Warm Water Spirits

It was also seven years ago that Pei Zhe was seriously injured and retired from the army. Originally, he could continue to serve and go further when he recovered from his injury.But for some reason, Pei Zhe voluntarily chose to retire.

The comrade-in-arms who survived guessed that it was because of the pressure from his sister, after all, the siblings of the Pei family depended on each other for life since childhood.When Pei Zhe was seriously injured and his life and death were unknown, Pei Yue almost had a miscarriage.

After recovering from his injuries, Pei Zhe went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.There were not many twists and turns during the period, and it was natural to enter the Armaments Department.Not only because of Pei Zhe's outstanding aptitude and amazing learning ability, but more importantly, among the negotiating officials, no one knows the lethality of field weapons better than Pei Zhe.

Pei Zhe didn't talk much.When Li Xun came over to say hello, Pei Zhe said "Thank you for your hard work" as usual.

Li Xun smiled and waved his hands. He was very steady, and he also spoke: "Some cases are like this, and they drag on for seventeen or eight years. They are all my own work."

You Kuang smoked his cigarette twice, didn't think much, opened his mouth and said a few words about the case in the early morning of this morning, "...the drugs are all models from a few years ago, and the inspection department issued a report at nine o'clock, and it turned out that it was not the same as the one injected by the suspect. This is why I rushed to the hospital to wait for the results... is it soon?" He said and looked at Li Xun who was a little stiff for some reason.

Li Xun looked at his watch and confirmed: "Morning. Only ten or four minutes have passed."

"You guys are busy. I'll go up first." Pei Zhe said briefly.

Only then did You Kuang realize that he was talking too much.In fact, apart from Jiang Yunqi's case, Pei Zhe didn't care about their criminal investigation at all. The few sentences he explained just now were simply inexplicable.

After Pei Zhe left, Li Xun loosened his shoulders and laughed at himself, "I'm older than him by how many years, and he looks like he's only in his 30s? Just standing next to me, my shoulders were tense."

You Kuang touched his nose, took out a cigarette and flicked it under his nose, "You are better than me. Just now, I started to organize my words before I got out of the car. I didn't even call when the team leader reported. Draft—what are you laughing at!”

Li Xun heheed twice: "Those who have done extraordinarily important missions in Suihu look at people differently. There are more dead people than living people."

"Pei Si should be in our line of business. Didn't he recruit all of them at a glance?"

There was still a while, and the two sat back in the car while chatting, so as not to encounter any leaders by chance.

When Pei Zhe arrived on the fifth floor, Jiang Yunqi was led by the nurse to check one by one.Pei Yue wasn't there either.

The schoolbag is placed on the chair under the window, leaning against the back of the chair.Pei Zhe walked over and found that the sweater he had just worn this morning had been taken off, and it was draped over the back of the chair in an attempt to hide it, perfectly blocked by his schoolbag.

Pei Zhe couldn't help laughing, the sweater felt sporadic warmth, it seemed that he had just gone there not long ago.

Pei Yue opened the door and came in and saw Pei Zhe holding Jiang Yunqi's sweater. It was also a little funny: "As soon as I entered the door, I heard that blood was about to be drawn, so I took off the sweater by myself. I thought that I don't need to take off all the blood, just stretch out an arm." Yes, he has to take it off."

"He doesn't like to wear sweaters."

Pei Zhe folded Jiang Yunqi's sweater and put it aside, found a seat and sat down, waiting for Jiang Yunqi to finish checking.

Pei Yue went to the table and searched for the list of new medicines that the pharmacy department sent this morning. After a while, she turned around and said, "We really broke up?"

Pei Zhe nodded and took out his phone to check his email.

The research institute sent the latest test data of the S773 to U31 fighters, but the sender was changed to Ji Lin, and the beginning stated that he would contact the Armaments Department temporarily.

Pei Zhe opened the encrypted attachment and glanced at the data.The "Skywalker" project, which had previously been in the top row, was pulled, and there were no additional attachments to explain why.Pei Zhe forwarded the email to Yu Cheng'an and asked why.Yu Cheng'an might be on the plane, so he didn't come back immediately.

"He Jia is fine...you're just too busy. But you still have time to run around with this kid——Pei Zhe, did you hear me?"

Pei Zhe raised his head with the usual expression, "I heard you."

Pei Yue stood a few steps away from Pei Zhe, her brows were slightly frowned, her eyes were the same as Pei Zhe's, and when she focused on people, she was very sharp.She has a beautiful face, and the lines at the corners of her eyes and brows are extremely elegant.The facial features are similar to Pei Zhe's, but compared to Pei Zhe's calmness, Pei Yue's aura has a bit more obvious pressure.

Pei Zhe understood his sister's temper, put away the phone and started chatting seriously: "My brother-in-law said that Wenwen wants to go to the United States to participate in the winter camp, but you won't let me. Wenwen doesn't want to talk to you now."

Pei Yue knew that Pei Zhe was changing the subject, so she squinted at the calm Pei Zhe who had no expression on her face. She twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "What did Wen Cuo tell you? I'll sing all the white faces? Wenwen has been in poor health since she was young. I don't trust her to go so far alone."

"Isn't there a teacher and classmates? There must be no problem with safety. Wenwen is also very good."

"Be nicer than Yunqi."

Pei Zhe noticed that Jiang Yunqi's schoolbag was bulging, and the zipper was unzipped, and the English books that had been randomly rolled up and stuffed in before popped out.

Pei Zhe found something to do for himself, helping Jiang Yunqi organize his schoolbag.

Seeing that Pei Zhe didn't answer, Pei Yue said directly, "Before He Jia left, He Jia asked me to have dinner."

Pei Zhe looked up, knowing that he couldn't escape the topic, so he simply listened carefully.

"I'm even embarrassed. She's a pretty good girl. It's good to put a little care on her, so that she won't be so chilling."

Pei Zhe was helpless, and when he was about to say something, Pei Yue interrupted, "Don't tell me you're busy."

"Although He Jia and you are not in the same department, I think you can usually talk together. Why can't you get along? Didn't you meet his parents during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year?"

It's all about what.

Pei Zhe smiled, stretched out his hand to zip it up, put his schoolbag on his knees, and raised his eyes, "Sister, who did you hear that I saw someone's parents? It's Mid-Autumn Festival? Do you dare to love the whole August day and August [-]th? I need it for work. M There is a mid-year forum at the University of Engineering, and not only He’s parents went there—am I so ignorant?”

"Not necessarily." Pei Yue couldn't understand this younger brother more and more.

"..." Pei Zhe didn't want to speak.

The eyes shifted from Jiang Yunqi's schoolbag to the squarely folded sweater. Pei Yue's face was not very good because of the thoughts that had been lingering in her heart for the past few days, and her tone changed: "Pei Zhe, I am now—— I really don't know what you're planning."

"I thought at first that you had compassion and sympathy for this child who was rescued by yourself. You will keep him by your side and help him to go to college and find a job in the future. I don't agree, but you have to start a family yourself—what are you going to do?"

Pei Zhe had a headache, didn't look back, thought for a while and said, "I'll go and see Yun Qi."

Every time when it comes to his relationship problems, Pei Yue's opening remarks are almost exactly the same except for the words "I thought" at the beginning.

"Wen Cuo told me that you have been in contact with the police for seven years." Pei Yue took a deep breath, her voice low.

Pei Zhe stopped.

"Seven years. When you're not out of intensive care. When life and death are in doubt. You start planning."

Pei Yue seemed to want to say these words for a long time, so that when the last words came out of her throat, her tone was trembling.

"Don't worry. I don't dare to tell me about the extra Wencuo. I don't know anything."

Pei Zhe turned around and watched that Pei Yue didn't speak, his face was calm, it seemed that what Pei Yue said was the same as usual.

"After rescuing this child from Suihu, you have been in a coma for two weeks. You have three gunshot wounds on your body, more than a dozen knife wounds, serious injuries and infection... and that knife, Wencuo said, as long as the knife is tilted a little bit—— I don't even know if you'll come back."

"Sister. I'm fine now."

Pei Yue frowned and looked at Pei Zhe with complicated eyes.

It seems that after going through that purgatory on earth, there is something different between the Pei Zhe in front of him and his "brother Pei Zhe".

"I was kept in the dark by you about many things at that time."

"Of course I'm very happy that you suddenly decided to retire. Later, Jiang Yunqi was injured and fell into a coma for three years. When he woke up, he didn't remember anything. You suddenly said that he wanted to adopt, and I felt nothing."

"I thought you just didn't want this kid to grow up in an orphanage like us."

"Later, I learned from Wencuo what Jiang Yunqi did to you."

"I can't like him anyway. I'm on the defensive—you know that."

"But I'm getting more and more worried. I'm worried that once Jiang Yunqi thinks about it, it's you who ruined his family—"

"Sister." Pei Zhe's expression remained unchanged, and his brows did not move. He looked at Pei Yue extremely calmly, even a little indifferently.

"Now, there is another possibility."

Pei Yue took a deep breath, and when she spoke again, her eyes were full of disbelief.

"Wen Cuo told me that you have been in touch with the police...I was thinking about it—I thought about it for a long time. I remembered the name of the person Jiang Yunqi was chanting over and over again on the hospital bed after being rescued from serious injuries."

"Jiang Zhenghe...he hasn't been caught yet."

"Pei Zhe, what do you think of this child?"

From the beginning to the end, Pei Zhe stood there without answering.

For a long time, the Pei siblings looked at each other silently.

Those unbearable pasts have long been buried under layers of accumulation over time. Now that they are peeled away and examined carefully, every little clue is shocking.

In the end, Pei Yue looked away and said softly, "I don't know... Are you being cruel to him, or are you being crueler to yourself."

Wen Cuo came back from the ward round and saw Pei Zhe who was leaning against the wall guarding the door of the office. He knew that something was wrong, so he turned around and arranged for the interns to go back to sort out the cases.

The crowd dispersed, Wen Cuo smiled and confessed: "I just said one thing. Let me repeat it to you: Don't keep urging Pei Zhe, you don't know that he is busy now. He is still in a relationship? He Jia has a good temper Yes. If I have such a boyfriend, having one is equal to not having one."

"Then your sister said: He is busy. I don't know he is busy? There are no holidays? Is there always time to have dinner with the girl?"

"I said: You can't take care of Yun Qi during holidays? The police station will issue a stack of reports every few months. After seven years, do you really know how busy he is?"

"—I swear, I just said these few, few, words."

Wen Cuo was dressed in a white coat, with a dignified and upright appearance, and his facial features also added points, he was upright and handsome.

Pei Zhe looked at him indifferently, and said indifferently, "Four years ago, it was you who said 'that knife was stabbed by Jiang Yunqi', which made my family restless——to this day."

"Wen Cuo, did my Pei family owe you anything in my previous life?" Coupled with Pei Zhe's expression, these words didn't seem like a joke at all.

Wen Cuo sighed, knowing that he was wrong, and also understood the seriousness of the matter: "I'm really sorry. You don't know that your sister's eyes are like Monkey King. Besides, your knife is really dangerous, it's not clear—ah , was stabbed just like that—you say, what do you say? Can this matter be over?"

Pei Zhe knew it would be useless to talk to him no matter how many times.

When meeting Pei Yue, Wen Cuo just asked what to do.

Wen Cuo was a military doctor before, and Suihu followed him when he was on mission.Pei Zhe knew Wen Cuo's personality, and Wen Cuo was also his trusted friend.

It's just that this friend later became his brother-in-law, and his position has long been lost to the Pacific Ocean.

Wen Cuo saw the disgust in Pei Zhe's eyes, and said dissatisfiedly, "I'm your brother-in-law anyway. You don't even call me brother-in-law? Have you learned from Jiang Yunqi?"

Pei Zhe didn't bother to look at him, so he left.

The hospital ceiling lights were blindingly white.

Jiang Yunqi sat on the seat arranged by the nurse and ate bananas slowly.Just after the blood was drawn, his face was unreasonably pale.

The nurses here like Jiang Yunqi very much.Not only because Jiang Yunqi is good-looking and has beautiful eyes, but more importantly, Jiang Yunqi is quiet.I don't know how many decibels it is quieter than ordinary children.Sitting obediently on the side, doing whatever you are asked to do, and looking at you without blinking, the motherhood of an angel in white is so overflowing that even if a needle is pricked, I feel distressed.

Pei Zhe stood watching not far away, but did not walk over immediately.

Jiang Yunqi seemed to bring his own "Brother Pei detector". He saw Pei Zhe in a blink of an eye, hurriedly finished the last few mouthfuls, walked to Pei Zhe while swallowing, raised his head and said vaguely, "Brother."

Pei Zhe patted Jiang Yunqi's head, "Let's go."

Only then did Jiang Yunqi see Pei Zhe carrying his schoolbag and reached out to take it, but Pei Zhe refused.Withdrawing his hand, he raised his head and said, "My sweater..."

"It's inside." Pei Zhe didn't mean to blame.

Jiang Yunqi was a little guilty, and explained: "If you want to draw blood, you have to take it off..."

"Well. I won't wear it next time. I won't wear it if I don't like it."

When Pei Zhe said this, his tone was as if no matter what kind of "dislike" Jiang Yunqi raised later, he would obey unconditionally.unconditional.

But Jiang Yunqi didn't notice it, and was still immersed in Pei Zhe's pleasant voice, fuzzy, and missed the perfect opportunity to ask for the phone back.

Jiang Yunqi took the snacks given by the nurse and ate all the way.If you can't eat it, put it in Pei Rut's cart.When loading it, I asked the owner of the car, "Can I put it here? This chocolate is delicious, and you can eat it when you are hungry. I can give you the remaining two pieces."

Pei Zhe shifted his gaze and glanced, "Yes."

Jiang Yunqi stuffed the empty passenger drawer to the brim.

When he was full, he began to recognize his way. Jiang Yunqi looked around and was in a super good mood for no reason, "Where are we going?"

"Buy a scarf." Pei Zhe looked at the sign in the parking lot opposite the mall, "What do you want for dinner?"

"Aunt Song said in the morning that she was going to buy ribs. Shall we go back and eat?"

"it is good."

There are many people in the mall on weekends.There is still more than a month until Christmas, but the red and white atmosphere is already very strong.

Jiang Yunqi walked beside Pei Zhe, his gaze shifted from his toes to Pei Zhe's steady pace, and then upwards, he looked at Pei Zhe's hand that was naturally placed by his side, then at his own hand, bowed his head in thought for a long time, but did not move .

"come over."

Pei Zhe clasped Jiang Yunqi's shoulders and hugged him forward, making way for a giant doll behind him.

Jiang Yunqi was delighted.

But in the next two seconds, Pei Zhe let go of him.

Jiang Yunqi sighed silently.

Pei Zhe couldn't figure out why the 19-year-old Jiang Yunqi was so unpredictable. There was a 15-year age difference between them, so Pei Zhe would choose to ask directly.

"what happened?"

Jiang Yunqi looked up.

Pei Zhe looked down at him, with mild eyebrows and eyes. The blurred decorative lights in the window flowed out, and slowly fell on one side of Pei Zhe's cheek, clearly defining the outline of his jaw, adding a bit of sexiness.

Jiang Yunqi blushed.

Pei Zhe was even more puzzled, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch Jiang Yunqi's forehead. The temperature was right, and he lowered his head to get closer. He looked at Jiang Yunqi carefully, and unconsciously joined the exploration in his deep eyes. It was not a cold question to a stranger, but a soft and caring tolerance.

"Yun Qi?"

Jiang Yunqi stammered, "I, I'm fine."

Pei Zhe was helpless, patted Jiang Yunqi's head, held Jiang Yunqi's wrist, and walked forward, "Let's go."

Jiang Yunqi stared at his grasped wrist, dry and slightly scalded and tightly wrapped, and suddenly understood what was said in the Chinese class, what was said in the Chinese class, what was nowhere to be found, what——

No matter how many descriptions there are, Jiang Yunqi couldn't think of any.

Pei Zhe bought many scarves.

So much so that Jiang Yunqi wondered if Pei Zhe was unemployed.

In the future, I will join the service trade industry.

As for the color and pattern, as long as Jiang Yunqi said it was not bad, Pei Zhe would buy it.

The two were carrying two large bags of scarves that were merged together. Jiang Yunqi was worried and couldn't help asking, "Why did you buy so many?"

Pei Zhe said nonchalantly, "I'll wear it for you."

"I can't use that much."

Jiang Yunqi felt that such a perfect person as Pei Zhe also had shortcomings.

Do not know moderation.

Can't live life (this sentence is learned from Aunt Song).

"Use it slowly." Pei Zhe's tone was extremely natural.

"..."

"It won't work for decades..." Jiang Yunqi sighed.

"Then use it for decades." Pei Zhe looked down at him, "Yun Qi will use the scarf bought by Brother Pei for decades to come."

You can't feel it on the fifth or sixth floor of the shopping mall, but on the first floor, the sudden breath of rain pours in along the flow of people.It was pouring rain outside.The thick humidity was wrapped in a biting chill, and I shivered even standing in the wind.

The scarf I bought just came in handy.

Pei Zhe picked out two that felt very good to wrap around Jiang Yunqi, and said, "Just wait here for me. I'll drive over to the opposite side."

Just as Jiang Yunqi was about to say Brother Pei, why do you go there, or buy an umbrella, Pei Zhe walked into the rain.

The sky was dark, and the colorful neon colors around the mall were frozen by the cold rain in late autumn, and they became depressed.

The slanted fine rain fell on Pei Zhe's black coat. Jiang Yunqi watched it for a while until Pei Zhe's tall and straight figure faded out of sight.