During the summer vacation after they were together, the two mostly spent time in the game hall and billiard hall in the town.
There was no air conditioning in summer in those days, and the game hall was crowded and stuffy.
The smell of smoke and sweat melted into the turbid air, mixed with the deafening music of game consoles large and small, the figures shook, and every now and then there would be a burst of laughter in a corner. She was wearing shorts, and her legs were sticky and sweating a lot. Sitting was uncomfortable. She moved for a while, thinking of an unresolved matter, and looked up at the person diagonally behind: "Lu Chen?"
He gave her a look and asked her to speak.
"In the billiard hall that day, why did you play billiards with me?"
There was a burst of laughter in the distance, and Lu Chen looked over: "Who knows."
She grabbed his arm: "To be honest, did you fall in love with me at first sight?"
Lu Chen leaned his face over and whispered, "How is that possible."
Gui Xiao blushed, bit his lower lip and stopped talking, pressing Start to start a new game. When I was about to lose everything, I was about to leave, but a large box of newly bought game coins was placed in front of me...
She got even more angry, grabbed her hands, and stuffed them all into the coin slot. Keep losing keep losing.
Lu Chen didn't care much, chatting with Haidong behind her, occasionally humming a few songs in boredom. At first, Gui Xiao didn't pay attention, but after listening to her ears after losing a few games, she immediately became overjoyed... Now she can memorize the lyrics without a single word: "How can I fall in love with you, I am here Ask yourself, I can give up everything, and it's so hard to leave today. You're not beautiful, but you're so cute, Cinderella, my Cinderella..."
through the long years.
The car horn blared.
Gui Xiao looked back and saw the dark red umbrella that was covered by the white light.
This momentary scene corresponds to the phrase "life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a pedestrian", which is not correct, it should be said: all living beings are pedestrians.
A passing driver saw their car parked alone on the road and stepped on the brakes: "Do you want help?"
Gui Xiao seemed to be scalded by these words, and hurriedly broke free from him: "It's fixed, it's fixed."
The driver was kind-hearted, and told them to drive ahead for half an hour to see Erlianhot. Since it is repaired, don't delay. After all, the night road is not safe. Gui Xiao agreed, and seeing that he was gone, Lu Yanchen also got up and packed up his luggage and tools, and continued on his way.
Last time I came, Erlianhot was covered with snow. By the time they entered the city, the snow had melted.
Lu Yanchen answered a long phone call, but he didn't say a few words, cherishing words like gold.
"Is that my dad?" she asked softly.
Lu Yanchen shook his head and turned off his phone: "Leader in the past."
There are not too many cars on the wide road, and the few cars that I drive in the past are Russian-made cars similar to Beijing Jeeps.
She was guessing Lu Yanchen's mood at this time, even herself, because he stayed in Xilin Gol League for so long, she would have a unique feeling for this place, especially the city of Erlianhot.
This time it was Lu Yanchen's hotel.
After the luggage was brought into the room, he told Gui Xiao, "I made a report before I left that I wanted to leave the country. Something went wrong. I have to go back tonight." It is difficult for a soldier to go abroad. She knew that, she was in Beijing before. When going through the exit formalities, he also said that his relationship was in the original place, and he asked her to leave her alone and handle hers.
So when he said this now, Gui Xiao was worried: "How about you stay in Erlianhot, and I'll go help you meet Qin Xiaonan's mother and get the account back?"
"Come back."
"What time are you coming back?" Gui Xiao wanted to see if he wanted to sleep first or wait for him.
He looked in a good mood: "Soon."
"Then I'll wait for you to come back." She sent him out.
Lu Yanchen left the hotel and drove straight to the address told on the phone.
The night wind blew into the car through the window. In such a cold weather, his blood was hot.
Gui Xiao is simply a lucky star. He never imagined that his biggest wish before taking off his military uniform would soon come true. Those car thieves belonged to smugglers, and their sales channels were very mature, and they also colluded with foreign forces. That day, the police initially tried the car thief, and they were like a treasure.
This catch, caught an unexpected big fish.
Originally, the squadron leader wanted to recruit Lu Yanchen back overnight to assist in the interrogation, but the others just came back, so the trial started early tonight.
Soon, Lu Yanchen drove to the place.
He jammed the car into a random corner of the parking lot, got out of the car, and walked towards the door on the right side of the building. Several special police officers who had worked with him in the past all greeted him when they saw him, and they all called "Road Team", "Road Team"...
After entering the door, someone came out of the second-to-last interrogation room in the corridor, and greeted with a smile: "This time, I will catch these people by following the vines, but I will credit my sister-in-law."
Lu Yanchen said in a low voice: "Luck."
The two whispered the details and entered the door.
There is no obvious light source in this room, and a glass in the middle separates the interrogation room and the detention room. On the other side of the glass, a row of people stood under the lights.
Lu Yanchen entered the room, and the five people sitting in the interrogation room turned back one after another, nodded to him, and greeted him silently.
At this time, he was in the dust, dressed in casual clothes, trousers and sneakers with no decoration or pattern from top to bottom, including the winter cotton padded clothes. Recognition, almost everyone here knows him: this is nine years of fighting on the front line, and just this year, due to a major casualty accident, the former anti-terrorism squadron leader, Lu Yanchen, asked to leave.
Quiet briefly.
They were fully prepared, how should Lu Yanchen deal with extreme emotions—
After all, Lu Yanchen left the squadron because of these people. The backbone he brought out was more than half dead and wounded overnight, and Lu Yanchen's direct superiors, just to exchange two innocent people from these people and use themselves as hostages To exchange, so far the body has not been assembled.
But Lu Yanchen was calmer than they thought.
He moved slightly, pulled out the chair, sat down, and pressed out the words one by one: "I will cooperate with you, let's judge."
In a standard straddle position, he leaned forward slightly, staring at the faces behind the glass.
It is rude to say that Lu Yanchen and many of his subordinates have been code-named by these extremist organizations on the Internet, and the price is clearly marked in US dollars. Being able to be "fancy" in this way also shows that he must also understand these people in his bones, and having him, an "outsider" to cooperate with the investigation, will do more with less.
Soon Qin Mingyu and Gao Hai also arrived, and silently stopped half a step behind Lu Yanchen and listened in silence.
***
Three hours later, the interrogation room door was pushed open.
The mouth was pried open smoothly, and I didn't expect that there would be worse things to come.
Lu Yanchen walked out without saying a word.
Qin Mingyu took Gao Hai out to chase: "There is room for negotiation on this matter—"
"What a joke!" Lu Yanchen scolded his head, went out of his trousers pocket to touch a cigarette, kept pulling one out of his feet, biting on the filter and lighting it, thinking carefully about the series of preparations to be made next, "So many years I have also I've only met him twice, and none of you have experience, so many lives are there!" It was too late to find someone with similar experience to him.
"just in case-"
"Not in case."
"Do you want to leave something to my sister-in-law?"
Lu Yanchen glanced at him and said nothing.
Qin Mingyu simply asked knowingly. All the interrogation content is highly confidential, and not a single word can be revealed.
He pushed open the iron door at the end of the corridor, jumped into Qin Mingyu's car, and threw his car key to Gao Hai: "Send the key over and let her wait for me." They all knew the room he booked.
Qin Mingyu also got into the car without delay, and hurriedly called the team.
Drive out.
All the way through the red light, Lu Yanchen was not ambiguous. He was just crossing the road downstairs in the hotel, looking up through the front windshield, his eyes flicked, and he drove past before he could find her room. .
The palm of his hand holding the steering wheel was dripping with fine sweat.
As if to vent, the car whistle was honked, and the jeep in front was bluffed away. The driver stuck his head out and shouted, "What are you doing! It's almost midnight! There are only two cars on this road, so why are you rushing like this?!"
He threw a cold look, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed out of the night in the city of Erlianhot.
…
Upstairs at this time, the room was as warm as spring.
Gui Xiaozhuo pulled his slippers and left the bathroom. After looking at the large double bed for a few seconds, he began to change the sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases.
Lu Yanchen has not returned yet.
There were people talking outside the corridor, and downstairs, there seemed to be a dance hall. These mundane noises entangled Gui Xiaojing. She waited for another ten minutes and dialed his number impatiently.
"Sorry, the phone you dialed is off..."
Shut down
Looking down, it was indeed Lu Yanchen's number, and it was not wrong. Is your phone out of battery
Gui Xiao guessed randomly and wanted to try again, but Xu Yao's phone suddenly came in.
She answered, and there was a call to Gui Xiao, and she responded, "I'm in a hurry to make a phone call. Keep it short, or I'll call you tomorrow?"
"I'm just overwhelmed and want to talk to someone," Xu Yao said in a low voice, "Binbin's test results are not very good. They are different from the tumors diagnosed in China. They haven't been diagnosed yet, but she This is more troublesome, it requires radiotherapy, and radiotherapy can cure the tumor, but once you have this disease, the chance of recurrence is very high, and the location is different each time.”
Gui Xiao was silent, not knowing what to say.
Xu Yao said a few more words, all of which were pathological and diagnostic terms that she did not understand.
She understood that this was a talk call, so she suppressed her thoughts about Lu Yanchen and listened patiently.
Soon, someone knocked on the door.
"Wait a minute, don't hang up, I'll open the door." Gui Xiao didn't delay for a second, threw his phone into the quilt, and ran to the porch with his white slippers. go.
Not Lu Yanchen, but Gao Hai
After the door opened, the man who had had a brief encounter with Gui Xiao was even more embarrassed than the last time he saw her. After stammering for a long time, he handed out a bunch of car keys: "Sister-in-law, the road team gave it to you."
Gui Xiao was taken aback: "What about others?"
Gao Hai became more and more guilty: "If something happens, let you wait for him."
"What? When will we wait?"
"As soon as possible..." Gao Hai took a half step back, staring at Gui Xiao with guilt, not knowing what to say, he couldn't say anything at all.
The road team did not explain. In the past, they were born and died, and those with family members were not around. How to comfort others, the young man held back for half a minute and could not come up with any countermeasures. Besides, Gao Hai was in a mess himself, the situation was too complicated and dangerous, his brain would explode, he was not as calm as Lu Yanchen—
Gui Xiao was worried because he was shutting down the phone, but when he got the car keys inexplicably, the person who delivered the keys refused to say a word, and the more panicked: "...Is something wrong?"
"Sister-in-law," Gao Hai paused for a while, then sighed heavily, "Take care of yourself."
She patted the car key in her hand, turned around and ran.
Gui Xiao was in a hurry and reached out to pull the person back, but he didn't hold back: "Gao Hai!"
When Gao Hai was stopped by her, he stopped for a moment and thought that the road team had all gone and risked such a big risk. His eyes were suddenly red, and he didn't turn his head. He pushed open the wooden door of the fire escape and ran away.
She was dumbfounded. Seeing the wooden door slammed back, a loud bang ran through the corridor.
After standing like this for a long time, he vaguely remembered that Xu Yao was still waiting for him on the other end of the phone.
When I went back to my room, I found the phone from the quilt, but I was choked when I wanted to speak, only the sound of my own breathing.
"Gui Xiao? You can talk about it later if you have something to do."
His heart beat loudly, and he wanted to cry after thinking about it for a minute, but he tried his best to comfort himself, Gui Xiao, don't think too much, what danger could he be as a man who has taken off his military uniform? It must be that he encountered old comrades who drank too much and was afraid that he would be angry.
His comrades in arms can't speak, all of them are stupid and big, and they can fight terrorism.
I don't understand what absurd things were said, take care of what you said, can you say nonsense...
"Xu Yao," Gui Xiao said, "you accompany your wife to see a doctor first, life is at stake, money is a trivial matter, when you return to China—"
The voice trembled horribly.
"Did something happen to you?" The other party heard that something was wrong and interrupted.
"No," Gui Xiao pressed his right hand against the throbbing stomach, panting lightly, "My stomach hurts, I'll call you tomorrow..."