dark crossing

Chu Huainan laughed dumbfounded because of the video call that was cut off suddenly.

When he put away his phone and looked up, he found that Grandma Chu was standing behind the sofa, looking at him meaningfully.

Chu Huainan stretched his long legs and stood up from the sofa, and greeted her with a smile: "Grandma."

Grandma Chu Xu Jingping came from a famous family. The 80-year-old old man does not have the senility of an octogenarian at all.Silver-white hair was tied into a neat bun, and he was wearing a light gray Zen Tang suit, with an ancient bronze mirror hanging on his chest.On the back of the bronze mirror is engraved in Xingkai script, the "Cultivation Verse" written by Zen master Shenxiu of the Northern School - "The body is a bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror stand."Wipe it frequently so as not to cause dust. ".

The sharp-eyed Grandma Chu stared at Chu Huainan's face, and asked with a half-smile, "Are you here so early? Who are you videocalling with this early in the morning?"

The old lady is well educated and proficient in four foreign languages: English, Spanish, French and Japanese.When she traveled all over the world with Mr. Chu in the early years, she also served as his personal translator.

Language is the same as swimming, once learned, even if the skills become unfamiliar in the future, it is impossible to forget all of them.Until now, Grandma Chu's English is as good as her Chinese.

Chu Huainan, who harassed Shen Ting early in the morning, neither fully confessed nor deliberately concealed, but only replied vaguely: "Friend."

The shrewd old lady sat down slowly, raised her eyes and said with a smile, "Aren't you ordinary friends?"

This is a rhetorical question, but the tone is very firm.

Chu Huainan couldn't hold back a "puchi" laugh: "How do you know you're not just an ordinary friend?"

"I brought you up, and I don't know you yet?" The old lady said, holding up the bronze mirror on her chest that was used for "self-examination", while turning the mirror to Chu who had bent down and sat on the sofa with her. Huainan gently tapped the forehead of the head of the Chu family with his finger, and said helplessly and dotingly: "Look at your expression yourself! You look like a cat stealing fish." The old lady laughed and angrily said Shaking his head: "You, you have been able to hide your thoughts since you were a child, what happened today?"

The Chu family has strict family education, and Chu's grandfather, Chu Qiaoxin, has even stricter requirements for his successors.

When the old man was alive, he often asked Chu Huainan, who was still half a child, to copy ancient books and meditate.

A sentence "For the way of generals, first cure the heart."Mount Tai collapses in the front but its color does not change, and the elk rises in the left without blinking. 』When Chu Huainan was ten years old, he had copied no less than a thousand times.

But at this moment, the man in the mirror, who was beaming with joy, was in high spirits.A pair of peach-blossom eyes are still smiling, and all kinds of amorous feelings are piled up in the corners of the eyes. —It really doesn't look like him.

The old lady narrowed her eyes shrewdly: "Over the years, I have never seen you laugh like this when talking to anyone. I even forgot when was the last time you were so happy."

With a smile in his mouth, Chu Huainan squatted beside her, his raised face showing a rare childlike look.

The all-powerful capitalist outside, like a child meeting his beloved companion, said frankly to his parents: "I have met someone I like. When I catch him, I will bring him back to show you."

Xu Jingping was one of the first batch of government-sponsored overseas students after the founding of New China.

She nodded openly, then smiled and glared at Chu Huainan, "I heard the voice just now, it must be a boy."

"You have piercing eyes, and nothing can be hidden from you."

The old lady stretched out her hand to stroke Chu Huainan's hair with a friendly expression.

The hair on this head is the same as its owner. It looks soft and peaceful on the outside, but it is actually very hard on the inside.The short down hair is even a bit tangled.And Chu Huainan, who has a strong personality, is stubborn, and even ten bulls can't be pulled back.

"Since you've decided, I won't stop you. I can't stop you. It's been like this since I was a child."

"You love me so much, it's too late to help me, how can you stop me?"

Chu Huainan has rich experience in coaxing old ladies, and just two or three words made Grandma Chu laugh, and asked softly, "What's his name?"

The capitalist frowned, with a gentle tone, and replied with a smile: "Listen carefully."

The person he likes is called Shen Ting.Although the surface is suave, in fact, he is a guy who can blush all night and have swollen lips just by kissing and touching.

……

Without knowing it, Shen Ting "met with the head of the family" here in Chu Huainan.

But regarding his blushing and swollen mouth, Chu Huainan really misunderstood.

Although Shen Ting was dull and unrefined in matters of love, reactions such as blushing were not determined by subjective factors.

Even if he cared about what happened last night, it wouldn't make his forehead turn red.

Things have to start from an hour ago.

Before Chu Huainan called the video, Shen Ting, who stayed up all night, called Chang Qing.

In previous missions, even after he had just experienced a hail of bullets, he was able to fall asleep as soon as he touched his pillow, and his sleep quality was excellent.

But this time, he was sleepless all night because of Chu Huainan's late-night visit.

Insomnia is a terrible thing for Shen Ting, who needs to maintain physical and mental energy at all times.

He urgently needs some professional advice.

It happened to be Saturday, according to the usual practice, Shen Ting was supposed to report to Jingwei today.

But he still has two bottles to finish.And the little nurse who was in charge of the infusion just now told him again and again that he must not be taken lightly.It is said that there are several blood test reports that have not yet come out, and he can only be discharged from the hospital after the results come out and Director Wang confirms that there is no abnormality.

Shen Ting, who didn't want to waste time in the hospital and was eager to leave the hospital, could only obediently continue to drink salt water, and couldn't go to Jingwei as scheduled.

Chang Qing on the other end of the phone had already heard about Sun Ruohai's poisoning.

Chang Qing has been engaged in psychological research for decades, and he has already guessed that this call is probably to inform him to cancel the "psychological consultation" this afternoon.

But psychiatrists are not fortune tellers after all.

Regarding Shen's purpose of listening to this call, Chang Qing only guessed half right.

It was true that Shen Ting couldn't go today, but he did not cancel the psychological counseling session, but rescheduled it to tomorrow afternoon.

The nature of the profession makes Chang Qing sensitively aware of the other party's emotional ailments.

He understood Shen Ting, if something hadn't happened that required professional advice and help, as far as the current consultation frequency was twice a week, the other party could have waited until Wednesday to come back, and would never change the appointment tomorrow.

Chang Qing asked immediately, and he tactfully expressed the hope that he could know what happened recently, so as to provide timely help or psychological intervention.

Shen Ting on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then said vaguely, "We'll talk tomorrow when we meet."

Chang Qing thought to himself that this young police inspector with outstanding psychological quality must have encountered very difficult and unspeakable troubles.

Not long after the call was hung up, Lin Huo's call came after him again.

Shen Ting looked at the screen, frowned slightly, and thought for a few seconds before connecting the phone.

Before Lin Huo could speak, he preemptively scolded Veron severely.

"That old bastard, who obviously can't mess with me, actually dares to trick me, trying to plot against my master! #￥%...&*%￥#￥%!" The next series of emotions was described in detail and thoughtfully. Greetings to eighteen generations of Veron's ancestors.

Lin Huo was obviously taken aback by the righteous cursing on the other end of the phone.

Song Ci thought of going with him.He also felt that Song Ci's poisoning this time was quite wicked.I heard that Chu Huainan was also there that day.

If Song Ci and Chu Huainan were the targets of the poisoning this time, then in his opinion, there was no need for investigation at all, and the identity of the murderer had already been revealed.

Song Ciyi cursed for a long time with indignation.Lin Huo's ears hurt when he heard it, so he interrupted him leisurely.He made this phone call with the intention of asking the teacher for a crime.

Because such a big thing happened, Song Ci, a little bastard who couldn't figure it out, didn't notify him immediately.

"Didn't you go to Mexico on a business trip to discuss business?" Shen Ting pretended to be surprised, and said innocently: "You are not in Jianghu, so what is the use of telling you?" The implication is that Lin Huo is far away from the water. It's useless to say that it can't save the near fire.

As early as a week ago, he knew that Lin Huo was going to Mexico to discuss a business.

Mexico is a country as sensitive as the "Golden Triangle" to Shen Ting, who has dealt with drug dealers a lot.

Because this is a magical country where the drug trade is an important economic pillar.

In this country, it is conservatively estimated that there are more than 500 million practitioners involved in the drug trade.

The drug cartel, which is confronting the government, controls an armed force that far exceeds the government army.

In many areas, these rampant drug trafficking groups have even replaced the role of the government and taken over the governance of the community, forming a sense of self-government.

While drug cartels are making huge profits through the drug trade, they also control the right to speak in the media.They are good at publicizing public opinion on various platforms.In their mouth, the drug trade that has ruined many families is not cruel and bloody.On the contrary, it has a good reputation.

Some super drug lords have even packaged themselves as decent saviors.

They invest in education, medical care, and create local jobs, so that the ignorant and short-sighted people regard them as their parents.He also vigorously promotes the "Grand Thief Spirit" similar to religious beliefs, and shamelessly promotes himself as a God who robs the rich and helps the poor, and acts on behalf of the heavens.

Shen Ting knows that although there are a large number of drug cultivation fields and drug production factories in Mexico, in general, the drug groups in this country are still mainly acting as intermediate resellers in the global drug industry chain character of.

He knew exactly what Lin Huo's so-called business was about.

In his previous actions, setting a long line is always a prelude to catching big fish.

As a last resort, he didn't want to alarm Lin Huo, who was likely to be negotiating downstream partners.Therefore, during Lin Huo's business trip to Mexico, he said nothing about the poisoning.

But Lin Huo did not agree with Song Ci's rare "considerate and well-behaved".

On the other end of the phone, he was very speechless: "What kind of business is more important than your life?" He sighed: "I have already rushed back to Jianghu."

Shen heard the words, and asked: "Didn't it delay your business?"

"No, it's almost over."

After getting Lin Huo's affirmative answer, Shen Ting continued to say lightly: "Actually, I thought about reporting to you. But when I was poisoned, I was intubated, gastric lavaged,

Another inhalation treatment made my head dizzy, so I really have no time to contact you.As for yesterday..." He paused for a moment, and said cheerfully in an extremely ambiguous tone: "Chu Huainan accompanied me all day with tea and water, and my soul was almost taken away by him. I didn't even think about it." Wake up, there are other things in this world. "

These words were originally a smoke bomb thrown at Lin Huo.Shen Ting intentionally aroused people's daydreams, so he deliberately aggravated the ambiguity.But as he was talking, he suddenly thought of the dreamy scene last night.

This unnecessary damn association sent an uncomfortable numbness straight to the scalp.

Shen Ting, who had always been stiff-headed, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly.

Accidentally, he was numb by his own pretentious words.

Fortunately, Lin Huo couldn't see his expression on the phone.

Lin Huo knew that Chu Huainan really cared about Song Ci.He heard that Song Ci was only suffering from mild food poisoning, but Chu Huainan transferred him to He Ci's special needs ward involuntarily.

This is an endangered patient from a small rich family, which will not be treated.

But private hospitals are no better than public ones, they only care about money.

The "special needs" purchased with a lot of money can be regarded as the best use of the top medical resources of private hospitals by capitalists who are willing to save their lives.

In Lin Huo's view, it is a good thing that the relationship between Song Ci and Chu Huainan is stable, but when the tree grows, it will inevitably attract wind.

If the poisoning this time was really done by Veron, then after the first time, it is very likely that there will be another time.

They can't just sit around like this.

Lin Huo thought that he should have a good chat with Song Ci about this matter, so he asked the other party for the specific ward number.

Shen heard a number reported, and he raised his eyebrows slightly on the phone.

From this point of view, this Lin Huo is going to visit him?

……

Lin Huo's movements were quick. After hanging up the phone for at most fifteen minutes, he hurried into the ward with a fruit basket for visiting patients in his hand, with a dusty look on his face.

"Did you really rush back from Mexico? Mr. Lin worked so hard!" The speaker was lying on the bed with the infusion in his hand, and he still had his frivolous legs crossed, and his face was full of blessings if he survived a catastrophe.

Lin Huo had long been immune to his slippery tone, and put the fruit basket in his hand, consisting of dozens of mangoes of various sizes and varieties, on his bedside table.

"For you."

"Yo, a pure mango fruit basket? Quite unique." Shen Ting glanced at the fruit basket that was very close to him.

Because of severe allergy to mango.In his eyes, the danger of these yellow and fruity fruits exuding a quiet and fruity fragrance is not much different from a bundle of TNT or other explosives.

Even so, he jokingly said, "You're so busy, why don't you forget to bring me my favorite mango?" He calmly leaned against the bed, trying to stay away from the pile of allergens, and said with a smile : "You are so caring, it seems that I have no conscience for not notifying you immediately after being poisoned!"