Escape

"Comrade Police..."

Although when I went home for the Chinese New Year, a few enthusiastic relatives gave me Lu some face and called me twice, but the feeling was completely different from this time.Just like the two titles "father" and "grandpa", they have completely opposite meanings in different contexts.

Especially now, that person is paralyzed on my back, with his chin resting on my shoulder, leaning into my ear and speaking weakly but pretending to be calm, as if he is asking for some kind of pardon.

"what happened?"

I lifted him up, and usually the group of hulking men in the carrying class could use as much strength as they wanted, but they didn't dare to use any strength when carrying him.

"Can you put me down?"

"No."

"I can walk by myself."

"It will hurt."

"It's okay, I'm used to it."

This calm sentence was like a shot in the arm, piercing into my heart, allowing all the strength I had accumulated during the day to pour into the blank brain along the constricted blood vessels.

I don't remember what he said next, I just want to protect him behind my back, and then smash everyone who bullied him, approached him, hated him and loved him.

This kind of impulsiveness and sensibility should not belong to the police, but once I think of this person in my body—I don’t want to be bullied, I don’t want to get close, I can’t bear to hate, and I dare not love—the dawn-like person was once regarded by moths and flies as an old lamp. The lamp humiliates me, and my reason is reduced to ashes along with the ghosts of the night.

Soon I found the most regular clinic nearby.When the door was opened, the smell of disinfectant mixed with the smell of the nurse's perfume, which was very novel and inappropriate.

I helped him onto the bed, asked the nurse for iodine, and offered to wipe his wound.A scar above his collarbone was still oozing blood, I suppressed the weird heart rate, and pressed a cotton swab dipped in iodine against it.

"Hiss..." As soon as the cotton touched the blood clot, he shrank back as if he had been electrocuted.

"Who said just now that I got used to it."

"I used to do it myself. You were the first person to help me...I'm not used to it."

That doesn't always sound right.

"Just get used to it. If you're really afraid of pain, I don't mind you pinching me."

After hearing this, he didn't reply as if he was deflated.When he applied the medicine again, he just gritted his teeth without blinking his eyes.He is really a man who loves face.

"That girl...Wu Jing, is that your girlfriend?" I pretended to ask unintentionally.

"Wu Jing? No, you misunderstood, we are just friends."

"Oh. Do friends send each other flowers on Valentine's Day?"

"No...how...how should I put it, in short...she and I are really just classmates, we don't have that kind of relationship. "

"Okay, okay. It can be seen that you don't think that way about her."

"Comrade policeman, why do you ask this?" He thought about it seriously, "Did she do something?"

"No, I'll just ask casually." I laughed and put the iodine back into the porcelain plate, "Also, I'm not a police comrade. Although I don't mind if you call me that, I'm really not a police officer. .”

I took off my police jacket and draped it on the bed, showing off the training suit he wore when I first met him.

"I'm from the police station next door. The bastard who beat you just now...he's my squad leader." I saw his face suddenly change, and added, "We met once the year before last, you forgot? Just pull you The one chasing the thief."

"The one who lied to me about my things being stolen?"

"You're right if you understand it this way...it's my fault too. If he hadn't helped that bastard at that time, he wouldn't have entangled Wu Jing, and you wouldn't have..."

"It's useless to say 'what if', a lot of things happened, so they happened." His words seemed very old-fashioned.

"You're right, I apologize. I didn't think about it that much at the time, after all, I didn't know Shan Yong at that time..."

"You don't need to apologize, it's my fault. I should have listened to him from the beginning and stayed away from Wu Jing. Even you will misunderstand our relationship, let alone Shan Yong."

"Why is this your fault? Blame me, blame him, blame Wu Jing. I can't blame you at all."

Seeing that he bowed his head and stopped talking, I was afraid that he would find a topic to talk about and leave, so I asked the doctor for two ice packs and applied them to the bruises on his calf.

"Thank you." He said suddenly.

"Why are you being polite? If you really want to thank me, just treat me as a favor and treat me to a meal or something in the future."

I looked around, and there was a pen and paper on the nurse's desk, so I tore a piece of paper while she was not paying attention, and wrote a string of phone numbers on it.Feeling that there was something missing in the rest of the blank space, he simply filled in the words "Lu Zhenyu, a junior in the special police department of the Municipal Police Academy", and then stuffed the note to him.

"My information is here. If you want to treat someone to dinner in the future, or if that bastard comes to trouble you again, just call me."

"Okay." He took the note.

I took advantage of the opportunity to sit next to him and said, "By the way, buddy, I don't know what your name is yet.".

"Xu Zhi, the one who cares about it is also the one."

I looked at him, suggesting he would add a few more words.

"Ideological and Political Department of Normal University, senior."

"Fourth year? How old are you?"

"22."

"You are two years older than me? Sincerely, I believe you even if you say you are a high school student."

"Appearances don't judge anything, and you don't look like you're 20."

"...Then how old do you think I am?"

"A quarter buried."

"……What's the meaning?"

"Means nothing."

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and snickered secretly, his eyelashes covering his eyes.Just like a child who is still childish, he is complacent after he succeeds in a trick.

At that moment, I almost blurted out - "You look special when you smile", of course I didn't say it, and I haven't said it since, even though this sentence often comes to my mouth.

What if it was said at that time?

Also right, "it's useless to say 'if'".

At this time, a person came in from outside the door, holding a bouquet of roses, and called a nurse affectionately.The nurse greeted her with a happy face and took the roses.The two of them hugged and walked out of the clinic, leaving only a rose petal falling on the ground.

We continued to chatter about other things, and chatted a lot about school matters. It wasn't until it was getting late that Xu Zhi proposed to go back to school.I watched him walk out of the door. After thinking for a while, I picked up the rose petals on the ground and chased him out again.

"Let's drop by, and I'll give you a ride."

When the lights came on at the gate of the Normal University, he said goodbye to me, and was about to walk in when I stopped him.

"Xu Zhi!"

He stopped and turned his head, the previous defense and hostility were no longer in his eyes.

"I'll give you a gift."

I took his hand and put the rose petal just now into his palm.

"Happy Valentine's Day."

I couldn't stop laughing.

"Happy Valentine's Day."

He also laughed.