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64

That day, Bai Lu finished his mission and left immediately, and Xie Tang also left after destroying the injection.

He felt extremely tired, and even though he hadn't done much activity that morning, it was exhausting.

As soon as I got back, I collapsed on the bed, my tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and I felt a particularly painful headache.

He frowned and closed his eyes tightly, but he couldn't fall asleep, feeling uncomfortable all over.

Depressed and restless, he longed for someone to come and hug him every time this time.

Unfortunately, Bai Li was not by his side.

Diandian came to knock on the door, and the clear and clear child's voice asked outside: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Today is the weekend, the children don't have to go to school, but when they wake up, they find that their father is not at home, leaving breakfast on the table.Diandian warmed up his breakfast in the microwave, and then waited for his father to come back while watching TV.Dad didn't come back until two o'clock in the afternoon, and went to the bedroom as soon as he entered the house, not even noticing that he was waiting for him in the living room.

After hesitating for a moment, Bai Lu got up from the bed, opened the door, and looked haggard like a ghost.

"Dad... are you okay?"

He forced a smile, "It's okay."

"But your face is ugly."

He sighed, "Dian Dian is still young, don't worry about it so much, Dad is fine."

Seeing that he had turned around, Dian Dian hurriedly stretched out her small hand and grabbed the corner of his clothes tightly.

In the end it was his own child, Bai Lu wouldn't get angry, he just turned around and snapped off Dian Dian's fingers.

"Be obedient, don't disturb Dad now, I want to be alone for a while."

Dian Dian lowered her hands, a little sad, but still looked at her father stupidly: "I just want to accompany you, I don't want to quarrel, I don't say a word."

Bai Lu was about to close the door, and with red eyes, he whispered, "I'm worried about you..."

Bai Lu paused, stunned for a moment, sighed helplessly, and scolded himself——what are you doing to the child like this!

Before Dad could calm down and coax himself, Dian Dian stretched out his hand high, with five fingers spread out, and a toffee lay in the palm of his hand.

"Are you hungry?" The round eyes flickered at him.

At that moment, Bai Lu's heart seemed to be hit by something, he knelt down slowly, suddenly hugged Diandian, and hugged him tightly.

Dian Dian let Dad hug her very cooperatively.

Bai Lu let go of his hand and looked at his child closely.

Dian Dian touched Dad's face, and the child's hand was soft and hot.

——He always feels that he is alone and has no one to rely on, but in fact, people have always trusted him, and even believed him unconditionally—even if he was cheated, he still believed. From the courtesy to Xie Junting, to a little bit.

"Dad, your face is so pale, what happened..."

Bai Lu hugged the child tightly, imitating what his father did to him, gently stroking his back with his small hands.

"Dad, don't be afraid."

Bai Lu didn't speak, just hugged her quietly.

At that moment, he really felt that he was extremely despicable. From the moment Diandian was born, he thought about how to get rid of this child. In the first few years, he was even annoyed when he saw the child. This father is very strange.Later, because of the woman's words, "Cheng Yiyang's identity is suitable for bringing a child by his side", in order to disguise this person more perfectly, he tried to accept a little bit.

Later, being able to be brought by Cheng Yiyang's side, Dian Dian was a little scared but still very happy. At first, the father and son got along very stiffly and unnaturally, but then everything gradually improved. He did like Dian Dian more and more, but it was still a cheap way. If Xie Juanting wants to leave Diandian, he keeps telling himself to be patient, but he needs to go to Xie's house to see his brother, but he can use Diandian as his bargaining chip.

Why can I persist for so long with my brother, but give up so easily with Diandian?

On the one hand, it is an extreme sacrifice, even if the other party does not want to accept it, he has to do it; on the other hand, it is extremely repulsive and unwilling.

"I'm sorry..." Bai Lu said softly, then turned his face and kissed the child's cheek.

A little bit puzzled, "Father didn't apologize to me."

Bai Lu was silent for a while, then smiled at the child, "I'm really hungry, let's go out to eat."

"Okay, okay, I'm going to change clothes." The child is still wearing pajamas.

Bai Lu just took advantage of this gap to wash his face with warm water. When he looked in the mirror, he accidentally saw the mark on his chin. It was indeed a bit obvious, and it might take a while for it to heal.Diandian found out a few days ago and asked him what was going on.It suddenly occurred to him that he would be detained for another month, so what should he do this month?

In fact, this question is very hypocritical, and he himself understands it.In the first two years without him, Diandian came here, not to mention now, with the support of the Xie family, Diandian's life will only become smoother and smoother after that, but this kind of abundance is not given by him, but by the Xie family.

When eating with the child, he hesitated, and finally decided to stop being perfunctory and start talking about this matter with Diandian.

"There may be a month in the future, and Dad will not be by your side..."

Sure enough, as soon as he said these words, he became nervous a little bit.

"Dad, don't you want me again?"

"No," Bai Lu immediately reassured him, "I promised never to leave you again."

Diandian's eyes were still red all of a sudden, "...then why aren't you here?"

Seeing that the child was so aggrieved that he was about to cry, his heart ached so much that he sat over and hugged Diandian, "Little fool, Dad won't leave you, it's just that he's sick and needs an operation, and he'll be hospitalized for a month."

Dian Dian asked again: "Then can I see you?"

"Yes," Bai Lu was afraid that he would cry, so he quickly responded, "You can come to see me every day."

The teardrops in Diandian's eyes still slid out, and he gently wiped them off for the child, "Dad will always be by your side, really."

"I will be with you wherever I go..." Diandian buried her head in her father's arms, "If you leave me again, I will hate you..."

Bai Lu was helpless, "Okay, okay, if I leave you again, I'm not a human being. It's my fault that I didn't keep my promise to pick you up last time, but I really promise that there will be no next time, so don't be so scared, okay?" ?”

"I'll see you when you're in the hospital."

"It's the police hospital. You have to be with Uncle Xie before you can enter. Would you like to be with him?"

Diandian hesitated for a moment, and said: "Actually, Uncle Xie was very kind to me. He took me with me every day in those few days, but... the more he behaved, the more I felt that I was abandoned by you," Diandian sucked hard Sniffing, "Uncle Xie feels sorry for me because he sympathizes with me..."

Bai Lu smiled wryly in some invisible places, "Who would take a child home because of sympathy? You are not just a puppy, you are a human being, and you have to work hard to raise it."

Diandian grabbed his sleeve hard, "Dad, what do you mean by that?"

Bai Lu sighed, "Your feeling is right, you don't need to comfort me," he finally said, "Xie Junting is indeed your father."

Now it was the turn of the little girl to quit, and anxiously asked: "He is my father, so what are you?"

Bai Lu didn't know how to answer, but after thinking about it, he said, "Me too."

After saying that sentence just now, he unexpectedly found that the whole person was much more relaxed, and he was relieved.

Dian Dian blinked his eyes, very puzzled, he tapped the tip of the child's nose lightly, and said with a smile, "Didn't you realize that you are more like me?"

Fortunately, my father is still a father, and Dian Dian is relieved, afraid of hearing the phrase "I am not".

Diandian is a child who is easily satisfied, as long as Bai Lu spends a little effort to coax him, he will be very obedient and will not ask any more questions.

Unfortunately, the time for Bai Lu to relax seems to never last for less than two hours.

After dinner, I took the child back. This place is relatively close to his community. Fortunately, I walked there without taking a taxi. I took a taxi and went directly to the gate of the community. I'm afraid there would be no chance of escape.

At about 100 meters, Bai Lu found something was wrong.

There are too many cars, there are at least a dozen of them, all gathered nearby, from the main entrance of the community to here, blocking the road in front so that only pedestrians can pass by. If there are so many police cars, ambulances or fire engines, it would be normal. But they were all private cars, and they were expensive ones.

It can't be Xie Junting, then it can only be Bai Chen.

Bai Lu was shocked, he didn't expect the other party to find him so quickly.

In fact, ever since Tan Mu's identity was exposed, whenever something went wrong with Tan Mu, Bai Chen could easily figure out that he was the one who did something wrong, and there was no need for any evidence at all. These things were just for the police to see. No evidence is required.

Bai Lu was quite sure that this was Bai Chen's attack, he grabbed the child's hand, turned around and walked back.Fortunately, the flow of people here is not too small, especially now that it is noon, Bai Chen drove a car and stood guard at the gate, and did not realize that the person who quickly fled away in the distance was Bai Lu.

"Dad, what's the matter with you? Did something happen at the main entrance? Why don't we go in?"

Diandian was suddenly led away, confused.

Bai Lu didn't have time to answer at all, so he led the child around and turned around, walked into different side roads, and finally went around the back of the community, where there was a small iron gate that only people could pass through, and cars couldn't get in.

He almost ran all the way downstairs with Diandian, and then immediately called the police on the phone of the convenience store, saying that there was trouble here, and hoped that the police would come quickly.

Since he was threatened by Bai Chen to enter the room last time, he was very angry and complained to the security guard at the gate. Anyone who wants to go to his place in the future must call him to confirm, and he can only be let in after getting permission.When a single person comes in, the security guard may not check it dutifully, but there is such a big fight in the car, the security guard will definitely have to ask, probably calling Cheng Yiyang's house, but no one answers, and then the two parties are at a stalemate there .But Bai Lu felt that the security guards wouldn't last long, and the other party was Bai Chen.

He hurriedly took Diandian up to the elevator, quickly opened the door and locked it.

As soon as he got home, he rushed into the bedroom to pack his clothes.

Diand stood at the door and looked at him in surprise, "Dad, what are you doing?"

Bai Lu randomly picked up a few clothes and threw them into the box, then went to the children's room and threw the small clothes in there.

Little by little, I felt a tense breath like fleeing for my life.

"Dad... how do we..."

Before he finished speaking, the phone in the living room rang desperately, and he didn't need to answer it to know that it must be the security guard at the door.

The sharp ringtone made Bai Lu even more flustered. He subconsciously grabbed the phone, and after thinking for a while, he immediately called Xie Junting.

At that time, Xie Junting had just got off the plane, he was a little tired after not sleeping for a long time, and wanted to go back to Xie's house to take a rest.

The first phone call was from Bai Lu, which put Master Xie in a good mood.As soon as he got connected, he heard Bai Lu's rapid panting, Xie Junting knew that there must be something troublesome again, so he asked clearly: "Huh?"

Bai Lu said eagerly: "Isn't it going to imprison me for a month? Just let me in these few days!"

He didn't want to make his initiative to ask for help so obvious, so he found a suitable reason, and it was much safer to be imprisoned than to be "chased" by Bai Chen.

As if afraid that the other party would not believe it, he added, "Go in early so you can come out earlier, Diandian is still waiting for me, I want to finish my prison and come out to accompany him as soon as possible."

Xie Junting responded lightly.

"I'll go to the supervision office with you tomorrow morning, can the days be counted from tomorrow?"

"Ah."

He waited for Xie Junting to take the initiative to ask, but the other party only pronounced a single syllable.

He had no choice but to take the initiative to say, "Can you send someone to pick us up this afternoon?"

"Ah."

After a while of silence, Xie Junting saw that Bai Lu hadn't spoken any more, "Is there anything else?"

The subtext is to hang up the phone.

"Then...can you come here now? I need..."

Before the word "you" came out of his mouth, Bai Lu was taken aback, and then hurriedly hung up the phone.

——Why is it like this again?Every time I feel helpless or confused, I subconsciously go to Xie Junting—a terrible subconscious.

After a moment of daze, he returned to his original appearance and continued to go back to his room to pack his things.

He was a little relieved when the annoying phone calls finally stopped.

Probably at that time, he was really flustered. He forgot that he had lived in Xie's house for at least a month. Naturally, the young master's food, clothing, housing and transportation were already well-equipped, but he stuffed a lot of useless things into it, and he didn't take his own clothes seriously. A few.

As soon as the zipper of the box was closed, the anti-theft door was slammed.

The force of knocking on the door was very strong, and it was continuous. After seeing that there was no movement inside, it intensified, as if the door was about to be demolished.

Diandian shrank into Bai Lu's arms in fright, "Father, are there bad people outside the door?"

Bai Lu made a silent gesture, hugged Dian tightly, and then stared at the door.

Since the last time, he didn't use the original lock cylinder, but replaced it with a reinforced one. It is impossible for Bai Chen to have the key again.

After persevering for a while, the voice finally died down. Bai Lu thought he was about to leave, but his mobile phone on the coffee table vibrated violently, and he rushed over to press it down immediately.

The screen was on, and the incoming call showed "Bai Chen", but it didn't vibrate anymore.

A few minutes later, the phone screen went black.

He forgot to block before, but now he dare not block Bai Chen's number rashly, after all, at this juncture, doing so is really a guilty conscience, he wants to pretend that he doesn't know and he is not at home.

Bai Chen hit him eight times!Fortunately, every time Bailu was struck, he pressed it down in time, and his heart hung in his throat. Fortunately, he survived in the end.

This stalemate lasted more than 20 minutes, and the door was almost kicked open. He was afraid that the other party would really break in, so the father and son did not dare to vent their anger. Dian Dian held on to Dad's sleeve tightly, breathing lightly. , afraid of being overheard by the people outside the door.

After a long silence, Bai Lu felt that the other party seemed to have left, so he walked over and put his ear on the door.

This door is particularly thick and solid, without a single crack or peephole. The sound insulation effect is excellent, and no sound can be heard.

He didn't dare to open the door to look, so he shrank back and entered the room with Dot.

He's still a little terrified by now.

What on earth is this lunatic Bai Chen wanting to do? In broad daylight, he brazenly brought so many men and bodyguards here. Could it be that he wanted to kidnap him directly?

I guessed right.

Bai Chen, who failed to catch anyone, became even more angry, and led a few burly thugs into the underground garage by elevator, and found the car that Cheng Yiyang was driving without any mistakes. He ordered darkly, "Smash it."

There were brooms and bricks piled up in the corner of the garage. A few thugs quickly picked up the tools and threw them on the car with all their strength. As soon as the bricks fell, the front of the car was immediately dented.

Bai Chen was smoking a cigarette beside him, and the crackling sound, which was almost like an explosion, didn't affect him at all.

Originally, the owner came down and drove out. Seeing this scene, he was so frightened that he hurried back to the elevator.

Seeing that a car was smashed into a pile of scrap iron, Bai Chen finally felt a little better, took out his mobile phone and slowly called Xie Junting.

"Xie Junting, where did you hide him? I want to confront Bai Lu face to face." When talking to Xie Junting, he was still very restrained, at least his tone would not be too presumptuous.

Xie Junting didn't know about today's matter at all, but these two phone calls made him guess most of it.

"You guys from the Xie family brazenly made my mother die in the hospital. I'm here to ask you for an explanation," Bai Chen's tone changed, serious, "Xie Juanting, it's because you supported him behind his back that even He dared to be so presumptuous because of his instigation."

Xie Junting said, "He dare not."

"Why don't you dare? It's just that there is something wrong with the medicine he gave! I'm looking for someone to investigate now. If you find any real evidence, how can you justify it?"

"Mr. Xie, you are not satisfied with your military rank, and you took advantage of your position to send someone pretending to be a doctor to poison the only wife of the Bai family. I believe that the media will definitely not refuse such documentary reports. And I also I know that in the past five years, your records have been clean and flawless, how about I give you a big mistake to add color to you?"

This time, Bai Chen was quite suspicious of revenge.Because he had been begging for Xie Junting's favor a while ago, Bai Chen no longer expected that the batch of arms would never be brought back, but he just hoped that the customs could let the Bai family's serious mistake of smuggling go, and not deprive the letter of credit. After all, it involves the export of the family business. Once the letter of credit is broken, the Bai family can lose tens of millions in a month.

But Xie Junting did not agree.

Now Bai Chen can be considered to have found a handle, and it's his turn to act like a domineering.

But Xie Junting didn't seem to be bothered, he wasn't frightened, and remained calm as usual.

"Bai Chen, you check it out and then tell me."

Before Bai Chen could speak again, the phone was already cut off.

Xie Juanting's face was a little gloomy after he put down the phone, the car that came to pick him up at the airport was already parked in front of him, he got in and the driver asked, "Go back to the mansion, master?"

The current situation allows him to go back and rest?Xie Junting frowned and ordered, "Go to the office." Then he immediately called Zhou Ling and Xie Tang and asked them to wait in the office immediately.

Xie Tang felt uneasy, knowing that if this kind of thing was done too quickly, it would definitely cause trouble.Although killing people is of course the faster the better, but there must be disadvantages, and it is estimated that "worry about the future" is coming!

Seeing Xie Juanting come in, Xie Tang stood up and asked anxiously, "What? Has the matter been revealed?"

"Are you crazy?" Xie Juanting glared at him.

Xie Tang lowered his eyebrows and lowered his head, "...I'm sorry, I was a little impulsive."

"Why didn't you tell me beforehand?"

"Didn't you have something to do a few days ago? I told Cheng Yiyang to slow down and talk about it after you came back to discuss, but he didn't listen, and there was nothing I could do..."

"It's already in the news."

"Ah?!" Xie Tang was really frightened, "No way? It's so serious..."

"Zhou Ling just sent it to me." He threw the phone over directly, Xie Tang reached out to catch it, and looked down, his face became more serious.

Bai Chen is not only angry, what's the use of being angry, nothing will be left behind after venting his anger, the most important thing is that he finally seized the opportunity to hit Xie's family hard, and he must put a stain on it!Bai Chen not only found someone from the police station, but also planned to report it to the high-level prosecutors, so he first created the current situation and public opinion.Xie Tang read the manuscript, and the whole article added fuel and vinegar to write that the Xie family used poisoning tricks in order to attack their opponents, and even put Tan Mu's weak appearance on it, which not only aroused public sympathy but also confused the point, and made the Bai family The retaliation for the unsuccessful begging for favors is vaguely written as the failure of the negotiation between the two parties, and the focus is on Mrs. Tan's increasingly serious condition.

Xie Tang's hands trembled, and he almost began to suspect that Bai Chen had deliberately prevented Tan Mu's body from recovering from the beginning, otherwise, how would he use it now? !

Xie Juanting frowned, but remained completely calm. First, he called someone to suppress all the media reports, and then ordered the people in the police station to delay the matter reported by Bai Chen, as long as it could!

Seeing that the other party was so orderly, Xie Tang gradually became less flustered than he was at the beginning. He thought for a while and said, "The surveillance didn't capture Cheng Yiyang's face, and the fingerprints couldn't be collected even with gloves on. There is no evidence at all."

Of course Xie Junting knew, but that wasn't what he cared about.

"How many people saw him that day?"

"Two, one is a middle-aged pharmacist, and the other is a nurse in Tan Mu's ward."

"Only two?"

"No, it was three, and then a young pharmacist came over."

"I'm talking about watching, not touching." After all, he was professional and asked very detailed questions, "From the time you entered the hospital to the end of the whole thing, how could you be seen by only two people."

Xie Tang finally understood, "Then...there must be more than a dozen of them. We went very early, the security guards at the entrance of the hospital, the cleaners in the corridors, the on-duty doctors and nurses in the outpatient clinic... He even went out to buy breakfast on the way, It is estimated that more people will see him."

"You guys came back straight after you finished?!"

Xie Tang nodded.

Xie Juanting didn't know what to say. Some criminals came back from the first scene and went straight home!

Xie Tang and Bai Lu were not familiar with these things, and they didn't know what to do after committing a crime. At least the tools of the crime and the clothes they wore that day had to be thrown away, and they couldn't just go home!

"What should we do now?" Xie Tang asked anxiously.

He used "we", as if he was sure that Xie Junting would not ignore this matter.

"Is the tool destroyed?"

Xie Tang nodded vigorously, "I burned it, and there is no residue left, including the used gloves!"

Xie Juanting called Zhou Ling over, "Take Xie Tang together and find out all the people who met them that day. It must be all of them."

"Okay! After you find out, you must seal their mouths and report to you when the time comes." Obviously, this is not the first time Zhou Ling has solved such a difficult problem. He seemed to be familiar with it, and he didn't seem to find it too difficult. , and asked intimately, "Young master, I have already called the high-level people in the police station, and they will come right away. Are you here to deal with them?"

Xie Junting nodded and got up.

Xie Tang always felt that he had nothing to do with the word crime. Any bad deeds would pass smoothly once they were done. He never thought that the aftermath of a crime would be such a complicated process. If you make a small mistake, you can be crushed to death.

He is even more frightened and flustered now than when he was in the ward.

"Juan Ting, this... Nothing really happened, right? You won't be going to jail, right?"

If it gets serious, it is entirely possible to be convicted of attempted murder. Bai Chen is getting serious now. Thinking about it, it is really scary.

Xie Junting didn't answer, just put on his coat and walked out quickly.

Zhou Ling smiled at Xie Tang, and walked over, "Don't worry, this kind of thing will not trouble my young master, but, just to be cautious, you'd better throw away the suit you're wearing today, immediately."