The Heart of a Smith

Li Sui hung up the phone and started to book the plane ticket. Seeing his strange expression, Sima Jingrong leaned over to take a look: "What happened, you want to go back now?"

"Well, there's something urgent." Li Sui checked on his phone, but luckily, his regular flight just happened to be cancelled.

"What kind of air ticket do you book? You can go back by our family's plane, and you can leave now." After speaking, Sima Jingrong called the waiter to check out.

"Are you alright?" Li Sui asked.

"What can I do? I just came out to play," Sima Jingrong urged him, "Hurry up, it's important."

Fortunately, the main work has been handed over, and only some trivial chores are left. It is not a big problem if he is not there.Li Sui told a few middle-level people with trustworthy character to ask the hotel attendant to pack his luggage, and then rushed to the fishing village to buy the turtle bait Lu Shang asked for.

It was still dark when we got home, more than three hours earlier than expected, there was no one at home, Lu Shang must have gone out, and he came back suddenly, Aunt Lu was not prepared, so naturally she would not come to cook so early.Li Sui carried his luggage upstairs, and first called the guy in Zhuyuan to find out the situation. With an idea in his mind, he knew that this was not something that could be resolved in a short while, so he rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Just after cleaning the bean sprouts in his hand, the door loosened for a while, and Lu Shang opened the door and came in. Li Sui turned to look at him, smiled, and was about to speak, Lu Shang said first: "Sister Lu, make some sweet soup today, Li Sui will be back tonight .”

Li Sui stared at him changing shoes, feeling surprised in his heart: "Lu Shang?"

The person at the door obviously froze when he heard the words, looked up at him, then smiled slightly: "Are you back?"

Just as Li Sui was about to speak, he suddenly noticed a bruise on his forehead, and his expression changed: "What's wrong with your forehead? It seems to have been bumped?"

"It's okay, I accidentally knocked it."

Li Sui walked over, held his face and looked at it carefully, and said worriedly: "If you go any lower, you will hurt your eyes, does it hurt? Did you apply medicine?"

"It's okay, little injury," Lu Shang didn't care, and took out the glasses from the drawer to put them on, "Why is it so early today? Have you finished everything?"

"It's almost there, Jingrong and I came back together," Li Sui went to the medicine box to find a bottle of ointment and a cotton swab, "Uncle Yuan told me about Big Brother Zuo, I'll come back to help you."

"I was just about to tell you this." Lu Shang took off his coat and sat down on the sofa. "I have already asked someone to take care of him at the detention center, but it may not take a day or two for him to be released on bail."

"Did he make a move?" Li Sui squatted down in front of him, dipped a cotton swab into the ointment and applied it carefully, "Don't move."

Lu Shang closed his eyes and let him apply the medicine: "He didn't do anything himself, but one of his subordinates did, and he was armed. The police found out that he was the leader, and he must be responsible."

"That is to say, they still made a move, and the police are not arresting the wrong person."

"Yes, first of all, let's make it clear that he did commit a crime. We don't need to spend too much effort on it. Now the main focus should be on how to put him—"

Lu Shang opened his eyes and saw Li Sui squatting half-squatting and staring at him quietly: "What's wrong?"

Li Sui: "I want a hug."

Lu Shang smiled and opened his arms, Li Sui immediately rushed forward and hugged him tightly, rubbing his chin back and forth on his neck, his eyes narrowed in satisfaction: "...I miss you like crazy."

"How come the older you get, the more you go back." Lu Shang patted the back of his head with a smile.

"It doesn't matter," Li Sui tightened his grip again, "This minute is mine, and Brother Zuo has to stand aside."

In the suburbs not far away, Zuo Chao sneezed in the dark and cursed, "This place is so fucking cold!"

After an unknown amount of time, there was the sound of a key turning at the door, and then the door opened, and someone obviously walked in, as if stunned for a moment, then closed the door and backed out.

Only then did the two let go, their eyes met and they both smiled.

"Ask Aunt Lu to come in, it's cold outside." Lu Shang urged.

The dinner was casual, during which Li Sui gave a brief feedback on the work in Hainan to Lu Shang, and received a compliment: "Well done, it's worthy of being taught by me."

"So this time, let me solve it." Li Sui said.

Lu Shang thought for a while: "You can't do it alone. Tomorrow, I will ask Xu Weilan to tell you the specific situation of the detention center. You can discuss it. There is another thing. Zuo Chao has a second-hand car factory that buys it at a low price all year round. The black car was resold after being repaired and reorganized. After he entered, the legality of this garage became a problem, and we had to find a way to solve it.”

Li Sui nodded seriously.

At night, the two of them had nothing to worry about, so they took a simple shower together in the bathroom. Li Sui noticed that Lu Shang was a little tired, so he pressed the acupuncture points on his wrists that were good for the heart, and fell asleep hugging each other.

Li Sui went out early the next morning. He had also studied law abroad. Although it was different from that in China, it still had a certain reference value. After discussing with Xu Weilan, the two decided to start with the procuratorate.

As for the detention center, they never looked for it, because the director was Liu Xingtian's brother-in-law, and it was useless to look for it. Fortunately, there was a supervisor in the detention center who had been favored by the Lu family before, and promised to ensure that Zuo Chao would not suffer in it.

Xu Weilan has been running around for the past few days, asking people to find connections.Maybe it's because Liu Xingtian and Lu Shang are both working hard. Many people are unwilling to get involved in this matter, because no matter who offends any party, it is not beneficial. These people either avoid it and take a vacation, or cry bitterly about their incompetence. , in short, it is an attitude, impartiality, business-like.

It sounds good to be business-like, but it is actually not good for Zuo Chao. After all, he did commit a crime. The matter itself can be big or small, and the right to speak is still in the hands of others.

"The decision on the hearing has been made, and it will be held next week at the earliest. This week, we must hurry up and meet all the participants." Xu Weilan didn't sleep for several days, and her eyes were swollen.

Li Sui sighed, it was already the third week, and the matter had not made any substantial progress: "If this matter was on the territory of the Lu family, people would have come out long ago."

"Yeah, to put it bluntly, it was a fight. The one who was beaten was only slightly injured. In order to blame Zuo, he stayed in the hospital and couldn't come out. Alas, I have never seen such a shameless person." Xu Weilan said straight Shaking his head, he asked again, "How did you solve the car factory?"

"Closed for rectification."

"What?!"

Li Sui turned around: "What?"

"You disbanded his factory?" Xu Weilan looked disbelieving.

Li Sui frowned: "It's not legal in the first place. If you continue to drive it, wouldn't it mean you're giving someone a chance to catch you? Besides, I went to see those people in his car factory, and they weren't good at anything. Brother Zuo just went in, and those people I just want to fish in troubled waters to fish for myself. Besides, the leader is not here, who knows if they will be provoked to fight with people again during this period, and it will be even more difficult for us to catch people."

Xu Weilan gradually recalled that Li Sui and Lu Shang's way of doing things seems to be the same way, but in fact there is still a big difference: Lu Shang is soft and always behaves first before fighting, while Li Sui is more sharp because of his youth , compared to the process, he pays more attention to the result, and he is not afraid of offending people.

"That's fine, you decide." Xu Weilan didn't want to talk too much.

The hearing went very smoothly, and the result was released that day without social harm. Li Sui was very happy, and reported the news to Lu Shang as soon as he returned home: "The procuratorate has released the result, and the police must have it within ten days. Execute, you can prepare for Big Brother Zuo to catch the wind."

After Lu Shang listened to his words, he was not as indifferent as usual. Instead, he showed a worried look. The procuratorate is the supervision department of the public security. He avoids the public security and goes directly to the procuratorate for a hearing. After getting the results, he returns to the public security and asks the public security to carry out the investigation. This process is equivalent to slapping the police in the face and forcing them to release him. With Liu Xingtian's personality, I'm afraid things will not be so easy.

Although it is good to save the country with a curve, there is another idiom, which is called too hard and easy to break.

But this is just his guess after all, Lu Shang raised his head and smiled: "That's good."

Facts have proved that Lu Shang's idea is correct.

It dragged on until the tenth day, Li Sui had arranged a car to pick up people, and suddenly received a call from Xu Weilan, who was going crazy: "What's the matter, the police just said they can't handle it , Kicking people back to the procuratorate together with the case, let’s not say it sooner or later, but this is the last day to make such a move.”

"Then what should we do now?" Li Sui's voice became cold.

"Resubmit the materials and go through the process of bail pending trial at the procuratorate, this..." Xu Weilan sighed, "It means that all our previous efforts are in vain, and now we have to get the person out, I really don't know when it will be. "

Li Sui's heart turned cold.

Li Sui really wanted to see Zuo Chao, but now he couldn't see anyone except the lawyer. He heard from Xu Weilan that the days inside were such that in such a cold day, he could only bathe in cold water. It's clear soup with little water, think about it, it's not human, Zuo Chao has been used to being the boss for so many years, how can he suffer this kind of hardship.

What's more, the cause of this matter is inseparable from him. If it wasn't for him, Lu Shang would not have given up the trade area to Liu Xingtian rashly, and he would not have fallen into Liu Xingtian's trap.

Although Zuo Chao was born in the underworld, he is very righteous and loyal. He has been helping the Lu family for so many years and has taken good care of him.Thinking of this, Li Sui felt even more anxious.

After several days of running outside, Li Sui didn't even have time to go home for dinner. When Li Sui got off the car and saw the moon was full again, he suddenly realized that it had been two months since Zuo Chao went in.If this matter was handled by Lu Shang, the three of them would probably be able to sit together and drink tea by now.

"Are you looking at the moon?" A pleasant voice came.

Li Sui turned his head and saw Lu Shang standing at the door smiling at him.

"Why are you standing at the door, isn't it cold?" Li Sui walked over and squeezed his hand, it was indeed cold.

"I'm curious what you're looking at," Lu Shangdao reached out and rubbed the corners of his eyes, "the dark circles are all coming out."

Li Sui took advantage of the situation to circle him, and leaned his head up: "Lu Shang, I feel so useless that I can't even protect one of your subordinates."

"It's his fate, it's none of your business, don't punish yourself with other people's mistakes," Lu Shang said in relief, "and he has been too domineering in what he has done all these years. Big mistake."

When the main point was mentioned, Li Sui's mood that had been gloomy for a month suddenly became clear like this moonlight, and he said with a smile, "Why are you so good at talking?"

"It's not that you can talk," Lu Shang held his hand instead, and kissed him on his lips, "I know what you're thinking."

Li Sui stared at him quietly: "Then guess what I'm thinking right now?"

Lu Shang smiled knowingly: "It's indescribable."

The turning point happened on Monday. Xu Weilan came early in the morning with the news that Zuo Chao was suffering from acute pneumonia in the detention center and applied for medical parole. Because of his serious condition, the detention center was afraid of taking responsibility, so he approved it immediately. Now he has been transferred to the city hospital for medical treatment. cure.

"Is it serious?" Li Sui asked.

Xu Weilan looked enigmatic, and whispered: "It doesn't matter if the person is serious or not, as long as the hospital says it's serious."

Li Sui immediately understood: "There is someone..."

"Hush—" Xu Weilan said, "This is an opportunity, as long as the person comes out, the rest can be discussed."

After Zuo Chao was admitted to the hospital, the situation immediately reversed. The hospital insisted on refusing to release him on the grounds that his condition was serious and contagious. The detention center brought people to demand him every day. The person in charge couldn't bear it anymore, and waved his big hand and said: Follow the normal process, and no party is allowed to intervene.

Ten days later, Zuo Chao was finally released as he wished. When Li Sui brought someone to pick him up, his mood was extremely calm because of the repeated ups and downs in the past two months.

"Let's go back to the bamboo garden first, my sister-in-law must be in a hurry." Xu Weilan finished the formalities and got on the driveway.

In just two months, Zuo Chao lost at least twenty catties, and his cheeks were sunken. Fortunately, he was in good spirits. He waved his hand and said, "She will cry, so I don't bother to invite that bad luck. Take me to the car factory Let's meet the brothers first."

As soon as the words came out, Li Sui and Xu Weilan were stunned for a moment.

Li Sui suddenly felt that he might have done something wrong, "...the depot, I was disbanded."

Hearing this, Zuo Chao turned his head to look at him, his gaze made Li Sui nowhere to hide, he only let out a muffled "Oh" for a long while, and then didn't say anything else.

Li Sui sent people home, feeling uneasy all the time, wanted to go to Zuo Chao to explain the reason for closing the factory, wandered around at the gate of Zhuyuan for a while, seeing how the husband and wife had finally reunited and talked to each other, it was not easy to bother , had no choice but to go back to Lu's house depressed.

Finally solved a major matter on his mind, but Li Sui didn't look happy at all. He called Zuo Chao several times these days, but no one answered.

At first Li Sui thought that Zuo Chao had just come out and had too many things to answer, but later overheard the content of Xu Weilan's phone call, only to realize that Zuo Chao didn't have time to answer the phone, but specifically refused to answer his calls. The avoidance made Li Sui even more sad.

He did not handle this matter properly. Although the starting point was to get the people out smoothly, the factory was fine when the people went in, but most of the people who came out had already dispersed, and some enemies even came to find trouble and smashed the gate. It's rotten, seeing this scene makes people feel uncomfortable.To put it bluntly, he was not sensitive enough to the subtle changes in the relationship between friends, thinking that it was as simple and pure as the relationship between him and Lu Shang, and there would be no barriers.He is obviously the best at interpersonal relationships, but this time, there are probably personal emotional factors mixed in, but it is a bit unclear.

Zuo Chao's avoidance for several days finally made Li Sui collapse. When he returned home at night, he saw the fire in the living room fireplace from a distance, which formed a strong contrast with the severe cold outside. Under the warm atmosphere, he couldn't help but feel aggrieved.

"Are you back? I caught a tortoise this afternoon. Come and buy a tank with me tomorrow weekend, and raise it up." Lu Shang was teasing a tortoise inside by the pool. After a while, he didn't hear an answer, and looked back. Li Sui, seeing his tired face, his expression changed slightly, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I'm a little tired." Li Sui stepped forward to hug him, didn't say anything, just rested his head on his shoulder quietly, as if his ears were drooping.

Lu Shang noticed that he was in a different mood, his shoulders loosened, he reached out to hug him, patted his back, meant to comfort him, and said with a smile, "Are you wronged?"

Li Sui just hugged him, his whole body wishing he could not get off his body, he was tired for a while, and then he closed his eyes and sighed softly: "Lu Shang, it's so difficult between people..."

Lu Shang didn't ask what was the matter, nor did he refute him, he just let him hold him, raised his hand and rubbed his head: "Do you feel hard?"

Li Sui was taller than him, and he had to raise his arms to rub his head. The person being rubbed was very helpful, and he was so comfortable that he rubbed his hands on his own initiative, and let out a muffled "um".

Lu Shang's palms were itchy from being rubbed, and he smiled softly: "Come on, close your eyes, and I will give you some energy."

Li Sui stepped back a little and closed his eyes obediently.

Lu Shang raised his hand and turned off the overhead light. In the living room, only the firelight of the fireplace swayed left and right. The shadows of the two jumping were reflected on the wall. Into the mouth, leaving a gentle lingering between the lips.

Li Sui's heart was moved by the kiss, his eyelashes trembled, and he began to respond to him with the same softness.

The crackling sound of burning reverberated in the silent room, which sounded extraordinarily reassuring. The two kissed inseparably, breathing entangledly. The atmosphere was so good that no one wanted to interrupt it.Lu Shang's calf became weak after standing for a long time, so he put his hands on his shoulders, Li Sui was encouraged, and hugged his waist, the two of them pushed and fell onto the sofa with a soft sound, Li Sui leaned over and stared at him. The eyes of the people under him seemed to be filled with a deep pool.

Lu Shang raised his head and showed his beautiful neck, smiled and stretched out his hand to touch his abdominal muscles. It was like a signal, which instantly set Li Sui on fire. He simply stopped thinking about those things and devoted himself to the next sex thing. middle.

In the pool in the corner, the little tortoise shyly retracted its limbs into its shell as if it had been frightened.