Monsoon

"Traveling alone allows me to feel the whole world wholeheartedly in the process, but occasionally I am lonely. Time and summer bring you, and all my senses are affected by you. This allows me to still feel the whole world wholeheartedly, But never lonely again."

——Fang Tang

When Fang Tang passed by No. 2 Middle School in the Eastern District, he saw that Ji Chi’s name was on the honor roll of the second mock exam, No. [-] in science grade, still in the last photo, with a clean and hearty smile, and Ji Chi often The look of smiling at him was exactly the same, but Fang Tang felt that the real person's eyes were more radiant.

The life motto Ji Chi wrote under the photo is: Learning makes me progress, and eating sugar makes me happy.When you see this sentence, you will know what he means. This life motto coupled with Ji Chi's photo reminds Fang Tang of how he looked when he first met him. With a kick of the card, the wooden card wobbled, but in the end it still stood firmly.

This person can't get rid of after so long.

Compared with Ji Chi, I am really not suitable for studying. Not only did I study in a vocational school, but I also often cut classes, and my studies have long been neglected.Fortunately, I went to elementary school and junior high school seriously, otherwise I would not know a few big characters now.Going on like this is not an option, Grandpa will always be in trouble when he comes over, Fang Tang decides to go back to school for a few days of classes.

Since the last time he had a bad fight with Jiang Xu, Jiang Xu seldom came to find Fang Tang in person.Jiang Xu still took care of the "jobs" in the west area, as if nothing had happened, but every time he made a routine report, he asked his subordinates to talk to him, reducing his contact with Fang Tang.

This is not going to work, the knot must be untied, Fang Tang dialed Jiang Xu's phone number.

"Jiang Xu, I will give you an address. I will wait for you here this afternoon."

A while ago, Ji Chi hired some workers to install the air conditioner. Fang Tang sat on the sofa, adjusted the temperature of the air conditioner to 25 degrees, and waited comfortably with his eyes closed for Jiang Xu to come over.

Just as I was about to fall asleep, the doorbell rang.

Fang Tang was sleepy, shook his head and got up to open the door.The door opened and it turned out that it was Jiang Xu standing at the door.

"Come in." Fang Tang turned sideways to make way.

When Jiang Xu entered the room, he also took a look at it. Another pair of men's slippers at the door caught his attention, and after a while his gaze disappeared without a trace.

"I never asked where you moved, but I know you moved." Jiang Xu said as he sat down.

Knowing that Jiang Xu is afraid of the cold, Fang Tang yawned, and raised the temperature by two degrees with the remote control of the air conditioner: "Have you visited me again?"

"Boss, I'm sorry, last time I wanted to go to your place to apologize, but unfortunately you moved away, and things are busy these days, so this has been put on hold." Jiang Xu said.

"What are you apologizing for? I have long forgotten." Fang Tang smiled.

Jiang Xu smiled wryly.

"Do you live here alone?" Jiang Xu asked casually.

"Yeah." Fang Tang replied, he took the box of cigarettes from Ji Chi and threw it to Jiang Xu, "Take it and smoke."

Jiang Xu took it and carefully looked at the cigarette case for a while.

Then he frowned slightly, and said to Fang Tang, "I won't ask you anything, but don't let the brothers worry about you."

"I know." Fang Tang agreed.

Fang Tang took out a bag from under the coffee table and handed it to Jiang Xu: "This is the money my grandfather borrowed from you guys when he was hospitalized, and I will return it to you."

This time Jiang Xu didn't reach out to pick it up: "Boss, keep it for yourself, we don't need it for the time being."

"You must take it back to me." Fang Tang ordered.

Jiang Xu wanted to ask Fang Tang what he was hiding from them recently, but he agreed not to ask, and now he didn't know how to ask, so he had no choice but to put the bag away.

"Jiang Xu, I have an idea that I must tell you."

"You said."

"We no longer take jobs."

"What?!" Jiang Xu looked at Fang Tang in surprise.

"What I mean is that we no longer accept money to help people do things." Fang Tang explained, "Our organization needs to change its nature, or it will be over sooner or later. Now the law and order in Beizhen is not as good as before."

"Become what?" Jiang Xu asked.

"Boys need to find a decent job to feed themselves, they shouldn't be fighting for a living like they used to be."

"Then our organization is dead in name only." Jiang Xu thought.

"Yes, I mean that."

Jiang Xu asked: "You suddenly have this plan, there must be some other reason?"

"It's not a sudden plan. We can't stay in Beizhen forever. Some people miss my seat every day I'm here. We don't know what those people think. I don't want Beizhen to be ruined."

"You want to go?" Jiang Xu asked suddenly.

"I do not know."

The sound of keys sounded at the door, Fang Tang and Jiang Xu looked along the door, and saw Ji Chi coming.

He was wearing a black peaked cap, white T-shirt and jeans, and carried his canvas schoolbag. It seemed that he had just finished class, and his face was slightly flushed from the sun.

As soon as Ji Chi entered the door, he saw Fang Tang and Jiang Xu sitting on the sofa.

"Have guests?" Ji Chi walked to the living room and put down his schoolbag.

"Yeah." Fang Tang nodded

Fang Tang called Jiang Xu here after Ji Chi said he would not come today, but he did not expect Ji Chi to appear suddenly, which really made Fang Tang a little flustered.

Ji Chi looked at Jiang Xu, who was about the same size as himself, with wheat-colored skin, and the lines on his face were a little hard, but his eyebrows and eyes were soft.He sat side by side with Fang Tang, leaning slightly towards Fang Tang.

Jiang Xu also looked at Ji Chi fixedly, without any emotion on his face.

"Ji Chi." Ji Chi held out his hand to Jiang Xu.

Jiang Xu stood up and held Ji Chi's hand back: "Jiang Xu."

Ji Chi exerted a slight force in his hand, with a smile on his face.

Fang Tang, very well, you called the handsome guy home when I was not here, I am really very angry.

Jiang Xu felt Ji Chi's strength, but he still didn't change his face. It seemed friendly, but there was an undercurrent between the two.

After a while, they let go of their hands, but Fang Tang didn't see that their respective hands had turned red and purple.

"Is there any juice at home? I'll pour Jiang Xu a glass of juice later." Ji Chi looked at Jiang Xu with a smile, but he was asking Fang Tang.

Jiang Xu's face changed slightly: "No need." He turned to Fang Tang: "Boss, then I'm leaving. It's best not to tell anyone else what you just told me, as long as we both know."

Ji Chi's smile froze for a second, but then he became natural again: "Then I'll see you off."

Ji Chi and Jiang Xu went out together one after the other, Fang Tang covered his face, broken.

"Jiang Xu, welcome to be our guest again." Ji Chi and Jiang Xu walked to the entrance of the community together.

Jiang Xu stopped suddenly: "I'll come if you don't say so, Boss Ji." Jiang Xu suddenly smiled, "Come when you're not around, and talk to Boss about our West District."

Ji Chi suddenly became serious when he heard Jiang Xu's words.

"Of course it's okay to talk about business, but forget about the rest."

"Oh? Boss Ji, what do you mean?" Jiang Xu crossed his arms.

"Now, Fang Tang is mine."

Perhaps because of intuition, Ji Chi felt that Jiang Xu was a very extraordinary person, capable and methodical, not simple. The most important thing was that when he first saw Jiang Xu, he almost believed that he must have ideas for Fang Tang.

"Fang Tang didn't accept you."

Jiang Xu said it categorically, he could see that Ji Chi's enthusiasm for Fang Tang far exceeded Fang Tang's response.That is to say, this sentence confirmed Ji Chi's guess.

"You said, is it you who appeared suddenly that is important, or me who has been with him for so long?"

The tone was full of provocation, this enemy was too powerful, and he wanted to speak harshly to make Ji Chi retreat.

Ji Chi had thought through this point, he knew he had to find a way to preemptively strike.

"Fang Tang and I have already slept together." Ji Chi said slowly, and then smiled softly.

Unsurprisingly, he watched Jiang Xu slowly petrify, froze in place, motionless.

Want to fight with me?

After speaking, Ji Chi turned around and went back, only saying: "I can't stay outside for long, Fang Tang is still at home waiting for me to go back."

They said spreading rumors was cool for a while, but Ji Chi felt that it was really cool, from the inside out, from the body to the heart.

Ji Xiao took a lunch break in the office. Although the office was very cold, he still felt hot and dry.I didn't sleep at all, and got up from the single folding bed to water the flowers.

He was in a daze while watering the flowers.

The last time I went to the abandoned hut, several colleagues from the evidence department found that the scene had obviously been cleaned up.There are many footprints on the ground, but only some unclear ones are left to mislead the police.

The anti-reconnaissance capabilities of these drug dealers are amazing.

It can be said that they returned empty-handed that day.

Ji Xiao went back and checked the unfamiliar number, but it was not registered under the real name system.The staff in the business hall said that a thin man came to buy the number that day, but because he did not bring his ID card, he made an appointment to register with his real name that afternoon, but he never came again.

Now this number is empty, and Ji Xiao has no way to find it.

But what is certain is that Zhang Xiang knew that he was back, and was watching him in the dark, wondering when he would appear in front of him from the dark with a hideous smile.

Ji Xiao felt his hair stand on end, his hands trembled, and the watering pot fell to the ground.

"Bang bang bang-"

Someone knocked on the office door.

"Come in." Ji Xiao picked up the kettle.

Looking along the door, it was Li Yun from the evidence department. Li Yun entered the office, turned around and closed the door again.

"Team Ji, we took a few barely visible footprints in the hut that day. I thought we didn't find them, but look."

Li Yun handed the picture to Ji Xiao.

The overlapping footprint patterns on the pictures are almost the same.

"Could it be?" Ji Xiao suddenly understood.

"That's right, it's the footprints of the same person. The hut has been abandoned for a long time, and these footprints are still very fresh." Li Yun continued, "Although they have been cleaned up, the corners where he thought the footprints were not clear exposed him instead."

"Has it been identified?" Ji Xiao asked.

"Well, Xiao Li from the Appraisal Department is on vacation, and Director Sun personally inspected it."

Director Sun is a well-known footprint expert in the bureau. His usual job is to go to various places to give lectures and teach criminal policemen, but why did he come to Beizhen?

As if seeing Ji Xiao's doubts, Li Yun lowered his voice: "The old man is here for vacation."

"Come on vacation" is jargon. It means that experts are sent to carry out secret missions. This mission must be very special, so that they can be protected from being secretly targeted by suspects.

"Director Sun speculates that the owner of this footprint is a male, about 35 years old, with a medium build and fat." Li Yun continued, "The left foot is a little lame."

"That's for sure, these are Zou Li's footprints." Ji Xiao confirmed, "It's the same as A Fei's confession."

Li Yun nodded: "Yes."

I thought there was nothing to gain, but this sudden clue gave Ji Xiao a shot in the arm. His intuition told him that if he followed the clues, he would find unexpected discoveries.

Ji Xiao could see that the shoe prints were sports shoes, but there were so many types of sports shoes, so many brands, and there were many shops selling sports shoes in Beizhen, which made the investigation more difficult.

One day when we were having dinner, everyone was discussing the case. A young man in charge of archives in the bureau slapped the table and said that he himself was a sneaker collector and asked him to take a look.

From this point of view, it can be regarded as a bump.The brand of this pair of shoes is New Balance. The young man said that because it was a limited edition, he was annoyed for a long time that he didn't get it when he worked overtime. He was no longer familiar with the inside and outside of this pair of shoes.

The New Balance brand is not popular enough in Beizhen. There are only a few specialty stores selling it, two in the East District and three in the West District.This narrows down the scope of investigation.

When the police arrived at the New Balance store near the vegetable market in the East District, a female clerk told her what she knew.

A man in his 30s came to buy this shoe, and she had an impression because his left foot was lame.The shoes cost [-]. The man didn't swipe his card and took out a wad of cash from an old handbag to pay.When I went out, I went in the direction of the vegetable market.

Ji Xiao asked the female clerk if she knew what the date was, and the female clerk said that it was the day when the limited edition shoes arrived, remember.

They called in the monitoring of the vegetable market.

The surveillance was installed in a corner of the market, and it was not clear enough, so the faces of people were all blurred, and it was difficult to identify who was Zou Li.

Whenever Ji Xiao was free, he watched the surveillance video in the office, including the days before and after that day, and found nothing new for a week.

Looking at it like this, there will be no results.

In the past few days, he felt a little tired. Seeing that he was about to succeed, he was forced to hit a wall.

Colleagues have been watching surveillance videos with him over and over again these days. They have to face the computer with their rice bowls while eating, and they have been working non-stop for several days. Ji Xiao couldn't bear it, so he asked them to take a break at noon and sleep for a while.

The colleagues were all on their lunch break, and Ji Xiao couldn't sleep, so he found a picture of the pair of New Balance sneakers.

They are a pair of red and black shoes with a great sense of design. The shock-absorbing layer is thicker. Because the shock-absorbing layer is transparent and bright, part of the sunlight will be reflected on sunny days.

etc--

Ji Xiao pulled out the monitoring of the next few days and watched it again.

After reading it, Ji Xiao let out a long sigh of relief: "Finally."

"Hello?" He called.

"Ji Dui, how do you know that Zou Li lives in a residential building in the vegetable market?" Li Yun asked.

"In the video, every noon, there will be a slight flash of light in the alley behind the vegetable market." Ji Xiao paused, "So I went to the vegetable market to catch him alive."

Li Yun was a little puzzled: "What if the light is not from the shoes, but something else?"

Ji Xiao smiled and said: "If there is no if, Zou Li is already in the game."

They caught Zou Li and also seized one kilogram of drugs in his rental house.Ji Xiao's decision was correct, and their work had a small preliminary harvest.

When Ji Xiao pushed the door and went out, Li Yun stood there for a long time. Could this be the leader's intuition in handling the case?

According to Zou Li's confession, he didn't know who his upline was, or in other words, a specific person.

When trading, they frantically choose the time when the most people buy vegetables in the morning in the vegetable market. The people who come to trade are different every time. They are all unfamiliar faces and don’t talk much. They leave directly after the transaction. As Li said, there is everything you want, and it is available at any time.

The person behind is too cunning, he seems to show his face, but actually hides very deeply.

His coming to Beizhen is undoubtedly a disaster for this seaside town, and this time it really must succeed.

Ji Xiao could only turn his attention back to the suspicious person, Zou Li was arrested, his online and offline must have heard the news.They may have plans next, as long as they find these people, they will be one step closer to solving the case.

He rearranged the information.

Zhang Xiang's photo is on the first page. This is the only photo the police have had for so many years. It was taken during an arrest operation. That time Zhang Xiang was almost caught, but he ran away in the end.

The fierce eyes in the photo seem to be staring straight at Ji Xiao, his eyes are small, and the light from the bottom of his eyes is sharp and cunning, as if he can grow a knife to cut people's hearts alive.

Ten years ago, Zhang Xiang didn't have this look.

Ji Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and then he regained his composure.

He does this every time he looks at this photo.

Ji Xiao had a strong premonition that he would meet that person soon.