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At the entrance of the hospital, Jiang Ming, Huang Rui, and Chen Kai stood there like door gods.

Jiang Ming was working off his addiction to cigarettes. Considering Chen Kai's tuberculosis, he deliberately stood a little further away, called Huang Rui over, and asked, "What's the matter? Why didn't the doctor give a diagnosis?"

Huang Rui gave Jiang Ming a disgusted look, and said, "Brother Shui, can you be a little more lively here? You are usually very smart, why don't you understand the world, and the outpatient doctor is stuck and won't give a diagnosis. I don't even understand asking for money, low!"

As he spoke, his fingers were still twirling around his head.

Jiang Ming didn't think about money at all, thinking that the rules of each hospital were different, so he flicked the cigarette ash down the steps and said, "Then how much money should be given to him?"

Huang Rui frowned even more when he heard Jiang Ming's words, "You don't have to worry about how much money you give, if they don't take it, who will take it?!"

But the situation of Chen Kai's family. . . . . .Jiang Ming smoked the rest of the cigarette silently, then threw it under his feet to sip it out, patted Huang Rui on the shoulder and said, "Let me come, his family is so poor that they are about to sell the house, where is the money?"

Jiang Ming raised his foot and was about to walk into the hospital, but was grabbed by Huang Rui, "Brother Shui, impulsiveness is the devil, the devil!"

"How much is appropriate to give?"

Huang Rui chirped and said, "Really?"

"hurry up!"

Huang Rui glanced at Chen Kai next to him, and bitterly choked out two words: "Five hundred"

"understood"

Jiang Ming entered the outpatient building, while Huang Rui watched Chen Kai outside.

"Boy, you owe Police Officer Jiang a sum today. He paid the doctor for you. You must have heard it just now. Don't forget to return the money you earn after your sentence is over."

The teenager had tears in his eyes, but they did not shed. He turned his face away and said, "Thank you, Police Officer Jiang."

Twenty minutes later, Jiang Ming came out with the diagnosis in his hand. He felt that the power of money is indeed inexhaustible, just like one year when he visited the Shaanxi Museum, the line for receiving free tickets lined up from the ticket gate to the street. And the other window next to it is selling tickets for a certain exhibition hall, the price is 10 yuan, that is to say, if you don’t want to spend money, you can sit in the row under the scorching sun. It’s you for an hour or two hours. If you are willing to spend money, just You only need to spend 30 yuan to enter the museum immediately with a ticket, and all the exhibition halls in the museum can be visited.

That time, it was Yang Ziwen's ingenuity to see through the "mystery" that saved her and Jiang Ming from having to wait in line.

Huang Rui took the diagnosis in Jiang Ming's hand and glanced at it, and said, "Just these few pieces of paper cost five hundred, grandma, what a bear!"

Since all the money was spent, Jiang Ming didn't take it seriously, he looked at his watch with a smile, and said, "It's noon, let's go to eat, the police station is supposed to be closed by this time."

Huang Rui gestured to Jiang Ming with his eyes, "What about Chen Kai?"

At this moment, Chen Kai spoke, "Officer Jiang, Officer Huang, can I go home at noon? My dad is working at the construction site and can't come back. I have to cook for my mom."

Just as Huang Rui was about to agree, Jiang Ming snatched the words, "You go with us, I'll order two dishes for you, you go home and eat with your mother"

"No...no need, thank you Officer Jiang"

Jiang Ming walked up to him and said, "Let's go, it's also by the way, or you have to make it now when you get home."

They randomly found a stir-fry restaurant near the hospital, Jiang Ming ordered two meat dishes for Chen Kai, after Chen Kai left, Huang Rui began to lecture Jiang Ming while drinking barley tea.

"Brother Shui, you have such a good heart, there will be times when you will suffer in the future"

Jiang Ming smiled and said, "This is the end of the matter."

"You should accumulate virtue for future generations."

Future generations?I'm afraid he won't have one in this life, Jiang Ming thought dully while eating the food.

"Huh? Brother Shui, let me introduce you to a girl."

"..."

"Really", Huang Rui took two sips of the soup bowl and said, "It's the best friend of my beautiful woman. She works in the Provincial Department of Justice. She was in Beijing before, and she just came back. His father seems to be The official of the Justice Department is quite big and good-looking, I have seen it before, don’t worry about that.”

Jiang Ming licked his front teeth, and smiled maliciously, "How can a girl with such a good condition be willing to follow me?"

"No, no, no!" Huang Rui gesticulated with his five fingers together, and said, "My girl is not short of money at home, so I just want to find a handsome one. I think your qualifications are right, at least you are the number one among the men I know. He looks the most energetic, let me tell you, if you guys are single, it’s a waste of resources, do you understand? I’ll get in touch with you when I get back.”

Huang Rui looked forward to it talking to himself, completely ignoring Jiang Ming's eyes full of rejection.

"Pinch your fingers and calculate that this weekend is a good day, so I will set that day, and I will send you the girl's photo later"

Jiang Ming tapped the side of the bowl twice with his chopsticks, and finally pulled Huang Rui back from his fantasy.

"Let's forget it, the condition of his family is too good, I can't afford to climb high"

"Brother Shui!" Huang Rui shook a spoon up and down in his hand, and said, "Did you make this yourself?"

Jiang Ming responded with his Taiwanese accent, "No."

"Short-sighted! If you follow this girl, within two years you will be able to rise higher than those who have worked for ten years. We are all engaged in official careers. Who would be willing to spend the rest of their lives in this small prison? It's me who can't afford to climb high, you don't have this kind of situation at all, if you don't believe me, just look in the mirror and you'll know, if I look as handsome as you, what's the matter with you?!"

Jiang Ming smiled and pushed the dish in front of him towards Huang Rui, and said, "Let's eat, let's put this matter aside for now, and we'll talk about it later"

Maybe it was because he was really hungry, Huang Rui didn't continue the topic just now, picked up his rice bowl and started eating, Jiang Ming couldn't help but think of Lu Kun when he saw how fast he was eating.

Lu Kun ate very quickly, as if he ate purely for the sake of being full. Recently, he had gotten better, because he had to match Jiang Ming's rhythm, so he slowed down when he was with him.

After lunch, the two of them went back to the hotel to rest for a while, and they took Chen Kai to the police station in his home area at two o'clock.

It was much smoother to sign at the police station, it was all in one system, there was nothing difficult to say, Jiang Ming let Chen Kai go home after the police station finished.

And he and Huang Rui have to stay in Mucheng for one night because they are on the train tomorrow morning.

After Chen Kai left, Jiang Ming asked Huang Rui, "Did you give Chen Kai money just now?"

"Give five hundred"

Jiang Ming smiled, "He's a kind person, what are you pretending to be?"

I saw Huang Rui raised his head and said, "I gave it to you, good brother, let's advance and retreat together"

In the evening, Huang Rui took Jiang Ming to eat the famous barbecue in Mucheng. The two also drank a few bottles of beer, chatted with colleagues in the unit, and bragged for a while. After returning to the hotel, they went to sleep with their heads covered.

During the period, Lu Kun called Jiang Ming, because Huang Rui was there, it was inconvenient to talk, so he hung up after talking a few words, and Jiang Ming didn't tell Lu Kun that he would go back tomorrow.

At three o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Jiang Ming went directly from the train station to Lu Kun's store, because he was still off work at this time, so Jiang Ming would not see him when he returned home.

Walking to the crossing next to Sihai Rent a Car, Jiang Ming saw Deng Liqiang at once, more precisely Deng Liqiang and Lu Kun.

When the two of them stood together, the contrast was too strong, one was tall and handsome, the other was short and vulgar, it was difficult for people not to notice.

Jiang Ming knew that they were talking about something, so he didn't go forward. He leaned against a car in the blind spot of their vision, and listened quietly.

It was Deng Liqiang who spoke first, and he said: "Lu Kun, I didn't expect you to be so powerful. You can take both men and women. That little police officer looks fair and clean. He turned out to be gay, haha"

Lu Kun smiled lightly and said, "Really? Why don't I know?"

"Don't pretend to be here with me, Lu Kun, you sacrificed enough for your brother, do you want to share with your buddies what it's like to sleep with a man? Let me listen, is it better than sleeping with a woman?!"

Lu Kun took out a cigarette slowly from his pocket, lit it, looked at Deng Liqiang and said, "It's just a joke, I didn't take it seriously, why are you worrying so much?!"

Jiang Ming suddenly froze, his mind went blank. . . . . .

Deng Liqiang: "Okay, you have the ability to transfer your brother to the ward, and let the little police officer look at you and think that I can't do anything to you, right? If you don't withdraw the lawsuit, I will publicize the two of you, of course , you don’t have to be ashamed if you don’t have a father or a mother, can’t you little police officer?”

Lu Kun took the cigarette out of his mouth, scratched his forehead, and said, "Someone needs to believe me when I say it. I, Lu Kun, have a girlfriend, and I don't lack women. Officer Jiang, heh, he is afraid of being shamed." What happened to me, and you said it, he can't blame me."

Deng Liqiang stopped talking, bit his teeth together fiercely, and his eyes were about to burst into flames as he stared at Lu Kun.

Lu Kun struck while the iron was hot, and continued: "I advise you not to waste your time on these trivial matters. If you have this time, you might as well go back and hire a better lawyer to defend you, and strive for less compensation."

Deng Liqiang nodded his head twice in slow motion, and said: "Lu Kun, you are cruel, just wait and see, if I don't kill you, I will be in vain!"

After speaking, he turned around and left, leaving Lu Kun to put out the cigarette in his hand and go back to the store.

And Jiang Ming walked farther and farther in the opposite direction, without turning back even once.

Yang Ziwen once said: "There is no kind of emotion in this world that is reliable"

At this moment, standing in the messy bedroom, Jiang Ming felt more and more that this sentence was true.

After he came back and smoked two cigarettes, he began to pack Lu Kun's things. His hands were shaking during the whole process, and in the end he couldn't tell which belonged to Lu Kun and which ones. . .is their own.

As time goes by, everything they own is mixed, their clothes are worn with each other, and their daily necessities are not separated from each other. It is like two rivers coming from different directions. The river water mixes and nourishes an oasis. So the people on the shore forgot their former names, only remembering that there is only one river flowing slowly, and they firmly believe that its way back is the sea.

After tidying up his clothes, Jiang Ming sat on the bed, seeing the sealed cardboard box, his stomach suddenly turned upside down, he closed his eyes and covered his stomach with his hands, and he didn't recover for a long time.

It hurts more than ever. . . . . .