love of life

That night, Gu Ming opened another room and stayed up all night.Early the next morning, he went back to yesterday's room to pick up his luggage, but was told that Lin Zexi had already checked out and left his luggage at the front desk.He went to the front desk to collect his luggage and set off for home.He rushed home in a hurry, threw his luggage at the entrance, walked straight into the house without changing his shoes, pushed open the doors of each room and checked, and found that they were empty.He walked into Lin Zexi's room and opened the cabinet door. All the clothes in the closet were still there, and he hadn't moved them out yet.He lived in this lifeless room for more than half a year, and at a glance, there was nothing that belonged to him, as if he had never stayed here.

While Gu Ming was meditating, there was a sound of the door opening suddenly. He poked his head out of the room and saw Lin Zexi standing in front of the door with his luggage.The two looked at each other for a while, and Gu Ming said first, "Didn't you check out early? Why are you here now?"

"I'm on the train, have you eaten yet? I'll get it." Lin Zexi put his luggage at the entrance, put on his shoes and walked towards the kitchen.Gu Ming kept following Lin Zexi until the latter walked into the kitchen, then he sat down on the sofa in the living room and turned on the TV as usual.

Gu Ming's mind is not on the TV at all, he has been paying attention to the movement in the kitchen, worrying about what to do next.

After 15 minutes, Lin Zexi brought out two bowls of hot noodles and said, "There is nothing in the refrigerator, let's eat noodles tonight. I will start cooking tomorrow."

Gu Ming didn't open his mouth, but buried his head in eating.After taking two bites, Lin Zexi said, "I'll look for a house in a while, and I'll move out in two days."

The movement of Gu Ming's hands stopped, still did not raise his head, and said in a stiff tone: "Didn't you say one month?"

"Well, one month, let's count from today. It's not convenient for me to live here, so let's change to another place. This way we can all be more comfortable." Lin Zexi ate the noodles unhurriedly without looking up.

Gu Ming scooped up the noodles in the bowl, threw the chopsticks on the table and returned to the room.He closed the door and lit himself a cigarette in the dark.From time to time, there were trivial movements outside the door, accompanied by the sound of running water in the kitchen. After half an hour, it gradually calmed down, and then the door knocked, and the calm was restored.Lin Zexi left, but he still stayed in the room without turning on the light.He fell asleep on the bed in a trance.After an unknown amount of time, he opened his eyes, but the room was still dark.He took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, it was already 02:30 in the middle of the night, and he had no sleep at all.

He got up from the bed, turned on the light, and went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water.After a few mouthfuls of hot water, his brain finally started to work.He sorted out what happened in the past two days in his mind, and turned on the computer in the room.He searched for Lin Zexi's name on the Internet, and there was a report the size of dried tofu on an unknown local website, which briefly described that he was sentenced to seven years in prison for intentional wounding. Apart from that, there was no news.He searched the names of Xu Chengwei and Wang Yijie, but found nothing.

He took out his cell phone and made a call.

"Hey, Young Master Gu, are you on vacation in America right now? Why are you calling me at this hour?" A deep middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone, muttering indistinctly.

"I'm at home, you can check something for me."

"Why do you have to talk about it in the middle of the night? I am really powerless about that matter. I have investigated it for several years, and all the evidence proves that it was just an accident and there was no human factor."

"It's something else. You can check someone for me. I want his information from childhood to adulthood, especially what happened five years ago."

"Five years? Don't you keep asking me to do things like digging old sesame seeds and rotten millet?"

"I won't treat you badly after it's done. What happened in this city shouldn't be difficult. I'll give you three days."

"Three days? Do you think I'm a robot cat? The fastest package is seven days."

"Three days, ten thousand a day."

The person on the other end of the phone suddenly shut his mouth, and he could hear the sound of him swallowing through the phone. "That's it. I'll send everything I know to your mailbox in a while." After Gu Ming finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for the other party to answer.

He dropped the phone on the bed and leaned back in the chair.He didn't think about how to deal with Lin Zexi's matter. He just wanted to know what happened to him urgently.

As the sky gradually turned white, he put on his sneakers and went for a few laps in a nearby small park.The morning air is very fresh, reminding him of his high school time in boarding school, simple and pure, as if the whole world is illusory except for the college entrance examination.He ran for two kilometers with all his strength, constantly challenging his limits. While breathing heavily, he savored the feeling of lack of oxygen in his chest, trying to find out the strange feeling in his chest when he faced Lin Zexi that night.He wanted to use a safer method to reproduce the feeling at that time and analyze that feeling.After running for seven or eight kilometers, he finally gave up. Even though he was sweating profusely and panting, his throat tightened due to his panting, but it still didn't feel right.His hair and clothes were soaked with sweat, and he could even feel the heat rising from his head, like a steamed bun just out of the cage.This metaphor made him chuckle, and he simply did a few sets of stretching and went home.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw a pair of familiar shoes placed in the entrance, a familiar figure loomed on the kitchen door, and the smell of fried eggs filled the house.Gu Ming changed his shoes, took a shower in the bathroom, and changed his clothes.When I returned to the living room again, breakfast was already set on the dining table, except for a pair of bowls and chopsticks.Lin Zexi has already started cleaning the bathroom.

Gu Ming looked at the breakfast that was placed alone on the table, suddenly lost his appetite, and locked himself in the room to play games.At noon, Lin Zexi knocked on his door and asked him to eat.He didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but the stomach that had been hungry for a long time made him a little overwhelmed. He walked out of the room slowly, saw two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table, and started to eat with a sullen face.Lin Zexi sat down opposite him, both of them lowered their heads and concentrated on eating, the atmosphere was so gloomy that the food lost its taste.After dinner, Gu Ming continued to go back to his room to play games. Lin Zexi washed all the dirty clothes at home, mopped the floor, and started cooking dinner again. At 05:30, Lin Zexi knocked on Gu Ming's door again, but this time Gu Ming ignored him.After a few minutes, he knocked again, and said through the door: "The dinner is already on the table, so I'll go first, and the dishes and chopsticks are reserved for me to clean up tomorrow morning." The room fell silent again.

Gu Ming threw the gamepad in his hand in front of the computer, the characters in the game had been abused by monsters to the point where only one-third of their health remained.The ashtray next to the computer was full of cigarette butts, and the stale air made him feel a little uncomfortable.He suddenly wanted to escape from here, feeling like he couldn't stay for a minute.At this time, the captain of the basketball team called to invite him to participate in the team's training camp, and he would go to the branch school for a week.When he was invited before, he was only thinking about going on a trip, so he refused. Two people in the team could not participate because of something in their hometown, and the team leader called to persuade him.This time, without thinking about it, he agreed.Without delay, he immediately packed his luggage and joined his teammates.

The one-week training camp passed quickly, and the high-intensity training every day left Gu Ming with no time to think about it, and his spirit was lifted a lot.Sitting on the return bus, he gradually returned to reality from the empty state.He opened the mailbox, but he didn't see the email that should have been feedback long ago.

Gu Ming dialed the phone: "Didn't you agree for three days? Why hasn't there been any movement yet?"

"Master Gu, three days is really not enough, I have tried my best to investigate."

"It's been a week today. Isn't your urgent package just a promise to get the results in a week? You can't handle local affairs, and you plan to go to Guangzhou to open a branch?"

"At that time, you didn't tell me that the Xu family was involved in this matter. You also know how capable the Xu family is here. The disclosure of information five years ago was not as good as it is now. There is only one piece of paper, which was confessed by Lin Zexi himself. But I don’t think it’s that simple. I’ve already heard about the policeman who handled the case. He was transferred away after finishing the case. I plan to go there tomorrow. find him."

"Policeman? He is quite familiar with a policeman at the police station next to my school. His surname seems to be Liu."

"Oh, I know, that's the policeman in charge of helping him readjust to society. Lin Zexi reports to him every month. That person has a good impression of him, but he doesn't seem to know much about his past. He never wants to Mention it with others. By the way, what is your relationship with him? You care so much about his affairs."

"Don't ask about it. Hurry up. I'll give you three more days at most, or you won't be able to get the money."

He hung up the phone, and the car quickly drove into the city.The sun has almost climbed to its highest point, and the temperature outside the car has reached 37 degrees.His teammate asked him to leave after lunch, but he refused. After getting off the bus, he took a taxi and headed home.He opened the door, but Lin Zexi was not there.His anger suddenly rose, and this man actually learned to be lazy.He picked up his phone and was about to question him when Lin Zexi opened the door and walked in.

"You're back. You weren't here a few days ago, so I didn't prepare lunch, so I'll make it right away." Lin Zexi changed his shoes and went to the kitchen.

Gu Ming stared at him without saying a word, feeling that he was different from before, his face became a little haggard, and his gait was a little stiff, Gu Ming suddenly remembered how he was when he just met him.Gu Ming followed and stood at the door of the kitchen, his tone was rather displeased: "Did you give yourself a vacation these few days when I was not at home? I paid enough wages, so you just sent me noodles?"

Lin Zexi turned to look at him, then at the boiling water on the fire, and turned off the fire without saying a word.He walked out of the kitchen, passed by Gu Ming and said in a low voice, "I'm going out to buy some food, you wait a moment."

Gu Ming looked at the back of him leaving, and got angry all of a sudden, he stepped forward and grabbed his left arm to make him stop.At that moment, Gu Ming clearly felt his left arm shrink suddenly, only then did he realize that his strength was a little stronger, and he relaxed the strength in his hand a little.Gu Ming raised his head, but saw him frowning tightly, clenching his teeth, with a painful expression.Gu Ming was suspicious. He held his wrist with his left hand and rolled up his sleeve with his right hand. He saw an oval bruise the size of a bowl where he was holding just now. The surrounding area was red, and the middle was purple-blue. .

"What happened to your hand?" Gu Ming asked while carefully examining his wound.

Lin Zexi subconsciously wanted to withdraw her hand, but Gu Ming grabbed it firmly. "It's nothing, I knocked it accidentally."

"Knocked, where did it go?" Gu Ming asked reluctantly.

"Just the stone pillar at the gate of the community." He said casually.

"Stone pillar? I think this shape is very strange, why don't you smash another one and let me see?"

Lin Zexi was stunned, looked up at him, and found that he was staring at him intently, then lowered her head and fell silent.

Gu Ming was about to ask questions, but found that because he lowered his head and exposed half of the back of his neck, there were some faint marks.Gu Ming let go of his arm, stretched out his hand and pulled his collar back, only then did he see that there was also an obvious scar on the back of his neck, which was in the shape of a strip, about three fingers wide. "What about this one? This one also hit?"

While pulling at the neckline to cover the injury, he said, "This—" he was interrupted roughly by Gu Ming as soon as he said two words.

"Shut up. Just make it up, ah, make it up. Do you think I'm blind? Tell me, how many injuries are there?" Gu Ming's manic voice came to mind in the air, his face flushed red up.

Lin Zexi swallowed, but did not speak.

Gu Ming pointed at his chest and said loudly, "Are you dumb when you talk?"

Lin Zexi lowered his head and glanced at him, but still didn't speak, intending to turn around and leave to avoid his wrath.Gu Ming pulled the hem of his shirt, pulled his hands to the sides, and the two buttons on the chest of the shirt flew out quickly and landed on the floor, making two crisp collision sounds and a rolling friction sound.

"Gu Ming, what are you doing?" Lin Zexi tried to close his clothes with both hands, but Gu Ming dragged him to death.Lin Zexi looked up and found that Gu Ming's bloodshot eyes were staring at his chest, he was a little scared, he felt Gu Ming's anger. "Have you seen enough?"