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"...I said I wanted to be a writer back then, but I didn't expect you to actually do it now." Jiang Ge's tone was slightly emotional.

Xue Yiyang didn't really want to talk about his own affairs, "Have you considered changing jobs?"

His gaze was fixed on Jiang Ge's hand on the table.

At that time, it was a pair of hands holding a paintbrush. When holding it, it was soft and there was no callus.Now it is dark and thin, with yellow marks from the smoke on the knuckles.

Jiang Ge froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "What are you doing? You want to change jobs for me?"

Xue Yiyang did not answer.

"..." Jiang Ge looked at his face with a complicated expression, "Actually...you don't have to..."

He sighed, and then continued: "You don't need to feel that you owe me anything. After all, we were together at the beginning. It was your wish and I wanted it. Although there was a little unpleasantness when we broke up, it's just a simple forward now. Boyfriend relationship, I don’t need you to take any responsibility for me, I’m fine by myself.”

I'm not that kid anymore.

He refrained from saying this half sentence.

"Besides, aren't you going to get married too?" Jiang Ge looked away, "The thing about the hotel last time was that we were not kind. Since we are going to get married, we should treat that girl well. Today is the last time we meet, and we will return to the bridge in the future." The way back..."

"I don't like her." Xue Yiyang finally interrupted him.

Jiang Ge was taken aback, "You...you cheated on the marriage?!"

"No," Xue Yiyang laughed, "We are a fake marriage."

He briefly talked about the matter between himself and Meng Yi, "She has a lover, and I'm just helping out."

Jiang Ge sorted out the messages he had received, and finally understood why Xue Yiyang could have sex with him in the wedding room so calmly, and the guilt in his heart was at least a little less.

"Then... what about you?" After hesitating for a while, he still asked tentatively.

"No."

After drinking a cup of coffee for nearly half an hour, when Jiang Ge came out of the cafe, his phone, which was set to silent, was about to be blown up by the boss.

Seeing that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, he stood at the door waiting for Xue Yiyang to come out.

The man was paying at the counter, standing sideways, with his coat draped over his left arm, and a light-colored shirt that had been ironed without a single wrinkle.He still wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face - Jiang Ge doesn't know when he became short-sighted, at least Xue Yiyang had good eyesight when they were together, but he has to admit that Xue Yiyang like this is too fictional The standard polite scum here.

"Then I'll go first." Jiang Ge said.

Xue Yiyang grabbed him, "Tell me your mobile phone number."

After Jiang Ge entered the number on Xue Yiyang's mobile phone, Xue Yiyang immediately called back, and it took Jiang Ge's old domestic phone that was stuck to death to respond for a long time.

Xue Yiyang stared at him after writing the notes, and then asked, "What time do you get off work at night?"

"Nine o'clock."

"I'll go to find you when the time comes, and you must answer my phone." Xue Yiyang said that his assistant Xiao Zhou had already sent a message urging him to come over.

Jiang Ge nodded, watching Xue Yiyang leave in a hurry, and only belatedly thought, what's going on?It was as if they were going to get back together.

Back in the store, Jiang Ge was inevitably scolded by the boss, and finally settled on "I am not responsible for the medical expenses if I am injured".

Jiang Ge didn't feel anything, and went back to the back kitchen with a wooden face.Xiao He, who was washing the dishes, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Are you all right?"

He shook his head and said no problem.

"Oh, it's just pickpocketing," Xiao He rolled his eyes, "The wages are so low, if you are driven away, let's see where he can find someone else to take advantage of."

He has always been such a dog that he can't spit out ivory, and Jiang Ge doesn't bother to talk to him.

After a busy afternoon, it was soon evening.Jiang Ge has been looking at his mobile phone frequently since it got dark, so that Xiao He can feel that something is wrong.

"What's the matter? The debt collector came to the door?"

"Hmm." Jiang Ge didn't bother to explain.

"Really?" Xiao He said immediately, "How much do you owe? I only have 20 yuan, and they have found all three mobile phone numbers."

Jiang Ge finally took a look at him, "You owe 20 yuan? Does your uncle know?"

"How can I let him know, he will kill me if he knows."

"What did you do with that money?" Jiang Ge asked.

"Invest in P2P," Xiao He gritted his teeth with hatred. "The boss ran away just a week after throwing it in. I should have bought bitcoins if I knew it!"

At almost seven o'clock, Jiang Ge finally received a call from Xue Yiyang, and he was still a little nervous when he pressed the answer button.

Xue Yiyang's voice was the same as during the day, "You go through my WeChat friends, and then send me your address. I will pick you up at nine o'clock on time."

"Pick me up...what are you going to do?" Jiang Ge asked.

"I have some things that I want you to take a look at." Xue Yiyang said, he seemed to be still outside, and the voice from the receiver was a bit noisy.

"Yes." Jiang Ge agreed.

At this time, the store was still busy, and he could hear the voice of the boss inside calling him to collect the dishes, but he just didn't want to hang up the phone.

He thought that in the past few years, he has become invulnerable to all poisons and is not afraid of anything, but when facing Xue Yiyang, he has a feeling of time confusion.

It seems that he is still the young master of the greenhouse who didn't have to worry about anything, so happy that the top priority in life is love.

The clock pointed to nearly nine o'clock, and Jiang Ge went out to throw out the trash, and happened to see two children walking into the alley not far away.

He could recognize that the taller one was Xiaohua, but they usually came back from work at about eleven o'clock in the evening, why did they come back so early today?

He threw away the rubbish, and quickly walked around to the back door of the snack bar, where Xiaohua was waiting for him.

The person in charge of them is a man named Lao Xiao. Usually he will watch the children go to the alley of the rental house where they live, and then make jokes with the proprietress in the small shop there.

"Why are you so early today?"

Xiao Hua said anxiously: "I don't know what to say, they seem to have captured a woman, they might run away."

Jiang Ge's heart trembled, and the most feared thing finally happened, "Why? Why did you arrest that woman?"

"I don't know what to say," Xiao Hua was about to cry, "What should I do, Brother Jiang Ge."

"Then when are you leaving? Back to Cheung Chau?"

"I don't know," Xiaohua said, "They seem to be trying to sell that girl back to their hometown."

Jiang Ge looked at the intersection, "You go back first, don't be discovered by Lao Xiao, I will find a way to keep up with you."

Xiaohua nodded, ran a few steps, and disappeared into the shadow of the alley.

Jiang Ge's heart beat like a drum.

In the end what happened?Where is the woman from?Why are they arresting her?This is obviously human trafficking. If there is no evidence to report to the police, will the police believe it?

If he followed up, how could he not be discovered by them?He had to get a car as soon as possible...

He thought a lot in a mess all of a sudden, and he became anxious because of this sudden change.

He has been following this professional begging gang for nearly a month.

He was in a neighboring province when he first discovered them. At that time, he had just finished his last mission of unannounced visits to blood-selling gangs.

In order to get into the gang, he had to pretend that he also needed to sell blood to make money.Live with a group of strangers in a private house on the outskirts of the city, eat and sleep every day, and then regularly sell blood with uniformly made fake ID cards.

Because of anemia, people are always in a state of low mood, and the influence of the atmosphere makes all professional blood sellers very depressed.At the beginning, there will be some conversations with each other, but later on, the most common thing is that most of the people are in a daze.

If Jiang Ge hadn't reminded himself all the time that he was there with a mission, he would almost have been in a daze like that.

Most of these people have healthy limbs and a clear mind, and they insist on selling blood for a living.And because there is demand and there is production, the existence of this gray industry has not been a short time.

After struggling to escape from the blood-selling gang, he immediately wrote a manuscript of about [-] words, which sold well as he imagined.

After that unannounced visit, he seemed to have returned to modern society from the Neolithic Age, and everything that symbolized civilization made him feel comfortable.

Every unannounced visit is so painful. When he decided to take a good rest for a while, he ran into Xiao Hua who was begging on the side of the road.

For three days in a row, Xiaohua and several children were begging in the same place, and he was keenly aware of the unusual smell.

These children all spoke with a Cheung Chau accent. He traveled all over the city and found that there were these Cheung Chau children begging in every lively place, obviously organized.

So he immediately applied to the editor-in-chief again to go out for an interview, and started a follow-up interview for nearly a month.

These underground business people are usually very cautious. Jiang Ge tried to mix in with them at first, but found that he was not from Cheung Chau, so it was impossible to be "incorporated".

They are more like people from the same place, or even the same town and village, forming an organization and coming out to beg collectively.

So where did these children come from?

After many twists and turns, he finally gained the trust of one of the little girls, Xiaohua.She is 12 years old and doesn't want to continue to live this kind of begging life, but her parents are both members of this gang, and she can't escape even if she wants to.

In order to obtain more information, he followed them back to Dingchuan from other places, and found a job near Xiaohua's rental house.

What is going on now?They are no longer satisfied with begging, are they going to start abducting women?The woman didn't know what the situation was like now, the more Jiang Ge thought about it, the more anxious she became.

When he returned to the front hall, his complexion was very bad. Xiao He was already cleaning up the tables and chairs. Seeing him coming back, he pouted outside and said enviously, "There is a very handsome car parked outside. That brand is What is it called..."

Jiang Ge glanced outside, just in time to see Xue Yiyang open the car door and get out.