That night, the three of them sat in the bar by the Qinhuai River for nearly an hour before Zhuang Li's car arrived. Zhou Luoyang was exhausted and lay in the car.
"You won't be checked when you're crossing the highway, right?" Zhou Luoyang said leaning on the back seat.
"If there is no blood on the body, it will not." Du Jing began to package the collected information and send it to the headquarters.
Until this moment, Zhou Luoyang, the sound of gunshots lingered in his ears for a long time.
Zhuang Li drove the car to Nanjing and did nothing for a while, so he had to drive back to Hangzhou.
"Are you a native of Zhejiang?" Zhuang Lichao asked the stand-in, "What can I eat and play in Hangzhou? It's my first time here."
The substitute sat in the passenger seat and began to remove makeup and tore off his shaped face. After all, he didn't know whether Wu Xingping would be wanted or not. With his appearance, he was afraid that he would be interrogated and cause trouble.
"Yo." Zhuang Li glanced at the substitute.
"Everyone who sees my appearance will be silenced." The substitute made a rare joke, and Zhuang Li laughed.
Zhou Luoyang listened to the conversation in the front seat and looked at Du Jing silently.
"Sleep for a while." Du Jing said to Zhou Luoyang.
Zhou Luoyang: "It was a thrilling night, would you sleep one for me to see?"
Du Jing put on his earphones and called the company headquarters. This time his tone was relatively better. After hanging up the phone, Zhou Luoyang asked, "Have the task been completed?"
"It's barely done," Du Jing said. "The rest, it's up to the other side to deal with it."
Du Jing has collected enough evidence, just waiting for the legal affairs of all parties to start to intervene to deal with the follow-up of this series. From Yu Jianqiang to the death of Wang Ke, to the hiding place of the multinational extortion organization UT, following the clues and going deep, an extremely serious case will be implicated.
The stand-in said, "I forgot to introduce myself, Brother Jing, this... brother, just call me Adan."
Zhou Luoyang nodded and said, "My name is Luoyang."
Zhuang Li said, "Who notified the police? Where are your people? Didn't you come?"
The young man named Adan shook his head blankly and said, "You didn't ask for reinforcements, didn't you? Of course they didn't come. I didn't tell you."
"It's not me either." Zhuang Li said, "It's strange. When I got to the target location, I saw several police cars, so I didn't dare to approach."
"Be careful when you speak." Du Jing reminded coldly.
Zhou Luoyang was also a little puzzled, who would call the police? Is there anyone at UT monitoring the company's every move?
He glanced at Du Jing, but Du Jing waved his hand, motioning not to ask more.
They returned to Hangzhou at dawn, while Du Jing was still finishing the work. When Zhou Luoyang woke up in the afternoon, he and Du Jing went to Quyuan Fenghe for afternoon tea.
On the other side of Wanshi, Yu Jianqiang called, and Zhou Luoyang almost forgot about it.
"I heard that Wu Xingping was caught," Yu Jianqiang said nervously, "do you have any news?"
"I don't know," Du Jing said, "the car he got off in Jinan has never been contacted again."
Yu Jianqiang said, "Where are you now?"
Du Jing replied calmly, "Hangzhou."
Yu Jianqiang said: "You don't come back for now. I will inform you in a while, and you will be paid as you go, so it's a paid vacation."
Zhou Luoyang was drinking coffee and calmly listening to Yu Jianqiang express his anxiety.
Du Jing said: "The paid vacation is very good, the boss will see you in a while."
Zhou Luoyang said: "Why do I think you sometimes talk to Yu Jianqiang like a fool."
Du Jing said, "The character he plays is an upright second-generation rich man." Then he motioned Zhou Luoyang not to speak, and called the headquarters himself.
"Apply for a period of leave." Du Jing said.
Li Liangyi's voice said, "What happened to you recently? You haven't even asked for a day of sick leave since you returned to China. Why have you been asking for leave one after another recently?"
Du Jing began to pinch his knuckles, made a soft noise, and said, "I have something to deal with at home, and the project is over."
"How long?" Li Liangyi asked.
"One week." Du Jing replied.
Li Liangyi said: "Okay, until next Wednesday, but I have to come back for a closing summary in the middle."
Du Jing hung up the phone and said, "I should have asked for a month if I knew I had agreed so readily."
Zhou Luoyang laughed. After Du Jing pinched his knuckles, he pinched Zhou Luoyang's fingers again. Zhou Luoyang exclaimed a few times and pulled his hand back.
"Going for a walk on Beishan Road?" Du Jing said, "By the way, I'll show you the storefront."
Zhou Luoyang didn't think about it, Du Jing's proposal is very good, but Le Yao is studying in Wanshi and needs someone to take care of it. It is obviously unrealistic to move back to Hangzhou, and Du Jing's work is not allowed.
Zhou Luoyang said, "What about Le Yao? He can't be allowed to live on campus seven days a week."
He hadn't seen his brother for several days, and he missed him very much.
"I'll pick him up on Friday and bring him to Hangzhou," Du Jing replied, "I'll send him back to Wanshi on Sunday, and I'll have a regular meeting on Monday."
"Then what about your work?" Zhou Luoyang said, "I might as well be in Wanshi, and I can see you often, otherwise you only come to Hangzhou on weekends a week, what's the point?"
Du Jing said, "Do you really want to see me that much?"
Zhou Luoyang didn't answer and glanced at him. In fact, he didn't really want Du Jing to do this job, no matter how good he was, it was too dangerous. But out of respect for him, he didn't try to persuade Du Jing.
Du Jing added: "I can apply and be seconded to the Hangzhou branch. The boss said that as long as I am willing to come, I can choose the branch in China."
"Then why did you choose Wanshi?" Zhou Luoyang suddenly asked.
The two walked slowly across Beishan Road. Du Jing looked up at the storefronts on the side of the road. One of them had a "For Sale" sign. Obviously, the business was not good.
He didn't answer Zhou Luoyang's question, but instead said: "You can think about it carefully, you can open it wherever you want."
"It doesn't have to be in the scenic spot," Zhou Luoyang replied. "After all, it's not in the tourist business."
Du Jing said: "Do it a little higher, and the business will come naturally. Don't do it like a street watch shop."
Zhou Luoyang said: "I never seem to have questioned your professional level when you are on a mission."
Du Jing apologized politely: "It's my fault. As a shareholder, I just hope you can earn more money."
Zhou Luoyang still had a debt on his head. He ran around with Du Jing these days, which effectively relieved his pressure and eased his anxiety. However, after being reminded by Du Jingyi, he remembered what he was facing. A whole bunch of questions.
"Let's talk about it," Zhou Luoyang said, "I have to deal with the things that should be faced. Give me a little more time. I don't want to leave Wanshi for the time being, I have to go back."
He likes Hangzhou, and of course he likes Wanshi. There is no difference in his preference between these two cities. Wanshi has the thick, simple and atmospheric of Wanshi, and Hangzhou also has the graceful, beautiful and gentle of Hangzhou.
Occasionally, he subconsciously wanted to escape from Wan City for only one reason - debt collectors.
Grandpa's shop owes six million, he is the only heir, and of course he inherits all the debts of the shop. The debt collector has not come to the door yet, but he knows that one day he will come. Sending Le Yao to the boarding house was also to prevent his younger brother from facing too many responsibilities beyond what he could bear at his age.
"Du Jing?" Zhou Luoyang said.
After Du Jing's proposal was rejected, he didn't speak any more, just nodded.
"What to drink?" Zhou Luoyang asked.
"Don't drink." Du Jing replied.
The two of them strolled along Beishan Road until dusk. The conversation between the two of them was normal before, but soon Du Jing was silent again. Zhou Luoyang knew that he had spoiled him, but he had no choice.
"I owe money to the Antique Research Fund," Zhou Luoyang added. "If the creditor comes to the door and finds that the building is empty, the reputation will be too bad."
Du Jing said, "You're not wrong, it's my lack of consideration. I didn't think about it from your standpoint. It's all my wishful thinking."
Zhou Luoyang was full of anxiety, and finally said: "I really like to go back to Hangzhou, we can be in the future..."
"Let's talk about it." Du Jing replied, "I'll go back tomorrow, and you'll have to pick up Le Yao on Friday."
Zhou Luoyang knew that he was a little ill. During the years they had been together, there were not many occasions where Du Jing took the initiative to make requests, and most of the time it was Zhou Luoyang who made up his mind. This has also created a habit. As long as Du Jing asks for it in rare cases, Zhou Luoyang will try his best to satisfy him.
But this time he really couldn't listen to Du Jing. He had a hunch how Du Jing would react: exactly as he expected, Du Jing hardly spoke for the next twenty-four hours.
"Are you feeling better?" Zhou Luoyang was accustomed to facing such a low pressure. If it were changed, others would definitely think that Du Jing was cold and violent, and only Zhou Luoyang would not be angry.
Du Singing nodded, and the two of them swiped their tickets to enter the gate. It was Thursday on the day they returned to Wan City, and Zhuang Li drove to pick them up.
"Send him home first." Du Jing said.
"What about you?" Zhou Luoyang asked.
Du Jing said: "Then go back to the company, there is something to deal with."
Zhuang Li took off his sunglasses and said, "Brother Jing, the procuratorate has already prepared to prosecute two separate cases. The boss said that the assignee will come to our company tomorrow afternoon to open..."
Du Jing said patiently, "Why do you always talk so much nonsense?"
Zhuang Li did not dare to speak.
"When did you return to Wanshi?" Zhou Luoyang suddenly asked.
Du Jing didn't answer.
Zhou Luoyang: "Xiao Li, when did Du Jing join your company?"
While visiting Beishan Road that day, Zhou Luoyang asked inadvertently, "Why did you choose to go back to Wan City?" But Du Jing avoided it.
If you change someone else, maybe you can solve it with "Wan City is a political and cultural center, what is the problem with returning to Wan City?". However, Du Jing didn't. If he didn't want to answer, there was only one reason: he didn't want to lie to Zhou Luoyang, so he didn't answer.
So Du Jing came back to Wan City. In fact, there was another reason. Zhou Luoyang's attention fell strangely on this point.
What's the reason?
"I... Brother Jing I was with half a year ago."
Zhuang Li glanced at Du Jing's face in the rear mirror, and cleverly answered Zhou Luoyang from the side.
"You always knew I was in Wanshi, didn't you?" Zhou Luoyang said to Du Jing.
"Yes." Du Jing was very calm this time.
Zhou Luoyang thought for a while, and then asked, "Why didn't you come to me?"
Du Jing did not answer again.
Zhuang Li's expression was very, very uneasy, for fear that he had heard something he shouldn't have heard.
Zhou Luoyang said: "I'll tell you first, I'm not angry. Based on your intelligence, it's easy to check someone. I don't think we'll meet by chance at Yu Jianqiang's dinner. Did you already know that I live? Where, even... spying on me?"
Du Jing: "Yes."
Zhou Luoyang's heart really is, this makes sense.
"So you report back to the head office, because I'm in Wanshi." Zhou Luoyang said.
Du Jing thought about it and replied, "You can say that."
Zhou Luoyang was a little puzzled, this was indeed something Du Jing could do: "You... do you often appear in the community where I rent?"
Du Jing said: "I often lie on the bench downstairs in your house at night, and I can't sleep anyway."
Zhou Luoyang asked, "Why don't you come and knock on the door?"
Du Jing replied, "I'm afraid you're still angry."
Zhuang Li: "..."
Zhou Luoyang said: "Actually, whenever you knock on my door, I will open the door for you. But you are still at Yu Jianqiang's dinner..."
"I can't stand it anymore," Du Jing said.
Zhou Luoyang knew that what Du Jing was really afraid of was not the fact that he was still angry three years ago.
"What you are afraid of is not anger, but the fear that after three years of separation, we have become strangers who will never meet again." Zhou Luoyang said slowly, "What you miss is the days we lived together three years ago, what you are afraid of is You have changed, I have changed, I am afraid that after I nod and greet you, I will never contact you again, and we will never be able to return to the past."
Du Jing: "Since you know it, why say it again?"
Zhou Luoyang said: "I always thought that just as I know you, you are also the person who knows me best."
Du Jing: "I can't get past this."
Zhou Luoyang thought about it and said, "It's all good now, let's... and..."
Zhou Luoyang wanted to say "We are together again", but they were not lovers before, so it seemed a bit strange to say that. He couldn't find the right words to describe it.
"Meet again." Du Jing said calmly.
"Yes." Zhou Luoyang said with a smile, "Why do you have to be upset because of some trivial matters? When I saw you again, I felt that many difficulties could be overcome slowly for me. You and I have not changed. Isn't it the best outcome?"
Zhuang Li stretched his neck and tried to see Du Jing's expression in the rear mirror. Zhou Luoyang's words were too misleading. Of course, their relationship was equally misleading.
The car stopped downstairs in the community and arrived at Zhou Luoyang's house. Zhou Luoyang and Du Jing were still sitting quietly in the back seat of the car. Zhou Luoyang glanced at him, and the scars under Du Jingmei's eyes were especially clear in the sunlight.
He avoided Zhou Luoyang's sight and glanced at the familiar building from the car window.
"You're right, this is the luckiest thing. When are you going to let me move into your house?" Du Jing said to Zhou Luoyang as if he had thought about many things.
Zhou Luoyang was about to open the door to go out, when he heard the words, he stopped and said, "Wait for me to ask Le Yao's opinion first."
"On Monday, he promised me."
"He's just being polite and following your words. I still need to formally..."
"Like you, he is a polite and considerate child." Du Jing interrupted Zhou Luoyang's words.
Zhou Luoyang did not answer.
Du Jing was silent for a long time. Zhou Luoyang knew that he must have something to say, so he didn't leave. In the past few days, Du Jing has made two requests to him, which is unprecedented, but their goals point directly to the same thing. : Du Jing wants to live with him. This desire is so urgent that even if he risks being rejected, he has to make it clear to Zhou Luoyang repeatedly.
"You don't have to worry about the store."
Sure enough, Du Jing opened his mouth after nearly a minute.
"I will solve the trouble for you. If you don't want to open it, you may not open it. There is no need to force yourself." Du Jing said very seriously, "if you accept living with me, we will continue to be roommates, I mean , if you don't mind me moving in. You don't have to go to work, the salary is handed over to you, and you are at your disposal, I won't bother. "
When Zhou Luoyang heard this, he laughed and felt warm in his heart.
Du Jing raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Luoyang: "My salary is enough to support the two of us, plus Le Yao. It is also enough to cover all the expenses of the family. You can do whatever you want. If you want, I really hope you will help me iron my shirt every day. After get off work, I also share some of the housework. When I get home from get off work, we have dinner together... I can't cook, but I can learn to do it."
Zhou Luoyang replied, "I see."
Du Jing added: "I can help you pick up Le Yao and take care of him together. Otherwise, you have to work and take care of your family, and it's really too busy. We can be like... we can be like... "
"Live like two gays."
Zhou Luoyang said so.
Du Jing thought about it for a long time, he wanted to say "like we used to be".
But this is indeed a more apt description.
"Yes. Live together like two gays." Du Jing replied, and finally added: "When Le Yao goes home, I can sleep on the sofa in the living room."
"I promise you, give me some time, and let you know when I'm done." Zhou Luoyang got out of the car.
Zhou Luoyang's house was cleaned very cleanly, and no one could be seen coming, the door lock was not damaged, and everything was sorted into categories. With someone else, Zhou Luoyang would be furious with this kind of unsolicited "in-room care", but facing Du Jing, he had long been accustomed to it.
In the past few days, the two have been together almost day and night, but after returning from Hangzhou, Zhou Luoyang was suddenly a little unaccustomed to facing the empty home alone.
Just like Du Jing left without saying goodbye in the past, after leaving school, almost until graduation, Zhou Luoyang was quite unaccustomed to facing his only dormitory.
In those few years, he always felt that one day Du Jing would knock on the door after class.
Just as after returning home today, Zhou Luoyang also felt that Du Jing would knock on the door and come in.
He sat on the sofa for a while, and suddenly felt lonely in this rented, quiet two-bedroom and one-bedroom.
【Can you accompany me to pick up Leyao tomorrow evening? 】
[Depending on the situation, the company may have to hold a meeting. 】
[Remember the thing you promised me. 】
[I always remember, but maybe not soon. 】
Zhou Luoyang reminded Du Jing not to forget to investigate that crucial matter, but this reminder is meaningless: how can Du Jing investigate? Is it possible to convene colleagues and share their entire experience of traveling through time and space twice and returning to 24 hours ago, so that everyone can work together to find out the suspicious points?
Du Jing could only think for himself. On this point, Zhou Luoyang didn't have much hope of solving the mystery of any supernatural phenomenon. For the first time, he would just ignore it.
But since this phenomenon appears again, it means that it may happen a third time, a fourth time, or even many times.
At present, it seems that it has not had a bad impact on them, Zhou Luoyang sighed, and had to temporarily put the phenomenon of time-travelling behind him, thinking about how to discuss with his younger brother Le Yao, the future of a new member of the family is about to be added.
Since the car accident, Le Yao's mind has been very sensitive, or he has been a sensitive person since he was a child. After losing his parents and hemiplegia, Zhou Luoyang became his only relative, and he could feel his brother's attention at any time. on the body.
Just like this Friday when he went to pick him up from school, not long after getting in the car, Le Yao had already roughly guessed what was going on.
"Has Du Jing moved in?" Le Yao asked softly.
"What?" Zhou Luoyang regained his senses and said, "No, he's looking for you?"
Le Yao shook his head and smiled, "Have you been together this week?"
Zhou Luoyang replied, "No." At the same time, he thought, at least we are not together today.
Du Jing didn't come today. He thought he was stumped by the meeting. Le Yao said, "It doesn't matter to me to let him move in. Anyway, I'm at school five days a week..."
Zhou Luoyang thought for a while and said, "Every time you say 'it doesn't matter', the truth is 'it does matter'. Le Yao, why don't you tell me what's on your mind?"
"No." Le Yao laughed and turned to look out the car window.
Zhou Luoyang first lifted the wheelchair, then carried Le Yao upstairs and let him sit in the wheelchair before taking out the key to open the door.
"Dangdangdangdang-"
Le Yao said in surprise: 'You have cleaned the house! "
When Le Yao was at home before, Zhou Luoyang had hardly done a big cleaning. Whenever he wanted to clean up, Le Yao always insisted on helping. In order not to burden Le Yao, the two brothers could only do simple cleaning.
"You definitely didn't clean it yourself." Le Yao pushed the wheelchair with a smile and entered the room to put things: "Did Du Jing find a cleaning company?"
Zhou Luoyang felt a sense of frustration. Sometimes he felt that Le Yao was more suitable to be a detective.
How did he find out?
"Are we going to have dinner at home?" Le Yao's voice came from the room and said, "No help, I can take the clothes myself."
Zhou Luoyang thought about it and said, "Let's go out to eat, what do you want to eat?"
Le Yao changed his clothes and came out, and asked again, "When will he come? I can take a shower if I have time."
"Who?" Zhou Luoyang immediately realized that it was Du Jing that Le Yao asked again, so he explained, "If Du Jing doesn't come, he may have to work overtime."
Le Yao didn't ask any more questions, and rocked the wheelchair to the bathroom. Zhou Luoyang didn't take the initiative to help him, but just watched. In just one week, Le Yao has learned to take a bath without being cared for.
He first supported the edge of the bathtub, moved his legs over, then pressed the wash basin, and slowly slid into the bathtub with his clothes. After closing the shower curtain, I started to undress, took out my clothes, and put them on the stool outside the bathtub.
"Well done." Zhou Luoyang praised sincerely: "Teached at school?"
"Um."
There was a sound of water in the shower curtain.
"Have you showered every day this week?"
"Sometimes once a day, sometimes once every two days, and Aaron usually waits for me outside the bathroom."
"How are you getting along?"
"I feel like he likes me a lot."
"What about you?" Zhou Luoyang asked.
Le Yao thought about it behind the shower curtain and said, "I also like him very much. He has a sense of responsibility like you."
Zhou Luoyang knows in his heart that boys always have a desire to protect themselves, they want to take care of people who are weaker than themselves, and they choose to take the initiative to take responsibility on many occasions, even if the responsibility has nothing to do with them.
This desire is innate, inscribed in the genes of the earth that have evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Just like when he first met Du Jing, he felt it was his responsibility to take care of him from the very beginning.
"How is your book reading?" Zhou Luoyang asked again, and went to the living room to sort out the clothes and books that Le Yao brought back.
Le Yao answered in the bathroom, but his studies have become the last thing to worry about. He has always been very talented and likes physics. Zhou Luoyang also agrees very much. If you study scientific research in the future, you don't have to deal with the society too much.
Zhou Luoyang had just finished tidying things up, but Le Yao had already changed his clothes from the bathroom - he put the bath towel on the mat in the bathtub, dried his body, then slowly dressed, sat on the wheelchair, and started blowing his hair. .
"Very good." Zhou Luoyang's nose suddenly became sore, and he said, "This is very good, Le Yao."
Le Yao looked at his brother and was about to say something when the doorbell rang. Zhou Luoyang opened the door and caught sight of Du Jing.
Du Jing: "..."
Zhou Luoyang: "You... why didn't you send me a message when you came here?"
Du Jing looked at Zhou Luoyang and said, "Whenever I come to the door, you will open the door for me. You said it yourself."
Zhou Luoyang: "..."
"Hi." Du Jing took off his sunglasses and looked at Le Yao.
"Hi." Le Yao smiled at Du Jing, "I'm waiting for you to go out to eat."
Du Jing put a cake on the coffee table, sat down in front of the sofa, and asked, "How's school life going?"
"Master, can you lift your feet up and take off your leather shoes?" Zhou Luoyang said kindly.
Le Yao replied, "My roommate takes good care of me."
Du Jing said to Zhou Luoyang, "I accidentally twisted my waist when I was sleeping last night, so I couldn't bend over. Come here for a while, and then leave immediately."
Zhou Luoyang came over with slippers, sat on the coffee table, bent down to untie Du Jing's shoelaces, and changed his shoes.
"Mine?" Du Jing glanced at the slippers.
"Yes." Zhou Luoyang replied bluntly, and at the same time hoped that Du Jing would not say anything that should not be said in front of his younger brother.
The three of them didn't speak for a while, but Le Yao took the initiative to speak, breaking the silence: "I'll cut the cake, is there anything to celebrate?"
"Celebrate your first week of school." Du Jing said, "How about this reason?"
Zhou Luoyang knew that Du Jing must have something to say, but it was inconvenient in front of Le Yao. Sure enough, after looking at the phone for a while, he found the remote control, flipped the remote control dexterously a few times in his palm with one hand, pressed the TV button, and cast the video from the phone to the TV.
"… The top 100 real estate developers experienced thunderstorms. This morning, the company's general manager, Yu Mou, was criminally detained for several economic crimes and construction safety issues... "
In the video, the party was forced out of the company gate by the criminal police, and the house number and the party's face were mosaic, but Zhou Luoyang recognized it at a glance, it was Yu Jianqiang.
“… The owner who purchased his real estate defended his rights through legal means…”
Yu Jianqiang was arrested, and one of the charges was "construction safety". It seems that Wu Xingping, who ran all night, should have also been arrested. Buying a house requires keeping your eyes open and so on.
"Did you buy his house?" Le Yao asked curiously.
Du Jing said: "No, I am a licking dog, and a licking dog cannot afford a house, so a licking dog cannot afford a house."
Le Yao laughed, and the corners of Zhou Luoyang's mouth twitched, worried that Du Jing's undercover role in it would have cash transactions with Wu Xingping, and he wondered if it would be involved. But since it is the company's task, the boss should settle it for him.
Du Jing slid down the video and let Zhou Luoyang watch the second video.
The content is about the joint law enforcement in Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Wan City, and the special anti-criminal eradication has achieved phased results. The news did not report the nature of the criminal gang, nor did it mention the perpetrators, hiding places, etc. Special mention is made of "according to public reports".
The camera was aimed at a car with a mosaic license plate number. The police officer gave a brief interview behind the car, but Zhou Luoyang recognized the car. He and Du Jing squeezed in the trunk for nearly five hours.
"Sweeping the black and eliminating evil, don't forget the original intention." Zhou Luoyang said: "It's good."
"Eat the cake." Du Jing took the knife, cut it into four equal portions, and divided one for each person. Zhou Luoyang looked at the extra portion, and the two said in unison, "Jing Fang Xiaozhou."
Le Yao: "???"
Du Jing: "This is one of our rituals. People always have a sense of ritual."
Zhou Luoyang: "A ceremony with a grudge."
The cake was very delicious, but Zhou Luoyang didn't want to eat more before the meal, but Du Jing relished it, finished his portion, and said at the end, "Remember to express the rest to him."
"Enough is enough." Zhou Luoyang finally couldn't bear it any longer: "When will this stalk be talked about?"
Du Jing took the suit and said, "Come out with me and come back to pick up Le Yao for dinner in two hours."
"Can it be another day?" Zhou Luoyang asked seriously.
However, Le Yao said kindly: "I went to write the homework, I will wait for you to come back." After saying that, he returned to the room.
Du Jing motioned to Zhou Luoyang to put on his shoes: "I am disturbing your family."
Zhou Luoyang said displeasedly, "What's wrong with the waist?"
Du Jing replied, "The other day I hit the thugs behind you in the garage, and my back was pulled."
"There is medicinal wine for falls at home."
"Let's talk later, hurry up." Du Jing glanced at the newspaper spread on the coffee table, and the bottom was the page of the two-color ball lottery, and said, "Did you memorize the winning numbers?"
Zhou Luoyang said, "That's just for the coffee table!"
Zhou Luoyang got into the car. The road was very congested on Friday evening. Du Jing stared at the road ahead. Zhou Luoyang asked, "Is it better?"
Du Jing said, "Suddenly I felt a little uncomfortable again last night, but the thought of coming to see you today makes me feel better."
"Is there a clue about that?" Zhou Luoyang said inexplicably: "Where are we going now?"
Du Jing regained his senses, shook his head, and said, "No, I just want to take you to meet another person."
The destination was an expensive and famous hotel not far away. Du Jing took Zhou Luoyang into the top-floor suite of the hotel and knocked on the door of the suite. Zhou Luoyang glanced at a young girl sitting beside the bed. In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, there is an old man in a wheelchair.
Outside the window is the blood-red sunset in Wanshi's autumn.
Zhou Luoyang nodded with doubts.
"Hello." The old man glanced at the two of them, smiled, and said, "Vincent, long time no see."
It was Du Jing's English name, and Zhou Luoyang guessed that they might have met in the United States.
Du Jing said, "It's him, his name is Luoyang."
The old man nodded to Zhou Luoyang, and Du Jing walked to the wine cabinet and prepared himself a drink.
"Who are you?" Zhou Luoyang thought many thoughts - a scientist who studies time and quantum effects? Like an old intellectual, the young girl is his daughter?
"Introduce yourself." The old man said, "My surname is Yao, and my name is Yao Kang."
Zhou Luoyang was even more puzzled. Du Jing didn't say anything on the way, leaving him in a fog.
"I once had a daughter named Yao Lu." Yao Kang said, "I married a businessman named Yu Jianqiang."
Zhou Luoyang: "It's you?!"
Yao Kang's old smile, with a little sadness, added, "I asked to see you, thank you for everything you have done for this old man."
Du Jing handed Zhou Luoyang a drink, walked aside and sat down.
"But you haven't..." Zhou Luoyang looked at Yao Kang in surprise.
"I'm not dead." Yao Kang said, "It's just Xiaoyu who always thought I was dead, far across the ocean. It's easy to hide something."
Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing again and vaguely guessed the inside story of the whole thing. Sure enough, Yao Kang told them about the whole process of entrusting Du Jing to return to China to investigate Yu Jianqiang's case in this evening.
After Yao Lu and Yu Jianqiang got married, the old Yao Kang went to the United States for medical treatment. Yu Jianqiang still has some feelings for this "eldest brother" who helped him make a fortune and handed over the industry to him for half his life.
However, a few years ago, Yao Lu committed suicide in China due to a depression attack. Yu Jianqiang may have affected Yao Kang's condition. It was not until half a year after the death that Yao Kang, who was far abroad, was notified. At that time, the old man who was in his sixtieth year had already begun to doubt Yu Jianqiang and had the idea of revenge.
However, the medical identification is true, and it is no longer possible to reverse the case. It is even more difficult to find clues if you want to investigate the original matter. What if you find clues? Yu Jianqiang was not directly responsible for this, not even Wang Ke's death. Yao Kang was full of grief and anger, insisted on his illness, and his belief in seeking justice from Yu Jianqiang supported him to live for a few more years.
Until the last time he was seriously ill, he wanted to let it go. However, he met Du Jing unexpectedly. After Du Jing took over the case, he told him that it seemed impossible for Yu Jianqiang to get what he deserved. But he can find other ways to make him pay the price he deserves.
So Yao Kang pinned his last hope on Du Jing. Next, Du Jing asked him to put forward a personal entrustment, entrust the process to Wanshi Changyi, and then plan the situation. To sanction Yu Jianqiang, an effective breakthrough was needed. Du Jing investigated Yu Jianqiang's background in detail and learned that in addition to Yao Lu's death, there was another deceased person named Wang Ke who was related to him.
Neither of these two murders had anything to do with Yu Jianqiang, at least he couldn't be put in jail, so Du Jing thought of another way - a year ago, when the UT organization was being investigated in China, Du Jing was on suspicion of murdering Wang Ke. The person introduced UT's overseas institutions and told him that he wanted to get money and extort him.
Sure enough, the suspect took the bait and began to contact Yu Jianqiang through UT. So Du Jing returned to China with these two pieces of information, officially joined Changyi Company, began to collect evidence of Yu Jianqiang's other aspects, and followed the clues to help the authorities remove UT's office in China.
Zhou Luoyang smiled and said, "I'm ashamed to say, I'm not a private agent, I don't know anything, I just follow Du Jing."
"Vincent said that the two of you completed this case together." Yao Kang said, "I would like to thank you personally, no matter what. For you, this is just an insignificant episode in your own life. It's all the obsessions in his life, thank you."
Yao Kang wanted to get up from the wheelchair and bow to Zhou Luoyang and Du Jing, but he made a noise because of the inability to move. The girl hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, and Zhou Luoyang immediately said, "You're welcome, this is what I should do."
Du Jing said: "He will go back tomorrow. So I invite you to come out and meet today."
Yao Kang also said: "I prepared a thank you gift, which was agreed with Vincent a long time ago..."
Du Jing said immediately: "No need, a long time ago, I also said that I don't need it."
"Take it." Yao Kang said, "Maybe there will always be something useful in the future."
"You're welcome." Zhou Luoyang said to Yao Kang, "He is paid, and this is his job."
Yao Kang smiled and said, "Vincent gets a salary, but you don't. When we met, he mentioned you on the first day..."
Du Jing stood up unnaturally and said, "That's it, we're leaving."
"Take it." The young female assistant brought a small box with a card on it. The thank you gift was very light. Du Jing wanted to refuse again, but Yao Kang looked at him sincerely.
Du Jing finally had to take it and said, "I wish you good health."
"I also wish you good health and strong will." Yao Kang said: "Our whole life is accompanied by suffering."
Du Jing raised his hand and made a gesture of salute, even though he was not wearing a hat, so he said goodbye to Yao Kang. The setting sun reflected on his side face, Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing's scarred face, and suddenly felt the softness and warmth hidden in his indifference.
"What is this?" Zhou Luoyang opened the box and saw a USB flash drive lying inside: "What kind of classified information is it?"
Du Jing: "You don't want to thank you, do you? It doesn't matter what's in it."
Zhou Luoyang said: "If it's important to you, just accept it. If it doesn't matter to you, you can find a chance and send it back to him."
Zhou Luoyang handed the thank-you gift to Du Jing, who put it aside.
They drove the car back downstairs to Zhou Luoyang's house and went up to pick up Le Yao to go out for dinner. After Le Yao came to the house from Du Jing, he seemed to sense something and said, "You talk about you, don't worry about me."
Zhou Luoyang originally wanted to chat with Le Yao about the school, but when Du Jing appeared, he changed his mind.
"How long have you known him?" Zhou Luoyang said.
Du Jing confirmed the reservation information on his mobile phone, drove to the restaurant, and said, "I met three years ago when I first arrived in the United States. Today, you can ask anything you want, and I will tell you."
Le Yao chatted with his friends on his mobile phone, and only listened to the two of them quietly without asking any questions. Zhou Luoyang knew what Du Jing said, and half of it was told to his younger brother, in order to shorten the distance between them.
Zhou Luoyang said "Oh?" He no longer wanted to ask Du Jing to the bottom of it for the past three years. When I asked Du Jing, I didn't want to say it, but in the end, everyone was in a bad mood. Second, he has come back, and the past doesn't seem so important. It's good when people come back. The prodigal son can't get money back, life is always like this.
"It seems that you have made a lot of friends." Zhou Luoyang said.
"Only this one." Du Jing said, "I met during the treatment. The hospital had a sharing session. Everyone sat in a circle and chatted casually. Everyone was talking about themselves. Yao Kang also had this disease, and his daughter got his inheritance. "
"What's wrong?" Le Yao asked softly.
"Bipolar disorder." Du Jing glanced at Le Yao in the rear mirror and said, "It's commonly known as bipolar disorder."
Le Yao said, "Are you feeling better now?"
"Much better." Du Jing turned the steering wheel, stopped, and said, "Your brother has been tolerant of me."
Du Jing took the initiative to push the wheelchair, entered the western restaurant, settled the brothers and ordered dishes.
Zhou Luoyang said: "So one of the purposes of your returning to China is to do this for him. Is it a promise back then?"
"It's not exactly." Du Jing thought for a while, and said, "It's a matter of kind. After a while, I went to participate in the FBI training, and this matter was put on hold for a long time."
"FBI?" Le Yao was shocked and said, "Is it the FBI I thought?"
Du Jing looked at Zhou Luoyang, answered Le Yao's words, and said, "Yes, that's what you think. It's not the FBI of FBI warning..."
Zhou Luoyang: "Don't make such a joke with him."
Le Yao: "???"
Du Jing: "But it's not the official establishment of the FBI. It's not a registered detective, because bipolar disorder cannot pass their psychological test."
"You can only enter a major private institution under their control. They are mainly responsible for intelligence sources. They occasionally contact informants and handle small cases. We and the government are not responsible for each other."
Le Yao said, "Is it like what you see in the movie?"
Du Jing thought about it and said, "It's not very similar, very different. I can tell you later."
Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing and said, "It's very hard to join such an organization alone."
Du Jing looked into the distance, but he did not withdraw his gaze for a moment, still falling on Zhou Luoyang's face.
"Physically it's not hard." Du Jing said, "But mentally, it's very lonely."