small beast

Chapter 66

The conversation between the three was not pleasant.

At the end, the Falcon's deputy head looked fierce as if he wanted to take out a guy to kill Tan Jin.Tan Jin still maintains a calm face, but his tightly clenched hands reveal his nervousness.Not afraid of the threat of the person in front of you.Instead, he was worried about Zhao Xiaobao's situation.Zhao Xin's death seems to be a foregone conclusion, and the possibility of fraudulent death is extremely slim.Tan Jin worried that Zhao Xiaobao would not be able to accept this fact.

However, when he saw Zhao Xiaobao, the situation was exactly the opposite of what he predicted.Zhao Xiaobao is rehearsing with the band in the venue.He looked the same as when he played normally.There was no trace of sadness at all, as if Zhao Xin's departure hadn't caused any blow to him.

Tan Jin stood at the door and did not go in.After Zhao Xiaobao finished playing a piece, Tan Jin left the venue silently.Zhao Xiaobao's assistant had good eyes. He saw Tan Jin for the first time. Taking advantage of Zhao Xiaobao's rest time, he went up and quietly told Zhao Xiaobao, "Mr. Tan has been here."

Zhao Xiaobao looked up, but there was no sign of Tan Jin in the audience.After he realized it, he realized that what the assistant said just now was that Mr. Tan was coming.Instead of Mr. Tan coming.His eyes darkened, and his long and curled eyelashes fell down sadly, like the curtain falling at the end of the play, covering the complex emotions in his eyes.

At the concert, Tan Jin was absent from the guest seats for the first time.Since Zhao Xiaobao's debut and premiere, Tan Jin, who must attend every solo performance, was absent from Zhao Xiaobao's concert for the first time.Zhao Xiaobao's performance on stage was as good as ever.Just sweeping to a certain vacant position when he came on stage, his eyebrows were gently knotted, and then quickly spread out, continuing his performance confidently and gracefully, presenting the most beautiful movement to all the audience.

After the end, Zhao Xiaobao sat in the background restlessly.A recital without Tan Jin, like a piano piece with wrong notes, lost its integrity.

The original itinerary to return to China was also delayed.Zhao Xiaobao remembered that Tan Jin said that he would go back to China for New Year's Eve together, he hesitated for a day, but he still failed to call Tan Jin.In the end, he still returned to China in a low-key manner alone.Before the New Year's bell rang, it knocked on Uncle Wu's door.

The father and son sat chatting and drinking together, and neither of them mentioned the word Zhao Xin.

In the middle of the night, Uncle Wu was getting too old and couldn't stand it any longer, so someone helped him down to rest.Zhao Xiaobao was left alone, holding a wine bottle, staggering to go out.It's been a while, it's winter, it's freezing outside, he doesn't even wear a coat, he insists on running outside.

The only fifth uncle who could control him also passed out drunk.The others couldn't control Zhao Xiaobao either, and dared not stop him.Two or three people supported him and wrapped him in a down jacket.It was tightly wrapped, and the zipper was zipped before he dared to let him go out.It's released, so it's still not necessary to follow.He said where to go, they had to drive there.Otherwise, let him drive out to seek death by himself as a drunk?

Send a drunk to the compound.Zhao Xiaobao got out of the car and walked in an S shape.

The guard is changing shift.He just finished New Year's Eve with his daughter, son-in-law and grandson, and came to take over.He also met Zhao Xiaobao a few times, and even talked to Zhao Xin, but now he didn't dare to stop Zhao Xiaobao.He didn't even ask, he just let the person in.Zhao Xiaobao recognized the door clearly, and touched the front of Zhao's courtyard by himself.

Standing in front of the door, the people behind saw him groping left and right, as if he was looking for something.Then I didn't seem to find it, so I started knocking on the door.

In the middle of the night, he yelled and knocked on the door.

"Zhao Sanjin, open the door for me!"

"Open the door!"

"Zhao Sanjin, open the door!"

"..."

The people behind him listened to him shouting, and they didn't dare to step forward.Then the shouting became smaller and smaller, and the whimpering became heavier.

They looked at each other, all lost their minds.

"Dad, I lost my key."

"Dad, I want to go home."

"dad……"

After all, it couldn't make him go crazy like this.He managed to get him back home, covered his limbs with a hot water bottle, the heating in the room was warming up, and he fell asleep after the alcohol was completely up.

***

When he woke up the next day, his red and swollen eyes betrayed what Zhao Xiaobao did last night.But he behaved as if nothing had happened, what to do.I applied ice cubes to reduce the swelling, and then made dumplings for Uncle Wu and himself.After eating and drinking enough, he went to the detention center by himself.

Wen Hengyuan didn't seem to be having a good time for more than a year.His face was sallow, and his whole body was thinner.The whole person doesn't look like much meat.The two sat opposite each other on a floor.

Wen Hengyuan had a pair of protruding eyeballs, wishing to crush Zhao Xiaobao to ashes.He has lived a year that is worse than death.And all this is thanks to Zhao Xiaobao.

Zhao Xiaobao hurt him like this.But when Wen Hengyuan learned that Zhao Xin died unexpectedly, he calmed down slowly.This is still the case for Zhao Xin, the adoptive father who has raised him for decades.From this point of view, Wen Hengyuan felt that he was lucky.It was nothing more than three years of imprisonment, at least one life was saved, and he was able to make a comeback.As for Zhao Xin, he really put his own life in it.

"I thought you just hated me, but I didn't expect that you even planned the third brother. You worked so hard, not to snatch him, but to destroy him. Now you have won. You came back specially to see how good I am." Miserable? Come on, mock me as much as you want. You, the so-called winner, still use the Zhao family's surname, don't you feel bad conscience?" Wen Hengyuan said mockingly.

In his opinion, Zhao Xin was killed by Zhao Xiaobao.

"You killed my biological mother back then, didn't you feel at ease? Why can't I feel at ease?" Zhao Xiaobao replied coldly, "Even if I were given another chance, I would still go this way without any hesitation or change. Only Zhao Xin, I tried my best to save his life.

But only to save his life.Everything else remains unchanged.

"You killed the third brother, and you take it for granted. You are not as good as pigs and dogs! If it wasn't because of you, how could he die!"

"How dare you say such a thing!"

Zhao Xiaobao looked at Wen Hengyuan opposite him indifferently, without saying a word.

When the visiting hours were over, Wen Hengyuan, with a livid face, was taken down by the supervisors.Zhao Xiaobao also got up and left.Wrapped the scarf tied around his neck, walked out of the detention center, got into the car waiting at the gate and went directly to the airport.

The assistant picked up the phone and sent Zhao Xiaobao back to the apartment directly.

The key left by Tan Jin when he left that day was still on the table, and Zhao Xiaobao didn't put it away.There was no one in the kitchen busy waiting for his return.There are no more steaming meals on the table.A cold apartment, which he almost regarded as a home, has now become a sojourner's apartment again.

At this moment, a dog barked suddenly from outside the door.Zhao Xiaobao hurried to the door.

When he opened the door eagerly, he found that the person standing outside the door was not the person he wanted to see.Goudan still treats him as intimately as before, rubbing over at once, coquettishly beside his legs.Some time ago, because he was too busy, he entrusted the dog egg to Tan Xiaozhe to take it home and raise it for many days.

I was sent back today, so I really want to be cleansed.

Lee stood awkwardly outside the door, Zhao Xiaobao didn't intend to invite him in.He handed the dog food and some pet supplies to Zhao Xiaobao, "Xiaobao, Mr. Tan asked me to bring the little guy back to you."

"Did he say anything else?" Zhao Xiaobao asked casually after finishing something.

Lee shook his head and said, "I didn't say anything. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

Zhao Xiaobao didn't hear what he wanted to hear, so he nodded to say goodbye to Lee.He closed the door, put the things Lee brought on the coffee table, went to the balcony to clean up the dog's nest, and led the lively dog ​​to the balcony.

Outside the apartment, Lee left Zhao Xiaobao's apartment and went straight to a car listening in the distance.He sat in the driver's seat, and Tan Jin, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, was sitting in the back seat, with a few dog's hairs still stained on his black coat.He lowered his head and carefully plucked off the dog's hair without raising his head.

"Let's go." Tan Jin ordered lightly.

Lee knew that the two were having a conflict.But he really can't get involved in this housework.He could only respond and do what he should do.

***

Zhao Xiaobao rested at home for a week, just in time for Valentine's Day a week later.After returning from his dog walk, he turned on the TV and watched the news for a while, and was surprised to see a special Valentine's Day party starting somewhere under the Alps.Known as the most romantic collective Valentine's Day in history.

Zhao Xiaobao only glanced at it, and the corner of his mouth curled into a dull, wry smile.Lift the remote control to select another channel.But at the moment of jumping the channel, he found a familiar figure on the screen.He quickly picked it back, but the next news had already begun to be broadcast on the screen.

Zhao Xiaobao quickly turned on his computer and found the news he had read just now.He read the news again from the beginning to the end. When the picture stopped at a worker who was decorating, his whole body became stiff, and he looked at the man with only a close-up of his back in disbelief.

Zhao Xiaobao took out a pen and paper and wrote down the address.After reading the date of the news broadcast, I asked about the shooting date.After confirming that the news was filmed this year, Zhao Xiaobao immediately booked a ticket to go there.

He didn't even have time to notify anyone, and he didn't even have time to prepare his luggage. He just took his passport and wallet and ran to the airport. He wished he could appear at the place where he was just on TV in a second, to make sure that the figure from behind was Zhao Xin.

A newspaper was left in the back seat of the taxi.Originally anxious Zhao Xiaobao would not read that newspaper.But the headline in that newspaper was Tan Jin's photo.The road to the airport was still 10 minutes away, so Zhao Xiaobao raised his hand and took the newspaper over. After unfolding it, he found that it was not just a photo of Tan Jin, but a photo of him and Tan Jin.

Careful fans have sorted out every performance of Zhao Xiaobao from the premiere to the present.At the end of almost every performance, there will be a group photo of Tan Jin and Zhao Xiaobao.No matter how busy he is, even if he can't listen to the whole show, Tan Jin will definitely rush to the scene before the end of the show.The perception of the outside world is that Tan Jin is a die-hard fan of Zhao Xiaobao and never wants to miss Zhao Xiaobao's performances.

And this report is aimed at a performance by Zhao Xiaobao years ago.At that performance, Tan Jin did not appear.At that time, Zhao Xiaobao's disappointment was undisguised on his face after the performance.

Now Zhao Xiaobao looked down at the emotional article in his hand, his lips trembling slightly.It turned out that he wasn't the only one who felt that due notes were missing.It turned out that everyone saw it.

In a corrupt country like country E, innocuous reports will not be criticized as long as they are not seriously inaccurate.As for the bloodlines of Zhao Xiaobao and Tan Jin, this article cleverly borrowed the allusion of Boya Ziqi, and narrated it fluently. At the end of the article, it was speculated that Zhao Xiaobao would eventually leave the stage in time.

Zhao Xiaobao read the article verbatim and laughed.The previous content really moved him, but the last guess is nothing.

After reading the article, Zhao Xiaobao began to browse the accompanying pictures.It was nothing more than what was left when the two of them took a group photo.The most recent group photo was at an awards ceremony a month ago.

It seems to be a photo taken by someone with a heart, at least Zhao Xiaobao has never seen this photo in other people's hands.At that time, Zhao Xiaobao was taking the trophy from Tan Jin, and Tan Jin was asking him something softly with his head down.Zhao Xiaobao looked three centimeters lower than Tan Jin, raised his head slightly, his bright eyes were full of Tan Jin.

If someone said this before, Zhao Xiaobao would definitely not admit it.

Because even now, when he saw it with his own eyes, he didn't want to admit it.He didn't want to admit that he didn't know when Tan Jin had sneaked into his life silently.