monologue

At nine o'clock in the evening, Chu Xingmu and Xia Ci returned to the bureau. These cases were finally coming to an end. It took a total of ten days. The ten consecutive days of high-intensity work made the entire criminal investigation team lifeless. Chu Xingmu went back to arrange the follow-up work Let them go home, he and Xia Ci are still in the office.

Chu Xingmu carefully read all the reports to ensure that there were no omissions or mistakes in the submitted materials and evidence. After Xia Ci helped him sort out the documents, he leaned on the table and asked, "Now you always have time to explain to me. Let's talk about Shang Ningyang's business?"

"You might as well go find him yourself." Chu Xingmu stood up and put all the documents into the briefcase.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Xia Ci conveniently stuffed the manuscript into his hand: "Review!"

Chu Xingmu threw down the manuscript paper and said, "I won't write. I have to go home and clean up. Han Yang probably hasn't left yet. You two should discuss and write."

Xia Ci really went to find Han Yang with the manuscript paper.

Chu Xingmu returned home at eleven o’clock in the evening. These days, he left early and returned late at night, so he didn’t have time to take a walk with Chu Daha. Chu Daha was so humane that he didn’t destroy it. On the way home, Chu Xingmu bought him two pieces of meat. Bones, he was going to reward Comrade Chu Daha for his support to his work, but as soon as the door opened, he felt that he could have a dog meat hot pot meal in two days.

Chu Daha stood on the top of the sofa and scorned Chu Xingmu. Chu Xingmu put the briefcase on the coffee table, looked at the mess on the floor, and wished he could whip Chu Daha with his slippers. Just slipped into the bathroom.

Chu Xingmu was really exhausted, otherwise he would have to teach Chu Daha how to make a dog, saying that he wanted Wen Ti to move in with him. Chu Xingmu didn't have time to tidy up the bedroom, so he stood in the living room and looked at the two bedrooms for a while , tangled up in the idea of ​​living in the same room with Wen Ti or living separately, he still planned to clean up the side sleeper first, Chu Xingmu opened the wardrobe that had not been used for a long time, threw it away and did not know how long it had been left Zheng worried about how to get rid of the smell of mothballs in the closet. When he walked out of the living room, he saw the fireless aromatherapy that Chu Daha pulled out. He didn’t know when he bought it and whether it could still be used. After smelling it, the smell was a bit weird, so I threw it into the trash can as soon as I raised my hand.

Chu Xingmu is planning to clear some of the wardrobes in his bedroom for Wen Ti to hang clothes on. Wen Ti's clothes are more elegant than his. Half of the wardrobe is hung with Wen Ti's regular clothes and the other half is hung with his police uniform. There is still some extra Putting other things in the place where he put away his clothes, he lamented that he was also a beautiful and elegant man back then, why his life has become rougher and rougher in recent years.

Chu Daha waited in the bathroom for a long time but did not see Chu Xingmu come in, so it poked its head out through the crack of the door. Chu Xingmu went from one room to another room, and had no time to talk to Chu Daha. The pile of dirty clothes was thrown into the washing machine, and Chu Daha squatted beside the washing machine to watch.

He moved some things that he didn’t use to his gym. The gym used to be a utility room. After he vacated it, he bought some fitness equipment. Chu Daha didn’t harm the things in the gym because it couldn’t bite.

In short, this night was another sleepless night, and he stayed up voluntarily.

The next morning, Chu Xingmu walked into the office with his bag and caught up with them cleaning. Qi Shaocheng stood in front of two pots of green radishes and wiped the leaves of the green radishes with a rag. It's so thick."

"Are you early enough today?" Qi Shaocheng has always been a late arrival in the office, but today he came earlier than Chu Xingmu.

Zhao Chen took a bottle of air freshener and sprayed it on the ceiling a few times, Lang Lang slapped it with his hand and said, "What kind of air freshener are you spraying before the ground drags you?"

"Isn't it almost over?" Zhao Chen took the bucket from Lang Lang, and Lang Lang went back to her desk to sort things out.

"Everyone is here? Where is Xia Ci?" Chu Xingmu put his briefcase on Xia Ci's table, turned around and asked, "I have something to go out, and the materials are all in the bag. Let's see what they want Just send whatever."

Seeing that everyone was there, Chu Xingmu said, "I'm treating guests tonight. Those who signed up will go to my house. I'll reward you, so that you don't keep saying that I'm squeezing the labor force. Let's not engage in capitalism."

Upon hearing this, Qi Shaocheng hurriedly said, "Can I bring my family with me? My sister hasn't gone out for a long time!"

"Whatever, pay the share first!" Chu Xingmu said.

"I rely on your boss to make a good plan!" Zhao Chen muttered, he put a dollar on Chu Xingmu's table, and said, "Can I buy a bean sprout for a dollar? I just paid off my mortgage recently. Poor jingle."

Chu Xingmu threw the money back into Zhao Chen's arms. Tang Zhe was lucky enough to taste the drunken shrimp made by Chu Xingmu a long time ago. ?”

"Xiao Tang has a good eye. Drunken shrimp is my specialty, but they don't like it. Bring your own drinks. I won't buy them for you."

Bai Yao lay down on the table and asked, "Then captain, can we order by ourselves?"

"My house is not a restaurant, you still want to order by yourself?" Chu Xingmu sneered at their unreasonable demands.

"Are there steamed crabs? Where's the crayfish?" Lang Lang asked with a smile.

"Why don't you buy the ingredients, and I'll lend you the kitchen?" Chu Xingmu took a sip of water from his glass, "You people are really not in charge of the family and don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are."

"You're going to kill yourself." Xia Ci threw a coin at Chu Xingmu, "Squirrel mandarin fish wants spicy food."

Chu Xingmu looked at it and it was almost 09:30, "I have something to leave first, you guys watch at night."

He called Wen Ti, and Wen Ti sent the address. He was in the studio on Changqing Street. Wen Ti said that he needed to deal with something in the studio, and asked Chu Xingmu to go directly to the studio to find him.

Chu Xingmu drove to the studio. He sent Wen Ti back to the studio several times, but he never entered the studio. Chu Xingmu parked the car in the parking lot downstairs of the studio, and walked up to the second floor after getting out of the parking lot.

The front door of the studio was closed tightly. Chu Xingmu stood at the door, hesitating whether to knock on the door. The old door suddenly opened from the inside. Jennifer stretched out her head and whispered: "Captain Chu, are you here? Our boss is talking to the parents of the students. Come in first."

Jennifer opened the door, and Chu Xingmu walked in. The interior of the studio was very large. Chu Xingmu glanced around roughly. It was like an art gallery, with all kinds of works. Chu Xingmu's aesthetic ability was limited. Facing such a A studio full of artistic styles, he only thought of the art gallery. Jennifer led him into the lounge from the corner of the studio. On Friday morning, there were many students in the studio. After pouring water for Chu Xingmu, Jennifer went out again Mentor those students too.

Chu Xingmu was attracted by the huge bookshelf opposite the sofa. He went to the bookshelf and roughly browsed the titles. He wondered if these were Wen Ti's books. If so, he read too many things. From elementary school textbooks From high school textbooks, books related to painting, various literary works, novels, essays, poetry collections, fairy tales, and even research works on physical chemistry. There is also a special area on the bookshelf for books related to mental illness, even books on criminology Chu Xingmu took out a random book, and after opening it, there were annotations and labels written on post-it notes, which were carefully pasted on the pages of the book. He saw several copies of "The Little Prince" on the bookshelf. Wen Ti should like this book very much.

Chu Xingmu put the book back on the bookshelf, and walked into the corridor outside the lounge. There were some framed works hanging on both sides of the corridor. Chu Xingmu stood still in front of a sunflower. The sunflower was colorful and the strokes were chaotic. , but the visual impact is very strong, even someone who doesn't know how to paint can feel the enthusiasm and freedom in that painting.

"It was painted by an old man in the mental hospital who called himself Van Gogh, and he gave it to me."

Chu Xingmu turned his head, Wen Ti walked away towards him, Chu Xingmu asked, "Are you done?"

"En." Wen Ti walked in front of Chu Xingmu.

Chu Xingmu looked at Sunflower and asked, "Did that old friend of yours in Nanjia draw it?"

"He was a master painter, and later he became mentally ill, and he was obsessed with painting sunflowers. Obviously, Van Gogh had so many works, but he only liked this one. He kept saying that he was Van Gogh himself, and he taught me how to paint."

Wen Ti approached Chu Xingmu, raised her head and kissed the corner of his mouth, Chu Xingmu caught a glimpse of someone behind him, pressed his forehead to signal him to look behind, Wen Ti turned her head and found Jiang Ran standing quietly behind him, Chu Xingmu supported Wen Ti's shoulders and walked to Jiang Ran with him.

Wen Ti squatted in front of Jiang Ran, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Ran shook his head, staring at Chu Xingmu closely, Wen Ti smiled and said, "This uncle is not a monster, he is a teacher's friend, he is a policeman, he is not a bad guy, you don't have to be afraid of him."

Chu Xingmu never thought that he would be regarded as a bad uncle by a brat even though he was upright and breezy.

Jiang Ran nodded, stretched out his hand to touch Wen Ti's bandaged arm, and asked in a low voice, "Does it hurt?"

Wen Ti said, "It doesn't hurt anymore, are you worried about the teacher?"

Jiang Ran stretched out his right hand and unfolded it in front of Wen Ti. There was a candy lying in his palm. Jiang Ran said, "Here you are."

Seeing that the kid was so worried about Wen Ti, Chu Xingmu decided not to care about him treating himself as a monster, so he picked up the candy in Jiang Ran's hand, peeled off the candy wrapper and fed the candy to Wen Ti Ti's mouth squatted in front of Jiang Ran and said, "He said candy is very sweet, and he also said thank you."

Wen Ti, who had sugar in her mouth, nodded slightly, Jiang Ran showed an unnatural smile, and then ran away, Wen Ti stood up straight and turned to look at Chu Xingmu and said resentfully, "It tastes like durian."

Chu Xingmu: "..."

Before the candy wrapper was thrown away, Wen Ti's expression changed. Chu Xingmu spread out the candy wrapper and asked Wen Ti to spit out the durian candy. Wen Ti spat out the candy and said, "I'm going to brush my teeth."

"A candy, the taste is not so strong?" Chu Xingmu asked.

"Then do you want to kiss me now?" Wen Ti asked.

Chu Xingmu kissed Wen Ti without saying a word, and then took Wen Ti to the bathroom, "I don't dislike it."

Under Wen Ti's repeated insistence, Chu Xingmu waited for him to finish brushing his teeth again before the two left the studio. Wen Ti took Wen Daju along with him. Chu Xingmu asked him if he had any luggage to bring. Someone will send his luggage to his house.

Chu Xingmu's purpose today is very simple. He took Wen Ti to change his medicine, and then took Wen Ti home. He went to the vegetable market early in the morning to buy vegetables, and he was going to cook a table of good dishes to reward everyone. By the way, Ying Wen Ti They also broke a serial case, although it has been several days since they climbed out of the well, so it was not Qi Shaocheng who went earlier than him in the morning, but he who went later than Qi Shaocheng.

After coming out of the hospital, Chu Xingmu asked Wen Ti where else she wanted to go, and Wen Ti said that she wanted to see the rescued children.

After careful consideration, the Municipal Bureau decided to temporarily place the six children in the drug rehabilitation center, and asked the drug rehabilitation center to focus on taking care of them, and let a psychologist treat them every three days. After the agency discussed with her, Lin Manshu and several other psychiatrists took over the six young patients. Chu Xingmu and Wen Ti arrived at the drug rehabilitation center just in time for Lin Manshu's treatment.

Chu Xingmu told the staff of the drug rehabilitation center what he wanted to do. Wen Ti proposed to go in and see the children, but the comrades in the drug rehabilitation center did not agree. It was Lin Manshu who saw Wen Ti first, and then agreed to let Wen Ti see it after explaining to the responsible comrades. Look at those kids.

Chu Xingmu asked the doctor in charge of taking care of those children in private, how likely is it that this level of drug addiction can be quit, the doctor can't say for sure, because their current situation is very bad, and their dependence on drugs With a particularly strong mentality, Chu Xingmu looked at the children in the glass room with his eyes wandering far away.

The psychiatrists in the treatment room were all female. Wen Ti's rash intrusion made those children nervous immediately. Seeing their fearful faces, Wen Ti stood at the door, far away from them. A safe distance to see.

Wen Ti saw Lin Manshu approaching and asked, "Doctor Lin, is their condition improving?"

Lin Manshu shook his head, "You can't even touch it. The food delivery workers always put the food on the dining table at the door. They will eat it when there is no one around. The older children know that they are safe now." , but deep down they are afraid of anyone, they can't speak, they just shake their heads and nod, and it's very troublesome to communicate."

"Psychological trauma may not heal for a lifetime."

"They are inherently more sensitive than their peers." Lin Manshu looked at the girls sitting on the ground with empty eyes and said, "It is very difficult to quit drugs now. They have already regarded drugs as something they can trust, which can numb fear and pain and temporarily forget Those nasty feelings."

Lin Manshu asked again: "How is your injury? I haven't seen you for a few days and suddenly got injured. It's not like you."

Wen Ti smiled and said, "Unexpectedly, see you next Wednesday."

Wen Ti looked at Chu Xingmu outside the glass wall, Lin Manshu took a look and understood Wen Ti's meaning, the two said goodbye to each other, Wen Ti opened the door and went out.

Because there was no work schedule on Friday afternoon, Chu Xingmu, who always went to and from work on time, skipped work and went home. Wu Huanshan sent someone to find Chu Xingmu, and Xia Ci and others helped cover up that Chu Xingmu had gone to see the victim's family. , In fact, Chu Xingmu had already abducted Wen Ti to go home, and cooked them dinner for the evening.

Chu Xingmu was holding Wen Daju's cat cage in one hand, and a few bags of fresh seafood in the other hand, followed by the personable Wen Ti, no matter how they looked at each other, Chu Xingmu walked away carrying things Going up the stairs, Wen Ti stopped and asked, "Is there no elevator? I don't want to climb the stairs."

"If the height of the fifth floor is a little higher, it should be exercised." Chu Xingmu said.

Wen Ti said: "But I don't want to exercise today, I'm still a patient."

"The elevator is under maintenance." Chu Xingmu pointed to the "Elevator is disabled" sign and said, "How about I carry you up?"

The two old grocery shopping ladies who passed by them took a look at Wen Ti, and Wen Ti said, "No need."

The neighborhood where Chu Xingmu lived was not high-end, and the environment was fair enough. When the two walked to the third floor, Wen Ti heard a few dogs barking upstairs, and Chu Xingmu said without any surprise: "Chu Daha. "

After climbing up to the fifth floor, Wen Ti's forehead was already sweating thinly. Chu Xingmu took out the key and opened the door without panting, and said, "Your physical strength is not good enough."

Wen Ti smiled and said, "You mean on the bed? That's not necessarily the case."

Chu Xingmu did not take any substantive measures against Wen Ti's verbal teasing, mainly because it was inconvenient to carry things in his hands. Chu Xingmu opened the door, and Chu Daha threw his tongue and ears at them, enthusiastically Wen Ti couldn't help but take two steps back, Chu Xingmu stared, and Chu Daha retreated behind the door with a "wow".

Wen Ti took a look at Chu Xingmu's house, it was still clean and tidy, he thought that when he opened the door, there would be dirty clothes and stinky socks thrown all over the floor, and there was no strange smell in the room, and there was a sickly pot on the TV cabinet. Succulent, Wen Ti thought that for a single man as busy as Chu Xingmu, his home should be like a garbage dump, and he is usually sloppy, and occasionally changing a decent piece of clothes is like just taking it out of the washing machine without shaking twice. Next, he plans to ask Jennifer to find domestic service.

Chu Xingmu put the cat cage on the ground, carried the seafood into the kitchen, Wen Ti released Wen Daju from the cage, Wen Daju and Chu Daha blew each other up for a few minutes and then recognized each other, Chu Daha stopped turning around Wen Ti.

Wen Ti hung her coat on the hanger and walked into the kitchen. Chu Xingmu was pouring crabs and lobsters into the basin. Wen Ti saw a glass cabinet on the wall next to the refrigerator. There seemed to be a lot of wine in it. Ti stretched out his hand to open it, but just as his hand touched the handle of the cabinet door, a hand stretched out from his side and pressed the cabinet door. Chu Xingmu stood behind him and said, "Don't worry about these things."

Wen Ti withdrew her hand and turned to face him and said, "I'm just looking at your wine collection."

"Then you might as well look at me more." Chu Xingmu looked down at Wen Ti's face, and Wen Ti realized that he was blocked by Chu Xingmu on the refrigerator. The comrade turned his hands around Chu Xingmu's neck, and Chu Xingmu was forced to bow his head, so he kissed him.

Chu Xingmu withdrew his hand to support Wen Ti's neck, Wen Ti was startled, and asked, "You just touched seafood."

"I washed my hands, you just didn't see it." Chu Xingmu was going to kiss him, Wen Ti was skeptical, "But I smell fishy."

"If you don't believe me, you can hear it again?" Chu Xingmu put his hand in front of Wen Ti, and Wen Ti opened his mouth and took a bite.

Chu Xingmu: "..." Why are you still biting people with your mouth open after so many years?

At seven o'clock in the evening, Chu Xingmu was cooking in the kitchen alone. Wen Ti sat in the living room watching Wen Daju and Chu Daha chasing after each other. By the way, he turned on the computer to watch a movie. The sliding door of the kitchen was closed. Wen Ti looked at the frosted glass Chu Xingmu occasionally called Wen Ti once or twice, asking him if he was hungry, and asked him if he wanted to eat something first. When Wen Ti walked to the kitchen door, Chu Xingmu would Immediately open the door and hand him some snacks.

Chu Xingmu put a plate of lychees on the dining table. The lychees had been peeled and cored, and they were worn with toothpicks. Chu Xingmu sat down by Wen Ti and asked him to eat some fruit first, and then he returned to the kitchen to continue working. As soon as Wen Ti lowered his head, Chu Daha stuck his head out from under the table, and looked at Wen Ti eagerly. Wen Ti picked up a lychee and tried to feed it to Chu Daha. Chu Xingmu said in the kitchen: "Don't give it to Chu Daha. Ha eat."

As soon as the words fell, Wen Ti's hand was empty, and the lychee was gone. Chu Daha licked his mouth and looked at Wen Ti again. Chu Xingmu said, "I can't even afford lychee, so you give it back?"

Wen Ti patted Chu Daha's dog's head and said, "It snatched it by itself."

"Then punish it not to eat tonight."

Chu Daha immediately ran over to find Wen Daju, when the doorbell rang, Chu Xingmu asked Wen Ti to open the door, Chu Daha and Wen Daju followed Wen Ti's feet and ran towards the door.

"Captain, you skipped work today and Bureau Wu found out!" As soon as Wen Ti opened the door, Bai Yao stood at the door with a bottle of red wine in her arms and shouted. There were a lot of people behind her.

Seeing that it was Wen Ti who opened the door, Zhao Chen squeezed in from behind and said, "Comrade Xiao Wen, did you go through the back door? Why did you come here earlier than us?"

"Chu Daha sent Wen Daju to see it." Wen Ti said with a smile, he stood sideways and let the door out, "Come in first."

After entering the door, everyone put down their things. Lang Lang grabbed Bai Yao, who was about to run to the kitchen, and Qi Shaocheng's younger sister, Qi Han, sat on the sofa and petted cats and dogs. Zhao Chen went into the kitchen first to find something to eat. Zhe came to Chu Xingmu's house for the first time to look around. Xia Ci consciously walked into the kitchen to help Chu Xingmu. After a while, Zhao Chen came out with two dishes. The living room suddenly became lively. , being at Chu Xingmu's house is as casual as being at his own.

After Zhao Chen put the dishes on the table, he saw a plate of lychee meat on the table, so he picked one up and put it in his mouth. Chu Xingmu held a pot of pickled fish and shouted: "That's for Wen Ti, who asked you to eat it?" gone?"

Zhao Chen threw the toothpick and said, "Boss, you are too partial."

Wen Ti, who was standing on the side, gave the lychee to the three ladies who were sitting on the sofa petting cats and dogs. Chu Xingmu saw it and said that Wen Ti was generous and polite, which made Zhao Chen's eccentricity more obvious.