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Back home, Xi Zhikong was in a bad mood, so Jiang Wen specifically told Jiang Yan to stay with him at night, and stood at the door of their bedroom for a while before turning back to her bedroom accompanied by Lian Guangji.

Jiang Yan turned off the light and lay next to Xi Zhikong, looked at him sideways, tapped his nose with his fingertips and said, "Kongkong, thank you for your hard work."

Xi Zhikong also turned around to face him, curled up his mouth and smiled slightly: "Brother Yan, after so many years, I really feel hopeful this time."

"Huh? How do you say it?"

"I've always thought that if I don't move the money, my dad will not be regarded as the scapegoat. He is still innocent in his life." Xi Zhikong lowered his eyes and sighed secretly, and continued: "I even think that I can wait forever. He can wait for people to come out."

Jiang Yan raised his hand and lightly placed it on Xi Zhikong's forehead, feeling his brush-like eyelashes brushing against his palm, "Uncle has never done anything illegal, no matter where he is, he is innocent."

Xi Zhikong shook his head: "Brother Yan, I also thought the same when I received the 40 yuan, but—a prison is a prison, how can a prison be the same as a home?

"I'm waiting for him at home, but he's going to be in jail for decades, and he can't see me growing up...and seeing me find someone I like, do what I love, be a good son.

"He can't see any of these."

Jiang Yan hugged Xi Zhikong into his arms and whispered in his ear, "No matter what happens, I will be with you."

"So I can't wait until dad comes out and he's still in jail for the bad guy, his life is still ruined, and now I'm going to do my best - there's little I can do, but it's better than nothing good."

Xi Zhikong recalled the manuscript of Gu Yishu that he got today.He was busy proofreading today, so he only took a quick glance at it, but he quickly realized that it was a story about him written by Gu Yi.

From when he was born to when he learned to walk, to kindergarten, and then to elementary school.It contains the heavy snow that fell in the year he was born, the willow that sprouted when he learned to walk, and the singing of cicadas on the tree when he first swam.

There is his hard-working father, Jiang Wen and Lian Guangji who regard him as his own son, and Jiang Yan who is lying beside him, whom he likes very much.

The most important thing is that there are laughter and laughter of Gu Yishu seven years after his birth and his vision of happiness for the future. This is the first time he saw his future in Gu Yishu's eyes.He also suddenly understood why Jiang Wen insisted on adopting him, and even asked for custody from his uncle.

Because in the future depicted by Gu Yishu, the two families are always together.Just like Jiang Wen regarded herself as her own son, Gu Yishu had already regarded Jiang Wen as her younger sister back then.

When Xi Chuzhi's accident happened, Jiang Wen didn't run for him. At that time, even Guangji couldn't get away from abroad because of a large multinational project. They actually made a lot of efforts, but they didn't have time. Pity.

"Brother Yan, I will save money from now on. Really, that house is gone. When Dad comes out, I may still have to go back to the old house to feel wronged, but as long as we are still together, what kind of house will we live in?" It doesn't matter, right?" Xi Zhikong burrowed into Jiang Yan's arms, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm trying to save money now, and I'm going to help her out with this book from mom. This book, but because the family had no spare money at that time, the money seemed to be spent on me."

Jiang Yan was amused by the apology in his tone, rubbed his chin on the top of his head, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's save together, and I can also contribute to my mother's book, because I guess there must be me in the book, right?" ?”

Xi Zhikong laughed sullenly in Jiang Yan's arms, finally dispelling the physical and mental exhaustion of the whole day.He raised his head, looked at Jiang Yan silently in the dark, then leaned over and nodded lightly on his lips, "Thank you, Brother Yan."

"Huh? Say it again?"

"Thank you, Brother Yan!" Xi Zhikong deliberately procrastinated the word thank you, biting his lower lip and winking at him.

Jiang Yan turned over and pressed the man under him, put his hand on his ear, smiled gently, and said softly, "I'll give you another chance to correct me."

Xi Zhikong simply put his hands on his waist, changed the subject and said: "When my father comes out, I will think about how to introduce you to him again."

"Introduce me again?" Jiang Yan still looked at him and smiled.

"Xiao Kong's boyfriend."

As soon as Xi Zhikong finished speaking, Jiang Yan softened his arms and lay on him, hugging him until his shoulders shrugged with a smile, "I have already figured out how to introduce me to my father so quickly, so I have to think about how to introduce me to my father." Mom and Dad have reintroduced you."

Xi Zhikong pinched his waist and used some skill to turn over, put his chin on his palm, put half of his body on Jiang Yan's body and thought carefully for a while before saying: "Brother Yan, did you say that you are materialistic last time?" Doctrine?"

"uh-huh."

"...Look at you, you lied to me again."

"What do you mean lying to you again?" Jiang Yan raised his head and folded his arms behind his head, "When did I lie to you?"

"Didn't you say you believed me?" Xi Zhikong bowed his head and kissed Jiang Yan, and said ambiguously against his lips: "No materialism is reliable, I am the most reliable..."

Jiang Yan secretly thought something was wrong, Xi Zhikong had this expression and tone before he wanted to do "bad things".He reacted very quickly, grabbed Xi Zhikong's hand that was resting on his trouser waist, "Huh?"

"Tell me, grab my hand, what do you want to do?" Xi Zhikong resolutely bit back.

Jiang Yan chuckled, simply grabbed his hand and pressed him back down, leaned over and kissed him.He carefully outlined the two lips, and then opened the gap between his teeth with the tip of his tongue with ease, and the soft tongue wandered in his mouth.

"Well..." Xi Zhikong swallowed with difficulty, and tapped on Jiang Yan's shoulder, "Let, let go..."

Jiang Yan withdrew his tongue with a smile, and licked his lips with unsatisfied intentions, "Is this not enough?"

"That's why I'm not ready!—how do you..."

"How did I improve so fast?" Jiang Yan said and wanted to kiss again.

Xi Zhikong stretched out his hand to stop him, pouted his mouth aggrievedly, and frowned, "It's so embarrassing, brother Yan."

"what happened?"

"You just kissed me..." He calmly grabbed Jiang Yan's wrist and pulled it down, touching his lower abdomen to the heel of his leg, "Look."

Immediately, Jiang Yan put his hand on it like a stream of kindness, leaned over and whispered softly in his ear: "That brother has no choice but to be responsible to you to the end."

……

For more than a week after that, there was no news from Huo Mingxu, whether it was Xi Chuzhi's case or the 810's case.Xi Zhikong went to work as usual, and whenever he had time, he recorded Jiang Wen's manuscripts into the computer. Occasionally, the boss also chatted with him about Gu Yishu's past affairs, and he wrote them down one by one before going home to tell Jiang Wen. , the two of them often talked until very late as soon as they talked about Gu Yishu.

Jiang Yan studies at home during the day, or plays games and reads books for a while, and then picks up Xi Zhikong from get off work, commuting regularly between home and his studio every day.

On the ninth day after Huo Mingxu appeared and disappeared, Lian Guangji received a text message from an unfamiliar number on his mobile phone.He was leaning against the back of the sofa with his legs folded on the coffee table to read the newspaper. The phone began to continuously remind him of incoming messages. He put down the newspaper and glanced at it. "Now the spam messages are not blocked. Every day, what kind of Macau casino..."

Jiang Wen was sitting next to him with a glass of milk, looked up at the wall clock on the wall, and said to herself, "Why is it so late that Xiaokong and Yanyan haven't come back yet?"

Lian Guangji only glanced at his phone and didn't pay much attention when he saw it was an unfamiliar number, but half an hour later his phone started ringing endlessly, Jiang Wen turned his head to look and said, "I've called so many times, How about you take it?"

"Recently, there are more and more harassing calls." Lian Guangji pressed the answer button while speaking, and said politely while restraining his impatience: "Hello, please—"

"President Lian, I'm Huo Mingxu."

Here, Jiang Yan waited downstairs in the studio for a long time but no one came down, and no one answered the phone. He looked at the time and said to himself and walked upstairs, "It's already six o'clock. Are you off work?" When he climbed up to the ninth floor out of breath, he happened to meet the boss of Xi Zhikong who locked the door and came out, and asked, "Hey, boss, are you off work yet?"

"Yeah, I got off work a long time ago—are you here to pick up Xi Zhikong?" The boss locked the door, turned and talked to him: "Didn't Xi Zhikong ask for leave today?"

Jiang Yan was taken aback for a moment: "Ask for leave?"

"Didn't you send me a message to ask for leave? Look...Here, here." The boss handed the phone to Jiang Yan, pointed to the phone number and said, "This is Xi Zhikong's number, right?"

"Here's his number and today he—"

He clearly sent him out today, and the two of them stayed at the door for a while, Xi Zhikong didn't feel any discomfort, and he didn't say he had other things to deal with.

"Boss, when did he send you a message?"

"About 08:30, I thought that there was nothing to do today, so I approved it, what's wrong?"

The keys in the boss's hand jingled, which made Jiang Yan's heart beat out of rhythm.He called Xi Zhikong's cell phone again, and it was connected normally, but no one answered.

"08:30...He left at 07:30 this morning, and he will definitely be able to reach the studio in an hour, but..."

Jiang Yan tried to call him on WeChat, but the result was the same. No one answered the call, so he immediately called Jiang Wen's phone again.

"Mom, Sora—"

As soon as the phone was connected, before he finished speaking, her slightly panicked voice came from the receiver.

"Yanyan! Where are you? Have you received Xiao Kong?"

I asked for leave at 08:30 in the morning, and now it's past six o'clock and I haven't contacted myself all day, so where will Xi Zhikong go?Jiang Yan stood in place holding the phone, the boss faintly sensed that something was wrong, and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

"Thank you, boss. I'll look for it again. I don't know where he went, and he didn't contact me. Maybe he went home."

He didn't hang up the phone, Jiang Wen's Lian Guangji was still talking to Huo Mingxu, so he hurriedly said: "Mom, I'll go back to the old house to have a look, if there is no one - we will call the police immediately."

"Okay, okay...I want to call the police...I want to call the police..."

Jiang Wen hung up the phone and put her hands down on the sofa, her heart was beating wildly and her breathing was disordered. She grabbed Lian Guangji's sleeve and bit her lower lip tightly. Almost at the same time as he hung up the phone, she asked him anxiously: "What's wrong? Procuratorate What did the officer say?"

"He said he was ordered to stop investigating these two cases, and he suspected that his cell phone was being monitored—I just heard Yan Yan tell you that he didn't hear Xiao Kong?"

Jiang Wen shook her head: "No... Will something happen to Xiaokong? Even the prosecutor is under surveillance on this case—there must be something wrong with this case!" She stood up and walked around in a panic, her voice trembling: " If Yanyan doesn't find Xiao Kong when he returns to the old house, then...then what shall we do..."

Lian Guangji saw that her complexion was not good, so he took a step forward and hugged her, "Don't worry, we will set off right away, and we will also go to the old house to see, maybe Xiaokong is in a bad mood these days and wants to be alone for a while, we Let's go find it."

Jiang Wen hurriedly put on her coat and went out with Lian Guangji, heading towards the west of the city.

Jiang Yan got off the subway and didn't even have time to wait for the bus. He watched the long queue of cars on the road and ran towards the alley.He continued to call Xi Zhikong's cell phone while running, but no matter how many times he called, the phone still didn't answer after the continuous beep.

He held his mobile phone and ran all the way, with the setting sun behind him, pulling a long shadow in front of him.

A few minutes later, he ran to the entrance of the alley panting, put his hands on his knees, took a few breaths, and then ran deep into the alley.

The street lights in the alley were turned on, and occasionally two lamps were out of contact. When he ran over, he could hear the sound of electric current, and the lights above his head flickered on and off.Beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead and dripped on his eyelashes, blocking his view. He wiped it off with his hands carelessly, not daring to delay for a moment.

It was a short alley, and he ran from the entrance to the end of the alley, and it seemed that he could not run all the way to the end.

The unit of Xi Zhikong's house finally appeared in sight, Jiang Yan still didn't give up and made another phone call. He stood at the stairs and looked around for a while, then continued to run up, his legs were as heavy as lead. stand up.He stood on the second floor to rest for a while. The stairwell of the old-fashioned building has no windows, and the perforated concrete walls let in the afterglow of the setting sun.

After standing still for a moment, he dialed Xi Zhikong's cell phone again.

This time, accompanied by the beep hitting his eardrums, there was also the muffled sound from the garbage channel in the wall beside him.

His heartbeat stopped suddenly for two seconds, and he subconsciously reached out and pulled the handle by his side.As the garbage passage door was pulled out of a gap, Xi Zhikong's cell phone rang through the gap, and the crisp sound echoed throughout the stairwell.

——Jiang Yan turned on the flashlight, and saw that the mobile phone of the same model as his was stuck between two steel bars, and the incoming call indicator light was still flashing.The ringtone of the mobile phone was the special ringtone they set for each other after Lian Guangji bought a new mobile phone for the two. At this time, it almost pierced Jiang Yan's eardrum.

He reached out and carefully picked up the phone, only to find that the glass screen had been broken, and the intimate photo of them on the wallpaper was also shattered in his eyes.

Jiang Yan's mind went blank, he turned around and continued to run towards Xi Zhikong's house, relying entirely on instinct.

Finally standing at the door of Xi Zhikong's house, his whole body was trembling—the iron door had obviously been damaged, and the lock could no longer be locked. He stared down at the iron lock hanging crookedly on the door and woke up for a moment , opened the iron gate and rushed into Xi Zhikong's house.

But there was no one in the house long ago, the whole living room was turned upside down, and he couldn't even find a place to set his feet.

Lian Guangji and Jiang Wen arrived in a hurry, Jiang Wen told him not to worry about going upstairs first, so he ran up first, and was shocked by the scene in front of him as soon as he entered the door.Jiang Yan stood motionless in front of him, trembling all over with two mobile phones in his hands.

He tentatively asked, "Yanyan, where is Xiao, Xiaokong?"

Jiang Yan shook his head.

Lian Guangji was startled, and immediately took out his mobile phone and pressed the three numbers "110" on the dial pad, "Don't worry about Yanyan, Dad will call the police immediately, Xiao Kong must not—"

"Dad!" Jiang Yan suddenly turned around and rushed forward to hold down Lian Guangji's hand, grasping his wrist tightly, as if using all his strength, and gritted his teeth: "Don't call the police..."

"Why not—" He crossed the river banquet and saw a row of bright red characters behind him near the bottom of the wall, which looked bloody and chilling.

"This is..." Jiang Wen arrived, holding on to the iron door to dress her breath, and Lian Guangji looked back at her, just in time to let her see the writing on the wall.

[Don't call the police, or wait for the body to be collected. 】

These words were too scary for Jiang Wen, she completely lost strength on a black leg in front of her eyes, and knelt down.

"Mom!" Jiang Yan rushed forward and reached out to her but still failed to catch her before she knelt down, and knelt and sat on the ground with her, "Mom, what's wrong with you!"

Lian Guangji squatted down and helped her up, saying, "Yanyan, take care of mom, I'll call the police immediately!"

Jiang Yan helped Jiang Wen to sit on the sofa, and Lian Guangji stood beside him, and immediately took his mobile phone but was stopped by Jiang Wen again.

"No—don't call the police...they will kill Xiao Kong..." Jiang Wen's voice trembled, a layer of water vapor filled her eyes, her eyelashes trembled and two tears fell on the back of Lian Guangji's hand, she kept shaking her head and said : "Xiaokong can't have an accident... nothing can happen..."

Jiang Yan felt that his mouth and nose were burning while breathing, he stood up and grabbed Lian Guangji's wrist with both hands and said, "Dad, it must be the 40——they arrested Xiaokong just to make him take out the 40. "All of this is definitely not a coincidence. Xi Chuzhi has been in prison for so many years and they have not done anything. When they started trying to flip this case, something happened to Xi Zhikong. Jiang Yan can only think that it is the real culprit behind it. The kidnapping of Xi Zhikong was nothing more than to make them settle down. Besides, it wanted to destroy all the evidence of the year, including of course the 40 that existed like the ironclad evidence.

"But don't call the police—"

"Call the police, you must report."

Huo Mingxu suddenly appeared at the door, and he seemed to be running here. He loosened his tie and panted slightly: "If you want to overturn Xi Chuzhi's case, you must call the police."

Lian Guangji looked at him, lowered his head and pressed the three numbers 110 on the phone, and dialed out.

"No! I don't allow you to call the police!"

Jiang Wen suddenly ran over from the sofa out of control, snatched Lian Guangji's cell phone, bit her lower lip with her hands behind her back, and retreated in a panic, kicking some clothes and almost tripping on the ground, Jiang Yan stepped forward to help him She gave her a hand and said, "Mom, be careful."

"There must be another way - we can talk to them, maybe it wasn't those people who did it? Maybe they just want money, and if we call the police, it will anger them instead!" Jiang Wen's eyes were full of fear and sorrow, even Guangji took a step forward and slowly hugged her into his arms, comforting her carefully.

After checking the scene, Huo Mingxu still did not change his opinion, and said firmly: "Madam Lian, I know you are worried about Xi Zhikong, but the best solution right now is to call the police first and let the police intervene."

Jiang Yan said: "Prosecutors, they dared to kidnap Xi Zhikong so blatantly when we were preparing to reverse the case, which shows that they are not afraid of us calling the police. To them, none of us is enough to threaten them, but to us Let’s say, we don’t know anything, we can only listen to them, they are in the light, we are in the dark, I—”

Huo Mingxu suddenly lowered his head and smiled: "You are right, they are not afraid of us calling the police, but the kidnapping of Xi Zhikong at this time just proves that there is something wrong with the case back then, I don't know how they would come up with such a stupid move, I don't believe it They can cover the sky with one hand, once this matter is exposed to the sun, Xi Chuzhi's case will be—"

"Prosecutor Huo!" Jiang Wen suddenly yelled in Lian Guangji's arms, and then took a deep breath to force herself to calm down. She raised her hand to wipe her tears, stood in front of Huo Mingxu and said word by word: "Yes, you That's right, once this matter is exposed to the sun, Big Brother Xi's grievances may be cleared up, but have you ever thought about how dangerous this situation will be for Xi Kong?!"

"—They were able to kill people back then, and they can kill people now! They don't care...whether that person is a child of seventeen or eighteen years old..." Jiang Wen shook her head and tears fell down, she grabbed Lian Guang With weak sleeves, Ji slowly knelt down and sat on the ground, muttering: "We Xiao Kong are so obedient, so obedient..."

Even Guangji looked at Jiang Wen and then at Huo Mingxu, his originally clear thoughts began to become blurred, and his idea of ​​calling the police began to waver.

Huo Mingxu looked at the bewildered family in front of him and secretly clenched his fists. He looked down at the badge on his chest, and said solemnly and sincerely to Jiang Wen and Lian Guangji: "Mr. Lian, Mrs. Lian, please trust me once !

"Please trust me this time."