I don't have ulterior motives

When the two went out, the rain had stopped.

"For Fuying Road, didn't you take a long detour?" Shu Linan turned around and looked north.

"It's okay, it's good to come to this store again."

It was almost 07:30, but the sky was brighter than before, with rose and purple pastels in the western sky.

"I don't think you need an umbrella." Jin Bei said, putting away the umbrella and handing it to Shu Lin'an.Shu Lin'an looked at him but didn't take it: "You take it. I'll go back and get closer, in case we don't get off on the way."

"Hmm..." Jin Bei hesitated holding the umbrella.

Shu Linan stepped onto the bridge steps, turned her head: "Then goodbye."

The river wasn't too wide, and when Shu Linan walked in the middle, Jin Bei felt as if he was about to disappear into the purple sky.

Just because of the strange feeling at that moment, Jin Bei chased after him without thinking much.

Hearing the footsteps, Shu Lin'an stopped in the middle of the bridge and turned back to smile, his handsome profile emerged from the shadows: "If you're afraid that I'll get caught in the rain, I'll take you home?"

Jin Bei raised his eyebrows: "No, I'll take you back."

It was past eight o'clock when I returned to my home from Shu Lin'an's house.After Jin Bei took a shower, he fell on the bed, his thoughts wandering freely.

It takes 25 minutes from the school to Shu Lin'an's home.It is 10 minutes from school to my home.It takes more than 20 minutes from Shu Lin'an's home to my home. If you walk faster, you will be there in 15 minutes...it's pretty close...

The phone rang suddenly, Jin Bei turned over and reached for the phone on the bedside table, he hesitated for a moment when he saw the number, but still picked it up.

"uncle."

"Hmm. How are you doing?"

"pretty good."

"That's good. You have a good relationship with the Shu family boy?"

"Ok?"

"Don't pretend, you don't know whose son he is?"

Jin Bei thought to himself, if he hadn't mentioned the corpse dismemberment case and Liao Fangyuan mentioned it to him, he really didn't know about it.

"Don't get too close to these people."

Don't you also get close to some people?You seem to have gone further than that.

"No." Jin Yunsheng changed his words, "Maybe it's good to be close..."

Um?He sounded like he was hesitating.

"Anyway, you have something in mind"

What?what number?

"Oh..." Jin Bei answered vaguely, and then asked, "Is there any problem with the Shu family?"

"There is no problem with any of these families. Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be honored. Oh, and by the way, I have reviewed an idiom for you."

Thanks, though totally unnecessary.

"Oh, I see."

The other party hung up the phone.Jin Bei put down his phone and fell on his back on the bed, thinking about Jin Yunsheng's words.

Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be martyred.

But he always thought of Shu Lin'an's face.

"Dad." Shu Linan stood at the door of the study and knocked three times.

"come in."

Shu Ping is nearly fifty years old, but he is well maintained and looks like he is in his early forties.He sat behind a rosewood desk, looking up through silver-rimmed glasses.

"I heard today...the police are looking for Wang Lianjun." Shu Linan walked to the desk.

Shu Pingyuan narrowed his eyes: "Where did you hear that?"

"A classmate."

Shu Pingyuan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised: "Why did he know?"

"He used to work in the city that never sleeps in the sky."

"what is it call?"

"...It's a new classmate, I don't know his name."

Shu Pingyuan took a look at him and nodded: "There is a police response in Yuntianli. We couldn't get close to Wang Lianjun, and now we have lost contact with him."

Shu Lin'an didn't answer.

"What would you do at a time like this?"

Shu Lin'an pondered for a moment: "Since the police have locked him in, too much contact with him may expose him. It's better to let him be arrested by the police first, and attack him before he is interrogated in the detention center."

Shu Pingyuan tapped his fingers on the table and nodded, "That's right." He paused for a moment, and then said, "...more contact with that classmate."

"Yeah." Shu Linan stood, hesitated for a while, and said, "I think we can do it... When Wang Lianjun goes to prison, his mother will have no source of income. We can take care of his mother as a bargaining chip and let him settle the case." Take it all."

"Do you think this chip is so attractive?"

"Wang Lianjun is very filial—"

Shu Pingyuan interrupted him: "There is an easy way, why bother yourself?"

Shu Linan remained silent.

Shu Pingyuan tapped the table with his fingertips: "Okay, you can go back."

Shu Linan nodded and turned around.

"and many more."

Shu Lin'an's leaving footsteps stopped, he turned his head and looked at Shu Pingyuan.

"What did the doctor say recently?"

"Not bad. Very stable." Shu Lin'an replied without thinking.

Shu Pingyuan stared at him for a while, then nodded: "That's good."

Shu Lin'an left the study door, went back to the bedroom, and locked the door.He sat in the swivel chair and unbuttoned the top buttons of his shirt.There were fresh scars on the exposed skin on the chest.He opened the bottom drawer of the desk, and hidden in a stack of printed materials was a delicate knife with intricate bronze patterns on the handle. broken light.

Shu Linan caressed the blade of the blade, lingering on the edge of the blade.The blade inadvertently cut through the skin of the fingertips, and tiny drops of blood ooze out.

Shu Linan looked up at the chandelier, closed his eyes, and took his injured finger into his mouth.The shadow of the lamp forms purple spots in the reddish-brown field of vision.

I didn't see a twisted shadow today, and I didn't hear anyone call his name.Not in the room, nor on the way back.Neither was there on Yuechong Bridge, even though it was already dark.

He opened his eyes, threw the knife into the drawer, kicked it back, and curled up in the chair.

He almost gave it away when he went to see a therapist before school started.It was all because the hallucinations were so strong during that time, he couldn't help but slashed his arms, those black shadows pulled his arms, the blades couldn't slash them, but they would leave when they slashed his skin.

Probably fear of blood.Shu Lin'an thought.

In fact, he rarely uses this knife, only when he really can't bear it.The smell of blood can drive away the shadows, and it can also quiet his mind.When he was in junior high school, he was ignorant. If he scratched his arm, he would be discovered by the doctor, and he would see his father's disgusted expression. Later, he became a little smarter, scratching in a place where others could not see, pretending that nothing happened. May unbutton his clothes to check.

He also thought about stabbing that knife in the chest.Go deeper, and the monsters and screams will probably never appear.But he also needs some knowledge of anatomy.

Anyway, not today.The tip of Shu Lin'an's tongue gently circled the wound on his finger, remembering that on the Yueyong Bridge, the people around him blocked the guardrail and the river water on one side, so he didn't see the rolling shadows in the river coming towards him.

"The arrest went well, your people are very strong. Keep up the good work!" On Saturday morning, Liao Fangyuan called Jin Bei.

The most common transaction between Jin Bei and Liao Fangyuan is to borrow someone for a game console.On Saturday afternoon, not long after Officer Liao returned home after finishing work, Jin Bei knocked on the door of his house with a dozen beers.

Liao Fangyuan looked at the beer on the upper and lower floors, raised his eyelids and glanced at Jin Bei: "Break in love? Are you going to get drunk and go home?"

"Fuck you. There is a discount downstairs, let you drink slowly here."

"Let me here? Then you have no chance."

Jin Bei walked into the kitchen familiarly, poured two glasses of wine, and toasted Liao Fangyuan from a distance: "Congratulations to Officer Liao for capturing the suspect."

"Thanks to citizen Jin for help."

"Why does this title sound so inappropriate to me?" Jin Bei sat on the mat on the living room floor and turned on the game console.

"Aren't you going to the restaurant this afternoon?"

"Today is the anniversary of the relationship between the boss and his ex-girlfriend, so we are closed."

Liao Fangyuan pouted: "Ex-girlfriends? How many girlfriends does your boss remember?"

"I don't know, but there are always two or three days of such holidays in a month."

After resigning as a security guard in Yuntian Evernight City a year ago, Jin Bei switched to an Italian restaurant, where he worked as a waiter and a kitchen assistant, and at the same time secretly learned his skills from the boss.The name of the restaurant Casanova was directly taken from the name of the boss. After knowing the meaning of the name, Jin Bei couldn't help feeling that the other party's parents were very predictable and accurately described his son's future attributes.

While starting the game, Jin Bei asked, "Is there any result of the interrogation?"

"No. The other party refused to admit it, saying that he had never seen the deceased, and he just happened to see a friend that night."

"Oh."

"Pay attention, defend on the right."

Jin Bei tapped his fingers quickly, and the monster on the screen splattered blood on his chest, spinning and falling down.

"However, we checked his mobile phone communication records and found that on the night of the victim's death, he made two calls with the same number, and the owner of that number was a security guard of Liangshan Group." Liao Fangyuan continued.

"security guard?"

"Yes. Xia Qiming had dinner with the victim that night, and Xia Qiming's subordinates had two phone calls with the suspect that night."

"When are they?"

"Once at nine o'clock, and once at a quarter past ten."

"Once before death, once after death."

"Correct."

"Oh... what kind of person is Xia Qiming?" Jin Bei asked after thinking about it.

Liao Fangyuan stretched his waist and sighed: "Arrogance of wealth, boastful talk, a little fat."

Being proud of his wealth, boasting... "His son should be quite similar to him." Jin Bei recalled Xia Ruoxing's arrogant face.

"His son? Do you know his son?"

"It's only one grade." For some strange reasons, they got to know each other out of necessity.

"A class?" Liao Fangyuan looked at him with glowing eyes.

"Unfortunately, no." Jin Bei grinned at him.After a while, he said, "I'm in the same class as his good friend."

"His friend?" Liao Fangyuan's eyes lit up again.

"Hmm..." For some reason, Jin Bei didn't really want to tell him that he was talking about Shu Lin'an, the son of the big boss who was involved with Xia Qiming.

Liao Fangyuan unexpectedly did not ask who it was, but only asked, "How is your relationship with his friend?"

"Uh, it's not bad." I feel good unilaterally.

Liao Fangyuan smiled, and sat next to Jin Bei: "Then can you get to know his son through two good relationships?"

"...The other party may not really think about it." So did I.

"It doesn't matter, you just pretend to be a horse boy."

I don't even want to.

"Actually, I know Xia Ruoxing," Jin Bei said honestly, "because he thought my men punctured his tire."

Liao Fangyuan was silent for a while.

"Pfft hahahaha..."

Under Liao Fangyuan's lure, Jin Bei agreed to inquire about Xia Ruoxing's news.Maybe it's just because of the selfishness of asking through someone.

The author has something to say:

Jin Yunsheng: Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be martyred.Oh, by the way, I reviewed an idiom for you.

Jin Bei: Who always failed Chinese when they were young?

Jin Yunsheng: ...not me.