He quickly changed his clothes like a gust of wind. Without well-matched clothes, he put on a pair of casual leather shoes and went downstairs to get the car.The traffic lights on the speeding road seemed to be against me. I only had to go through six traffic lights, and this was the fourth red light in a row.

Bored and pointing the steering wheel with his fingers, the radio echoing in his ears was really noisy and annoying.I simply turned off the radio and played soothing music. When the melodious music came out, I saw that the white car in front of me had started slowly.

So he quickly stepped on the accelerator to keep up, but just after crossing the intersection, the annoying cell phone rang again.

I originally thought it was Hua Lin calling to urge me again, but just as I came out of the elevator, she had already started calling me to urge me.That's right, less than 5 minutes after she just hung up the phone.

"Hey, Haixi. You only have 10 minutes. If you don't have 10 minutes, you will be at your own risk!" She issued a serious warning.I've been with Hua Lin for so many years, but I haven't noticed that she still has such a perverse and repetitive side.

Forbearance did not say radical words.In the spirit of curious baby to find out everything, while thinking "I'll see what you want", while galloping at the fastest speed on the relatively empty streets at noon.Perseveringly, the more anxious I was to go to heaven, the more I joked. No, I encountered four red lights in a row.

Hold the steering wheel with your left hand, and take out the earphones with your right hand and put them on your ears.Originally, he thought he would hear Hua Lin's anxious and complaining words, but as soon as the phone was connected, a strange low-pitched male voice came from his ear.

"Hey, are you Haixi?" The man opened his mouth before I could speak.I froze for a moment, and then said "hmm".

"You are?" Very polite.Because from the voice, the other party should not be a young man.

"I'm your father's comrade in arms..." The man spoke slowly.

At this moment, a dirty stray dog ​​suddenly rushed out of the originally uninhabited isolation zone.I turned the steering wheel quickly, but almost ran into a car approaching from the left rear.

"You're looking for death!" The driver narrowly escaped my impact by making a big turn, stopped the car, and put his head out of the car window.

I didn't have time to pay attention to him at all, and stepped on the brake quickly while continuing to listen to the phone.

"I want to go out and talk with you," the man continued.

I parked the car on the side of the road for half a minute, waited until the stray dog ​​in front of me passed safely, and then slowly started the car again.Without endangering that poor life, I leaned back on the seat and let out a sigh of relief.

"Are you listening to me?" The man on the other end of the phone asked suspiciously as if he heard my movement.

I nodded hastily, but after thinking about nodding, he couldn't see it, so I answered "still" with a frown.

"Are you really my father's comrade-in-arms?" Thinking in his heart, he asked.It's not that I'm suspicious, but that my father joined the underworld for so many years, whether it's in the army where he joined the army or the police station where he worked, it's a well-known fact.What's more, the father left the organization because the organization betrayed first, and the father and those related people in the past have long been at odds.

Since the Dao is different, the appearance of this person becomes particularly suspicious.Even if he is his father's comrade in arms, there is no reason to show up now.

Hearing my question, the man didn't answer right away. After a while, he didn't answer the question.

"If it's convenient for you now, I'd like to ask you out to meet me. I'll be at the No. 10 table at Wujiaoxing Coffee Shop on Tianhai Road in [-] minutes." Although he wanted to see my convenience, he said the meeting place first. With time, it seems to be right that I will go to the same.

I hooked the corners of my mouth, feeling inexplicably excited for this meeting full of unknowns.

"What's your surname?" Now my mind is full of doubts. Although I understand intellectually that it is best not to get involved with people who are related to my father in the past, but emotionally, I still want to spy on my father's past life.

After all, I, who was born in a police family but grew up in the underworld, would be lying if I said that I had no interest in the first half of my life when my father kept silent.

"My surname is Song, and the single name is Qiao. You can call me Uncle Song." The man said bluntly, but his tone was relaxed.This way of speaking gives people a feeling of closeness and majesty, which is very different from that of the older generation in the Red Gang.

I answered indiscriminately as a response, and my heart was full of apprehension.For some reason, I always feel as if something is going to happen.

When I called Hua Lin, the artificial female voice of "temporarily unavailable" kept coming from the phone.Originally, I wanted to tell Hua Lin that I wouldn't be there until later, but she didn't even answer the phone.

I frowned and lit a cigarette, and the feeling of puffing up the clouds made me relax like never before.My nervous face was reflected in the rear car mirror, I straightened up and combed my hair, and put the phone back on the seat next to me.

Just now Hua Lin urged me to go to the hospital, I don't know why I was going crazy.Originally, I was afraid that she would harm the child in my womb, so I hurried over, but after thinking about it carefully, she didn't seem to have that intention.It has been more than a month since I found out that she had an affair with an outsider. Thinking about it carefully, she might have hooked up with someone else before that.She didn't even bother to abort the child in the early stages of pregnancy. I don't think she is still thinking about this when she is almost seven months pregnant.

After thinking about it carefully, I couldn't think of a reason why she insisted on asking me to go to the hospital. It was nothing more than a showdown with me, or she wanted to break up with me directly.

This is not in a hurry.Breaking up can be discussed at any time, and the showdown is nothing more than telling me how long I have been cuckolded by her.No matter what it is, it will not be in my favor. The sooner I know, the sooner I will let myself fall into depression and entanglement.

He took a puff of the cigarette vigorously, letting the smoke travel around the lungs and then scattered in the air mistyly.I just made no fewer than ten phone calls, but Hua Lin didn't answer or reply to any of them.I don't know what tricks she is playing, for a moment, I even feel that I have never really understood Hua Lin.Perhaps, the woman who used to accompany me through years of wind and rain has gradually withered during this long period of time.The current one should be Hualin at the other end of the fork.

Start the car and go straight to Tianhai Road.I decided to put the matter between Hua Lin and me in the back of my mind first.There are more interesting things waiting for me now, at least it seems to me.

At the Pentagram Cafe on Tianhai Road, the lazy afternoon sun slid down from the multicolored canopy and landed on the messy and neatly paved small flowerbeds at the entrance.The wooden door is piled up with colorful strips of oil paint, but it doesn't give people a sense of chaos.

Pushing open the door and approaching the cafe, I asked the waiter at the door to know that the second table is on the open-air balcony on the second floor.Like all cafes, it has a warm decoration, but it has its own unique style. All wooden tables, chairs and benches bring warmth and at the same time make people feel a simple and primitive feeling.If it weren't for the wall lamp above the head, which is as awe-inspiring as the ceiling of the Great Hall of the People, surrounded by the big five-pointed star, this place might be a romantic, cozy and beautiful place.

But to be honest, the word "pentagram", no matter it is used in the name or the decoration style, will give people a very weird feeling, especially when it is used in a cafe, it is so weird.I really don't know whether the brains of the person who chose this store name and decorated this storefront were kicked by a donkey or flooded, and they would use such anti-human things to highlight the storefront.Is this really a new way to highlight the storefront?Are you sure you are not setting yourself on fire, playing a new era of self-destruction?

Going up to the open-air balcony on the second floor, there are only a few tables, except for two waiters, I am the only living person under the bright sunshine.I found table number two and randomly ordered a cup of coffee. Within 2 minutes, there were creaking and thumping footsteps on the wooden stairs.

I turned around and saw a middle-aged man in a suit.The still thick hair is paired with a square face, and when he walks, he holds his head up and looks vigorous.Subconsciously, I felt that this was the person who just talked to me on the phone.

as predicted.

"Haixi?" The middle-aged man pulled up the wooden chair opposite, and sat down without waiting for my answer.

I nodded to show I was, and gave the man a friendly smile.

"I'm your father's comrade-in-arms." The man nodded his head, "When we joined the army, we lived in bunk beds." The relationship was revealed as soon as he opened his mouth. What should have been abrupt, was inexplicably kind to his ears. .

"How do you have my number?" Although it was not very polite, he interrupted him suspiciously.

But this middle-aged man who called himself Song Qiao just pursed his lips slightly.

"For the police, it's not very difficult to find out a person's number." The confident appearance makes people tremble with fear.

"Are you a policeman?!" I was a little surprised.Although I knew that my father's comrades-in-arms were either in the military or the police, I was a little shocked to hear the man himself say it.

"That's right, to be precise, I'm the chief of the police." Song Qiao took out his ID and placed it in front of me.He has a great demeanor and doesn't seem to hold back or hide.I lowered my head in doubt. When I saw the column of positions, I felt like I was being bombarded in the head.

A high official in the police force.

I looked up at the man in front of me, then lowered my head again with an unnatural expression.

"I don't understand..." I don't understand why he asked me out.Is it to arrest me?For me, who has never done anything truly harmful, this answer seems a bit far-fetched.

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