[Xie Do Chanbaek obeys] Exchanging tenderness
At the beginning of Chapter 1, Xie Daocan is still in place, unwilling to compromise with a single f
Bai Zun said, go back first.
☆,—12—
Bai Zunshou fell into a deep sleep.
Symptoms of discomfort appear after the injury.I woke up countless times in the middle of the night, my palms were covered with cold sweat, my chest hurt so badly that I couldn't breathe, my heart was like a trapped animal, the more I struggled, the tighter it was tied.
After taking the medicine, as soon as the pain subsided, I became extremely sleepy.
He fell asleep on the way back.He vaguely remembered that the car stopped, Xie Daocan opened the rear door, took off his coat and wrapped him tightly.
Half asleep and half awake, I went back to the hut on the roof all of a sudden, those days in the deep winter when I gave up the single bed and shared the floor with Xie Daocan. At that time, Xie Daocan would occasionally sleep with his wounds, and the tip of his nose was covered with soap and plaster the taste of.
When he got home, it was already daylight. Xie Daocan carried Bai Xun out of the car and carried him upstairs. Bai Xun didn't remember this, but the handful of clean and safe breath kept hugging him and refused to let go.
Bai Zun urged himself to wake up, so that Xie Daocan could pay the entrustment money he wanted before he went out.
When I woke up the sky was bright and white, at least it was noon.
Xie Daocan sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him, as if he hadn't slept and hadn't changed his clothes.
"What time is it, still not at work?"
Bai Zun was still not sober, so he sat up and reached for his watch to see that it was 02:30 in the afternoon.There was breakfast on the bedside table, which was already cold.
"Ask for leave. Sick leave."
After Xie Daocan finished speaking, he got up and went out, and came back with warm water and a small handful of pills.
Bai Shou swallowed the pill, and swallowed a few more sips of water, making Xie Daocan stare uncomfortably.
"Can't I take care of myself?"
Xie Daochan took the cup.
"Who said that? Those who are entrusted can't make calls by themselves."
Bai Zun did not let him ask.
"I haven't asked for sick leave. Xie Daocan will make people suspicious."
"I haven't asked for leave for five years. Will I never ask for leave? Don't I want to be a prosecutor for the rest of my life?"
Thinking of what the doctor said about the permanent damage to the heart valve, Xie Daocan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately changed his words, as if he had done a great job.
"I will spare no effort to help you set a precedent."
"Also, those seniors who troubled you and He La all day long, tried their best to teach you a few times. From now on, you must guard the position I laid, and don't let yourself be wronged."
Bai Shou listened calmly, and suddenly said, "Xie Daocan, just stay in that position, isn't it good?"
When he didn't get an answer, Xie Daocan came up to him and kissed him lightly on the lips.
Xie Daocan didn't know what that meant, and he didn't want to agree.
It seems that since we met, I've been looking for a reason enough to kiss him, but at this time, I'm taking advantage of someone's danger.Xie Daochan thought.
The kiss perched on the lips like a bird for a while.
Xie Daocan announced: "One-time payment. Customer, if you have any orders in the future, I will provide services for free."
Because of the kiss, those lips regained a little color, and they chased him back, kissing him back.
Xie Daocan held on to a ray of rationality.
"Customer, I told you to pay in one lump sum, so I won't discount it to you."
"It's a hidden reward." Bai Zun said.
"It's bribery."
"Is it so clean?"
Bai Shou put his ear next to Xie Daocan's and said, thank you, the prosecutor.
He obviously hated the prosecutor, but he didn't hate him when he called him that.
Xie Daocan thought he was being confused.
Relying on his high spirits, he pulled Bai Zun into his arms, carefully, but, unstoppably, deepened the kiss.
Let me show you the integrity.
From now on, the points deducted in the past six years have to be saved back.
☆,—13—
Bai Zun then drew a memory sketch in the event book.
He said that Dad likes white reeds, so you take the bus to Qingshui Lake and go pick a handful of white reeds in Yanhu Park.
He wrote in the event book, Qingshui Lake, Bailu.
He said that when he saw his mother, he would ask you if you ate well and slept well. You have to say that everything is fine, but you just miss the miso soup and red bean rice made by your mother.
He wrote in the event book, miso soup, red bean rice.
As soon as he looked up, Xie Daocan didn't look at the case book, but kept staring at him.
Bai Zun bowed his head again, and wrote down the words of his sweetheart.
Then mother will ask you, do you have a sweetheart?
"Yes." Xie Daocan said.
"No." Baishou corrected him, "You have to answer, no. She won't continue to ask. She will cook for you."
Bai Shou wrote down the title of a poem, saying that it was his father's favorite. When his father was in a coma, he would read a few poems to him every weekend, just read from the bookmarked page down.
He closed the case book and handed it over. Xie Daocan was still looking at him but refused to answer. He grabbed Xie Daocan's hand and pressed it in his palm.
For no reason, Xie Daocan hugged him and held him in his arms.like a child.
This hug was so long, it seemed like we had been separated for six years, and we finally met today.
In the evening, when the doctor came for the intravenous drip, Xie Daocan washed up, changed out of his suit, put on Bai Zun's daily windbreaker and was ready to go out.
The wallet key was placed above the wardrobe drawer, Xie Daocan remembered the old photo that Wu Hela mentioned, and his hand to close the wardrobe froze.
Xie Daocan picked up the wallet very carefully, as if it was alive.
Simple style, one fold in the middle, no snap buttons or zippers, Xie Daocan squinted his eyes, and glanced into the half-open wallet for a while, there were a few cards on the right, a few notes on the left, and no photos.
A little disappointed, but also relieved.Xie Daochan put the wallet away and closed the closet.
I went downstairs, stepped out of the house, started the car, put the key in my pocket, and found a small piece of paper.
It is a standard photo.Xie Daocan suddenly understood why Wu Hela recognized him.The man in the photo has a sly look on his brows and lips, which is an expression that will never appear on Bai Zun's face.
The windbreaker was brought back by Xie Daocan to his rented apartment after Bai Shou moved in, together with a change of clothes.
It was Bai Shou who deliberately left the photo at home the day he went to meet the informant.It was as if he knew something was going to happen.
There was a stamp on the front corner of the photo, and white paper was attached to the back, as if it had been cut from some document.
What documents?It seems that there is only an admission ticket for the judicial examination.
It was the only document with Xie Daocan's photo and Xie Daocan's name on it since the two shared their identities.
Two examination admission tickets, one for Xie Daocan and one for Bai Obey.
Bai Shou sat on the floor, picked up Xie Daocan's and looked at it.
It was the last weekend before the exam.Xie Daocan brushed his hair, walked out of the bathroom, sat down beside Bai Zun, and glanced at the admission ticket.
"Is it so beautiful?"
Bai Shou hummed.
"There are live ones here, and they look better than the photos."
Xie Daocan leaned in front of Bai Zun and blocked his sight, but he avoided it and still didn't look at him.
"It's a nice name."
Xie Daochan pouted.
"Of course the name is fine."
Bai Shou replied in a low voice, "Narcissism."
"Are you not narcissistic? You are not bothered by a face just like yours all day long."
Bai Shou raised his head and replied, "It's not just about the face."
Xie Daocan coughed deliberately: "Then where else to look?"
Bai Zun was taken aback, Xie Daocan looked so beautiful that he had never seen it before, and he forgot to answer for a moment.
Xie Daocan leaned forward, put one hand across his waist, and put it on the floor, leaving no room for Bai Zun to evade. His lips were close to the side of his neck, and time seemed to hold those lips, becoming extremely Slowly, his breath and voice said to him together: "I will show you everything."
That night, the two of them slept on the floor back to back, and neither of them fell asleep.It's too close to make people dare to move lightly.
After being dull for a long time, Xie Daocan turned over, put his arms around Bai Zun's waist, and rubbed his face against his shoulder blades.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Tigers are a threat." Bai Shou said.
Model students are not number one anymore.In the last two mock exams, Xie Daocan scored higher than him.
"Then write my name when you take the exam."
"Don't mess around."
"I'm not for your golden sign yet."
A warm breath came from the embrace behind him, and sleepiness also surged up. Bai Zun closed his eyes and said, "Xie Daocan, I will be better than Bai Zun in the future."
The dream is not safe.This person was by his side, but he was still worried.I always feel that there is something that Xie Daocan didn't tell him, and I always feel that the future that I have imagined countless times cannot be realized after all.
Xie Daocan didn't tell Bai Zun that he answered a phone call in the bathroom that night.It was my father's former brother, surnamed Qin.Qin Taixiong.
In the past two years of studying at night school, he has successively cut off all kinds of connections in the Jianghu.Only this person, every time he called, he couldn't refuse. He vaguely felt that this person knew his father's whereabouts.
But Xie Daochan didn't accept any of his proposals either.He fell in love with Xie Daocan's hacking skills, and invited him to work with the company several times.
Xie Daocan didn't sleep all night, so he decided to meet Qin Taixiong, ask about his father's affairs clearly, and also explain his own affairs clearly, so that there will be no further involvement in the future.
He set off before dawn, and Bai Zun was still asleep, Xie Daocan left and kissed his forehead.
That morning, watching the daylight rise little by little outside the car window, gradually filling up the green sky, never like that moment, looking forward to the future of him and Bai Xun.
But in the judicial examination two days later, Xie Daocan finally did not enter the examination room.
At that time, his mobile phone was still flipped, because he had saved the daily records of He and Bai Shou for more than two years, and he was reluctant to throw it away. The last two messages in the inbox were sent by Bai Shou outside the examination room.
The message said that he brought his ID along with him, and told him to pick it up from Uncle Mengang when he arrived.
Until the last 5 minutes before the exam, Bai Shou has always believed in him.
☆,—14—
Xie Daocan felt that he had underestimated the difficulty of this mission.
He has never had the memory of being with his mother. The middle-aged woman with soft eyebrows who hugged him at the door of the ward, and Bai Zun's mother, made him freeze, like a child next door who jumped over the wall and was caught. is on.
He called her Mom.A little raw.
Mom didn't ask much, just looked at him for a while, and then led him to Dad's hospital bed.
The couple seemed to exchange something at the moment they looked at each other. Xie Daocan noticed it, but he couldn't figure it out.
Before the mother stepped out of the ward, she turned around and took a good look at the son.
Xie Daocan sat in front of the hospital bed, facing Bai Shou's father speechlessly.
There was only one wall lamp on in the ward, and the wind swayed the tree shadows into the window, separated between them, Xie Daocan didn't know what to greet.
The father smiled, as if complaining.
"It's so hard to see Dad, shouldn't you be happier?"
Xie Daochan also remembered some complaints.
"Where have you been all these years?"
"A place far, far away." He seemed to be coaxing a three-year-old child, but his face was solemn, and when the brows were deep, he was exactly the same as Bai Zun.
The two looked at each other, their eyes were burning with pain, but they didn't avoid it.
"I haven't contacted you once, and I haven't heard anything about it. I'm just that one person, walking and walking, with no place to stop, no one to talk to, isn't it tired? Isn't it lonely?"
Xie Daocan seems to have forgotten what this place is and who he is.
"Observe it." Father handed over the book beside the pillow, turned on the little lamp by the bed, "read a poem."
Xie Daochan turned to the bookmarked page.It is a long poem.
"In a direction we can never arrange, you
Give us a time of mountains, a time of grasslands,
Sometimes together, sometimes separated,
Sometimes to deceive, sometimes to be deceived,
Sometimes it's rainy, sometimes it's windy,
Sometimes embraced, sometimes tired,
Sometimes started, sometimes finished,
Sometimes believe, sometimes despair. "
……
Xie Daocan's voice didn't have much emotion, but he was focused enough. He trudged through long sentences and many pauses, and read the part about love. He raised his head and looked at his father. He had memorized it by heart a long time ago. Wait for him to read on.
"Loving is difficult, you have to open a door.
What we pursue is flourishing, but we are separated by it.
I have loved, but my eyes were never clear,
A word to nowhere keeps me sad:
He once said, I will always love you and will never be separated.
Though his love is limited to things that change forever,
Though he actually told a lie, repeated through the centuries,
Why blame?Why not condone his failure?
Forgive him for that union with eternity
He also longed for it but couldn't get it. "
……
"Dao Chan." Father sighed softly.
The poem did not read any further, Xie Daocan still maintained that posture.
"Looking at me like this, isn't it... Your problem has been solved?"
Xie Daocan closed the book, stood up, called father, then changed his name, called uncle.
Bai Zun's father stared for a moment, then suddenly smiled and motioned for him to come over.
Xie Daocan sat on the edge of the bed.Father looked at him carefully by the light.
"You ask why there is no contact and why there is no news. In fact, you can see and hear them, but you can't answer them."
Father said, Zun Xun told me about Dao Can.
He said that this child is like his mother, who has been very quiet since he was a child and refused to bring up our concerns. After I fell ill, he was willing to talk instead, probably thinking that I couldn't hear.
His father held Xie Daocan's hand in his, which was so skinny that it hurt him a little.
"Daocan, because of your obstinacy in compliance, you have been in trouble these years."
Xie Daocan lowered his eyes and said after a long time, "Uncle thinks so, it's unfair to prosecutor Bai."
Father shook his head.
"I know. Know the kid."
"I know it's wrong, but I still want to get closer. It's not because of pity, not because of curiosity, but I can't turn a blind eye, and I can't let that person live like that. I remember that day I told me so."
My father said that it was the day when the results of the judicial examination were announced. Bai Zun was the first in the total score of that class. He came to the hospital to report the news, but he was not happy. He read me a long poem. At the beginning, all of a sudden they told me.
"Speaking of which, it's thanks to you. This child has never said anything to me so bluntly. I think he likes Dao Chan very, very much. With this in mind, forgive him more."
That day, my mother returned to the ward and packed red bean rice and miso soup, double servings.
The couple urged Xie Daocan to go back without being with him in the hospital.
Mom finally couldn't help it, and asked why Zun Xun didn't come, and if something happened.Let my father tug on the sleeves, and said that there is no need to answer, that there is no need to worry about us, there is nothing that parents can't get through.
Xie Daocan finally stood at the door and bowed.
"If there is really anything to forgive, it is not stubbornness, but kindness. It is too careless and too easy to let go of a peaceful life and walk into the chaotic lives of others."
The author has something to say: Poetry excerpts from Mu Dan's "Invisible"
☆,—15—
On the day when the results of the judicial examination were announced, Bai Zunshi searched through the transcripts of that test center from beginning to end.The first word is "Xie" and I can't help but look at it a few more times.
It was finally fully confirmed that Xie Daocan did not take the exam.
The phone couldn't get through, and Bai Shou did not go to the casino to wait any longer.He only went back to their hut a few times, sat empty for a while, and wanted to send a message, but as the days went by, he couldn't say anything.
The months of graduation season passed in a tumultuous manner.The last time I saw Xie Daochan was the day when I took graduation photos.
Xie Daocan was holding a handful of sunflowers, which disappeared from the crowd at a glance.
The juniors and juniors were surrounding Bai Zun to ask for his autograph, saying all sorts of reluctant words.
Bai Shou squeezed out of the crowd, Xie Daocan was nowhere to be seen, and suddenly remembered the small forest.
As he ran, he took off his academic uniform and walked through the woods to find him.
Xie Daochan was waiting in the old school building where they first met.
We met, but still don't know where to start.
The two stood silently for a while, and Bai Shou took the sunflower on his own initiative.
"After thinking about it these days, whether it's my decision to go to night school or take the exam, Xie Daocan didn't agree or object. It's my fault to force you."
Xie Daocan looked sideways out of the window, the slanting light pierced through the forest, it was evening again.
"I really don't like prosecutors. I didn't object to your decision because I was sorry for you, but I couldn't convince myself that I like this profession because I'm sorry for you."
Bai Zun looked at him more seriously.
"I don't like prosecutors, is it true, or is there a reason I don't know?"
"If you say you don't like it or don't believe it, then say you hate it. You hate the prosecutor. You should believe it."
Xie Daocan met Bai Zun's eyes without giving in.
"Xie Daochan who hates prosecutors, but his homework is so good."
"It's what you said. Casinos are full of masters, let alone reading and taking exams."
It was dull again.The eyes of the two people intertwined.
"Don't use that look."
Xie Daochan seemed impatient.
"I know your worries. If you didn't come back at night, did you get injured again, missed class, did you go to the casino again? I never ask, but it's written in your eyes."
"Your worries are all my fault. I want to be a person who will never make mistakes in front of you, but what I have done is wrong."
Bai Shou thought, if Xie Daocan had said these words two years ago in order to prevent him from intervening in his own affairs, he would have been very decisive without leaving any room for it.However, the peace of mind at this time made him feel even more irreparable.He thought that Xie Daocan must have fallen into a more difficult situation.
"I can understand what Xie Daocan does. It's just that you don't tell me anything, so I can't not be worried."
"I've been paying off my debts for almost ten years. Those people never ask me how I got the money. Can you also don't ask me?"
Bai Shou vaguely understood that this was all a strategy, and it wasn't the first time Xie Daocan had done this, but finally he couldn't help being a little angry.
"Is it just to pay off the debt? What on earth do you owe me, and you have to spend two years doing nasty things to pay it back?"
Xie Daocan was still calm, as if he came here just to say such words and get such results.
"If you agree to change the method, I won't renege on the debt, and I can pay back whatever I want in the future."
The words are heavy, but they are easy to say.To put it bluntly, compliance is the same as those people, it is a debt of Xie Daocan.Bai Zunshi felt humiliated.
"It's all paid off." After a moment of silence, Bai Shou said, "Go and pay someone else."
Xie Daocan took a step forward and walked outside.
"Thank you Daocan." Bai Shoushou called him to stop.
"I'm going to be the kind of guy you hate."
Xie Daocan stood at the door without looking back.
"I'd hate the prosecutor even more then."
"It should be that I like Dao Chan very, very much."
Xie Daocan always wanted to obey his father's words.
He couldn't imagine that Bai Shouli liked him so much.
Bai Zun's good treatment of him always gave him the illusion of treating him equally, because of his simplicity and without thinking, he couldn't tell whether it was out of his own will or the righteousness of the world he believed in.
Xie Daocan thought, if he had known that Bai Zunli liked him so much, he should have said the phrase "It's all paid off" by himself.
No matter how bad it was at that time, he would not have been thinking about it all the time.
☆,—16—
Xie Daocan lingered on the path in front of his house for a long time, thinking about Bai Zun's father's words and that poem.
There was a small light left in the bedroom on the second floor, Bai Zhou was half dreaming and half waiting for him.In the middle of the night, when he heard footsteps coming up from downstairs, he turned over, and the dream gradually overwhelmed him.
In the dream, it was the eve of the judicial examination, and Bai Zun was sleeping on the floor of the roof hut, holding Xie Daocan's admission ticket, while Xie Daocan was walking up the stairs step by step.
Bai Shou knew it was a dream, but he was still relieved in the dream.
I don't know when Xie Daocan climbed onto the bed.
At the end of his sleep, Bai Shou felt an arm around his body.
Except for the days when the floor was crowded, this was the first time that two people actually slept in the same bed.
As soon as this thought surfaced, Bai Zun woke up with a start.
It was slightly bright.He turned his face, Xie Daocan buried half of his face in the pillow, with his arms around his side, sleeping like a kitten.
The quilts are all on Bai Zun's side, and Xie Daocan hangs half of his shoulders to dry, which is a bit pitiful.
Bai Shou carefully propped himself up and distributed the quilt to him very lightly and slowly.
Xie Daocan rushed over, pressed his head on Bai Zun's shoulder, and hugged him tighter.
Bai Zun held his breath, waiting for everything to calm down.Xie Daocan didn't wake up, he hesitated for a while, and finally his hand landed on his back, and patted him lightly.
The corners of his lips raised, and then retracted.
He looked down at him, thinking, when this person is awake, he is obviously not so likable.He thought, the day should dawn a little slower.
As soon as Xie Daocan opened his eyes, he said, "I'm late."
Getting up and meeting Bai Zun's eyes, he said again, "Why didn't you call me?"
Bai Shou watched the man turn over and get out of his bed, and walked out of his bedroom in a daze without saying anything.
Sure enough, waking up is not so likable.
Xie Daocan went down a few steps, suddenly realized something, stopped, and looked upstairs.
He woke up from that bed, like a dream.
Back at the door of the bedroom, Bai Zhou was leaning on the head of the bed, putting on his coat.
Not a dream.Xie Daocan walked over step by step, sat down on the edge of the bed, and said, "Morning."
He wondered if Bai Zun had been waiting for him, from the morning when he left their hut before dawn to meet Qin Taixiong, had been waiting for him to come back, and said to him, good morning.
Xie Daocan leaned over and kissed him on the lips that did not answer.
Bai Shou put his arms around his neck.
Xie Daocan kissed him and talked a lot with him.
Bai Zunzun kissed him back.
After the long kiss, the two hugged each other quietly for a long time.
Xie Daocan heard Bai Zun's breath calm down, and whispered in his ear: "I'm going to make breakfast, and my mother packed red bean rice."
Bai Shou pressed against Xie Daocan's shoulder and did not respond.
Xie Daocan helped him up, looked at him for a while as if he hadn't seen him for a long time, then kissed him long on the lips, and went downstairs.
He thought, Bai Zun has something to say to him.It's just that this morning was too long, and neither of them was willing to break it.
Xie Daocan came in with breakfast for two, and Bai Shou was sitting by the window.
These days he gets up on time, washes and dresses neatly, reads and sorts case files in front of the window, he doesn't look like a patient at all.
Xie Daocan put a blanket on Bai Zun's lap.
Pale ankles were exposed under the trousers, cold and swollen.The doctor said that valve damage and blocked blood circulation will make the heart slowly fail, which is one of the signs.
Xie Daocan half-kneeled beside Bai Zun's knees, smoothed the blanket, and hugged those calves into his arms.
For a long time, Bai Zun's hand fell on Xie Daocan's shoulder.
"I've talked to the doctor. The illness won't be cured in a few days or a few weeks. It's not the way to go on like this. After Xie Daocan, you don't have to go to the central government for an examination for me."
Finally, nothing can stop it.Xie Daocan's face was pressed against Bai Zun's knee, and he didn't move.
"I feel dizzy when I stand up, and my heart hurts when I'm tired. Do you want to go back to work like this?"
That hand patted Xie Daocan's shoulder lightly, and his eyes turned to the distant sky outside the window.
"When I was young, my father didn't come home all day. I asked why. My mother said that when he walked on that road, he no longer belonged to himself, his wife and children. He belonged to those victims."
Xie Daocan raised his head, looked at him and said, "It doesn't matter who it belongs to, I don't mind the trouble."
Bai Zun turned his gaze back and looked at him too.
"Xie Daochan, isn't there still 'business'?"
Xie Daocan thought for a while, and said seriously: "Customer, I know what business is the most cost-effective."
Bai Shou covered his eyes and smiled, and tapped the tip of Xie Daocan's nose with his fingertips.
"I'll just come for work matters. If you're free, you can often visit my father for me."
Xie Daocan grabbed that hand, which was also cold.He pressed his lips to the back of his hand, warming him.
That hand wanted to shake it, but Xie Daocan refused, he put both hands together in the palm of his hand, and held them on his knee.
The two bowed their heads in silence for a while.
Xie Daocan made up his mind, raised his head, did not call Prosecutor Bai, but called his name, he said, "Bai Zun, do you still like me now?"
Bai Zun's gaze was deep and quiet, like a lake in early winter.As if that was the answer.
"When you liked me the most, it was my worst time. Now it's not so bad. If you still like me a little bit, let me stay with you."
"If you don't like it, forget it."
Unwilling, he struggled again.
"If you don't hate it, can you postpone it and let me accompany you until you finish the operation?"
It was quiet for a long time.When Xie Daocan raised his eyes, Bai Zun's gaze was fixed on his right wrist.
The throat that was originally hot from speaking the words that had been pressed in his heart for a long time suddenly became cold, and the cold spread all the way, from the heart to the whole body, all of a sudden.
Xie Daocan withdrew his hand and asked Bai Shou to grab him. He pulled his right wrist closer, and it hurt too.
The cuffs are half covered, with a pattern tattooed on them.
That was the pattern Bai Zun had seen on the back of the hands of his attackers.
☆,—17—
Xie Daocan sat alone in the living room, waited for a long, long hour, and finally heard a little noise from the house.
The door of the upstairs bedroom opened, Bai Zun stepped down step by step, and changed into formal clothes.
Xie Daocan looked up, this was the first time he saw Bai Zun as a prosecutor.
With straight shoulders, quiet eyes, and cautious steps, walking in the central prosecutor's hall like this, people dare not say a casual word to him, lest he be distracted, and the invisible weight on his body will tilt Come down and crush him.
But Xie Daocan is a liar after all, nothing can scare him.He leaned back on the sofa and crossed one leg.
Bai Zhou sat down squarely across from him, and the two of them held each other in silence for a moment across a small table.
"Nanshan Fund, computer system programmer?" Bai Zunshou said.
Xie Daocan nodded his head lightly, his attitude was contemptuous, and he refused to lower his chin.The pattern on his right wrist is exactly the word "Nanshan" in Chinese cursive script.
Bai Shou stretched out his hand to Xie Daocan.
Xie Daocan picked up Bai Zun's cell phone beside him, threw it hastily, just passed the small case, and landed beside him.
Bai Shifu dialed Wu Hela's number, reported her address, and said, "Come here with a search warrant and a special arrest warrant."
Xie Daocan watched and listened, with a smile that didn't matter, his eyes seemed a little sad, but the smile was too bad, and Bai Zun couldn't tolerate it.
"It was just an ordinary short company fraud. Because of the computer system you designed, the fraudulent amount has reached twelve figures. Your Nanshan Fund will destroy the livelihood of tens of millions of people at any time."
"Are you blaming me?" Xie Daocan didn't change his face, "I don't believe in the real money in my hand, but I want to believe in the string of numbers on the account. If you want to blame, you can only blame greed."
"Those are the life-saving money of ordinary people, the living expenses of the whole family in exchange for working four jobs a day, you say this is greed? What about Qin's? Bribe high-level executives with ordinary people's money in exchange for decisive shares in the custodian bank. Fortunately, the books Smooth it out, lie to them that the money is still there, and the dividends are still there."
Bai Zun's brows were deeply frowned, Xie Daocan always gave in when he saw him, but this time, Xie Daocan didn't compromise at all.
"Since we only look at the numbers, as long as the numbers are still rising, it can't be called a fraud. When money is raised and entered into any computer system, it will eventually become numbers. What is the difference between other people's numbers and Nanshan Fund's numbers?"
After he had finished talking, Bai Shou was more calm, and asked, "Can I get the money out?"
Xie Daocan thought about it responsibly as he would treat a customer.
"Investment at the level of 5.00, the dividend will increase by [-]% monthly, and [-]% at the million level. According to Prosecutor Bai, it will be calculated as VIP, [-]%. Do you want to try it?"
Bai Shou ignored his nonsense.
"Give me the server address of the computer system, or the list of bribe recipients, give me one, preferably both, in that case, consider helping you get a reprieve."
Xie Daocan smiled contemptuously, bowed his body, and said sincerely: "I'm not afraid of going to jail, Prosecutor Bai, you've made the wrong idea."
During the ten minutes that Wu Hela and several investigators were busy searching for evidence in this house, the two of them did not speak a word.
Xie Daocan raised his head and watched the investigators walking back and forth along the corridor. He suddenly remembered something and said, "The house can be auctioned off as stolen goods. I keep the wooden box in the attic. I will use it when I come back."
Prosecutor Wu was upstairs, leaning on the railing and yelling downward.
"Xie Daocan, now Senior White is in charge, you are not allowed to speak."
Bai Shou covered the inner side of his coat with one hand, pressed his left rib, stared at Xie Daocan, and said nothing.The heart twisted tightly, and every time I struggled, it seemed to exhaust the strength of my whole body.The doctor said that sudden emotions should be absolutely forbidden, he could not control them.
Before Xie Daocan let the two investigators take him away, he looked back at Bai Zun.
He took a small object out of his trousers pocket and threw it at him.
The throw was very accurate, and Bai Zun caught it with a wave of his hand.
"The key to the study, I will use it later."
☆,—18—
Bai Zunshi woke up and was in the hospital again.For a moment, I was in a trance, as if I had a very long dream, including Xie Daochan's dream.
Turning his face, it was Minister Liang who was guarding him.It seems that Xie Daochan never came back.
"Prosecutor Wu told me." Minister Liang sighed, "Observe, such a big thing happened, why did you carry it alone without discussing it with us?"
Bai Shou supported the edge of the bed and tried to sit up, but Minister Liang stopped him.
"Minister, because I didn't want to withdraw from the investigation, I concealed the fact that I was attacked, and found someone to pretend to be a prosecutor. It's all my fault, and I won't escape punishment..."
Bai Zun breathed a sigh of relief.Even saying a few words is difficult, this is something I have never done before.
"That person is a core member of the Nanshan Fund. This is a special arrest, and any information will not be made public. If you want to use this clue to trap Qin, and let him appear in court to identify Qin's crimes, please help me protect him. .”
Minister Liang patted the back of his hand: "The doctor said, you have to rest for a month before the operation, and it will take some time to recover after the operation. Suspended for three months for inspection, it is considered a punishment, and the case can be safely handed over to me." And Prosecutor Wu, don't worry about it."
Bai Shou was taken aback for a moment: "Punishment, can't we wait until the case is over?"
Minister Liang shook his head resolutely: "It's for your body, no bargaining is allowed."
Bai Zunshou turned his head to look out of the window, without saying anything.
After a while of silence, Director Liang weighed his words and said, "Observe, let me ask a question, it's fine if you can't answer well, Xie Daochan, is this your twin brother?"
Bai Shou looked out the window and answered calmly.
"Minister, Xie Daocan is a very important person, but don't worry about me, I will bear any result."
Minister Liang was about to say something when the phone rang.
After listening for a while, he said, "Prosecutor Bai has been suspended. From now on, Prosecutor Wu will be in charge of this case, and I will assist."
I reported a few more words over there and hung up.Minister Liang rubbed his eyebrows.
"Xie Daocan wants to see you. He said that only Prosecutor Bai can ask about him."
On the way to meet Xie Daocan, Bai Shou detoured to Aunt Jiang's soup and rice shop.
Sitting in the small corner where the two used to sit, they packed a soup rice and an egg roll.
In the past few years, new snacks have been added to the menu. The boss put a few on the table, and sat opposite Bai Zun, watching him carefully with a mirror.
"Observe, why didn't our Dao Chan come?"
Bai Zun didn't answer, but just smiled at the boss.
"You are still in good health."
"Okay, okay." The boss put a chopstick of kimchi fried fish cake into Bai Zun's bowl, and said, "Aunt Jiang has become Grandma Jiang, and the little cat and the little white cat have all become little tigers."
Bai Shou suddenly felt sad, bowed his head and picked the vegetables in the bowl, but didn't speak.
"Observe it, you have to comfort us, Dao Chan."
The boss narrowed his eyes and recalled.She said, about five years ago, or maybe six years ago, she didn't know what she was doing during the day, and she came to my place late at night, and took a couple of meals, and didn't go home, so she set up a stool and slept in the store , and there was no one at dawn.
Ask him, did you read the book well?Did you fail the exam?He just nodded.I said that there is something, just read it again and take the test again.
But Xie Daochan, he shook his head and said, such an exam, he only has one chance, if he fails, he will fail forever.
☆,—19—
Sitting on one side of the interrogation table, Bai Shou looked at Xie Daocan on the other side as if no one was concentrating on dealing with Tangfan. Thinking of those nights when he slept alone in the Tangfan shop, he felt unspeakably distressed.
He got up, walked out of the interrogation room, made a cup of coffee next door and brought it back.
Xie Daocan looked up at him, took the cup bluntly, and took a big sip.
Bai Shou sat upright until Xie Daocan finished eating, took out a handkerchief from his coat pocket, and handed it to him.
Xie Daochan took the handkerchief.Wearing the clothes of a detainee, he raised his sleeve to wipe the soup from the corners of his lips.The handkerchief was useless, and it was not returned to Bai Yi.
The two sat opposite each other, waiting quietly for the other to speak, and finally complied with the concession in vain.
"Is there anything you want to tell me?"
"That depends on what you ask."
Xie Daochan looked casual.
"Can you tell me anything?"
Xie Daocan leaned over to him: "Ask."
Bai Shou turned his eyes and looked at the one-way glass. He knew that Prosecutor Wu was looking at them from the other side of the glass.
"Where did you go before the exam?"
Xie Daocan's gaze fluctuated.The question was so brief that only he could understand it.
"I went to see Tae-woong Kum."
Answered too frankly.At that time, Bai Zun had to suffer for a long time before swallowing his throat and burying it in his heart. In order to persuade himself to believe in him, the question that he couldn't bear to speculate arbitrarily got the answer in an instant.
"The founder of Nanshan Fund, the suspect Qin Shi, who was tracked down by prosecutor Bai for five years, is my father's former brother."
"He said that when his father was in trouble, he didn't do much to help him. He had his own company and left his father with shares, but his father didn't come back. He finally found me and knew that I was paying my father's debts, so he let me inherit those shares. Conditions It is to enter his company and work with him."
The two people stared at each other for a moment in silence.
"I said I didn't agree at the time, would you believe me?"
"This is the end of the matter, does it matter if I believe it or not?"
On the other side of the one-way glass, Minister Liang was holding a cup of coffee and muttering to himself.
"If it's twins, they must have never lived together since childhood, or why one has become an excellent prosecutor, and the other has become a genius hacker and fraudster?"
"However, if we hadn't lived together since we were young, there wouldn't be such a thing between the two..."
Wu Hela interrupted him cautiously: "Minister, Xie Daocan is two years younger than Senior Bai, not twins, but someone who looks very similar to Senior Bai."
"Then it doesn't even make sense." Minister Liang pointed to the two people in the interrogation room, hesitated for a long time, and couldn't think of how to describe it, "This kind of atmosphere, if it's not twins, it's like a pair of lovers. Could it be that they have long faces? like the soul
☆,—12—
Bai Zunshou fell into a deep sleep.
Symptoms of discomfort appear after the injury.I woke up countless times in the middle of the night, my palms were covered with cold sweat, my chest hurt so badly that I couldn't breathe, my heart was like a trapped animal, the more I struggled, the tighter it was tied.
After taking the medicine, as soon as the pain subsided, I became extremely sleepy.
He fell asleep on the way back.He vaguely remembered that the car stopped, Xie Daocan opened the rear door, took off his coat and wrapped him tightly.
Half asleep and half awake, I went back to the hut on the roof all of a sudden, those days in the deep winter when I gave up the single bed and shared the floor with Xie Daocan. At that time, Xie Daocan would occasionally sleep with his wounds, and the tip of his nose was covered with soap and plaster the taste of.
When he got home, it was already daylight. Xie Daocan carried Bai Xun out of the car and carried him upstairs. Bai Xun didn't remember this, but the handful of clean and safe breath kept hugging him and refused to let go.
Bai Zun urged himself to wake up, so that Xie Daocan could pay the entrustment money he wanted before he went out.
When I woke up the sky was bright and white, at least it was noon.
Xie Daocan sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him, as if he hadn't slept and hadn't changed his clothes.
"What time is it, still not at work?"
Bai Zun was still not sober, so he sat up and reached for his watch to see that it was 02:30 in the afternoon.There was breakfast on the bedside table, which was already cold.
"Ask for leave. Sick leave."
After Xie Daocan finished speaking, he got up and went out, and came back with warm water and a small handful of pills.
Bai Shou swallowed the pill, and swallowed a few more sips of water, making Xie Daocan stare uncomfortably.
"Can't I take care of myself?"
Xie Daochan took the cup.
"Who said that? Those who are entrusted can't make calls by themselves."
Bai Zun did not let him ask.
"I haven't asked for sick leave. Xie Daocan will make people suspicious."
"I haven't asked for leave for five years. Will I never ask for leave? Don't I want to be a prosecutor for the rest of my life?"
Thinking of what the doctor said about the permanent damage to the heart valve, Xie Daocan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately changed his words, as if he had done a great job.
"I will spare no effort to help you set a precedent."
"Also, those seniors who troubled you and He La all day long, tried their best to teach you a few times. From now on, you must guard the position I laid, and don't let yourself be wronged."
Bai Shou listened calmly, and suddenly said, "Xie Daocan, just stay in that position, isn't it good?"
When he didn't get an answer, Xie Daocan came up to him and kissed him lightly on the lips.
Xie Daocan didn't know what that meant, and he didn't want to agree.
It seems that since we met, I've been looking for a reason enough to kiss him, but at this time, I'm taking advantage of someone's danger.Xie Daochan thought.
The kiss perched on the lips like a bird for a while.
Xie Daocan announced: "One-time payment. Customer, if you have any orders in the future, I will provide services for free."
Because of the kiss, those lips regained a little color, and they chased him back, kissing him back.
Xie Daocan held on to a ray of rationality.
"Customer, I told you to pay in one lump sum, so I won't discount it to you."
"It's a hidden reward." Bai Zun said.
"It's bribery."
"Is it so clean?"
Bai Shou put his ear next to Xie Daocan's and said, thank you, the prosecutor.
He obviously hated the prosecutor, but he didn't hate him when he called him that.
Xie Daocan thought he was being confused.
Relying on his high spirits, he pulled Bai Zun into his arms, carefully, but, unstoppably, deepened the kiss.
Let me show you the integrity.
From now on, the points deducted in the past six years have to be saved back.
☆,—13—
Bai Zun then drew a memory sketch in the event book.
He said that Dad likes white reeds, so you take the bus to Qingshui Lake and go pick a handful of white reeds in Yanhu Park.
He wrote in the event book, Qingshui Lake, Bailu.
He said that when he saw his mother, he would ask you if you ate well and slept well. You have to say that everything is fine, but you just miss the miso soup and red bean rice made by your mother.
He wrote in the event book, miso soup, red bean rice.
As soon as he looked up, Xie Daocan didn't look at the case book, but kept staring at him.
Bai Zun bowed his head again, and wrote down the words of his sweetheart.
Then mother will ask you, do you have a sweetheart?
"Yes." Xie Daocan said.
"No." Baishou corrected him, "You have to answer, no. She won't continue to ask. She will cook for you."
Bai Shou wrote down the title of a poem, saying that it was his father's favorite. When his father was in a coma, he would read a few poems to him every weekend, just read from the bookmarked page down.
He closed the case book and handed it over. Xie Daocan was still looking at him but refused to answer. He grabbed Xie Daocan's hand and pressed it in his palm.
For no reason, Xie Daocan hugged him and held him in his arms.like a child.
This hug was so long, it seemed like we had been separated for six years, and we finally met today.
In the evening, when the doctor came for the intravenous drip, Xie Daocan washed up, changed out of his suit, put on Bai Zun's daily windbreaker and was ready to go out.
The wallet key was placed above the wardrobe drawer, Xie Daocan remembered the old photo that Wu Hela mentioned, and his hand to close the wardrobe froze.
Xie Daocan picked up the wallet very carefully, as if it was alive.
Simple style, one fold in the middle, no snap buttons or zippers, Xie Daocan squinted his eyes, and glanced into the half-open wallet for a while, there were a few cards on the right, a few notes on the left, and no photos.
A little disappointed, but also relieved.Xie Daochan put the wallet away and closed the closet.
I went downstairs, stepped out of the house, started the car, put the key in my pocket, and found a small piece of paper.
It is a standard photo.Xie Daocan suddenly understood why Wu Hela recognized him.The man in the photo has a sly look on his brows and lips, which is an expression that will never appear on Bai Zun's face.
The windbreaker was brought back by Xie Daocan to his rented apartment after Bai Shou moved in, together with a change of clothes.
It was Bai Shou who deliberately left the photo at home the day he went to meet the informant.It was as if he knew something was going to happen.
There was a stamp on the front corner of the photo, and white paper was attached to the back, as if it had been cut from some document.
What documents?It seems that there is only an admission ticket for the judicial examination.
It was the only document with Xie Daocan's photo and Xie Daocan's name on it since the two shared their identities.
Two examination admission tickets, one for Xie Daocan and one for Bai Obey.
Bai Shou sat on the floor, picked up Xie Daocan's and looked at it.
It was the last weekend before the exam.Xie Daocan brushed his hair, walked out of the bathroom, sat down beside Bai Zun, and glanced at the admission ticket.
"Is it so beautiful?"
Bai Shou hummed.
"There are live ones here, and they look better than the photos."
Xie Daocan leaned in front of Bai Zun and blocked his sight, but he avoided it and still didn't look at him.
"It's a nice name."
Xie Daochan pouted.
"Of course the name is fine."
Bai Shou replied in a low voice, "Narcissism."
"Are you not narcissistic? You are not bothered by a face just like yours all day long."
Bai Shou raised his head and replied, "It's not just about the face."
Xie Daocan coughed deliberately: "Then where else to look?"
Bai Zun was taken aback, Xie Daocan looked so beautiful that he had never seen it before, and he forgot to answer for a moment.
Xie Daocan leaned forward, put one hand across his waist, and put it on the floor, leaving no room for Bai Zun to evade. His lips were close to the side of his neck, and time seemed to hold those lips, becoming extremely Slowly, his breath and voice said to him together: "I will show you everything."
That night, the two of them slept on the floor back to back, and neither of them fell asleep.It's too close to make people dare to move lightly.
After being dull for a long time, Xie Daocan turned over, put his arms around Bai Zun's waist, and rubbed his face against his shoulder blades.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Tigers are a threat." Bai Shou said.
Model students are not number one anymore.In the last two mock exams, Xie Daocan scored higher than him.
"Then write my name when you take the exam."
"Don't mess around."
"I'm not for your golden sign yet."
A warm breath came from the embrace behind him, and sleepiness also surged up. Bai Zun closed his eyes and said, "Xie Daocan, I will be better than Bai Zun in the future."
The dream is not safe.This person was by his side, but he was still worried.I always feel that there is something that Xie Daocan didn't tell him, and I always feel that the future that I have imagined countless times cannot be realized after all.
Xie Daocan didn't tell Bai Zun that he answered a phone call in the bathroom that night.It was my father's former brother, surnamed Qin.Qin Taixiong.
In the past two years of studying at night school, he has successively cut off all kinds of connections in the Jianghu.Only this person, every time he called, he couldn't refuse. He vaguely felt that this person knew his father's whereabouts.
But Xie Daochan didn't accept any of his proposals either.He fell in love with Xie Daocan's hacking skills, and invited him to work with the company several times.
Xie Daocan didn't sleep all night, so he decided to meet Qin Taixiong, ask about his father's affairs clearly, and also explain his own affairs clearly, so that there will be no further involvement in the future.
He set off before dawn, and Bai Zun was still asleep, Xie Daocan left and kissed his forehead.
That morning, watching the daylight rise little by little outside the car window, gradually filling up the green sky, never like that moment, looking forward to the future of him and Bai Xun.
But in the judicial examination two days later, Xie Daocan finally did not enter the examination room.
At that time, his mobile phone was still flipped, because he had saved the daily records of He and Bai Shou for more than two years, and he was reluctant to throw it away. The last two messages in the inbox were sent by Bai Shou outside the examination room.
The message said that he brought his ID along with him, and told him to pick it up from Uncle Mengang when he arrived.
Until the last 5 minutes before the exam, Bai Shou has always believed in him.
☆,—14—
Xie Daocan felt that he had underestimated the difficulty of this mission.
He has never had the memory of being with his mother. The middle-aged woman with soft eyebrows who hugged him at the door of the ward, and Bai Zun's mother, made him freeze, like a child next door who jumped over the wall and was caught. is on.
He called her Mom.A little raw.
Mom didn't ask much, just looked at him for a while, and then led him to Dad's hospital bed.
The couple seemed to exchange something at the moment they looked at each other. Xie Daocan noticed it, but he couldn't figure it out.
Before the mother stepped out of the ward, she turned around and took a good look at the son.
Xie Daocan sat in front of the hospital bed, facing Bai Shou's father speechlessly.
There was only one wall lamp on in the ward, and the wind swayed the tree shadows into the window, separated between them, Xie Daocan didn't know what to greet.
The father smiled, as if complaining.
"It's so hard to see Dad, shouldn't you be happier?"
Xie Daochan also remembered some complaints.
"Where have you been all these years?"
"A place far, far away." He seemed to be coaxing a three-year-old child, but his face was solemn, and when the brows were deep, he was exactly the same as Bai Zun.
The two looked at each other, their eyes were burning with pain, but they didn't avoid it.
"I haven't contacted you once, and I haven't heard anything about it. I'm just that one person, walking and walking, with no place to stop, no one to talk to, isn't it tired? Isn't it lonely?"
Xie Daocan seems to have forgotten what this place is and who he is.
"Observe it." Father handed over the book beside the pillow, turned on the little lamp by the bed, "read a poem."
Xie Daochan turned to the bookmarked page.It is a long poem.
"In a direction we can never arrange, you
Give us a time of mountains, a time of grasslands,
Sometimes together, sometimes separated,
Sometimes to deceive, sometimes to be deceived,
Sometimes it's rainy, sometimes it's windy,
Sometimes embraced, sometimes tired,
Sometimes started, sometimes finished,
Sometimes believe, sometimes despair. "
……
Xie Daocan's voice didn't have much emotion, but he was focused enough. He trudged through long sentences and many pauses, and read the part about love. He raised his head and looked at his father. He had memorized it by heart a long time ago. Wait for him to read on.
"Loving is difficult, you have to open a door.
What we pursue is flourishing, but we are separated by it.
I have loved, but my eyes were never clear,
A word to nowhere keeps me sad:
He once said, I will always love you and will never be separated.
Though his love is limited to things that change forever,
Though he actually told a lie, repeated through the centuries,
Why blame?Why not condone his failure?
Forgive him for that union with eternity
He also longed for it but couldn't get it. "
……
"Dao Chan." Father sighed softly.
The poem did not read any further, Xie Daocan still maintained that posture.
"Looking at me like this, isn't it... Your problem has been solved?"
Xie Daocan closed the book, stood up, called father, then changed his name, called uncle.
Bai Zun's father stared for a moment, then suddenly smiled and motioned for him to come over.
Xie Daocan sat on the edge of the bed.Father looked at him carefully by the light.
"You ask why there is no contact and why there is no news. In fact, you can see and hear them, but you can't answer them."
Father said, Zun Xun told me about Dao Can.
He said that this child is like his mother, who has been very quiet since he was a child and refused to bring up our concerns. After I fell ill, he was willing to talk instead, probably thinking that I couldn't hear.
His father held Xie Daocan's hand in his, which was so skinny that it hurt him a little.
"Daocan, because of your obstinacy in compliance, you have been in trouble these years."
Xie Daocan lowered his eyes and said after a long time, "Uncle thinks so, it's unfair to prosecutor Bai."
Father shook his head.
"I know. Know the kid."
"I know it's wrong, but I still want to get closer. It's not because of pity, not because of curiosity, but I can't turn a blind eye, and I can't let that person live like that. I remember that day I told me so."
My father said that it was the day when the results of the judicial examination were announced. Bai Zun was the first in the total score of that class. He came to the hospital to report the news, but he was not happy. He read me a long poem. At the beginning, all of a sudden they told me.
"Speaking of which, it's thanks to you. This child has never said anything to me so bluntly. I think he likes Dao Chan very, very much. With this in mind, forgive him more."
That day, my mother returned to the ward and packed red bean rice and miso soup, double servings.
The couple urged Xie Daocan to go back without being with him in the hospital.
Mom finally couldn't help it, and asked why Zun Xun didn't come, and if something happened.Let my father tug on the sleeves, and said that there is no need to answer, that there is no need to worry about us, there is nothing that parents can't get through.
Xie Daocan finally stood at the door and bowed.
"If there is really anything to forgive, it is not stubbornness, but kindness. It is too careless and too easy to let go of a peaceful life and walk into the chaotic lives of others."
The author has something to say: Poetry excerpts from Mu Dan's "Invisible"
☆,—15—
On the day when the results of the judicial examination were announced, Bai Zunshi searched through the transcripts of that test center from beginning to end.The first word is "Xie" and I can't help but look at it a few more times.
It was finally fully confirmed that Xie Daocan did not take the exam.
The phone couldn't get through, and Bai Shou did not go to the casino to wait any longer.He only went back to their hut a few times, sat empty for a while, and wanted to send a message, but as the days went by, he couldn't say anything.
The months of graduation season passed in a tumultuous manner.The last time I saw Xie Daochan was the day when I took graduation photos.
Xie Daocan was holding a handful of sunflowers, which disappeared from the crowd at a glance.
The juniors and juniors were surrounding Bai Zun to ask for his autograph, saying all sorts of reluctant words.
Bai Shou squeezed out of the crowd, Xie Daocan was nowhere to be seen, and suddenly remembered the small forest.
As he ran, he took off his academic uniform and walked through the woods to find him.
Xie Daochan was waiting in the old school building where they first met.
We met, but still don't know where to start.
The two stood silently for a while, and Bai Shou took the sunflower on his own initiative.
"After thinking about it these days, whether it's my decision to go to night school or take the exam, Xie Daocan didn't agree or object. It's my fault to force you."
Xie Daocan looked sideways out of the window, the slanting light pierced through the forest, it was evening again.
"I really don't like prosecutors. I didn't object to your decision because I was sorry for you, but I couldn't convince myself that I like this profession because I'm sorry for you."
Bai Zun looked at him more seriously.
"I don't like prosecutors, is it true, or is there a reason I don't know?"
"If you say you don't like it or don't believe it, then say you hate it. You hate the prosecutor. You should believe it."
Xie Daocan met Bai Zun's eyes without giving in.
"Xie Daochan who hates prosecutors, but his homework is so good."
"It's what you said. Casinos are full of masters, let alone reading and taking exams."
It was dull again.The eyes of the two people intertwined.
"Don't use that look."
Xie Daochan seemed impatient.
"I know your worries. If you didn't come back at night, did you get injured again, missed class, did you go to the casino again? I never ask, but it's written in your eyes."
"Your worries are all my fault. I want to be a person who will never make mistakes in front of you, but what I have done is wrong."
Bai Shou thought, if Xie Daocan had said these words two years ago in order to prevent him from intervening in his own affairs, he would have been very decisive without leaving any room for it.However, the peace of mind at this time made him feel even more irreparable.He thought that Xie Daocan must have fallen into a more difficult situation.
"I can understand what Xie Daocan does. It's just that you don't tell me anything, so I can't not be worried."
"I've been paying off my debts for almost ten years. Those people never ask me how I got the money. Can you also don't ask me?"
Bai Shou vaguely understood that this was all a strategy, and it wasn't the first time Xie Daocan had done this, but finally he couldn't help being a little angry.
"Is it just to pay off the debt? What on earth do you owe me, and you have to spend two years doing nasty things to pay it back?"
Xie Daocan was still calm, as if he came here just to say such words and get such results.
"If you agree to change the method, I won't renege on the debt, and I can pay back whatever I want in the future."
The words are heavy, but they are easy to say.To put it bluntly, compliance is the same as those people, it is a debt of Xie Daocan.Bai Zunshi felt humiliated.
"It's all paid off." After a moment of silence, Bai Shou said, "Go and pay someone else."
Xie Daocan took a step forward and walked outside.
"Thank you Daocan." Bai Shoushou called him to stop.
"I'm going to be the kind of guy you hate."
Xie Daocan stood at the door without looking back.
"I'd hate the prosecutor even more then."
"It should be that I like Dao Chan very, very much."
Xie Daocan always wanted to obey his father's words.
He couldn't imagine that Bai Shouli liked him so much.
Bai Zun's good treatment of him always gave him the illusion of treating him equally, because of his simplicity and without thinking, he couldn't tell whether it was out of his own will or the righteousness of the world he believed in.
Xie Daocan thought, if he had known that Bai Zunli liked him so much, he should have said the phrase "It's all paid off" by himself.
No matter how bad it was at that time, he would not have been thinking about it all the time.
☆,—16—
Xie Daocan lingered on the path in front of his house for a long time, thinking about Bai Zun's father's words and that poem.
There was a small light left in the bedroom on the second floor, Bai Zhou was half dreaming and half waiting for him.In the middle of the night, when he heard footsteps coming up from downstairs, he turned over, and the dream gradually overwhelmed him.
In the dream, it was the eve of the judicial examination, and Bai Zun was sleeping on the floor of the roof hut, holding Xie Daocan's admission ticket, while Xie Daocan was walking up the stairs step by step.
Bai Shou knew it was a dream, but he was still relieved in the dream.
I don't know when Xie Daocan climbed onto the bed.
At the end of his sleep, Bai Shou felt an arm around his body.
Except for the days when the floor was crowded, this was the first time that two people actually slept in the same bed.
As soon as this thought surfaced, Bai Zun woke up with a start.
It was slightly bright.He turned his face, Xie Daocan buried half of his face in the pillow, with his arms around his side, sleeping like a kitten.
The quilts are all on Bai Zun's side, and Xie Daocan hangs half of his shoulders to dry, which is a bit pitiful.
Bai Shou carefully propped himself up and distributed the quilt to him very lightly and slowly.
Xie Daocan rushed over, pressed his head on Bai Zun's shoulder, and hugged him tighter.
Bai Zun held his breath, waiting for everything to calm down.Xie Daocan didn't wake up, he hesitated for a while, and finally his hand landed on his back, and patted him lightly.
The corners of his lips raised, and then retracted.
He looked down at him, thinking, when this person is awake, he is obviously not so likable.He thought, the day should dawn a little slower.
As soon as Xie Daocan opened his eyes, he said, "I'm late."
Getting up and meeting Bai Zun's eyes, he said again, "Why didn't you call me?"
Bai Shou watched the man turn over and get out of his bed, and walked out of his bedroom in a daze without saying anything.
Sure enough, waking up is not so likable.
Xie Daocan went down a few steps, suddenly realized something, stopped, and looked upstairs.
He woke up from that bed, like a dream.
Back at the door of the bedroom, Bai Zhou was leaning on the head of the bed, putting on his coat.
Not a dream.Xie Daocan walked over step by step, sat down on the edge of the bed, and said, "Morning."
He wondered if Bai Zun had been waiting for him, from the morning when he left their hut before dawn to meet Qin Taixiong, had been waiting for him to come back, and said to him, good morning.
Xie Daocan leaned over and kissed him on the lips that did not answer.
Bai Shou put his arms around his neck.
Xie Daocan kissed him and talked a lot with him.
Bai Zunzun kissed him back.
After the long kiss, the two hugged each other quietly for a long time.
Xie Daocan heard Bai Zun's breath calm down, and whispered in his ear: "I'm going to make breakfast, and my mother packed red bean rice."
Bai Shou pressed against Xie Daocan's shoulder and did not respond.
Xie Daocan helped him up, looked at him for a while as if he hadn't seen him for a long time, then kissed him long on the lips, and went downstairs.
He thought, Bai Zun has something to say to him.It's just that this morning was too long, and neither of them was willing to break it.
Xie Daocan came in with breakfast for two, and Bai Shou was sitting by the window.
These days he gets up on time, washes and dresses neatly, reads and sorts case files in front of the window, he doesn't look like a patient at all.
Xie Daocan put a blanket on Bai Zun's lap.
Pale ankles were exposed under the trousers, cold and swollen.The doctor said that valve damage and blocked blood circulation will make the heart slowly fail, which is one of the signs.
Xie Daocan half-kneeled beside Bai Zun's knees, smoothed the blanket, and hugged those calves into his arms.
For a long time, Bai Zun's hand fell on Xie Daocan's shoulder.
"I've talked to the doctor. The illness won't be cured in a few days or a few weeks. It's not the way to go on like this. After Xie Daocan, you don't have to go to the central government for an examination for me."
Finally, nothing can stop it.Xie Daocan's face was pressed against Bai Zun's knee, and he didn't move.
"I feel dizzy when I stand up, and my heart hurts when I'm tired. Do you want to go back to work like this?"
That hand patted Xie Daocan's shoulder lightly, and his eyes turned to the distant sky outside the window.
"When I was young, my father didn't come home all day. I asked why. My mother said that when he walked on that road, he no longer belonged to himself, his wife and children. He belonged to those victims."
Xie Daocan raised his head, looked at him and said, "It doesn't matter who it belongs to, I don't mind the trouble."
Bai Zun turned his gaze back and looked at him too.
"Xie Daochan, isn't there still 'business'?"
Xie Daocan thought for a while, and said seriously: "Customer, I know what business is the most cost-effective."
Bai Shou covered his eyes and smiled, and tapped the tip of Xie Daocan's nose with his fingertips.
"I'll just come for work matters. If you're free, you can often visit my father for me."
Xie Daocan grabbed that hand, which was also cold.He pressed his lips to the back of his hand, warming him.
That hand wanted to shake it, but Xie Daocan refused, he put both hands together in the palm of his hand, and held them on his knee.
The two bowed their heads in silence for a while.
Xie Daocan made up his mind, raised his head, did not call Prosecutor Bai, but called his name, he said, "Bai Zun, do you still like me now?"
Bai Zun's gaze was deep and quiet, like a lake in early winter.As if that was the answer.
"When you liked me the most, it was my worst time. Now it's not so bad. If you still like me a little bit, let me stay with you."
"If you don't like it, forget it."
Unwilling, he struggled again.
"If you don't hate it, can you postpone it and let me accompany you until you finish the operation?"
It was quiet for a long time.When Xie Daocan raised his eyes, Bai Zun's gaze was fixed on his right wrist.
The throat that was originally hot from speaking the words that had been pressed in his heart for a long time suddenly became cold, and the cold spread all the way, from the heart to the whole body, all of a sudden.
Xie Daocan withdrew his hand and asked Bai Shou to grab him. He pulled his right wrist closer, and it hurt too.
The cuffs are half covered, with a pattern tattooed on them.
That was the pattern Bai Zun had seen on the back of the hands of his attackers.
☆,—17—
Xie Daocan sat alone in the living room, waited for a long, long hour, and finally heard a little noise from the house.
The door of the upstairs bedroom opened, Bai Zun stepped down step by step, and changed into formal clothes.
Xie Daocan looked up, this was the first time he saw Bai Zun as a prosecutor.
With straight shoulders, quiet eyes, and cautious steps, walking in the central prosecutor's hall like this, people dare not say a casual word to him, lest he be distracted, and the invisible weight on his body will tilt Come down and crush him.
But Xie Daocan is a liar after all, nothing can scare him.He leaned back on the sofa and crossed one leg.
Bai Zhou sat down squarely across from him, and the two of them held each other in silence for a moment across a small table.
"Nanshan Fund, computer system programmer?" Bai Zunshou said.
Xie Daocan nodded his head lightly, his attitude was contemptuous, and he refused to lower his chin.The pattern on his right wrist is exactly the word "Nanshan" in Chinese cursive script.
Bai Shou stretched out his hand to Xie Daocan.
Xie Daocan picked up Bai Zun's cell phone beside him, threw it hastily, just passed the small case, and landed beside him.
Bai Shifu dialed Wu Hela's number, reported her address, and said, "Come here with a search warrant and a special arrest warrant."
Xie Daocan watched and listened, with a smile that didn't matter, his eyes seemed a little sad, but the smile was too bad, and Bai Zun couldn't tolerate it.
"It was just an ordinary short company fraud. Because of the computer system you designed, the fraudulent amount has reached twelve figures. Your Nanshan Fund will destroy the livelihood of tens of millions of people at any time."
"Are you blaming me?" Xie Daocan didn't change his face, "I don't believe in the real money in my hand, but I want to believe in the string of numbers on the account. If you want to blame, you can only blame greed."
"Those are the life-saving money of ordinary people, the living expenses of the whole family in exchange for working four jobs a day, you say this is greed? What about Qin's? Bribe high-level executives with ordinary people's money in exchange for decisive shares in the custodian bank. Fortunately, the books Smooth it out, lie to them that the money is still there, and the dividends are still there."
Bai Zun's brows were deeply frowned, Xie Daocan always gave in when he saw him, but this time, Xie Daocan didn't compromise at all.
"Since we only look at the numbers, as long as the numbers are still rising, it can't be called a fraud. When money is raised and entered into any computer system, it will eventually become numbers. What is the difference between other people's numbers and Nanshan Fund's numbers?"
After he had finished talking, Bai Shou was more calm, and asked, "Can I get the money out?"
Xie Daocan thought about it responsibly as he would treat a customer.
"Investment at the level of 5.00, the dividend will increase by [-]% monthly, and [-]% at the million level. According to Prosecutor Bai, it will be calculated as VIP, [-]%. Do you want to try it?"
Bai Shou ignored his nonsense.
"Give me the server address of the computer system, or the list of bribe recipients, give me one, preferably both, in that case, consider helping you get a reprieve."
Xie Daocan smiled contemptuously, bowed his body, and said sincerely: "I'm not afraid of going to jail, Prosecutor Bai, you've made the wrong idea."
During the ten minutes that Wu Hela and several investigators were busy searching for evidence in this house, the two of them did not speak a word.
Xie Daocan raised his head and watched the investigators walking back and forth along the corridor. He suddenly remembered something and said, "The house can be auctioned off as stolen goods. I keep the wooden box in the attic. I will use it when I come back."
Prosecutor Wu was upstairs, leaning on the railing and yelling downward.
"Xie Daocan, now Senior White is in charge, you are not allowed to speak."
Bai Shou covered the inner side of his coat with one hand, pressed his left rib, stared at Xie Daocan, and said nothing.The heart twisted tightly, and every time I struggled, it seemed to exhaust the strength of my whole body.The doctor said that sudden emotions should be absolutely forbidden, he could not control them.
Before Xie Daocan let the two investigators take him away, he looked back at Bai Zun.
He took a small object out of his trousers pocket and threw it at him.
The throw was very accurate, and Bai Zun caught it with a wave of his hand.
"The key to the study, I will use it later."
☆,—18—
Bai Zunshi woke up and was in the hospital again.For a moment, I was in a trance, as if I had a very long dream, including Xie Daochan's dream.
Turning his face, it was Minister Liang who was guarding him.It seems that Xie Daochan never came back.
"Prosecutor Wu told me." Minister Liang sighed, "Observe, such a big thing happened, why did you carry it alone without discussing it with us?"
Bai Shou supported the edge of the bed and tried to sit up, but Minister Liang stopped him.
"Minister, because I didn't want to withdraw from the investigation, I concealed the fact that I was attacked, and found someone to pretend to be a prosecutor. It's all my fault, and I won't escape punishment..."
Bai Zun breathed a sigh of relief.Even saying a few words is difficult, this is something I have never done before.
"That person is a core member of the Nanshan Fund. This is a special arrest, and any information will not be made public. If you want to use this clue to trap Qin, and let him appear in court to identify Qin's crimes, please help me protect him. .”
Minister Liang patted the back of his hand: "The doctor said, you have to rest for a month before the operation, and it will take some time to recover after the operation. Suspended for three months for inspection, it is considered a punishment, and the case can be safely handed over to me." And Prosecutor Wu, don't worry about it."
Bai Shou was taken aback for a moment: "Punishment, can't we wait until the case is over?"
Minister Liang shook his head resolutely: "It's for your body, no bargaining is allowed."
Bai Zunshou turned his head to look out of the window, without saying anything.
After a while of silence, Director Liang weighed his words and said, "Observe, let me ask a question, it's fine if you can't answer well, Xie Daochan, is this your twin brother?"
Bai Shou looked out the window and answered calmly.
"Minister, Xie Daocan is a very important person, but don't worry about me, I will bear any result."
Minister Liang was about to say something when the phone rang.
After listening for a while, he said, "Prosecutor Bai has been suspended. From now on, Prosecutor Wu will be in charge of this case, and I will assist."
I reported a few more words over there and hung up.Minister Liang rubbed his eyebrows.
"Xie Daocan wants to see you. He said that only Prosecutor Bai can ask about him."
On the way to meet Xie Daocan, Bai Shou detoured to Aunt Jiang's soup and rice shop.
Sitting in the small corner where the two used to sit, they packed a soup rice and an egg roll.
In the past few years, new snacks have been added to the menu. The boss put a few on the table, and sat opposite Bai Zun, watching him carefully with a mirror.
"Observe, why didn't our Dao Chan come?"
Bai Zun didn't answer, but just smiled at the boss.
"You are still in good health."
"Okay, okay." The boss put a chopstick of kimchi fried fish cake into Bai Zun's bowl, and said, "Aunt Jiang has become Grandma Jiang, and the little cat and the little white cat have all become little tigers."
Bai Shou suddenly felt sad, bowed his head and picked the vegetables in the bowl, but didn't speak.
"Observe it, you have to comfort us, Dao Chan."
The boss narrowed his eyes and recalled.She said, about five years ago, or maybe six years ago, she didn't know what she was doing during the day, and she came to my place late at night, and took a couple of meals, and didn't go home, so she set up a stool and slept in the store , and there was no one at dawn.
Ask him, did you read the book well?Did you fail the exam?He just nodded.I said that there is something, just read it again and take the test again.
But Xie Daochan, he shook his head and said, such an exam, he only has one chance, if he fails, he will fail forever.
☆,—19—
Sitting on one side of the interrogation table, Bai Shou looked at Xie Daocan on the other side as if no one was concentrating on dealing with Tangfan. Thinking of those nights when he slept alone in the Tangfan shop, he felt unspeakably distressed.
He got up, walked out of the interrogation room, made a cup of coffee next door and brought it back.
Xie Daocan looked up at him, took the cup bluntly, and took a big sip.
Bai Shou sat upright until Xie Daocan finished eating, took out a handkerchief from his coat pocket, and handed it to him.
Xie Daochan took the handkerchief.Wearing the clothes of a detainee, he raised his sleeve to wipe the soup from the corners of his lips.The handkerchief was useless, and it was not returned to Bai Yi.
The two sat opposite each other, waiting quietly for the other to speak, and finally complied with the concession in vain.
"Is there anything you want to tell me?"
"That depends on what you ask."
Xie Daochan looked casual.
"Can you tell me anything?"
Xie Daocan leaned over to him: "Ask."
Bai Shou turned his eyes and looked at the one-way glass. He knew that Prosecutor Wu was looking at them from the other side of the glass.
"Where did you go before the exam?"
Xie Daocan's gaze fluctuated.The question was so brief that only he could understand it.
"I went to see Tae-woong Kum."
Answered too frankly.At that time, Bai Zun had to suffer for a long time before swallowing his throat and burying it in his heart. In order to persuade himself to believe in him, the question that he couldn't bear to speculate arbitrarily got the answer in an instant.
"The founder of Nanshan Fund, the suspect Qin Shi, who was tracked down by prosecutor Bai for five years, is my father's former brother."
"He said that when his father was in trouble, he didn't do much to help him. He had his own company and left his father with shares, but his father didn't come back. He finally found me and knew that I was paying my father's debts, so he let me inherit those shares. Conditions It is to enter his company and work with him."
The two people stared at each other for a moment in silence.
"I said I didn't agree at the time, would you believe me?"
"This is the end of the matter, does it matter if I believe it or not?"
On the other side of the one-way glass, Minister Liang was holding a cup of coffee and muttering to himself.
"If it's twins, they must have never lived together since childhood, or why one has become an excellent prosecutor, and the other has become a genius hacker and fraudster?"
"However, if we hadn't lived together since we were young, there wouldn't be such a thing between the two..."
Wu Hela interrupted him cautiously: "Minister, Xie Daocan is two years younger than Senior Bai, not twins, but someone who looks very similar to Senior Bai."
"Then it doesn't even make sense." Minister Liang pointed to the two people in the interrogation room, hesitated for a long time, and couldn't think of how to describe it, "This kind of atmosphere, if it's not twins, it's like a pair of lovers. Could it be that they have long faces? like the soul
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