suddenly tired

"His father went in and his mother's life or death is uncertain. Doesn't it mean that this kid has no money?" Zhong Lei thought to himself, and put Ji Sumian down at the door of the tavern at ten o'clock in the evening, "Give it 500."

"Ah? Isn't it 900? Master, I withdrew the money today, and I won't give you less."

"900 is a one-shot deal, if you still want to use my car, it's 500."

Ji Sumian was happy for a moment, and the price of friendship is: "Oh, okay, then can you come here to pick me up tomorrow?"

"Do you want to charter a car tomorrow?"

"Well! There are still a few places to go tomorrow."

Zhong Lei thought for a while: "If there are not many places to go, it is actually more cost-effective to take a taxi alone."

"I..." Ji Sumian couldn't think of the reason why he had to charter a car for a while, he hesitated for a while, lowered his head, and softened his tone, "Master, do you think I'm troublesome?"

"It's not really, well, forget it, you can do whatever you want."

"See you tomorrow." Ji Sumian almost ran away from the taxi and ran all the way into the tavern, fearing that the driver would regret it.

Ji Sumian stayed at the law firm for a long time that day, and Zhong Lei hadn't come out after playing games for two hours in the car. He had been sitting with a back ache, so he got out of the car and walked around, and went into the lobby to borrow the bathroom.

He received a WeChat message on the toilet saying that it was almost over, about a quarter of an hour, well, there was still time for a cigarette.Zhong Lei leaned against the window and just lit it when he saw Ji Sumian walking to the parking lot. "Isn't it a quarter of an hour? It's less than 5 minutes." He thought this way, subconsciously wanted to put out the cigarette in his hand, but was a little bit reluctant, "Let him wait."

Inhaling a puff of smoke, Zhong Lei felt his entire chest being healed, and exhaled another puff of smoke. He saw Ji Sumian walked to the side of the car, looked around, as if looking for himself, then took out his mobile phone, swiped a few times , put it down hesitantly.Zhong Lei picked up his phone and looked at it. There was no news, and the child didn't urge him, so he just stood beside him and waited.He recalled driving Jisumian around in the past two days. He insisted on treating himself to lunch and dinner. He was a very obedient, well-mannered child who behaved well. Although he was young, he didn't see him dealing with family affairs. Flustered, but quite calm - just as he was thinking, he saw Ji Sumian squatting down slowly against the car door, covering his face with his hands, and resting his head on his knees.

I don't know how he did it, he folded himself up, shrinking into a small bush, shivering in the wind and rain, oh, there was no wind or rain, he was indeed trembling and crying silently.

Zhong Lei put out the cigarette and was about to go out, but stopped again, and returned to the window, watching him silently.For a moment he couldn't bear it, and for a moment he didn't want to disturb him, thinking that their next stop would be to go to the hospital, rushing to the open visitation at three o'clock in the afternoon, after that, he didn't know what setbacks and misfortunes would follow When he arrived, he looked at his phone, lit another cigarette, and left Ji Sumian alone for a moment according to the "fifteen minutes" he had just said. He kept staring at the bushes in the smoke, waiting for him to slow down. Slowly no longer trembling, slowly got up, gently rubbed the numb legs a few times, and then exhaled the last puff of cigarettes, and went out of the bathroom.

Ji Sumian was speechless all the way, Zhong Lei took him to a small restaurant that he often ate, ordered two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian, and ordered him a soup alone, Codonopsis Astragalus and Black Chicken Soup, which looked very nourishing look.

Ji Sumian frowned and looked at the bowl of gray-black liquid, then lowered his head and smelled it. The chicken soup with a strong smell of medicine was a little bit hard to drink: "Master, don't you want to drink it?"

Zhong Lei lit another cigarette, leaned on the back of the chair, looked lazy and at ease, and raised his chin towards him: "I lighted it for you, it will be autumn soon, to nourish the middle and Qi, I have been working hard these days, it is suitable you."

"Thank you." Ji Sumian's heart sank, and he pretended not to force himself to take a sip. It was strange that the smell of the medicine was not as strong as it smelled.He raised his eyes and looked at Zhong Lei with a smile, holding the stew pot with both hands and started to drink it.

As if he drank hot soup, Zhong Lei felt a little warmer.

"Don't worry too much, let's take a step and see. Is there anyone in your family to help you with these things?"

Ji Sumian shook his head: "My father is an only child. My grandparents passed away earlier, and my mother's relatives are not here. My father's former secretary and an uncle who is a section chief are familiar with him. They help me contact My lawyer will also tell me some progress in private——" He stopped suddenly at this point, and looked at Zhong Lei timidly, "I really didn't know about my dad before this, don't think... …Well……"

Zhong Lei turned his face sideways, exhaled a puff of smoke, and smiled: "What do you think?"

"Think I'm a dandy from a corrupt official's family."

After flicking the cigarette ash, Zhong Lei said, "I don't think so."

"I know what other people think of me, squandering money that doesn't belong to me, the moth party of society and the sinner of the people." Ji Sumian said, his tone became cold, "I didn't know before, It’s because my dad really didn’t give me too much money, only tuition and basic living expenses. Once, uh, something happened and I spent too much money.

"Stop it, I know."

Ji Sumian smiled bitterly: "Don't comfort me."

"As far as I know, the middle class with a little bit of wealth has enough financial resources to send their children to study abroad, not to mention your father is a government official, and his position should not be low." Zhong Lei put out his cigarette, picked up his chopsticks, and He gave him a piece of pork ribs, "You get off the plane, and there are no famous fashion brands on your body, only a suitcase that is more expensive, and it is already quite old. You are not a dude, and I am not comforting you."

"Ah?..." Ji Sumian was stunned.

"Eat, it's almost two o'clock, and I have to go to the hospital."

Ji Sumian found that the driver was not as inarticulate as the first time he met him. He said "I don't like to chat while driving" purely because of unfamiliarity. After dinner, he pretended to open the door of the passenger After getting in the car, Zhong Lei no longer regarded himself as a passenger and sat in the back row. Zhong Lei glanced at him and did not refuse.

"What did the lawyer say about your father?"

"The information obtained from other channels is almost complete. It will be handed over to the procuratorate in a few days, and the lawyer will not be able to see him until the case is formally filed."

"No news during this time?"

"Shuanggui, it is impossible to allow him to communicate with the outside world. I only know that he should live in Qingyuan."

"Qingyuan?"

"It's a piece of land in the suburbs. It's built like a park and is heavily guarded. It is said that several buildings in it are used for this purpose."

Zhong Lei suddenly couldn't help laughing, "Oh, are you sure this name is not ironic? Qingyuan? It should be called Zhuoyuan, right!" After he finished speaking, he realized that it was wrong, and it was only a simple sentence for ordinary people Just kidding, but for Ji Sumian... He took a quick look, and sure enough, the child's eyes were wet, and with a "haha" pretending to be okay, he turned to the window and stopped talking.

"Where are you going after the hospital?" Zhong Lei found a safe topic.

"There's no other place, go back to the tavern."

"That tavern, isn't your home?"

"No, my godfather's house is the house of the little nurse who worked the night shift that night. My house has been sealed off and I have no place to live."

"Oh. That's fine. I'll go to the airport if you don't need a car at night."

Only then did Ji Sumian turn to look at him: "To the airport? Has anyone booked a car?"

"No, go to the airport to pick up the passengers on the evening flight back to the city. If you can't pick up the passengers, you can sleep at the airport overnight and pick up the early flight."

"Huh? Overnight at the airport? Sleeping in the car?"

"Yeah." Zhong Lei looked at him with surprise, "I'll deal with it all night. If I didn't bring you that day, I guess I'd have to wait until the next morning."

Ji Sumian savored his understated tone, as if what he found very difficult was ordinary in the eyes of the driver. "Then you, it's been hard work."

"It's okay, I'm used to it. Taxi drivers like the job at the airport. It's easy to drive on the high speed. You don't have to be stuck in the city and you can earn more."

"Master, it has been very hard for you to take me around these two days. Don't go today and rest."

"Ha! Taking you is already the easiest job I've ever done, and I'm ashamed to take your money for it! It's you, get a good sleep, and do tomorrow's work tomorrow."

They said goodbye at the entrance of the tavern. Zhong Lei said, "Call me again if you need it." In fact, he had already agreed in his heart that the child would probably not look for him again. Even if he went to the law firm and hospital every day, it would cost more than 100 yuan to take a taxi alone. , There is absolutely no need to charter a car.

Unexpectedly, after only three days, I received a call from Ji Sumian——

"Master, are you free tomorrow? I want to go to the detention center with the lawyer."

He agreed without even thinking about it, not because he wanted to earn money from this silly boy, but because he felt that it would be better to go to him if he told a strange taxi driver about the somewhat embarrassing name of the place to go to the detention center.

After sending the lawyer back to the law firm, Zhong Lei asked, "Or go to the hospital?"

"No, I won't go today. Master, can you find a place to stop? I... don't know where to go?"

Zhong Lei looked around, turned around, and drove into the parking lot of a stadium. "What's the matter? Did you meet your dad? It's serious?" He took out a bottle of Coke and handed it to Ji Sumian.

Ji Sumian took a few deep breaths, suppressed some emotions, and said slowly: "I didn't see my dad, only a lawyer, but he asked the lawyer to tell me why he was under investigation. It was Miss Xiaoyu." reported by my mother."

"Ah? Just the tavern where you live..."

"Yes, sister Xiaoyu's mother also encountered this kind of thing that year, but someone tipped her off in advance. She went abroad and never came back. This time, she wanted to voluntarily surrender, so she confessed some things. My dad was her subordinate back then, so he was confessed."

Zhong Lei didn't speak, and couldn't express any opinions, so he could only listen to him.Ji Sumian didn't drink any water, and held the bottle tightly with both hands, hugging her chest, very nervous and panicked.

"I don't know what to do now, and I don't know where to go. Master, I... our family's bank card has been frozen. These are the deposit refunded for renting a house in the United States. I paid my mother's hospitalization fee. There is not much left, and my dad is about to be prosecuted, and the lawyer's fees..."

He couldn't go on talking. When he was less than 20 years old, he encountered the first embarrassing situation in his life. Ji Sumian stared into Zhong Lei's eyes with a begging look: "Can you help me?" ? Let me stay for a few days, and move out when I find a job and a house?"