hold peck

There is only Liang Yan in the family.

The 28-inch suitcase was beside the woman. The two of them stared at each other silently for a long time at the entrance, and Xu Peck finally said, "You want to move?"

Liang Yan let out a "hmm", and when her eyes fell behind Xu Peck, she heard the boy add: "I came back alone, Xiao Si is at grandma's house."

The woman seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, she lowered her eyelids, her gaze paused when she passed the document bag in Xu Peck's hand.

She suddenly laughed: "I've searched the house all these years and couldn't find this thing. Where did you find it?"

She didn't know He Zhi, and she didn't know that she had been to Yejiahui. She probably talked about that time 12 years ago.

Xu Peng put the file bag back calmly, and said calmly, "What are you looking for?"

Liang Yan tilted her head: "I'm curious. You don't look like your father at all, and your personality is the same. Of course, I want to know if I made a mistake."

But Xu Ji'an never showed her the evidence, and quarreled whenever it was mentioned.Liang Yan used to get angry about this, but now she doesn't care too much.

Xu Peck rarely heard her mention her father who died early, but Xu Ji'an often said it.

He said that Xu Wenyan is a very cheerful man. He is very charming and gentle when he smiles, but he can be a little scary when he is serious. Even his younger brother will back down three points.

Xu Wenyan is a very nice person, and he sounds a lot like He Zhi.

When hearing He Zhi's words in Wancheng, Xu Peck seated the two of them in almost a second.

On the way back from Yejiahui, he was still hesitating over and over again whether he was fanciful or not, but now it seems that there are already people who have the same conjecture as him.

Even though summer hadn't passed yet, Liang Yan had already pulled out a shawl and put it on her body.

Xu Peck stood by the door and did not give way: "You never mentioned it."

Liang Yan wrapped herself in a light brown wool shawl, and said indifferently: "I used to want to be Mrs. Xu well."

but now……

Her eyelids drooped, and she twitched the corners of her mouth as if mocking herself: "It was your uncle who asked for a divorce in the past, and I complained against it. Now it's finally my turn to propose to set him free, and he refuses to agree."

So, she had to move out by herself.

Xu Peck looked at her very quietly: "Why?"

People often say that Mrs. Xu's family married Xu Ji'an for power and wealth, but Xu Peck could tell that Liang Yan really loved her husband.

Love to the point of hysteria, even if the tit-for-tat confrontation on weekdays has reached the point where gunpowder smoke is everywhere and the ground is full of chaos, her eyes are still burning with the entanglement and stubbornness of wanting to drag each other to torture each other to death.

But now, the flame in her eyes suddenly went out.

Liang Yan is a very particular woman, even after being a full-time wife, she will stay at home all day, and she will put on light makeup after getting up every day.

Ever since he was a child, Xu Peck seemed to have never seen her so plain and calm.

She's actually really pretty.Xu Peck is not like Xu Wenyan, and Xu Si is more like Liang Yan.

The woman held the trolley of the suitcase, the smile on her plain face was as gentle and treacherous as her tone.

"Your uncle, he is terrible."

He Zhi ate his lunch very slowly, Xu Peck didn't know what he was busy with today, after sending himself that photo, he had nothing to say.

In the afternoon, I made an appointment with a guest to chat about the plan. Once He Zhi got up to work, he didn’t bother to look at his phone. He was afraid that Xu Peck would send another message and he wouldn’t be able to reply in time. The guests were about to arrive, so He Zhicai bit his chopsticks and edited a message "I'm off to work, I came to play with you after work, Yuan Yuan" and stood up with the lunch box in hand.

There was no reply to this message. When He Zhi pushed open the door of the reception room, he was a little absent-minded, and when he saw the girl who was already sitting and waiting inside, he just nodded lightly.

This order was inserted temporarily yesterday. I heard that the customer came back from abroad, and I was in a hurry to fly back tomorrow afternoon.

He Zhi pressed his bulging and throbbing temples, cheered up and faced the girl opposite him who looked a little colder than him.

"What pattern do you want to make?"

The girl looked a few years older than him, but she was still very small, with neat short hair that reached her ears, and her soft eyebrows were set off by a sparkling diamond stud earring on her ear bone.

She handed over an open sketchbook directly.

He Zhi only glanced at it before raising his eyebrows, looked into the girl's eyes and said, "I don't make other people's ready-made patterns."

This is quite crazy, but I didn't expect the girl to laugh, and she was even crazier than him: "I drew this, if I didn't know how to use your tattoo pen, I would poke it myself."

awesome.

He Zhi lowered his head with great interest, and when he saw the pattern on the sketchbook clearly, the corner of Master's mouth twitched suddenly.

"This... saury?"

The only place where smoking is allowed in the store, the girl took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and put it to her lips: "Congratulations, your eyes are still working."

He Zhi ignored the faint sarcasm in her tone, raised his eyes and said, "I've seen this pattern before."

The girl still didn't bring up her interest and ignored him: "Everything is pirated except me."

...Why is this woman completely different from what Xu Peck said?

He Zhi gave a "tsk", and was about to choke, when the door of the reception room was suddenly pushed open again.

"Nie Ziyu, why do you do this every time you quarrel!"

This voice, which even sounds soft and soft when complaining, is really a bit familiar.

He Zhi followed Nie Ziyu whose eyes suddenly became warmer and looked towards the door. When he met the long-haired girl's astonished look, he squinted and smiled as expected.

"Long time no see, sister Qiu Ran."

When Xu Ji'an returned home, Xu Peck was cooking instant noodles for himself in the kitchen.

Guan Guan once said with admiration and emotion before that with Xu Peck's unhurried temperament, even if there was a fire at home one day, he could wash up first after waking up, change clothes one by one before Find a way to escape.

This statement is a bit exaggerated, but Xu Peck is indeed a person who has three meals a day even if the sky is falling.

But this is also a reaction after rational thinking. He needs to maintain his physical strength to deal with everything that happens next, and at the same time find something to do for himself so as not to keep thinking about it.

Even if he was a little hungry, he would still force himself to eat.

When he heard footsteps approaching from outside the kitchen door, Xu Peck looked back at Xu Ji'an, and asked him, "Uncle, do you want to eat?"

The aunt at home has never been perfunctory about eating these things, but Xu Peck sometimes cooks instant noodles by himself when he doesn't come back at meal time.

No one in the Xu family ate this food, and the two packets on the counter were also dug out from his own room by Xu Peck.Xu Ji'an looked at the figure of Xu Peck skillfully cracking poached eggs, and smiled: "Okay, add two eggs for me."

Xu Peck nodded.

He doesn't know how to cook, and he can't even steam rice. The only thing he can cook is instant noodles, and the taste is really good.

When Xu Peck returned to the dining room with two bowls of noodles, the document bag that he had put on the corner of the dining table before entering the kitchen was still lying there without moving at all.

The dining table was very long, Xu Ji'an sat at the head seat, Xu Peck sat on his left as usual, picked up a few noodles with chopsticks, and exhaled softly without changing expression.

The restaurant was very quiet, and today's silence seemed a bit strange in the presence of only the two of them.

Xu Peck ate the noodles calmly, but Xu Ji'an's chopsticks were pinched playfully for a while, and then they were put back on the chopstick rest without any oily smell.

He said, "Little Peck, you know everything?"

He had the same reaction as Liang Yan, but he really didn't know anything yet.

Xu Peck bit the edge of the poached egg, and heard Xu Ji'an cut to the chase softly and slowly: "Although you are not your father's biological child, I have indeed treated you like my own nephew for so many years."

The egg yolk was beaten into a runny egg, and it was a little hot in the mouth, and it looked like a funny crying face when it flowed into the red soup.

Xu Peck was silent for a while, then put down his chopsticks.

"Where did I come from?"

"Why does your place look like an autopsy room? It's scary."

The velvet curtains were drawn tightly, and Nie Ziyu sat under the shadowless lamp, looking at He Zhi who had put on his mask, he suddenly felt disgusted.

"I can't help it. The proprietress misses the old days. She was persuaded to try another place last month."

In fact, the decoration in this room is very stylish, but when He Zhi disinfected and equipped his gloves, he grabbed the coil machine and directed Nie Ziyu to turn his back to him, suddenly he felt a bit like a killer.

Qiu Ran was sitting on the sofa next to her, frowning slightly, looking at them without saying a word.

Nie Ziyu tilted his head and smiled at her with crooked eyebrows: "Why, I already said that I wanted to get a tattoo a long time ago, but I was too busy to take care of it. I really didn't lose my temper with you."

The girl who only wore a black racerback vest with her back facing her had a very slender figure, with one arm propped on the edge of the chair, leaving the half of the shoulder to be tattooed naturally slack off, sliding in very beautiful lines in front of the boy.

But He Zhi just sneered without compassion after disinfection: "Sister Nie, getting a tattoo is not like piercing ear bones, it only hurts for a second. Although your design is small, you still have to poke half of it." When you are young, you can tell me if the pain is unbearable, although I will not stop, but sister Xiaoqiu can comfort you."

"..." Nie Ziyu glanced back at him, then looked at Qiu Ran with a strange expression on his face, "Why did Xiao Yuanyuan fall in love with him?"

Qiu Ran's tone was still calm: "Our surname Qiu has bad eyesight."

Nie Ziyu: "..."

He Zhi suppressed a smile and said "relax", holding the needle and sticking it to the girl's skin with extremely developed pain nerves.

Nie Ziyu was actually very afraid of pain, very afraid of pain, but the moment the needle really poked ink into her shoulder, she was only numb for a moment.

"Does it hurt?"

Qiu Ran finally couldn't hold back anymore, and came over to ask her with red eyes.

Nie Ziyu rested his head quietly in her arms, and when he smiled, he seemed to be comforting or saying that he loved you.

"It doesn't hurt."

"Your father, my eldest brother, do you know what he does?"

The two bowls of noodles on the table were still steaming and fragrant, but no one touched their chopsticks again.

There was no emotion in Xu Ji'an's tone, and Xu Peck stared at the wooden grain on the table, also very calm.

"Yes, policeman."

Xu Ji'an gave a "hmm" and added, "An undercover policeman."

Yancheng's past was much more chaotic than it is now.

In the early years when the slogan of eradicating crime and evil was not so loud, Yancheng still had a few names that could be used to scare bear children at night.

But if that's the case, it's okay for the police to dispatch a bunch of them, but these people still seem to have some ties to the upper echelons.

Even if they are often invited to drink tea in the bureau, they are not even detained, and those bad ruffians who have such a reputation that they will consciously shy away from them will be invited out politely.

This world is beautiful, but it's also very bad, but if you close your eyes and don't look at it, you can live without any danger.

But there are always people in the world who are willing to open their eyes.

Xu Wenyan is.

"He received a secret mission before graduating from the police academy. During a police exercise, his immediate superior faked his accidental death. A few months later, he made a fake identity for him and sent him back to Yancheng. .”

Xu Ji'an was smiling, but his eyes were cold: "I only have him as a family member. Originally, I was waiting for him to come back from graduation so that we brothers could be reunited, but I didn't expect that all I was waiting for was a death notice."

Not even a dead body.

Xu Wenyan's file was silently erased. He has been undercover for many years. Although there is not much information, it is fatal to the political situation in Yancheng.Later, his identity was almost exposed, and his superiors immediately transferred him to Wancheng to protect him.

It was originally for escape, but Xu Wenyan didn't live there for long, and returned after three months.Of course, he died faster, shot five times in the heart, in revenge.

But even so, no one helped Xu Wenyan to rehabilitate him. It was not until five years later, when Yancheng completed a major change of officials, and the whole city regained peace and tranquility, that the officer who sent him out found Xu Ji'an and told him the truth. .

"When he died, I didn't know anything. When I did, he had already been lying in the urn, and he had just been rehabilitated from a slandered 'murderer' to a martyr."

Xu Ji'an closed his eyes to cover his eyes full of sarcasm: "And all of them know about your existence, but in those years, no one has ever taken care of you once."

"It's understandable," Xu Peck's eyes were dark, without any light, "Maybe they also want to protect me."

Xu Ji'an twitched the corner of his mouth: "Maybe, but I really hate them. As soon as I heard about you, I immediately went to pick you up and go home."

Xu Peck was the last trace of Xu Wenyan left in the world, even if the kinship test clearly stated that he was not his own, Xu Ji'an would never let him be in any danger again.

Xu Peck said softly: "Then if it's not just me."

"..."

Xu Ji'an raised his eyelids, and his tone suddenly became subtle: "What did you say?"

Xu Peck pointed to the file bag at the corner of the table.

"That's not the appraisal report between me and you, uncle."

It's a sentence without beginning and end, but everyone here is smart, so there is no need to point it out so badly.

The noodles in the bowl were already a bit cold, but Xu Ji'an picked up the chopsticks again and randomly picked up two chopsticks, his movements were not too fast, as if he was not surprised by the child's words at all.

Xu Peck couldn't help frowning, but just as he was about to speak, Xu Ji'an looked up at him and laughed.

"Is that from you and He Zhi?" he said.

Xu Peck slowly opened his eyes in disbelief.