star hunter

When Ren Jie came home, his mother had just prepared dinner.

"I'm back." He Huiqiong put a plate of fried dishes on the table, and then took off the apron she was wearing, "How is it today?"

Ren Jie took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack, and answered his mother absent-mindedly: "It's okay."

He Huiqiong turned around and went back to the kitchen. After a while, she came out with bowls and chopsticks, and arranged them one by one: "I heard that you found a batch of corpses in Xicheng a few days ago, which seemed to be 'shadows'? How did you deal with them?"

He Huiqiong was originally a senior official of the Administration Bureau. After the death of her husband Ren Yan, she retired from her original position and took an insignificant post. She is currently in a semi-retired state and has basically not participated in the bureau's work. business.

She still intervened in the affairs of the Administration Bureau, not out of habit, but because she simply cared about her son's work.

"Bring it back." Ren Jie hesitated for a moment, but still said that although his mother retired, she was still a member of the Management Bureau. Besides, what happened to them in Xicheng was nothing in the Management Bureau. confidential.

"Didn't the director hold a meeting today? It is said that it is to deal with this matter. Did you participate too? What tasks did they assign you?"

He Huiqiong was not very satisfied with this concise answer. She pulled away the chair and signaled Ren Jie to sit down. The latter heard the words, his face darkened, and after he sat down without saying a word, his mother frowned and asked again without waiting for a reply. Once again, he breathed out silently, and when he picked up the chopsticks to make a sound, he suddenly found that there were only two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the dining table.

He returned to the training camp immediately after he was discharged from the hospital. Yirou was still worried about his health, so she would visit him from time to time and check him regularly.

During this period of time, He Huiqiong was not feeling very well, and she didn't even go to the police station very much. After Yirou learned about this, she would go to Ren's house to look after He Huiqiong after get off work every day, and would also help with cooking and so on. , Ren Jie is also very happy to see her at home every day during this time.

Even though his mother is still cold towards Yirou, he is relieved to see them under the same roof.

How should I put it, it's like seeing the dawn.

But at this moment, the two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table told Ren Jie that this might just be his illusion.

He took a deep breath and tried his best to sound calm: "What about Yirou? Why did she leave without eating?"

He Huiqiong didn't seem to hear, she still repeated the previous question: "Did Zong Zhengze assign you any duties?"

Her indifference angered Ren Jie. He put down his chopsticks, and the bamboo chopsticks collided with the porcelain bowl with a crisp sound. He Huiqiong's gaze moved to the face of the person opposite him indifferently, staring at him with a half-smile.

It's that look again.Ren Jie closed his eyes, and the suffocation in his chest became more violent. Ever since he was a child, as long as he didn't like her, she would silently frighten him with this kind of temperatureless gaze until he Bow your head and admit your mistake.

In the confrontation with his mother, he gave in countless times, but not this time.

"I ask you, where did she go?"

Cold anger surged quickly in He Huiqiong's eyes, so that the fine lines around her eyes twitched, but she quickly suppressed the anger again, she gracefully turned her head, folded her hands on her chest, and the corners of her lips twitched. Wei Wei turned up: "Where else can I go? I'm back to her own home."

"Did you tell her something?"

"I just asked her to go back to her own place. After all," He Huiqiong smiled faintly, "It's always impolite to stay in someone else's house all day, right?"

She paused, and continued to add fuel to the fire: "And, I told her never to come again."

Her tone and the last sentence made Ren Jie furious. He gritted his teeth and tightened his jaw line suddenly: "Mom, Yirou is...very, very important to me, you know that?"

His expression was very angry, but his tone was almost begging. He thought he had given in enough, but he didn't expect to anger He Huiqiong even more.

"Important? How important?" Her eyes sharpened instantly, and her voice suddenly raised, "Is it more important than my mother who gave birth to you and raised you for more than 20 years?"

Ren Jie was extremely helpless: "You and her are not in conflict..."

"But you are in conflict with her." He Huiqiong's voice lowered again, and it was much more relaxed than before, but the ridicule in her eyes became more intense, "Xiaojie, you have to understand that the road you want in the future will only If you drift away from her, she will only become your burden and drag you down..."

"My way?" Ren Jie laughed suddenly, "What is my way? Do you think my dad is still alive?"

The son's last rhetorical question finally made He Huiqiong's smile that he had maintained for a long time fall short. Her facial features tightened for a moment, and the lines at the corners of her mouth slanted down, making her old and full of hostility at the same time.

She said coldly: "What do you want to say?"

"Didn't you always care about what job I was assigned?" Ren Jie sneered, his tone full of provocation, "Let me tell you, there is nothing. I didn't have a part in that meeting at all. I didn't even serve tea and water." It's not my turn, and as for cleaning up the 'Shadow', it's none of my business."

He failed to attend the meeting, and he could have comforted himself with his status as a newcomer, but when he learned that Zhong Yuncong was also one of the participants, and was even appointed by Zong Zhengzheng, that little comfort was shattered.

And this incident made Ren Jie very disappointed. He was ashamed to announce it at first, but now he felt the pleasure of revenge, so that his sneer was tinged with sincerity.

He Huiqiong's complexion suddenly turned ugly, but she still managed to maintain a smile: "Maybe... because you just went... It's okay, it will be fine after a while..."

Ren Jie smiled and shook his head: "You know exactly what's going on, don't you? Otherwise... why would you reluctantly leave early?"

His words can be regarded as hitting He Huiqiong's sore spot. She was the one who brought it up to Zong Zhengzheng at the beginning, and the latter readily agreed, and the process went very quickly, which seemed very clean and neat.

But only she knew how unwilling she was.

And all of this is because of...

"Dad did those things, do you really think that we can still gain a foothold in the Administration Bureau?" The son's words finally completely shattered the remaining illusions. Her hand hit the dining table heavily, and the little finger immediately It became red and swollen, and she stood up abruptly: "I'm going to ask Zong Zhengzheng to find out! I can back down, but you can't..."

"No need." Ren Jie's voice was unbelievably calm, "My way, I have the final say, so I won't bother you."

After all, he stood up and went straight to the door.

He Huiqiong guessed his whereabouts, and immediately became furious: "Where are you going? I tell you, you are not allowed to go!"

"Mom," Ren Jie looked back at his mother, with a loose smile on his face, but his words were extremely firm, "You can't stop me."

"You!" He Huiqiong didn't expect that this son who always bowed his head to her would disobey her once, for an unimportant wild girl, and she almost fainted, "Ren Jie, if you walk out of this door today, you will be killed in the future." Don't come back!"

Ren Jie stared at He Huiqiong sadly, and wondered if she had said the same thing as Yirou, no...it must have gone too far.

"Calm down first." He dropped this sentence and walked out of the house without looking back.

He Huiqiong was so angry that her hands trembled unconsciously, her feet were unsteady, and she fell heavily on the chair.

Her hard eyes, which had been forced for most of her life, finally lost control, and a stream of tears rolled down her eyelids.

"Don't even think about it...don't even think about it..." She gritted her teeth while weeping, "I don't agree, never agree!"

>>>

Yirou met Ren Jie at the door the next morning.

He was sitting outside the door of her residence, hugging his knees, staring blankly at the opposite street that hadn't become noisy yet.

Because of her work, Yirou always got up very early. At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and her vision was still hazy. At first, she thought she had been robbed, but she was so frightened that she was surprised when she was about to call for help. Suddenly found that back very familiar.

"Ren Jie?" She called out tentatively, unexpectedly, the uninvited guest immediately turned around, and he smiled at her brightly in the dark: "Good morning."

"It's really you!" While Yirou's hanging heart suddenly let go, she couldn't help complaining and distressed, "Why are you huddling here so quietly in the early morning? You scared me to death You know... I don't even know how to call the door!"

Ren Jie supported the doorpost and stood up slowly: "I thought, you should still be asleep, so..."

Yirou's eyelids twitched, and she suddenly had a frightening guess: "You won't... wait here all night, right?"

He smiled and didn't speak.

That is the default.

Yirou almost passed out in distress.

She grabbed his hand and said, "What's the matter with you? You came to me without saying a word... Where's your mother? Was she kicked out? You couldn't just run away from home just by playing with others at a young age." ah?!"

Seeing her angry appearance, Ren Jie couldn't help laughing again, but he smiled and remembered what his mother did, and the smile gradually faded away.

"I..." His expression was extremely bitter, "I'm here to apologize to you on behalf of my mother."

Yirou held his hand stiffly for a moment, then gently withdrew it back: "You know?"

Ren Jie blushed for a while: "Well... I'm sorry, really, I... I didn't expect her to say such exaggerated words."

Yirou let out a "puchi" laugh: "Why are you apologizing? It has nothing to do with you."

His complexion became darker: "I am her son, how can it have nothing to do with me."

She didn't speak, just stretched out her hand to pick up the dust he sent to her body, and then shook her head: "It's nothing... I can be regarded as... I'm used to it."

got used to.These three words pierced his heart like a sharp arrow. He turned his head and looked away in embarrassment.

"I am really sorry."

Yirou smiled hastily, then put her hand on his shoulder, and squeezed it lightly, with a sense of comfort.

"Actually... I'm not very angry, I mean it, it's just... a little sad." She sighed, "I thought that as long as I behaved well, one day she would accept me, but now it seems , She really doesn't like me."

Ren Jie trembled all over.

Xu Shi guessed what he was going to say, so Yirou spoke before he could speak: "So I gave up... Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I don't love you anymore... It's just that I don't insist on being with you anymore Together, after all, she is your mother, someone you can't let go of, I don't want you to have trouble with her because of me. Besides, it is also a kind of torture for me. "

She paused, and said softly: "I am also a person with self-respect. I don't want to always wrong myself and accommodate others, even if that person is your mother."

Ren Jie turned his head, his eyes turned red all of a sudden.

Yirou looked at his expression, her heart pierced like a knife, but she still shook her head: "It's not that I don't love you anymore, and it's not that I'm leaving you... It's just that temporarily... I can't be with you anymore. In the future, if you If you have time, you can come and see me, but I probably won’t go to your side.”

Ren Jie pursed his lips tightly, and after a while, he suddenly took her into his arms: "I'm sorry for making you suffer so much for me...Give me a little more time, and I will... definitely convince her of!"

Tears slipped out of the corners of her eyes silently, but Yirou still responded with a smile: "Okay, I'll wait."

>>>

"Are you going?"

Zhong Yun turned his face from the side and looked at Su Xian who was ready to go. He couldn't hide the tension in his eyes, but in front of him, there was no need to hide it.

Su Xian shook his shoulder: "Are you afraid? Although this is a big move, it's not like you haven't faced bigger battles before. You weren't afraid back then. What's there to be afraid of now?"

Zhong Yuncong still had lingering fears when he thought of being kidnapped by Yingying, being hunted down by the "Shadow", and even the big explosion in the sales school: "Who said I wasn't afraid, I was quite afraid at that time..."

These words seemed to be very unpromising, and Su Xian looked at him quite speechlessly, Zhong Yuncong chuckled: "Appropriate fear can make people more sober."

Su Xian shrugged, and stopped entangled with him on this meaningless topic: "With me, there are so many experts in the Administration Bureau, and even the Zongju Bureau will sit in charge, so don't worry about it."

"And," he looked into his eyes and laughed, "you've improved so much, are you so unconfident in yourself?"

I thought Zhong Yuncong, who was used to narcissism, would agree, but he shook his head instead: "I really don't have much confidence... I did find their remaining memories from those corpses, and I got some information because of it. But...the credibility is really open to question."

After passing Zong Zhengzheng's devil's test, Zhong Yuncong's supernatural powers have indeed improved by leaps and bounds. One of the manifestations is that when he probes the memory of the deceased, the information he can capture is no longer limited to the few minutes before death, but can be traced back. to earlier.

He tried his limit, about three days before his death.

And this progress also allowed him to accidentally find a crucial piece of information.

These guys were indeed members of "Shadow", and just as Su Xian guessed, they died of internal strife.

Of course, there was no information in this piece of information. What really caught their attention was the fact that "Shadow" was planning to attack a certain entrance in the mining area.

The "strike" mentioned here naturally does not mean talking about business in a friendly manner, but daring to steal before tomorrow, killing people and getting more.

In short, they were going to rob mines, or worse, seize them.

But no matter what it is, the Management Bureau does not intend to let them succeed.

The time of action in the memory of the deceased was at night, but Zong Zheng decided to go there early in the morning and lie in ambush first, just in case.

The efficiency of the Clan Bureau in issuing orders and formulating action plans was astonishingly high, and the manpower was quickly deployed. Among them, Zhong Yuncong, as a new and irreplaceable person, was also appointed to participate in this operation, which was really unexpected.

Zong Zhengzheng didn't mean to explain at all, so everyone was very sensible and kept quiet, but it made Zhong Yuncong lack confidence and feel very guilty.

"Do I look like a related household?" He asked Su Xian puzzledly, who looked at him amusedly: "It seems to be so interesting... People who don't know may suspect that you are related to the Zongju Bureau. What is the blood relationship?"

The corner of Zhong Yuncong's mouth twitched: "This joke is not funny at all."

Su Xian raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender: "Then don't talk about it. Don't think too much, no matter whether the information is true or not, once you know it, you have to guard against it. Besides, the decision maker is the Clan Bureau , everything is on his shoulders, there is nothing to worry about."

Zhong Yuncong sighed: "I'm afraid that if you mobilize the teacher and mobilize the crowd, it will end up in vain."

"If that's the case, wouldn't everyone be happy?" Su Xian smiled, "The weapons and equipment of 'Shadow' have always been good, and there are many people with supernatural powers. We are not afraid to fight with them. If we can't fight, Instead, it’s fun.”

Zhong Yuncong smiled helplessly: "Why didn't I realize that you are so good at talking before?"

He raised half of his eyebrows: "It's not too late to find out now."