mysterious him

Hearing Zhang Xiaoxin's name, Hu Lai's hands froze his shawl and tassels, and frowned, "What identity do you have to come to me to ask about him? Who are you?"

She still cared about Zhang Xiaoxin in her words.

"Friend." In order not to be so abrupt, Bai Yang added a modifier: "A very good friend."

Hu Lai walked into the small bathroom in the private room, and while washing her face, she talked to Bai Yang, "I charge by the hour, and everything is easy to talk about." She squeezed out a large amount of facial cleanser, lathered it, and wiped it on her face in front of the mirror.

"That's enough." Bai Yang took out a wad of money from his wallet and put it on the small wine table.

The foam on his face hadn't been washed off yet, so Hu Lai narrowed his eyes to look at it.

The amount is not bad, she wiped her face clean: "I'll give you an hour, talk quickly."

The light was too dark that day, and Bai Yang couldn't see clearly. Now that Hu Lai's face was truly presented in front of his eyes, not to mention beauty and ugliness, Bai Yang could only feel haggard. Perhaps it was the dark circles under his eyes caused by long-term upside-down day and night and lack of sleep. It looks more serious than Zhang Xiaoxin.

"Can you give me a chance to have a light meal with Ms. Hu?" Bai Yang smiled and bent down in a "please" gesture.

Hu Lai gave him a sideways look: "They said don't call me Miss!" Then he went to find the backpack on the sofa: "Wait for me to put on makeup."

The corners of Bai Yang's mouth curled up perfectly: "It's already beautiful enough in my eyes."

Seeing through his professional smirk, Hu Lai cursed "hypocrisy", but obediently only sprayed on the toner, picked up his bag and went out with him.

The bustling long street at night is full of no passers-by during the day, and various small advertisements and leaflets are posted on the cement walls everywhere, and they are blown around when the wind blows, making it look extremely desolate.

Hu Lai was so cold that he curled up his arms and followed Bai Yang: "It's only an hour, and you can pay extra."

The two walked to a beef hot pot restaurant on the street. Hu Lai knew the owner and suggested, "If you eat hot pot, I will give you two hours."

"Of course." Bai Yang readily agreed, he doesn't care what he eats.

When the whole plate of beef was put into the pot and turned over in the boiling hot spicy pot, and Hu Lai was in a hurry to scoop up the meat, Bai Yang finally got to the point: "Are you and Zhang Xiaoxin junior high school classmates?"

"Don't you know all about it? Why are you asking?" Hu Lai focused all his attention on the pot, dipping pieces of meat in the sauce and putting them in his mouth, enjoying himself.

Bai Yang didn't move his chopsticks, "He told me, you once formed a small group at school, can you tell me about it?"

After eating the last piece of meat in the pot, Hu Lai wiped the oil from his mouth, "There are three of us, and we all had some bad rumors at school, so we naturally played together, it's nothing unusual."

"What kind of rumor?"

"Let's not talk about the rumors about me and that other person, anyway, you only want Brother Xin." She poured the fat mutton down, "At that time, it was rumored in the school that Brother Xin had yin and yang eyes and could see ghosts... ...It seems that several classmates saw him talking to himself often, and it seemed like he had run into something."

"You probably won't believe it if you tell me." Hu Lai shrugged, and began to sweep away the mutton. The clear soup side of the mandarin duck pot was empty, and the spicy side was crowded.

Bai Yang frowned slightly, suddenly what Gao Kangjian said flashed in his mind, his mother's last words?Can see ghosts?

After thinking about it carefully, he found it absurd, restrained his idle thoughts, and continued: "Has he ever acted strangely in front of you?"

Hu Lai casually said, "Just talking to yourself, it's not a big problem, who hasn't talked to himself?"

"What about other than that?"

"No, Brother Xin is a good boy."

The duck intestines were put down, and they were cooked in a short while. Hu Lai stirred them in the soup, trying to find out the fish that slipped through the net. See you again. So you can't ask me anything..."

"What about the ring?"

Hu Lai ate with his head down, and his movements were obviously slowed down. After inhaling all the duck intestines, when he looked up, his eyes were full of tears: "That was left to me by my fiancé."

"Guo Fei?" Bai Yang handed her the paper, "Have you two been together since junior high school?"

After wiping away tears, Hu Lai took out a cigarette from his bag, "Do you mind?"

"Whatever you want." Bai Yang even took the lighter and lit her a cigarette.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, officer. Those in our business are all little girls whose fathers don't love their mothers. Some of them were rescued without graduating from junior high school. If they are lucky, they will find a reliable boss to raise them. If they are unlucky, they will earn more money." Two bills to save money and start a small business. I am quite special, I used to have a boyfriend to support, but he died later. I debuted in the middle of my age, and I suffered a lot.”

"Is he sick or has an accident?"

Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, "I don't know." When she was speaking, she unconsciously glanced down to the right.

Hu Lai was obviously hiding something, maybe because he didn't want to recall, Bai Yang was originally a professional habit, so he asked casually, and didn't intend to delve into it.Under normal circumstances, he would not do unnecessary things like "persuading prostitutes to be good", but Hu Lai is Zhang Xiaoxin's friend, and he couldn't help but say, "If you want, I can arrange a job for you."

Hu Lai exhaled white smoke, with a psychedelic look on his face, and replied with a smile, "Forget it."

"Don't you want to hear about Xiaoxin? Let me tell you about the first time I talked to him..."

The time of youth is gone, the mottled and strange past is still vivid and vivid in Hu Lai's narration, and the hazy memories shine brightly in the night sky of life.

When Hu Lai thought of something interesting, he would tell the whole story. Bai Yang listened quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Finally, Bai Yang asked her: "If that's the case, why didn't you contact Team Zhang?"

"Profound friendship is a special kind of love. The difference is that friendship lasts longer than love." Hu Lai concluded, "Even if the truth is passed, it doesn't have to be together. And if I entangle people from different worlds and drag each other down, Very cheap."

"I don't think that if you like it, you have to get it. If you don't get it, you don't like it. Otherwise, you're just asking for trouble." Bai Yang didn't take her seriously, and got up to pay the bill. It's a bit early, but like Bai Yang, Hu Lai really thinks that the hot pot industry should ban him.

After they finished eating, there were more customers in the store, and it was time for dinner.

"Last question, do you know Gao Cheng?"

"I know, but I haven't seen him before, the County Public Security Bureau Chief, Brother Xin knows him." Hu Lai walked in front, Bai Yang couldn't see her expression clearly when she spoke, but he always felt that her tone was a little strange.

"How did Zhang Xiaoxin know him?"

Hu Lai walked backwards instead: "I don't know, it seems that his mother and the chief's wife know each other."

Sending people back to the entrance of Haha Bar, the two were about to say goodbye when the young man who had led Bai Yang just now pushed the door out, turned backwards and promised to the people behind him: "Officer, we are operating in a serious manner, and there is absolutely no violation of law or discipline. ... Sister Lai, you are back!" The young man turned his head to see the two of them, and greeted them habitually.

They stood under the steps of the main entrance of the bar, looked up, and suddenly an unexpected figure appeared behind the door.

The people on the opposite side also didn't expect that, the three of them looked at each other for a long time, Hu Lai's face drooped, and he looked at Bai Yang displeasedly: "You told him I'm here?" Drum said: "If you want to know about him in the future, I will not accompany you!"

After speaking, he walked into the store by mistake, the door slammed loudly, and the young man and Zhang Xiaoxin also went in after a few polite words.

Zhang Xiaoxin was investigating in this area, but he didn't expect to meet Hu Lai, let alone Bai Yang.He was even more annoyed when he heard Hu Lai's words. He frowned and said to Bai Yang, "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be at the police station?"

Bai Yang answered with a question, "Aren't you here too?"

"I'm investigating the case, what about you?" Zhang Xiaoxin stood on the steps, looking down from a high position, overwhelmed by his momentum, Bai Yang felt a little uncomfortable, "I'm also investigating the case."

"Fart! Are you investigating the case or investigating me?" Zhang Xiaoxin walked down the steps, keeping his eye level with him, "If you do any more nonsense, you will quit the task force."

Threats didn't work against Bai Yang, he shrugged indifferently, "It's going to be disbanded in a few days anyway." He looked at the car keys in Zhang Xiaoxin's hand, "Go back to the bureau? Take me for a ride?"

The two returned to the county bureau maintaining a low-pressure atmosphere. Zhang Xiaoxin wanted to check the surveillance, and Bai Yang went to interrogate Zhao Mei as planned.

As soon as he entered the door, he caught up with Wei Ran and Liu Shuai and went out to buy lunch boxes, "Team Zhang, Team Bai, do you want to give you two belts?"

Although Bai Yang had just finished the hot pot game, he basically didn't eat, so he replied enthusiastically, "Okay."

Zhang Xiaoxin kept walking, and gave them a cold look: "Go and come back!"

Difficult to get along with, bad face, bad temper, workaholic, these are Liu Shuai and Zhang Xiaoxin's profound experience since working. Every time he sees someone on the Internet praising Team Zhang as a prince charming, he can't wait to cross the virtual screen and pull those little girls to see Look at Team Zhang's bad face!The beautiful description of "elite, smart, manly, calm" is an illusion!

Liu Shuai turned his head and wanted to complain to Bai Yang, but found that Bai Yang was looking at Zhang Xiaoxin's back with a smile on his face, it was indescribably weird...

Bai Yang knew that Zhang Xiaoxin's anger was still there, and it was inevitable that Liu Shuai bumped into the muzzle of the gun and got rejected. He laughed unconsciously, and when he recovered, Liu Shuai had already dragged Wei Ran away.

He headed towards the interrogation room in the opposite direction. The other police officers had already questioned them in detail. Before entering, Bai Yang had read the interrogation record. He didn't expect to get anything out of Zhao Mei's mouth.

Zhao Mei was calmer than she imagined, she lay powerlessly on the table, and when she saw him coming in, she asked, "Brother, when can I leave? I have to go to work in the afternoon..."

"Soon, I'll just ask a few questions."

Bai Yang likes to observe others, including hairstyles, clothing, behaviors, facial expressions, etc., trying to figure out what kind of person the other person will be.For example, Zhao Mei, who is sitting in front of her now, has a white T-shirt with low ponytail, plain makeup, and silver-rimmed glasses. The dress of Miyoshi's student fits perfectly with her own temperament, which cannot be deceived.

"You have worked in the night club before, can you tell me about your work?"

Zhao Mei sat up straight: "It doesn't seem to have anything to do with Sun Ze's matter."

"I'll judge whether it's related or not." Bai Yang raised his legs and looked at her calmly.

Zhao Mei thought for a while, and replied: "It's just pouring wine to accompany the wine. I'm not used to it, so I resigned after a short time."

"Why did you choose this job in the first place?"

"Lack of money for emergency."

"Why did you resign later?"

"I don't adapt to the working environment." Zhao Mei couldn't help complaining: "You asked this question, and those who didn't know thought I was looking for a job interview."

Bai Yang paused for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Do you have a boyfriend?"

"……No."

"Where's Sun Ze?"

"Just friends."

"Since we are friends." Bai Yang teased, "Something happened to your friend, you don't seem to be very sad."

Zhao Mei said calmly: "Do you want me to wash my face with tears every day?" Bai Yang was left speechless.

Bai Yang wanted to ask about the marks on the banknotes again, but Zhao Mei always claimed that she didn't know, and there was really no evidence to prove that it was related to her, so she had to give up. "The day Sun Ze committed suicide, why didn't you answer the phone?"

Many questions were asked by the previous police officers, and Zhao Mei didn't think it was strange, and she answered them fluently: "I thought he was going to confess his love to me, so I didn't answer."

"Afraid that rejection will hurt him?" Bai Yang asked tentatively.

Zhao Mei didn't deny it, "I didn't know he wanted to commit suicide at that time."

"You seem to be able to chat very well, why don't you accept him?" According to Zhao Mei's colleagues, they often saw Sun Ze picking up Zhao Mei from get off work, and they all thought that Sun Ze was Zhao Mei's love interest.

No police officer asked her emotional questions, and she didn't know how to describe the feeling in her heart for a while, and she said emotionally after a while: "Someone said that deep friendship is love, and I am very familiar with friendship, but love is a very strange thing. I'm not ready to change myself and become the person the other party expects..."

Bai Yang's heart was beating violently, he approached Zhao Mei: "What did you say?!"

Zhao Mei was dumbfounded by his question: "I said I'm not ready..."

"last sentence!"

"Love is strange to me?"

"No, one more sentence!"

"A deep friendship is love?" Zhao Mei blinked innocently: "What's wrong with this sentence?"

There seems to be a door waiting to be opened in front of him. Bai Yang only needs to touch it lightly, and the truth behind the door is within reach.He propped his hands on the table and stared deeply into Zhao Mei's eyes: "What does Hu Lai have to do with you?"