remnants

After sending Chi Xiaojing, who was crying to the point of fainting, back to the duty room to rest, Yu Sheng went to the parking lot in the backyard of the Municipal Bureau to find Nie Qing.

The rain hasn't stopped.Yu Sheng didn't open an umbrella, so he walked quickly to Nie Qing's car, opened the co-pilot's door and got in.

"Is it cold?" Seeing that his hair and body were a little wet, Nie Qing asked while pulling some tissue paper from his hand and handing it to him.

Yu Sheng shook his head, took it and silently wiped the water from his hair.

Although the previous quarrel was interrupted by the sudden bad news, the tit-for-tat atmosphere between the two did not dissipate.

Yu Sheng sat for a while, seeing that Nie Qing had also been silent, he couldn't help sighing deeply and long.

"Let's talk. There's nothing else you can't talk about." He looked at the stream of water gradually converging on the windshield, blurring his vision and messing up his mind.

Nie Qing didn't look at him, waited, and suddenly asked: "You really don't want to leave them?"

"Not yet." Yu Sheng replied.

"Even if I say, if you don't leave, we'll stop here, is that the same?"

"..."

Yu Sheng didn't make a sound for a long time.But suddenly, he laughed again, shaking his head in an indifferent tone: "Ah Qing, you think of yourself too much."

Nie Qing nodded silently, and responded after a long time: "Understood."

"By the way, there is something in my heart. After thinking about it, I should tell you." Nie Qing's speech speed suddenly returned to normal, turned to look at Yu Sheng, and said flatly and calmly: "Ah Sheng, although I will be very sad to lose you , but seeing so many things happened after you came back this time, I really think that maybe, maybe, you really died three years ago, and the situation will be better than now. At least, I can still remember the old clean of you."

"Whether I'm 'clean' is more important to you than whether I'm alive?"

"I used to think it wasn't. But now it seems that it is."

After Nie Qing finished speaking, there was another suffocating silence.

After a long while, Yu Sheng said softly: "But, these few cases, it seems that there is no necessary connection with me, right?"

"Although there is no direct connection, if you hadn't appeared, many things might not have resulted in what happened today." Nie Qing said quietly, her eyes unconsciously moved away from Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng watched him quietly, and Shao Qing smiled slightly: "Maybe."

He scratched his neck, tugged at his collar, and suddenly turned around and stretched out his hand to Nie Qing, showing a relieved smile: "Shake hands? It's good to get together and break up."

Nie Qing didn't look up at his face, but just stretched out his hand according to the words, and then his eyes fell on the hands that were tightly held by the two. "Good gathering and good separation." He heard his slightly distorted voice.

"Then I'm leaving." Yu Sheng opened the car door with a smile, stepped down with one leg, but didn't get out of the car immediately, and waited for a while before turning around and adding to Nie Qing: "Ah Qing, from now on, you Just treat me as dead. Then you will feel better in the future."

After saying this, Yu Sheng didn't linger any longer, jumped out of the car neatly and closed the door, strode into the rain, and disappeared around the courtyard wall in a short while.

Until he couldn't see him, Nie Qing finally slowly lay down on the steering wheel, as if all the strength in his body was drained, and he couldn't exert any strength.

If there are people outside the car at this time, block out the noisy sound of rain, and you can probably hear some suppressed, hoarse, choking sounds like trapped animals.

In a few words, 20 years, it's over.

What else in this world, who is worth relying on?

Yu Sheng was sitting in a taxi, letting the water droplets dripping from the tip of his hair flow into his neck in strings, but he didn't bother to wipe it off.

The nerves in his brain were throbbing and hurting, as if he had sensed something and was about to move, eager to try, as if he was eager to create some kind of incident and cause some kind of sensation.

"Find me at Sin." When approaching the destination, Yu Sheng sent Mu Xi Ze a message.

After seeing it, Mu Xi Ze didn't ask any more questions, finished the matter at hand, and drove here directly.

However, when he hurried all the way to the bar on the basement floor of Sin, he found that the lights were not turned on. Sitting and standing, there are two indistinct figures.

Mu Xize slowed down and approached slowly, and when he was very close, he saw clearly that the person standing behind the bar was Lian Xu, while the person sitting on the bar stool precariously was Yu Sheng.There were already two empty foreign wine bottles in front of him, and he was still holding one in his hand.

"Brother Xize!" Lian Xu looked at Mu Xize as if he saw a savior, and while desperately hinting at Yu Sheng with his eyes, he said in a low voice: "Please help me persuade the third brother...he drank too much It's..."

"You don't want to die?" Mu Xi Ze sat on the stool next to Yu Sheng, grabbed his shoulders and lifted his upper body up, "I heard about Chi Xiaofei. It's a pity, but as far as I know, you and His relationship is not so close, is it?"

Yu Sheng's expression was a little blurred at this time, his eyes were ignorant, as if he had just woken up, and he asked in a hoarse voice with half-closed eyes: "Affectionate? Tell me - who is...Affectionate with whom?"

Mu Xi Ze couldn't help sighing, as if he didn't want to get entangled with a person who drank too much, he didn't continue to talk about this topic, and asked instead: "Where is Team Leader Nie? He can rest assured that you come to drink alone?"

"Team Leader Nie...?" Yu Sheng murmured several times in his mouth, suddenly his eyes lit up, he straightened his waist and grabbed Mu Xi Ze's arm and shouted: "Nie Qing! Right? What are you talking about? Nie Qing...why do you say Nie Qing? Why do you - say Nie Qing?? Only I—" Yu Sheng tapped his nose with his finger, "Only I can say Nie, Nie Qing— "

"Okay, tell me. No one will snatch it from you." Mu Xi Ze was a little helpless, trying to grab the wine bottle in Yu Sheng's hand, but Yu Sheng saw him reaching out, and immediately grasped the wine bottle tightly, Mu Xi Ze yanked He froze for a couple of times but remained motionless.

"This doesn't work either!" Yu Sheng stared at Mu Xi Ze vigilantly, then suddenly stuffed the wine bottle into his arms, hugged him tightly, and repeated word for word: "This, and Nie Qing, are not allowed to snatch it."

Mu Xi Ze couldn't help laughing, "Your team leader Nie would probably be very pleased if he knew that he was at the same level as the wine bottle."

"'Your house'?" Yu Sheng tilted his neck in a daze, and tears suddenly fell from his eyes without warning.

"It's not anymore..."

"Third brother...don't be like this..." Lian Xu couldn't tell whether it was distressed or annoyed, he looked at Yu Sheng, and turned his eyes to Mu Xi Ze for help.

At this time, Mu Xize realized that the problem was Nie Qing, and after thinking about the connection between the recent events, he also guessed about seven or eight points.

"He still can't accept it?" Muxi Ze asked.

Yu Sheng leaned back on the bar again, buried his head in his arms, and said in a dull voice from inside: "I can't accept it. He said, I might as well have died three years ago, at least clean... huh... dry , Clean? Am I...now...dirty? How come...not clean..."

Suddenly, Yu Sheng raised his head again, raised the wine bottle and stuffed it into his mouth, poured it down several times, and suddenly coughed violently due to choking.

"Third Brother! Hey...Third Brother..." Seeing Lian Xu's expression of wanting to stop but not daring to stop him, he must have been taught a lesson by Yu Sheng before, Mu Xize sighed softly, and patted Yu Sheng's back to persuade him : "Nie Qing is not a hard-hearted person, what he said must be angry, you can't be bothered."

Coughing and shaking his head, Yu Sheng murmured in pain in a hoarse voice: "He said that I would rather die... I don't mind... I have no right to mind... Why am I still alive... I should have died a long time ago... Yeah ...It should have been like this..."

"Third Brother...Don't say such things...Brother Nishizawa——"

"You did ask a good question just now." Mu Xi Ze interrupted the conversation, grabbed Yu Sheng by the back of the neck, lifted him up and turned to himself, looking deeply into his eyes, and asked word by word: "Yu Sheng, you Why live?"

Yu Sheng seemed to have been questioned, but also seemed to have never heard what Mu Xi Ze said.His wet eyes fell on the floor blankly, without saying a word.

"Answer me." Mu Xi Ze pressed him closer to him, and their foreheads were almost touching.

"Back then, you worked so hard to stay by Wu Shen's side, probably not because you wanted to come back and fall in love with Nie Qing one day?"

Yu Sheng raised his head in an instant, his blurred eyes became a little clearer, but he didn't speak.

Mu Xi Ze didn't speak again for a moment, and fixedly looked at him for a moment, then let go of his hand suddenly, Yu Sheng's body went limp and he fell down from the high stool.

"Third Brother!"

Lian Xu was so anxious that he jumped onto the bar, and was about to turn over and go down to help someone, but saw that Mu Xi Ze's other hand was already holding Yu Sheng's arm, preventing him from landing on his knees.

"Okay, it's best if you can figure it out. If you regret it now, your previous efforts will be in vain." After speaking, Mu Xi Ze stood up, and by the way, carried Yu Sheng on his shoulders, and turned to ask Lian Xu: "His Where is the room?"

"Uh..." Lian Xu hesitated, he didn't dare to take outsiders to the second basement without Yu Sheng's permission, just about to show Mu Xi Ze the way to his own room, Yu Sheng had already raised his hand and handed out the black access control card, In a low voice: "Go downstairs."

"Okay." Lian Xu took the card, and led Mu Xi Ze down from the elevator, saw him carry Yu Sheng half-armed into the room, and helped him to the side of the bed to let him lie flat before heaved a long sigh of relief.

"Brother Xize, thank you very much today." Lian Xu covered Yu Sheng who was slumped on the bed and curled up in a ball. When he turned around, he found that Mu Xize was already sitting on the chair beside the bed. He didn't seem to want to leave, so he added One sentence: "I will take good care of the third brother, you should go back and rest early."

Mu Xi Ze smiled at the words, glanced at Yu Sheng and said, "Do you think he asked me to drink with him?"

Lian Xu was stunned for a moment, "Isn't it?"

"You think he's really stupid?" Mu Xi Ze looked at Yu Sheng and smiled helplessly, "Your third brother, firstly, he was afraid that he would be too emotional to control himself, so he asked me to prevent the aftermath; secondly, he wanted to take this opportunity To put it in my words, after all he broke with Nie Qing, some things can be clarified."

"...Take care of the aftermath, pick Ming?" Lian Xu looked confused.

At this time, Yu Sheng sat up from the bed, leaned his back against the wall, crossed his legs, breathed heavily and said to Lian Xu: "Xiao Xu, go and rest, don't worry about me."

"But—" Lian Xu was about to protest, but he caught Mu Xi Ze's gaze, obviously signaling him to rest assured, after thinking about it, he finally agreed with "Yes", and left the room hesitantly.

Seeing Yu Sheng sitting there with his eyes closed and pained, his hands tightly pressed on his forehead, Mu Xi Ze couldn't help sighing, and said in a half-joking and half-serious tone: "You still drink so much knowing the consequences. It is said that love makes people blind, are you really going to lose a pair of eyes for love?"

Yu Sheng slowly shook his head, and after a while he whispered, "I don't want to be blind. But, without alcohol, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it through..."

"So it's okay now?" Mu Xi Ze asked in a joking tone.

For a long time, I didn't hear any reply.

Suddenly, Yu Sheng tilted his body and fell back on the bed. "Headache..." He snorted and then fell silent.

Mu Xize watched him silently, waited for a while, and made sure that Yu Sheng had really fallen asleep, then left from the bed, walked to the sofa at the other end of the room and sat down gently.

Tonight is probably a sleepless night for him.