Sapphire case

55.

At midnight, Jiang Cheng fell asleep in Gu Sheng's bedroom, murmuring some inaudible sentences in a daze.

Gu Sheng hugged him in front of him with his eyes closed, and after a long time, he slowly turned sideways from his arms, made sure that he was soundly asleep, and gently pushed him away to sit up.

Then he got out of bed, stepped on the cold mahogany floor of the bedroom with one smooth white foot, took a piece of clothing from the end of the bed and put it on, took two steps to pick up the trousers that were thrown off the ground.

He fumbled to take the key off his belt, turned and walked out the door.

Jiang Cheng didn't wake up until seven o'clock the next day. He was so satisfied last night that he stretched out his arms in the morning and lay on the bed for a long time before remembering what happened.

Gu Sheng had already left, he looked at the ceiling like a daughter-in-law who had just been prostituted, and suspected that he had a erotic dream.

"His grandma's..." Jiang Cheng couldn't help scolding, turned over to look for clothes, "Are you really using me as a rag..."

His hand touched the shirt and trousers that had been thrown on the ground, and he lifted it up to see that there were letters he had written carefully in the past two years, and when he saw the broken cardboard box that Gu Sheng brought the letter, he grinned After a while, he grabbed the quilt that the person next to him had slept on, buried his face in it and rubbed it hard.

Gu Sheng used Jiang Cheng's key to enter his office and found the latest secret message.

Every senior officer in these information offices would receive a copy, but Jiang Cheng alone didn't ask them to give it to Gu Sheng.

Jiang Cheng really didn't want him to get involved, so Gu Sheng bit his flashlight and flipped through the documents in his hand, brushing away his notes for the rest of the night, and sighed slightly.

Half a month later, Gu Sheng replaced Ye Fengnian and entered the first school as he wished. Jiang Cheng had no choice but to follow the trend. Since then, he used the hands of other people in the department to push all Ye's children to the place.

The relationship between him and Gu Sheng did not go any further, and he did not see Gu Sheng very often. He was often on the front line, and Gu Sheng wished he could stay in the office for 25 hours a day. That lingering night felt like a hallucination.

Although Gu Sheng entered the first school, he still lived in the army mansion, and was picked up by two drivers in shifts every day. He went out as usual on this day, but the one who came to pick him up was a step late.

The driver apologized again and again, saying that he rushed to Jinzhou Airport overnight to pick up an important person, but because of his special status, he did not disclose the news to them.This kind of mission often happens, and they will be called to show that they are greatly trusted. Gu Sheng nodded to show that he knew, and didn't say much.

However, as soon as he stepped into the office building of No. [-], a person rushed forward and hugged him: "Honey!"

Gu Sheng was staggered by him, and his whole body was shocked like an electric shock: "Luke?!"

"It's me! Long time no see! Don't you see that I'm very kind!" The young man spoke in a London hooligan accent and rubbed his trapezius with excitement, "Oh my God, Gu, what kind of inhuman abuse have you suffered here? , look at you skinny! You used to have a little muscle here!"

"...You are the same." Gu Sheng hugged him back, still a little bit surprised: "How did you get here? You failed too many subjects, and finally you can't get along in Cambridge?"

"Damn...you can't expect me to order, I'm here for you!" Luke held his shoulders, taking advantage of the profound features of Europeans, with rather sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, "I found that Leaving you, Gu, I miss you so much, I lose the motivation to go to class, and I don’t want to go to the library to waste my youth, I don’t even want to fuck a little girl! Ah! I have to come to China to find you .”

"Then I'm really guilty, please hurry back and make up the exam." Gu Sheng shoved him and said with a smile, "Stop talking nonsense, what's the matter with you?"

"Wow, what I said is true. You question my sincerity for you!"

"Come on, do you want to be caught by Scotland Yard and get some needles?"

"Come on, I'm ready," Luke said passionately, talking nonsense, "What's more, I'm in China now, China! Can they control it?"

"I now believe that you didn't come here because you failed the exam." Gu Sheng shrugged helplessly, "You absconded in fear of crime."

In fact, when the two of them were joking and talking nonsense downstairs, Jiang Cheng was watching.He returned to the locals some of the spoken English he had learned after spending two years abroad. The two spoke very fast. At this moment, they barely understood a few words except for the modal particles. They behaved intimately and looked very different. Unusual, he coughed twice involuntarily, reminding them that there were outsiders present.

—No, my wife.

Still not right.

Jiang Chengwu struggled for a while, seeing Gu Sheng's gaze turned, walked over with a normal expression on the surface, stretched out his hand to Luke, and the translator quickly followed: "Hello, sir. This is the major general of the First Military Region Jiang Cheng."

Following Gu Sheng's gaze, Lu Jia quickly removed the hand on his shoulder, shook hands with Jiang Cheng, and said hello.

I don't know if it's his illusion, but ever since this man saw him, there was an elusive hostility in his eyes, that kind of concern was very clear, and it was overwhelming when placed on a man with a heavy soldier in his hand. After shaking hands a few times, this strange feeling became more obvious.

Afterwards, the people in the two departments got to know each other, Deputy Wang asked Lu Jia upstairs to introduce the department to him, Lu Jia was very attached to Gu Sheng: "Hey, Gu, won't you come up?"

"I'll get the materials and I'll go over right away." Gu Sheng responded, Luke nodded in satisfaction, and disappeared behind the stairs.

Gu Sheng brushed past Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Cheng grabbed him.

Gu Sheng didn't move, Jiang Cheng only used a little strength when pulling him, and then immediately relaxed - once he struck hard, the experience in that nightmarish embassy five years ago would flash back to his mind Inside, in a closed room filled with despair and lust, the young man's thin and bruised back was filled with silent and overwhelming sorrow mixed with the sound of gunshots.

Gu Sheng unconsciously tightened himself because of the severe pain, as if this could relieve some of the pain.

Jiang Cheng gritted his teeth, and whispered in his ear: "I'll settle the score with you when I come back."

Gu Sheng's face darkened, he threw him away and walked into the reference room.

Luke really got used to this aspect very quickly. Gu Sheng half-joked to him that with him in charge, he would be reduced to a tool figure like a linguist, leaning over behind him to watch his formulas.

In fact, Gu Sheng and Luke have a very good relationship. It was good when they were in Cambridge. One is that Luke is very talented, and it will be very enlightening to ask him some questions that cannot be figured out. The other is that Luke is enthusiastic.

Imbued with an imperialist enthusiasm that is as foolish as it is unafraid of being cold-faced!

...If you ignore restrictions such as nationality and ideology, such a person can get along well with anyone, not to mention that Gu Sheng's character is not as bad as Jiang Cheng's smearing.

At the beginning, Lu Jia was very dissatisfied. He took Gu Sheng to accompany him to the western restaurant every time. The Western music at the scene made me feel that Jinzhou was different from what I remembered.

It's always easy for people to fall. Gu Sheng looked at the glass window illuminated by the candlelight in the restaurant, and the ugliness buried deep in the ground of Jinzhou was wrapped in the bustling night, and was blocked by the transparent and hard window. It's like two completely different worlds outside.

"Hey, what are you looking at?" Luke greeted him after eating and drinking.

"It's nothing," Gu Sheng came back to his senses, "I was thinking about the modification of the encryption method in the afternoon. Recently, I have always felt that the main problem of cryptography in mainland China now lies in the backwardness of the encryption method, and deciphering it is a later matter. .”

"Wow, you man, why are you still like this?" Luke wiped his fingers with a napkin helplessly, with a disgusted expression on his face, "I eat when I eat, and am I tired of thinking about this and that! Huh? See Look at the little girl! Enjoy the royal chamber music of the Middle Ages! Just change the bad habits you learned from the old professors in the school."

"Don't think that everyone else depends on IQ like you, okay?" Gu Sheng pressed his forehead helplessly, "I've actually been thinking about it for more than two weeks, and I really can't figure it out. I'm getting bored to death."

"Hey, relax, relax," Luke shook his hand, "You're just too serious, and you're going to criticize me for relying on IQ... Oh, you can be annoying too... How strange, I thought you were particularly tireless, and your patience was a complete mess..."

Gu Sheng dipped his glass into some wine, smiled and shook his head.

"No, I don't like mathematics very much, and I don't have much enthusiasm." The glass only touched his pale lips, and he put it down with a sigh of relief.

"You don't like mathematics and you go to Trinity Mathematics Department?" Luke was furious, "Young man, are you insulting me?"

Gu Sheng played with the cup in his hand, and laughed lazily: "...Fuck you."

The candlelight illuminated his eyes, and his short black hair was shrouded in a bright yellow halo. The light and shadow on his face were clearly layered, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. In a blink of an eye, he looked like the entrance of a theater. It looks like a large close-up photo of an actress, and it feels indescribably comfortable to look at.

Luke subconsciously wanted to touch it, but when he stretched his hand halfway, he was suddenly held down.

The guests next to them left without knowing when, leaving a circle of soldiers like special forces standing around with guns, Jiang Cheng was looking at Luke coldly.

With a very bad expression, Jiang Cheng slipped Gu Sheng out of the western restaurant, stuffed him and his bag into the car and took him back to the army mansion.

Gu Shengan sat quietly in the co-pilot, his expression was a little cold as usual, and he also had a smile as if he was resting.He suddenly turned his head, looked at Jiang Cheng for a while, and asked, "Jiang Cheng, why haven't you given up yet?"

The road ahead was winding and long, and the night was as thick as ink that could not be melted. Before Jiang Cheng could reply, Gu Sheng lowered his eyelashes and rubbed his hand, then continued on his own: "Look, I will kill you!" Your dear brother, dear father, dear mother, Shen Wenchang, Li Xiaohua, Ida Kazuyuki, Feng Zheng, Liu Mian also died indirectly at my hands. I have killed so many people, and some are your dearest relatives. Don’t you hate me? ?”

"...Hate, why don't I hate!" Jiang Cheng snorted as if he had heard some joke, "Since the day you left, I've been thinking about how to catch you back, gouging out your flesh and blood, and wanting you to taste it for yourself. The pain of digging out the flesh in my heart, I want you to go to the eighteenth floor of hell and die...I really..."

Gu Sheng smiled, raised his head and leaned lightly on the back of the car seat: "You should hate me."

Jiang Cheng gritted his teeth and said nothing.

"We are not on the same road. You are determined to go your own way, and you are doomed to no good results from the beginning." Gu Sheng sighed, "Aren't you afraid of keeping a murderer like me by your side?"

How could he say such cruel words so easily, Jiang Cheng thought in disbelief, as if he had foreseen everything a long time ago, and he was always in a place far, far away from him, sneering Seeing myself stumbling all the way, embarrassed, and finally asked strangely, you, why don't you know how to give up until today.

But Jiang Cheng couldn't blame him, because Gu Sheng's attitude towards him was consistent.

"Gu Sheng," Jiang Cheng turned his head to look at him, and suddenly changed the topic, "Do you remember how many older sisters I have? They got the news from somewhere two days ago, and heard that you appeared in Jinzhou, My eldest sister took the lead and went to me to ask for an explanation, and asked me to hand over the person—”

"You shouldn't be protecting me." Gu Sheng said.

"I don't know, I just don't think I can hand you over to them." Jiang Cheng wiped his face, "Compared to sending you to die, I would rather be shot dead by you one day, and I don't have to watch You died before me."

Gu Sheng fell silent, and the armored vehicle drove into the army station smoothly. The guards flashlighted the inside of the vehicle, and then opened the door to let it go.

"Gu Sheng, let me ask you a question," Jiang Cheng stopped the car, but didn't look back at him.

Gu Sheng was a little surprised, then nodded, "Say it."

"Have you read the letters you put under the bed?"

Gu Sheng's expression froze for a moment, he probably never thought that he would ask this question, and the emptiness in his eyes at that moment all pointed to an accurate answer, Jiang Cheng didn't feel so disappointed for a while, instead he took it for granted Feeling at ease, nodded, and put down his hand to pull out the car key.

But Gu Sheng sat without moving, and after a long time, Jiang Cheng suspected that he was too tired to fall asleep in the car, only to hear the other party ask very softly: "Jiang Cheng, do you hate me?"

This is a very absurd question, Jiang Cheng can blurt out the answer to hate, of course it is hate, just like Gu Sheng asked him at the beginning, but at this moment, he asked it so abruptly and weirdly, Jiang Cheng was at a loss Extremely.

Gu Sheng asked him if he hated him, but what about Gu Sheng himself?Does he hate me?

Jiang Cheng actually didn't want to know the answer, because the answer was so clear and unmistakable.Conversely, Gu Sheng must have known about it, but he still asked again, why did he ask again?

"No, I don't hate you."

Jiang Cheng opened his mouth with difficulty, every word was like pouring water from a deep well: "No matter how you look at me, whether the past between us can be cleared up or not, this will not change at all. I don't hate you, Gu Sheng."

Gu Sheng laughed softly, at that moment Jiang Cheng didn't know what his smile meant, it seemed to be exhausted and helpless, and also like unspeakable sorrow.

All the reasons in the world cannot convince everyone, especially when everything is complicated and difficult to distinguish. At the intersection of the old and the new in that era, no one knows whether his persistence will be proved by history. Jiang Cheng chose to trust Gu Sheng , that is, carrying an unknown future and the possibility of being deeply misunderstood by the world, personally overturning all his past. This choice is an absurd intuition, and it may also be a well-thought-out consideration.

This is his greatest and deepest sincerity to Gu Sheng.

That night Jiang Cheng still stayed, Gu Sheng didn't chase him away, Jiang Cheng even half hugged him and took a nap on the sofa for a while, only one desk lamp was on in the small living room on the second floor, under the light there was a tea table where draft paper was messily placed , Books and notes were piled from the table to the ground, Gu Sheng's breath gently brushed against his chest, and a small piece of his clothes rose and fell.

At that moment, all the hustle and bustle went away, and the night swallowed up all the deep-rooted national hatred and family feud. Jiang Cheng bowed his head deeply, and pressed a kiss on his forehead.

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Note: The "Scotland Yard" meme mentioned by Gu Sheng in the article refers to the persecution of homosexuals in Britain at that time, and "a few shots" refers to the "treatment" of gay men through forced injection of estrogen. (Sex hormones can be injected or taken orally. The expression in this article is my personal choice.)