able to see her, so I don’t need to go find her.”
"Is this the ghost commission you accepted?" Chu Li asked.
"He's not a ghost." Tang Xi said with a smile, "It's just a word away, it's a world away."
"One word short?" Chu Li was puzzled.
"Yes, he is a ghost messenger." Tang Xi said frankly.
"Impermanence in black and white? Bull's head and horse's face?" Chu Li blurted out.
"Hahahaha..." Tang Xi couldn't help bursting out laughing.
Chu Li black line.
"Okay, okay, almost." Tang Xi wiped away tears from laughter, "I don't know who he is from the underworld, but... he should have stayed in the human world for at least 150 years, and he is about to dissipate."
"What do you mean?" Chu Li didn't understand.
"Ghost messengers are civil servants of the underworld." Tang Xi thought for a while, and explained in a language that ordinary people can understand, "A criminal policeman is also a civil servant, right? Will you keep your place? Even if you can't come back for objective reasons."
"So, for some reason, the ghost messenger couldn't go back to the underworld, so he was removed?" Chu Li was thoughtful.
"The ghost messenger was originally an ordinary ghost, because he signed a contract with the underworld to maintain his body. When the contract is terminated, he will disappear. He can last for 150 years, which shows that he was definitely a great person in the underworld." Tang Xi said.
"Not only are there ghosts, but even black and white impermanence come out, this world is really mysterious." Chu Li muttered to himself.
I always feel that what I have experienced in this month has overturned the worldview cultivated by the education under the Red Flag for more than 20 years, opened the door to a new world, and rushed all the way to the door without turning back.
"Let you see more fantasy." Tang Xi smiled, turned around and went into the room to take out a box and put it on the table, "For you, return the gift, my guardian."
"Give me a gift? Why do you feel creepy?" Chu Li muttered a few words, opened the box, saw the contents inside clearly, and shrank his eyes.
It was a small ceramic box less than half the size of a palm, and... a gun.
White and delicate, the pistol made of ceramics is a seamless piece, a circle smaller than his police gun, and it is easy to hold in one hand. However, he couldn't tell whether it was a real gun or a toy model.
"I asked Sister Yun to help. I asked the scientist in their department to build it, using 3D printing technology, and it just arrived by express delivery." Tang Xi picked up the gun, twirled it in his hand and handed it to him, "It looks like a gun. Toys, there is no ballistic or anything, and ceramics will not react with metal. It is no problem to take it on the plane. It is a rechargeable type. After sufficient spiritual power, it can shoot more than 20 rounds of spiritual power bullets, which can hurt ghosts and ghosts. Specifically, I Haven’t tried it, it should be quite powerful.”
"You want me to use this... to fight ghosts?" Chu Li's expression was indescribable.
"I can't help it. You have stumbled into this circle. The chances of encountering an incident like a funeral parlor in the future will definitely not be low. I don't want to change my guardian right away." Tang Xi was helpless.
Chu Li is an ordinary person, he shouldn't be drawn into this circle, but if he insists on bumping into it, then... I can only find a way to make him a little bit self-protective.
"I can't see." Chu Li said calmly.
"So I made this for you." Tang Xi tapped the small ceramic box.
Chu Li put the gun on the table, picked up the box and opened it.
In the clear solution, there was a small contact lens, which was still light brown.
"There's no way to adjust the color, but the mandarin duck eyes are cute." Tang Xi smiled sullenly.
Chu Li rolled his eyes at her, and carefully put the lens on his right eye.
"How?" Tang Xi asked.
Chu Li blinked, adjusted to the foreign body sensation in his eyes and the slightly discolored sight, and looked back.
Through the open kitchen door, a middle-aged woman can be vaguely seen washing dishes.
Closing the right eye, the figure disappeared immediately, but closing the left eye, the figure was much clearer.
After hesitating for a while, he asked: "Aunt Zhang's head..."
"It's just like what you saw. It seems that you can really see it." Tang Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
She is sure about the spiritual power gun, but it is her first experiment whether this pair of contact lenses will work.
Chu Li picked up the gun, weighed it, and switched to his left hand.
"Ah Yun said that this weight is suitable for women, or as a man's secondary weapon." Tang Xi admired it.
"Thank you." Chu Li said seriously.
"You're welcome." Tang Xi sighed, and said helplessly, "I sealed Mr. Pei's yin and yang eyes with a magic knot, but I tried to find a way to help you open them for a long time... Do you two really consider changing your eyes?"
"You thought you were looking at Hokage? The eyes can be switched back and forth." Chu Li was speechless.
"The current medical technology can even replace the heart, but the eyes are more difficult to replace than the heart?" Tang Xi objected.
"Do you need me to send you to check your brain?" Chu Li looked at her.
"Heh, you should finish the parent-teacher meeting for me first. Uncle Chu~" Tang Xi sneered.
"..." Chu Li gritted his teeth.
However, in terms of physical skills alone, it is too embarrassing to not beat a weak teenage girl in 10 minutes!
Although I didn't lose... Well, if I lose, I can really apply for retirement.
Tang Xi returned to the room with her vibrating phone in hand, lay down on the bed, and then started to check WeChat.
The circle of friends I just posted has already been liked by a circle of people, and there is a row of emoji packs of happy birthday and small cakes, fireworks and gifts.
Then return to the information page, the first one is Xia Shuang's: Who are you with
Tang Xi was startled, and sent a "?" in the past.
Xia Shuang replied almost in seconds: The photo of your cake is not automatic. I saw it on the computer. After zooming in, I can see the reflection of someone in your pupil, but the face is just blocked by the phone.
Tang Xi smiled "puchi" and replied: I am the guardian.
Xia Shuang immediately typed a row of "!!!!".
Tang Xi thought for a while, said "I'll see it the night after tomorrow", and then backed out.
Then it was Qi Sihui's, a cute emoji, it was a raccoon blowing love and kisses, and he returned the emoji of touching his head.
Other students who brushed happy birthday, all replied thank you.
Wang Liguo, the boss of Jindi with a unique style of painting, directly sent a red envelope. When he opened it, it was 6,666 yuan. For Mr. Wang's net worth, it was really a lot of money, so she accepted it generously, and returned it with a grin. laughing emoticon.
The other person who gave her a red envelope was Mr. Pei, 8888, which is also an auspicious number.
Tang Xi smiled while accepting it, and by the way replied that I have time to play chess with the old man.
Suddenly, Cheng Yihang jumped over with a message: My second uncle wants your WeChat account, is that okay
Tang Xi was stunned, but quickly answered yes.
Half a minute later, WeChat received a friend request.
Tang Xi looked at the Three No Number for a long time before agreeing. No wonder Cheng Yihang had to say it first, if this was added directly, she would probably treat it as a harassment account and reject it with one click.
After a while, the other party sent a happy birthday first, and then wrote: I have left Jiangnan City, and the gift has been sent. Followed by a string of courier tracking number.
Tang Xi raised her eyebrows, looking forward to Cheng Huaying's gift.
That person would never have traveled all the way to send her a birthday present.
Then, looking at the row of red dots on WeChat, she couldn't help feeling a little dazed.
In this world, have so many connections been established
Fast forward to Wednesday.
Because there will be a parent-teacher meeting in the evening, basically the third-year students in high school did not choose to go home and make a trip, but directly found a nearby restaurant to settle the dinner.
When Chu Li stood at the school gate, his expression was full of confusion.
He is willing to gamble and admit defeat, he has the spirit of the contract, but seeing the uncles and aunts coming in and out, he is really a little broken. Especially when people look at him before entering the door, the eyes are full of shock, as if to say how old you are, how can you have a child who goes to high school!
"What are you thinking!" Tang Xi saw him in a daze from afar, and ran over from behind to pat him.
"I was thinking, I offended someone in my previous life to provoke such a troublesome person like you." Chu Li's face was full of lovelessness.
"To be reasonable, you were the one who came to me first!" Tang Xi glared at him.
"All right, let's go." Chu Li gave her a hand. Who told them to stand at the school gate and talk more attractive.
"It's all up to you." Tang Xi snickered.
Not only the parents, but also girls from other classes couldn't help but take a peek.
"Human appearance, what's so interesting about it." Chu Li was annoyed.
"I think some aunts see you because they feel cold." Tang Xi said tactfully.
Jiangnan City has four distinct seasons. In the evening at the end of October, the weather has turned cold. Normal people have to wear a sweater at least. Unlike Chu Li, it’s just a shirt with a windbreaker on his hand. Isn’t it just “there is a cold called me Do you think you are cold?"
"That's because they are in poor health." Chu Li sneered.
"How can ordinary people compare to you? Hurry up and leave." Tang Xi pushed him away.
"Miss Tang?" Suddenly, a laughing voice came from behind.
Tang Xi was startled, and when she turned her head she was full of surprise: "Why is Mr. Pei here?"
The person who walked over was Pei Qingzhi, but the person who was always in a suit and leather shoes was wearing light-colored casual clothes today, which made him look younger than his actual age, more like a college student.
"I was invited by the principal to give you a speech as an outstanding graduate of the past." Pei Qingzhi smiled.
"It turns out that Mr. Pei is also a senior who graduated from No. 1 High School." Tang Xi said.
"It's not just me, it's also the one next to you." Pei Qingzhi gestured to Chu Li.
Tang Xi subconsciously turned her head to glance, and then burst out laughing.
Indeed, Chu Li, a criminal policeman, is so familiar with a merchant family like the Pei family, people from two worlds, if they have an intersection, it must be in their student days. Junior high school is too young, it is difficult to maintain, for university, Chu Li must have attended the Public Security University, so it can only be high school. As for the four-year age difference between the two... Pei Qingzhi is 24 this year, but he has graduated from university and taken over the company for many years. No matter how you look at it, he didn't follow the steps to study, and he doesn't know how many grades he has skipped in public.
Sure enough, geniuses are similar.
Having said that, Jiangnan No. 1 High School is the best high school in Jiangnan City, and most of the city's giants in various industries come from here.
Looking at it this way, Pei Qingzhi and Chu Li's friendship is really good, and they can still maintain it after they have been separated for so many years after they graduated from high school.
It's easy to understand that there seems to be no contact at ordinary times. If a business tycoon has close contacts with the chief of the serious crime team, it will inevitably cause trouble.
"Let's go together." Pei Qingzhi said.
Tang Xi looked up at the sky.
Accompanied by two top-notch handsome men on one left and one on the right, but she felt chills behind her.
I always feel... the atmosphere between the two of them is a little weird.
"Did I offend you?" Pei Qingzhi asked directly.
"No." Chu Li looked innocent.
Of course, a criminal policeman who came from an undercover background is very good at micro-expression control. As long as he doesn't want to, no one can see his thoughts from his face.
"Really?" Pei Qingzhi frowned.
It's definitely not his illusion, especially after waking up from the car accident, besides the mutated right eye, his senses are also much sharper, that faint hostility, and... dislike
puzzled.
Chu Li touched his nose, turned his head away, and wanted to scold Yun Qi.
It was all the strange things that guy fed him, which made him picky when he saw Pei Qingzhi now - who said that among the men who appeared next to Tang Xi, only Pei Qingzhi was the most threatening? Although there were quite a few boys in the school, and the heirs of the Shi family and the Cheng family were all on good terms with Tang Xi, he just had a feeling that Tang Xi wouldn't think about those kids who didn't even grow hair. Psychologically, this girl is treating her classmates as juniors.
"Xixi~" From a distance, Xia Shuang waved to her.
It's not like I didn't meet my classmates along the way, even Qi Sihui saw them, but today there are parents around, everyone just nodded and greeted, unlike Xia Shuang, because Xia Qing knew Tang Xi very well, and the father and daughter directly come over.
"President Xia." Tang Xi greeted with a smile.
Xia Shuang looked at this and then at that, as if wondering which one was Tang Xi's parent.
"Miss Tang, President Pei, Team Chu." Xia Qing couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth when he saw this trio.
The Tang family's mess was brought to the courts, and almost everyone in Jiangnan City knew about it. Although Xia Qing didn't ask Tang Xi because of it, she could immediately react when she saw Chu Li.
Unexpected, but within reason.
Chu Li, who is alone and has a national background, is indeed the most suitable guardian for her.
A group of people talked and laughed and walked towards the auditorium, but unexpectedly, they ran into the most annoying person at the entrance of the auditorium.
Tang Zhenying and Tang Jing.
The two parties froze immediately.
Tang Xi looked at Tang Jing calmly.
Sure enough, after seeing each other for a few days, the sense of disobedience became even heavier.
"Sister Xixi." Tang Jing called softly.
Tang Xi directly pulled Xia Shuang over to block him.
"Who is your sister, can your Tang family show some face!" Xia Shuang directly turned back.
However, Tang Xi pulled him over not by using her as a spearman like Tang Jing did in the past, but by using her to block his sight, and with a touch in front of his eyes, it transformed into silver ghost pupils.
When she changed her gaze and looked at the past again, she couldn't help being shocked.
Inside Tang Jing... no, it was her soul, wrapped in a mass of black resentment, and that resentment was still expanding its territory. According to this speed, it would take at most three months to completely occupy her soul up.
Could it be that this thing was eroding Tang Jing's soul and causing her temperament to change drastically? It's a pity that the resentment is too strong, and the ghost pupil can't see the core inside.
"...Mr. Tang, you'd better respect yourself, otherwise I can apply to the court for compulsory isolation. I don't care if you are not afraid of losing face." Chu Li said coldly.
Tang Xi immediately withdrew the ghost pupils, but she was too focused just now and didn't hear what Tang Zhenying said again, which annoyed Chu Li.
"Xixi, ignore him, we are here." Xia Shuang comforted.
"Yeah." Tang Xi didn't have the nerve to say that she was at a loss because she didn't know what was going on, and definitely not because she was sad, so she could only vaguely respond.
"Can't you go in? If you don't go, don't block the way." Chu Li said, walking directly into the middle of the auditorium gate.
He is a person who has really killed people. Once his face is lowered, the natural sharpness on his body makes Tang Jing's face pale, and his body trembles slightly. Even Tang Zhenying, who has been ups and downs in the mall for a long time, subconsciously took a step back, but then realized that he actually Being suppressed by the arrogance of a young man in his twenties, his face flushed immediately, and he was about to turn into anger from embarrassment.
"Excuse me." Pei Qingzhi walked in front of him without looking sideways.
"Excuse me again." Xia Qing immediately pulled her daughter to follow.
Tang Zhenying's heart throbbed with anger.
In the past, it was the Xia family who took care of his Tang family. Did he think that the Tang family would be defeated, and he was optimistic about the Pei family in advance
On the other side, Pei Qingzhi also said: "Mr. Xia seems to have a big opinion on Mr. Tang."
"The conflict in the children's family will not rise to the level of opinion." Xia Qing shook her head, paused before saying, "It's just that the Tang family has grown too much over the years, and Tang Zhenying has committed some fouls. Although my Xia family is small , but the bottom line of principle is still there.”
Pei Qingzhi understood that it was the expired vaccine time that angered Xia Qing, no wonder such an old-fashioned person started to let his daughter and Tang Jing tear each other apart, or at least they should have maintained a superficial acquaintance.
In this way, the Xia family's property may suffer some losses in the short term, but it has won a wave of goodwill from the public.
The Xia family was preparing to enter the pharmaceutical industry, but they missed the door. Isn't Tang Zhenying just sending pillows to catch someone dozing off
As long as the Tang family can't turn around in the vaccine incident and tear their face apart - it's worth it!
Tang Xi could understand this kind of thing, but she didn't think it was wrong.
Businessmen are profit-seeking, what business do they want to make money? Isn't it good to teach and educate people
However, as Xia Qing said, the means to make money are one thing, but the principles are another.
As a human being, there are always some bottom lines that cannot be crossed.
This is also the reason why she is willing to make this friend, like Wang Liguo, she can only be regarded as a customer.
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