For the next few days, Du Jing did not contact Huang Ting again.
In October, Wan City was a little cooler, and Zhou Luoyang did not propose to go out, so Du Jing stayed at home all day long, as natural as staying in the bedroom before. After adding the "captain", the two sides chatted briefly. Zhou Luoyang glanced at Du Jing's phone and said, "Are you sure it's him?"
Du Jing paused and looked at the "captain"'s information. Through Changyi's channel, preliminary results of personal information have been obtained.
The "captain" is named Lu Zhongyu, single, from Shandong, and has a cat at home. He used to work in a company selling outdoor sports equipment, and resigned in March this year.
"What are you talking about?" Zhou Luoyang said.
"Talk about you." Du Jing said, "He asked us what we do, and he also invited us to go hiking or travel together."
Zhou Luoyang glanced at Lu Zhongyu's circle of friends and said, "Did he soak in the little priest?"
"I don't know." Du Jing said, "Zhuang Li is watching him."
For these private detectives, it's a no-brainer to follow someone. Du Jing said, "He has been asking to add you. He has asked for it several times. Do you want to add him?"
Zhou Luoyang said: "Forget it, I'm afraid something bad happens accidentally."
Du Jing said: "He fell in love with you at first sight. This may be a breakthrough."
Zhou Luoyang: "It's not fun."
Du Jing replied: "Love at first sight is the only way to love, just like having cholera."
Zhou Luoyang naturally knew that what Du Jing was referring to was nothing more than "Love in the Time of Cholera", which was always in their dormitory and was also Zhou Luoyang's favorite book.
Zhou Luoyang held the pen in his mouth, and did not continue the topic, while peeping at Du Jing. While Du Jing is preparing the materials of Ho Chi Minh City for the next action.
Several messages came from WeChat, Zhou Luoyang thought about it and said, "I'll add him."
Du Jing pushed Lu Zhongyu's business card to Zhou Luoyang and said, "Finally I can't bear it anymore."
Zhou Luoyang said, "I just want you to concentrate on your work."
It passed quickly over there, Zhou Luoyang greeted Lu Zhongyu, the first sentence the other asked was [Are you and Groot together?]
Whether Zhou Luoyang answered, Lu Zhongyu asked him out for dinner at night, Zhou Luoyang asked: [Only us?]
Lu Zhongyu didn't answer, and asked five minutes later: [Does Groot want to come together?]
Zhou Luoyang said to himself: "Is this person aiming at me?"
Du Jing didn't answer.
"Are you jealous?" Zhou Luoyang joked.
In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, Du Jing used the landlord's fitness equipment to do sit-ups. Zhou Luoyang didn't move it when he rented the house, leaving the facilities for Le Yao's simple rehabilitation. But he specially reminded Du Jing not to exercise when Le Yao went home.
"No, it just triggered a self-protection mechanism," Du Jing said.
Zhou Luoyang said: "What protection mechanism?"
Du Jing did two sets of sit-ups and said: "When I was trained at the FBI, the therapy for alleviating emotional disorders was proposed in the psychology course. Detectives need to choose a "light" and build a spiritual self-defense around it. The mechanism can be a person or a thing, a family member, a child, a friend, a pet, or even a tree, a smell. Use this defense mechanism to block all attacks that can cause psychological trauma."
Zhou Luoyang didn't understand, so he lowered his head and returned to Lu Zhongyu's news, and said casually, "Oh, and then what?"
Du Jing explained to him: "For example, if you choose 'mother', then when you perform a task, no test will shake you. Because everything you do is to go home alive and see your mother, in other words In other words, your mother is your only hope of survival."
Zhou Luoyang just listened casually at first, but when he was focusing on two things, he was aroused by Du Jing's words.
"So if it's a lover," Zhou Luoyang said, "then everything you do is for the lover?"
Du Jing said: "Not completely, but when you are faced with murder, or some kind of moral choice, the existence of light will greatly ease your pain. As long as you remember, everything you are doing now is to protect your children. , it's not that difficult to start."
"Ah," Zhou Luoyang understood, "it's equivalent to a spiritual sustenance."
"Well," Du Jing sat, casually began to practice one-handed dumbbells, and said, "spiritual sustenance."
On Lu Zhongyu's side, there was not much foreshadowing of the topic. After a few words of greetings, he asked Zhou Luoyang: [Groot wanted to chase you, so he brought you to play the secret room, did he tell you?]
Zhou Luoyang didn't want to answer him anymore.
Lu Zhongyu asked again: [Do you like Groot?]
Zhou Luoyang asked again: "What is this sustenance?"
Du Jing didn't answer, and switched the dumbbell to his right hand: "What did the mercenary captain say?"
"He asked me if I liked you." Zhou Luoyang said helplessly, "How can I answer?"
Du Jing said, "Just tell the truth."
Zhou Luoyang said happily: "Then I'll tell the truth."
Du Jing didn't answer, got up and started doing four sets of exercises with dumbbells in both hands. Zhou Luoyang thought for a moment and replied to Lu Zhongyu.
Five minutes later, a bunch of news came from Lu Zhongyu, and Zhou Luoyang didn't want to talk to him anymore.
Zhou Luoyang replied: [Yes, I like him.]
Lu Zhongyu's reply was: [But I feel like you don't like him very much. You are very cold in the secret room, and you ignore him like you are pretending.]
Then it was Lu Zhongyu's observation that Zhou Luoyang didn't like Du Jing's analysis in the secret room that day.
[We're not together, it doesn't mean I don't like him.]Zhou Luoyang gave a strong answer, [To tell you the truth, I like him, he doesn't like me.]
Lu Zhongyu: [Why do I feel like I'm upside down?]
Zhou Luoyang: [Whatever you think.]
Zhou Luoyang doesn't care what the murderer thinks. If Lu Zhongyu is determined to be suspected, it means that this guy indirectly killed more than one person. He couldn't look at death as calmly as Du Jing, using his emotions to deceive and commit crimes was what he despised the most.
However, reason kept persuading him that Lu Zhongyu had not yet been convicted. What if he was wronged? Preconceptions are also unfair to him.
So Zhou Luoyang suppressed his disgust and replied: [Do you like little priests?]
Lu Zhongyu replied: [I have no feelings for him, I don't like his type, but I think I have to take care of him. The professor did the same to the kid he brought, didn't you find out? The professor also has some feelings for you. Did you go out to dinner together later?]
Zhou Luoyang: [You think too much, just know each other as friends.]
Lu Zhongyu: [Can I ask you a question?]
Before Zhou Luoyang could answer, Lu Zhongyu sent another message: [Why did you kill me at the end that day? I don't know if my understanding is correct.]
"How did you answer?" Du Jing finally asked.
Zhou Luoyang replied: "Didn't you tell me to tell the truth? I just said I didn't like it. I didn't like it at all."
Du Jing snorted and replied, "It's true, I don't like you either."
Zhou Luoyang said calmly: "Then it's even." After speaking, he changed his clothes: "I also want to exercise."
Du Jing said: "Don't practice too strong, your body is just right now, you are neutral, and occasionally it can make me misunderstood."
Zhou Luoyang said: "You also know that it is an illusion, caused by hormone disorders."
It was the same in the past. Du Jing's manic state caused him to have a high and strong sexual desire for a long time. If he couldn't find a way to express it for a long time, it would turn into the aggressive desire of male animals. But Zhou Luoyang could always appease him at the right time. In fact, he felt that Du Jing's mania was much easier to serve than the depression phase.
Zhou Luoyang entered the room and changed his pajamas into sports clothes. Du Jing went to the dining table to get a towel, passed by Zhou Luoyang's mobile phone, and did not look at the chat records between Zhou Luoyang and Lu Zhongyu.
Zhou Luoyang got on the treadmill and glanced at Du Jing.
"Du Jing?" Zhou Luoyang stopped, thinking that he might have said the wrong thing just now.
"I'm fine." Du Jing stopped and was silent for a while, his shoulders were obviously heaving due to panting. Zhou Luoyang wanted to exercise with him for a while, but by the way, Du Jing said: "Maybe it's another stage, let me myself wait a while."
In the case of a mixed bipolar episode, the transition phase can be very painful. Zhou Luoyang did not interfere with him, so Du Jing got up and left.
Depression, mania, depression, mania, after reuniting with Du Jing, in just over a month, Du Jing's mixed attack cycle has reached four times, and his condition has become more serious than before.
After this reunion, Zhou Luoyang occasionally had ominous thoughts, and perhaps Du Jing felt it himself. Just like a terminally ill patient, he had a hunch that there would be not many days to come, and because of this, he returned to himself.
No, no, he will get better.
Zhou Luoyang forcibly suppressed the thought that had arisen countless times. He put on his headphones on the treadmill and started playing Du Jing's favorite song "Stan" on a loop. He remembered the summer vacation of the second year after they met.
After returning from the spring outing, Du Jing's condition has stabilized a lot. Looking back now, Zhou Luoyang feels that something happened between the two of them during the summer vacation at the end of the freshman semester, but it was hazy and could not be captured.
Before the holiday, Du Jing went back to Madrid to visit his mother at his stepfather's house. At his invitation, Zhou Luoyang also followed.
Du Jing's family is quite large. He has small estates in Madrid and Barcelona. His stepfather is in the wine business. Apart from Du Jing, he also has two half-brothers who are twins. The stepfather also has a step-grandfather, a step-grandmother, and a step-great-grandmother of a higher generation.
Du Jing introduced Zhou Luoyang to his family and simply said, "This is my friend. We are going to go to Corsica and Sicily by boat for a few days."
"Chinese, you are welcome!" said the stepfather.
Du Jing's stepfather is different from what he described, he is a very talkative person. Although Zhou Luoyang couldn't understand what he was saying most of the time, he could only rely on Du Jing to translate. His mother spoke little, spending most of her time with her twins in the upstairs room.
"Are you gays?"
During dinner one day, my stepfather asked Zhou Luoyang in English.
Zhou Luoyang glanced at Du Jing subconsciously.
Du Jing said in Chinese: "How do you want me to answer?"
Zhou Luoyang said, "Just tell the truth."
Du Jing replied with a long sentence in Spanish.
Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing suspiciously and asked, "What did you say?"
Du Jing replied, "You asked me to tell the truth, and I'll tell the truth."
Zhou Luoyang said: "But that sentence is very long, I don't sound like 'no'. I can still guess the meaning in simple Spanish."
Du Jing's mother said in Chinese: "He said that although you are friends, you are closer than lovers."
Zhou Luoyang smiled, and Du Jing's mother said, "In so many years, Du Jing brought friends home for the first time. Simon just thought you were lovers, please forgive his impoliteness."
Zhou Luoyang immediately smiled and said, "It doesn't matter."
The mother asked again, "Did he fall in love at school?"
Zhou Luoyang said, "No."
Du Jing didn't interrupt the whole process. His mother said, "Thank you very much for taking care of him. He looks better than before when he comes back this time."
Zhou Luoyang nodded and moved Du Jing with his elbow, but Du Jing was reluctant for his family to mention his illness, and replied, "I'm already well, I haven't been sick for a long time, let's eat."
During the banquet, the whole family didn't care about Du Jing's existence, and the stepfather just greeted him politely, pretending that he was the air. Du Jing's attention was mostly focused on Zhou Luoyang, occasionally answering a few questions from his grandparents. The atmosphere of the meal was good, but Zhou Luoyang felt uncomfortable eating.
In addition to being unaccustomed to cold ham and hard bread smeared with tomato sauce, Zhou Luoyang always felt that a certain emotion was flowing during the banquet, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
It was not until the dessert was served that Zhou Luoyang finally discovered the reason - the feeling came from Du Jing.
Du Jing has been habitually looking at the faces of the whole family since he served the table.
Including stepfathers, grandparents, and even housekeepers. His manners seemed a little cautious, and when his grandparents looked at him, Du Jing wanted to say something. But the other party just smiled politely, then turned his head and continued to discuss their topic in Spanish.
This is the Du Jing that Zhou Luoyang has never seen before. He seems to have seen Du Jing when he was a child through this meal. His mother remarried when he was six years old. Since then, Du Jing has to work hard to learn to be in this family survive in.
Everyone just treats him as a buy-one-get-one-free gift when the eldest son gets married, raises him to an adult, and lets him go out to fend for himself, so there is no need to bother.
That summer heat wave swept across Europe, and the scorching heat could scorch the crops. The car that Du Jing drove out also stalled several times due to the overheating of the water tank. Two Chinese people stood on the side of the road annoyed to repair the car. See laughed.
"Do you regret crashing your Ferrari?" Zhou Luoyang said, "You spent a lot of money on them, so it seems..."
"The Ferrari was bought with my biological father's inheritance, and he left me with the money for my marriage," Du Jing replied, "He left me a lot of money, I bought that car, and there are still a lot left, so I keep it slowly. Slow down."
Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, as long as you like it.
"You spent all the money, does your mother have any opinion?" Zhou Luoyang asked.
Du Jing covered the hood of the car and said, "No. Everyone doesn't want to mention him. He's a lunatic. I inherited this disease from him. It's too hot... I'll go under the tree and wait for someone to fix it."
The two sat on the ground under a tree by the roadside. Du Jing unscrewed a bottle of hot drinking water and handed it to Zhou Luoyang.
"It's too hot." Zhou Luoyang's shirt was wet and dry, dry and wet.
"So I don't like summer here." Du Jing said.
Zhou Luoyang still remembered the first time they cleaned together, the day Du Jing mentioned that his mother remarried. Compared with here, summer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is indeed more comfortable, even if it is hot, there is still green shade and breeze.
"It's going to rain," Zhou Luoyang said. "It might be better if it rains."
Du Jing said: "For the locals, you can't just say it's raining."
Zhou Luoyang: "???"
As soon as the voice fell, the wind became stronger and stronger, blowing the dark clouds over. Du Jing raised his head and said, "You did a good job, it's going to rain."
Zhou Luoyang: "This is also taboo???"
In that silence, the rain began to fall. It was light rain at first, and the two stood up and leaned as close as possible under the tree to avoid the rain. After arriving, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the trees could no longer hide from the rain. Du Jing said to Zhou Luoyang in the heavy rain, "I have to find a place to hide from the rain!"
"Let's go!" Zhou Luoyang said loudly.
So the two dropped the car in the mud and ran across the field to the farm in the distance.
Du Jing took off his shirt and said to Zhou Luoyang, "You can take off your clothes! Go this way! Don't run under the tree! Watch out for thunder!"
Zhou Luoyang was wearing a shirt, black shorts, and sneakers. He was soaking wet, so he had to take off his shirt. He wanted to find a bigger tree, but was reminded by Du Jingyi, he had to turn around and run towards him.
Lightning flashed across the sky, Du Jing paused briefly, waited for Zhou Luoyang to come to him, took his hand and ran together.
It wasn't the first time they held hands, but it was the one that Zhou Luoyang remembered the most.
Du Jing's hands were full of rain, but they were clenched tightly. The strong light of the lightning illuminated Du Jing's fair shoulders and beautiful muscular outline.
In the storm, lightning and thunder, they bare their upper bodies on the wheat field, like two naked animals, they found each other between heaven and earth, and they merged and fled together.
Finally, they crossed the wheat-filled fields to the unlocked makeshift barn by the field.
Zhou Luoyang sneezed and said, "I remember that the same scene was described in a book, and I finally encountered it once."
"John Christopher." Du Jing twisted the water off his shirt.
Zhou Luoyang sneezed again, and the temperature plummeted, making him tremble.
Du Jing shook off his shirt, spread it on the ground, and said, "Sit here, be warm." Then he took the initiative to spread his long legs and patted the ground between his legs like a child.
Zhou Luoyang was really cold. When he saw Du Jing's bare chest, it was like seeing a fireplace. After obtaining permission, he immediately approached him consciously.
In the previous bedroom, their beds were always side by side, and Zhou Luoyang never mind sleeping with Du Jing. When the cold snap came, they would occasionally overlap their quilts and huddle under the covers, with Du Jing holding Zhou Luoyang from behind.
At this time, he sat in front of Du Jing, leaned against his bare chest, put his head back comfortably on his shoulder, and felt his heart beating vigorously on his back.
Du Jingteng took action and sorted out his wallet. The wallet was wet by the rain. Zhou Luoyang glanced at it and said unexpectedly, "I haven't seen this photo of you before."
"I dug it out from the book the day before yesterday." After Du Jing returned home, he rearranged the bookshelf and found an old yellowed photo from a Don Quixote. The photo showed a man wearing a fisherman's hat with a The kid dressed as a pirate and holding a rapier knows that it is Du Jing without asking.
Du Jing handed the photo to Zhou Luoyang, and Zhou Luoyang took it and glanced at it.
"Your father?"
Du Jing didn't answer.
Zhou Luoyang was surprised that Du Jing's father looked almost exactly like him, and he couldn't tell when he was a child, but when he grew up, except for the scar on his face, Du Jing was a copy of his father.
He felt that Du Jing might not want to mention his late father, so he changed the subject.
"I saw a church on the way," Zhou Luoyang changed the subject and said, "Is it a Catholic church?"
"Yes," Du Jing said, "a lot of people here are Catholics, and Catholics oppose homosexuality, so I don't know what my stepfather suddenly asked you about that day."
Zhou Luoyang replied: "Don't think about it, he should have no other meaning, just to see that we have a good relationship. What is the era, and same-sex marriage in Spain is also legal." Then he returned the photo to Du Jing.