you are my tomorrow

On the way home, Comet was not in a hurry to go home, but went to the flower shop next door. The day after tomorrow is Miho’s birthday. Miho likes lavender acacia flowers. He wanted to order a bouquet for her, but the boss said the store was out of stock. , needs to be ordered from the wholesale market. Comet wants to confirm whether it can be ordered, so he looks at other flowers and waits for the boss to call, but he has been thinking about why Zhao Rongzhen came back suddenly. The last TV report and Uncle Song The news is that he will come back next month, how did he avoid the attention of the media and come back early?What's his plan for coming back early?

For a while, Comet couldn't figure it out. He needed to go home and discuss with Uncle Song whether to start the mission ahead of time.

"...Sir, sir!" Comet was still thinking ecstatically, but the voice of the boss brought him back to his thoughts.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was distracted just now," Comet walked back to the cashier apologetically, "How is it? Is there any stock?"

"Well, it's in stock. I'll ask them to deliver it tomorrow. You can come and pick it up when you need it."

"Well, I'll pick it up the day after tomorrow. It must be beautifully packaged."

"Well, it will, don't worry."

Knowing that it was in stock, Comet let go of his heart, turned around and prepared to leave the flower shop, when he walked to the door, he accidentally saw a pot of red flowers in the corner, Comet stopped, squatted in front of the pot of flowers, and looked carefully .

The bright red flowers of this flower are like fingers that are bent and stretched towards the sky. The flowers are so red that even the stems are red, but there are no leaves. Comet has never seen such a flower. Let him like it very much.

"Boss, what's the name of this flower?" Comet pointed to the flower and asked, the boss came over and looked at it.

"Ah, this is called 'Manzhusawa'. This kind of flower blooms without leaves, and leaves don't see flowers. It's very strange, right? I've been growing this potted flower for two years, and it's really like this."

"Then... can you sell it to me? I like it very much." When Comet first saw it, his first thought was like this. The boss was a little embarrassed, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how much it costs, I will definitely take good care of it."

"If you like it, I can give it to you, for the sake of the large bunch of acacias you ordered from us." The boss was very straightforward, and decided without hesitation for a long time.

"Thank you then!"

That night, on the window sill of Comet's bedroom, there was a beautiful red pot of "Manzhusawa", but Uncle Song was already on the plane to the United States, so Comet could only wait for Uncle Song to arrive.

Han Qing was very interested in the new gadgets brought back by Comet, and even ran to Comet's room to see them, and wanted to take them back to play for two days by himself, but Comet refused to let him die, so Han Qing could only stay in Comet's room.

"I met Zhao Rongzhen today, when I was buying music." Comet sat on the rattan hanging chair by the window, opened the window a little, looked at the path in the garden lit by street lamps, and lit a candle between the index finger and the middle of his right hand. A slender white cigarette, Han Qing, who had been lying on the table "studying" the potted plant, was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Comet's back.

"Didn't he come back next month? The information is wrong?"

"I don't know. I'll find out only after I contact Uncle Song tomorrow. It seems that the task will start earlier."

In fact, Comet didn’t know how to smoke before. It’s just that the target of the last mission was the boss of the tobacco industry. He couldn’t do it. Comet always wondered “why do cigarettes smoke”? , the smoke is a bit bitter when it passes through the throat, and it is not "fragrant" at all, but I get used to it after getting used to it, because my shoulder was injured, and after coming back for more than two months, Comet quit, when I picked it up again, He also coughed a little from the smoke.

"If you're choking, don't smoke. Why do you do something you don't like?" Han Qing got up, walked to Comet, took the ashtray and the remaining half of the cigarettes, and sat on the large bay window next to Comet to settle it.

"Don't let Aunt Miho find out, or she will read it again." Comet got up and opened all the windows to let the smoke in the room disperse. A gust of wind blew from the window. His drowsy head became much cooler, and he sat back in the wicker chair, still looking out of the window, "Brother Han Qing, is what we are doing now something you like? No, or what do you like to do?"

Han Qing wiped out the sparks from the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then put it beside him, and looked out the window with Comet, "Do we have any other choice? Can we choose what we 'like'? If we say we still Little, maybe we can still choose to leave here, but since the day we arrived in Vietnam, we have no other choice, there is only one way to go down—to live and live.”

Comet lowered his head and smiled self-deprecatingly. Han Qing turned his head, his eyes narrowed into slits, but there was also a pitiful smile at the corner of his mouth, "What are you laughing at?" Han Qing asked "curiously" as if deliberately finding fault.

"It's unbearable for you to look sincere. I don't know who was the one who said 'don't get close to me without my permission' when you first came here. Zhongyi was so angry at that time."

Han Qing thought it was a bit funny when he first came here, but he was really scared at that time, afraid that this "friend" who was close at hand would one day leave without saying goodbye like his mother, so he simply refused to let him go. Comet and loyalty are close.

"I don't know if Auntie Miho is celebrating her birthday, but Zhongyi can come back soon. We are the only ones who can celebrate her birthday." It's almost time Uncle Song stipulated.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, he sent me an email two days ago, saying that he will be finished in these two days and will try to come back before Aunt Miho's birthday." Han Qing smiled apologetically, Comet threw him a knife in the eye.

"I don't know who grew up with him, the ungrateful guy..." Comet gritted his teeth. At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and the two immediately became alert. Comet pointed to the person beside Han Qing. The ashtray, Han Qing immediately hid the ashtray behind the curtain, just after hiding it, the door opened, Miho walked in, the door was just facing the window, just now the window was open for a long time, the room was filled with a lot of cool air, Miho As soon as he entered the room, he was shrunk by the cold air.

"What time is this? Why do you open the window at night? Close it quickly, it will be too cold to sleep in a while." Miho frowned and complained, walked up to the two of them, gestured to close the window, and sat on the window sill Han Qing who was on board stopped her first, lest she find the ashtray behind the curtain.

"Hey, we're a little hot... I'll close it, I'll close it." Han Qing said with a smile, and reached out to close the window, but Miho kept her nose alert, as if smelling something, the hearts of Comet and Han Qing immediately Picking it up, Miho lowered her head and sniffed Comet's clothes, then Han Qing's clothes, then looked at the two with a clear expression, waiting for the two to speak first, seeing Miho's expression, the two I also knew that I couldn't hide it, so I smiled embarrassedly.

"Oh, why is our Aunt Miho so smart? We can't hide anything from her, comet, what do you think?" Han Qing got out of the bay window, put his arms around Miho's neck, looked at Comet, and squeezed at him Eye.

"...Ah, who says no? Our Aunt Miho is the smartest. If anyone says no, I will kill him immediately with a gun!" Comet also stood up and hugged Miho together with Han Qing, two taller than her The big guy hugged her shamelessly, making her almost out of breath. She struggled a few times and threw the two of them away.

"I can't help it outside, but at home, didn't I say never to smoke? Is your memory so bad?" Miho raised her hand and gave Han Qing a chestnut. Comet thumped on his right shoulder, Comet immediately knelt on the ground, covered his right shoulder and started "Ouch". .

The two helped Comet to the bed, Miho looked at Comet regretfully, she forgot the injury on Comet's shoulder for a moment, "Hey Comet, how is it? Do you need to call a doctor?"

"No need..." Comet curled up, buried his face in the pillow, his voice muffled, but seeing Comet seemed to be suffering, Miho told Han Qing to call a doctor. Hearing that Miho wanted to call a doctor, Comet immediately sit up.

"Brother Han Qing, don't call a doctor! I'm fine..." Comet stopped Han Qing who had already walked to the door of the room. Han Qing stopped at the door and looked at Comet's smiling face with Miho, only then did he realize that he was being tricked by Comet.

"You stinky boy!"

Han Qing walked to the bed in a few steps, threw Comet on the bed and was a "violent beating". Although Miho was also angry that Comet was lying, she was afraid that Han Qing would really hit Comet's wound, so she tried to pull him out in the chaos. Open Han Qing.

"I was wrong! I was wrong!" Comet knew that Han Qing didn't use much strength, but he begged for mercy loudly.

"Han Qing, don't hit the wound... just a few hits..." Comet's begging for mercy was still interspersed with Miho's persuasion.

"No! This kid is too annoying!"

"Ah! I was really wrong! I don't dare to do it anymore!"

"It's okay to be wrong..."

"Han Qing..."

Just like that, after a while, happy laughter wafted from Comet’s room. How long has it been since there was such a laughter in this cold big house, and it would be nice if this short smile could last forever...

At 7 o'clock the next morning, after the morning run, in order to match the American time, Comet, who hadn't eaten breakfast, ran to his study, turned on the computer, called Uncle Song, and told Uncle Song that Zhao Rongzhen would come back early to meet with him. Uncle Song seemed a little surprised when he met him in the bookstore, but let Comet not be in a hurry. Now that he is back, he is not in a hurry. The mission can start from next month as originally planned, and Comet can use the remaining half month Make a good plan. In the end, Uncle Song's instructions made Comet's confidence in completing the task ahead of schedule a little bit lower, because Uncle Song said that this time, in addition to getting rid of Zhao Rongzhen, he also wanted to snatch the arms smuggling business of the Tiger Gang. The tiger gang's import and export routes and related units, staying with Zhao Rongzhen, at least the most important European and American routes must be taken. The tiger gang started out as an arms business, and the European and American routes are also the most important for arms smuggling.

Comet agreed quietly, as he expected, Uncle Song's most important purpose was arms smuggling, Zhao Rongzhen was even secondary, and Uncle Song didn't tell him who the client was this time, but according to Uncle Song's instructions, It is estimated that this client is Uncle Song himself who has been in the arms business for many years.

Turning off the computer, Comet's complicated smile was reflected on the darkened screen...

The day before Miho’s birthday, in the afternoon, Comet had finished his shooting training and hadn’t put away his gun. He tried to call Zhongyi’s cell phone to ask if he could come back. They had been using it when they were on missions. The number is turned off, and the mobile phone also uses a temporary number. After the task is completed, it will be logged out to avoid future troubles. Although they will know the temporary number, they will not call it unless necessary, because they will Leave a call record. If the mission fails and it is too late to cancel the number, if the police intervene, they will leave clues for the police. Therefore, everyone has no contact with other people when carrying out the mission. I want to be loyal to Han Qingfa If he received the email, he must have disguised himself and went to the Internet cafe to send the email.

But there is a special emergency software in their own mobile phones. When the software is turned on and activated, a necklace that can receive signals that Tony never leaves will keep flashing, and he will be able to know in time that the three of them may be in distress. , Turn on a computer that he never leaves, and he can immediately find their location, and send someone nearby to rescue them.

Comet called Zhongyi's number this time, and he knew that Zhongyi should have completed the mission and was probably on his way back, but Zhongyi didn't answer the phone until a gentle female voice reminded him to enter the voicemail , Comet hung up the phone and called several times, Zhongyi still didn't answer the phone, Comet couldn't help frowning.

Normally, Zhongyi would answer my phone immediately after it rang three times, but today it was abnormal, Comet hurriedly cleaned up the things on the table, and when she was doing it, she suddenly covered it with her gloved hand from behind His mouth and nose, he immediately became alert. This villa is under 24-hour surveillance, and ordinary people cannot enter.

Because his back was facing the person behind him, Comet couldn’t see the person’s face, but he felt that the hand covering his mouth was not very strong. Comet pushed his elbow hard against the person behind him’s stomach, and the person immediately let go hand, and fell to the ground with an "oops", but only after hearing that "oops", Comet knew who that person was. He turned around unhurriedly, looked at the person lying on the ground pretending to be dead, and used He kicked the man in the stomach.

"Hey, Li Zhongyi! If you pretend to be dead again, just step over your 'corpse'."

The person lying on the ground immediately opened his eyes, got up with a playful smile, and gave Comet a big hug, "Brother, I miss you so much!" As soon as the other person's face left his shoulder, he pursed his lips and kissed him. Comet leaned back as much as possible, but in the end, he was still "taken advantage" by that person on his neck, and then he let go open hands.

"Miss me? Didn't realize it. I haven't seen anyone for more than half a year, so I sent an email once, and I knew to send it to Han Qing. I didn't even send me a punctuation mark, and I didn't answer the phone. Hmph, little white-eyed wolf." Comet didn't take a look at Zhongyi, and went back to finish packing the unpacked guns, and Zhongyi posted it meanly.

"I want to give you a surprise. When you made the first call, I was already at the gate. The email... I wanted to send it as well. After I finished writing it to Brother Han Qing, I wanted to write a long copy for you." Yes, but I didn’t have time that day, so I wanted to say that I’ll be back soon anyway...Brother Han Qing really has a big mouth..." Zhongyi muttered bitterly, "You are my brother Comet forever, you don’t need to contact, and you will always be with me My heart is connected, you say no..." Zhongyi, who was slightly taller than Comet, bowed again, and put his chin on his shoulder from behind Comet, his eyes were crooked with a smile, but Comet suddenly lifted Lifting his shoulders, Zhongyi's tongue was caught between his front teeth, causing him to hop in pain.

"Brother, are you angry?" Comet packed his gun, walked out of the shooting range, followed loyally behind him, and asked "cautiously" as he walked, but when he saw the slight smile on the corner of Comet's mouth, he knew Comet It's not really angry, Xixing is a person who wants face, so Zhongyi pretends to be concerned and asks.

"No, how could I be angry with you? At most, I will ignore it in the future." Comet rolled a blank look at the people around him.

"Ang~ Seeing that you gave me a slap and stepped on my 'corpse', don't be angry~" Comet felt that the people behind him didn't keep up, so he used to look back In the middle, Zhongyi sat on the ground, kicking his legs, and acting like a baby with his mouth flattened, Comet's face that had just been deliberately straightened up immediately broke, and he burst out laughing with a "puchi".

Seeing that Comet smiled sincerely, Zhongyi also knew that his goal had been achieved, so he stood up smiling, patted the dirt on his body, and walked to Comet, "Brother, I knew you couldn't bear to be angry with me."

"Who said that? Why am I reluctant?" Comet turned around and continued walking towards the house, but with a smile on his face.

"I said, then I'll treat my brother to dinner. I made a lot of money this time." Zhongyi followed Comet not too far away.

"Okay, I'm going to eat a lot."

"Eat as much as you want."

"Tomorrow, I will drive me to the city to pick up Aunt Miho's birthday present."

"Very willing to serve you!"

"Have you bought a present for Aunt Miho?"

"Of course I bought it..."

"Show me later..."

"You can't tell Aunt Miho in advance..."

"Depend on my mood..."

"Looking at your mood, it seems to be good..."

"Then I must say..."

"Ah? Then you don't seem to be in a good mood..."

"That's more to say..."

"elder brother!"

In the distance, under the bright sunshine, two young figures were happily running and chasing on the green lawn, while a young man and a middle-aged woman stood at the door of the old house, and they looked at each other with smiles on their faces. Two people playing on the grass.

Young is so good.

If the pure happiness at that moment can last forever, I hope to exchange all I have, but that is only if, time is rushing forward non-stop, and the next second can’t keep the memory of the last second, so I Keep all those happiness in memory, but the curve of those memories also fades and disappears with the passage of time, and finally falls into the torrent of time, which can no longer be found.

——Han Qing

The next day, the three of them celebrated Miho's birthday together. Comet gave Miho a bouquet of lavender acacias with 100 flowers, Han Qing gave Miho a sweater and a bottle of perfume, and Zhongyi gave a photo of a high-end beauty club. The 4 people took advantage of their happiness to take a group photo with the diamond card in 4, and that photo became the only group photo of the 4 people. No one thought that Han Qing wanted to take another group photo of the [-] people after Comet left. , but can no longer gather people together.

After celebrating Miho's birthday, everyone drank some wine. After dinner, Miho went to bed first. Han Qing said there was a movie he wanted to watch, so he went back to his room with his computer in his arms. I couldn't sleep a bit. After taking a shower, I changed into comfortable clothes and went to the living room downstairs. I dimmed the lights in the hall and only lit up the lights on the bar counter and the lights above the piano next to me. I poured another glass. Red wine, sitting at the piano, and the brandy at dinner made his stomach a little sick.

I opened the cover of the piano and wanted to play a soothing piece of music, but as if thinking of something, the fingers that were already on the keys did not press down after all. I just stroked the keys lightly, then closed the cover, raised my head, and looked at the piano. The crystal wine glass filled with red wine was covered, but he had no idea of ​​drinking again.

Thinking that in half a month, in the next two years, there might not be such a quiet time alone alone, and when he was about to fall into a dark night of scheming, Comet couldn't help sighing, and finally picked up the wine glass , when he was about to pour the wine into his mouth, someone next to him took away the wine glass in his hand and replaced it with a glass of warm water. There was still a faint scent of honey floating in the water glass. The comet looked up along the other hand, looking for its owner .

"Loyalty." Comet smiled slightly, and Zhongyi returned the same warm smile, and then sat next to Comet.

"Why don't you play? It's been a long time since I heard brother play the piano." Watching Comet finish drinking the freshly brewed honey water, Zhongyi opened his mouth.

"Aunt Miho is already asleep, don't wake her up, she's tired today too."

Zhongyi nodded with a sudden realization. He looked down at the piano that Comet had just maintained. The red piano seemed to be shining under the light. He also looked at his own piano opposite. Clean, but no dust.

"That day the luthier suddenly had an urgent matter and left first, so you didn't have time to wax your piano. He will come back in two days." Seeing Zhongyi looking at the too black piano, Comet casually said.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, brother's piano will be used often, I... that one doesn't matter, I guess I won't be able to play it for a while." Zhongyi waved his hand meaninglessly, a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes, but Comet seemed to have discovered something. Yes, pulled the right hand that was still in mid-air, and looked at a wound across the back of the hand seriously. It looked like the scar was still light pink, and it should have just fallen.

"How did this happen?"

"Ah... I got it by accident..." Zhongyi withdrew his hand in embarrassment, trying to hide it from Comet's sight, but Comet pulled that hand back before he could hide.

"It's not like an ordinary knife..." Comet muttered, pressing the scar lightly, the tendons next to the scar seemed to be a little uneven, Zhongyi felt a little pain, afraid that Comet would use more force, Then he frowned, and Comet saw Zhongyi's frowning expression from the side of his face, and when he saw Comet looking at him, he straightened up his expression, put on his usual smile, and took the opportunity to withdraw his hand, Comet But he looked surprised, as if he understood something, no wonder he saw Zhongyi pouring wine for Miho today, he felt that his hand posture was a little weird, "Does Uncle Song know?"

"I know, he asked someone to do the operation for me." Loyalty looked at Comet intentionally comfortingly, and he patted Comet on the shoulder, but Comet still had a distressed expression on his face.

"How long? How did it happen?"

In fact, I don’t want to say it, but seeing the expression that Comet must know, Zhongyi can only bow his head resignedly, “Actually, I didn’t complete this task in the end. Two months ago, I was installing the arsenal for that guy. □, originally wanted to do the final ending, but they accidentally found out, and they chopped off the hand. Fortunately, I had my mobile phone with me at the time, and I opened it when I was running away, and I sent a distress call to TONY, it was TONY sent The people who came took care of those people, but my hand was a little long due to ischemia, and the best orthopedic surgeons in China could only try their best to connect all the tendons. There is no major damage to the bones, but the flexibility is possible. It might be worse."

Comet still couldn't help being disappointed, but Zhongyi pretended to smile relaxedly, and he touched the arm of Comet with his head down with his elbow, "It's okay, it's not impossible to use it anyway, at worst, I will use guns more in the future, and you will also Knowing that my marksmanship is on a par with Brother Han Qing, don’t worry, anyway, my piano is far inferior to Brother Han’s, and Uncle Song forced me to learn piano when I was young, so it’s okay with me.”

Seeing that Zhongyi has been comforting himself, it is not good for Comet to show a sad expression in front of him, so he reluctantly pulled the corner of his mouth, "If you have anything to help, just tell me directly, I will definitely help if I can."

"Of course, if you don't help me, who will help me?" Zhongyi said with a natural expression on his face.

"Han Qing." Comet said half-jokingly, and the corners of his mouth also smiled sincerely, as if as long as Zhongyi was by his side, his mood would improve miraculously. Zhongyi seemed to have misheard, and stared at Comet with rounded eyes

"Who?"

"Brother Han Qing."

"Hey, I don't want it," Zhongyi waved his hands as if he was talking about someone he hated, "'From now on, don't approach me without my permission.'" Zhongyi scowled, imitating Han Qing, "I If I beg him, am I courting death?"

Comet laughed out loud, "I learned this sentence from him two days ago."

"Look, you find it annoying too, don't you?"

"Hmm... It's okay, I still think it's quite attractive." Comet smiled jokingly, but he especially liked Zhongyi's crazy look. Since he was a child, the last thing he can forget is when Han Qing said this .

"Pull? Where are you puffing? You're obviously a little kid with nothing..."

"You actually said he was a kid, I want to tell him to go..." Comet stood up, making a gesture to go upstairs, but Zhongyi pulled him vigorously and sat down again.

"No, if you tell him, I will..." Zhongyi was at a loss for words for a moment, Comet raised his head and looked at him proudly.

"How about you?"

"I just... I just told him that you wet the bed when you were 5 years old, hehehe~" Zhongyi had a smirk on his face, and this time it was Comet's turn to look unbelievable.

"you dare!"

"Why don't I dare? Try it if you don't believe me."

"Just try it!"

"Try it!"

The goose-yellow light enveloped the two people sitting in front of the red piano warmly, two people bickering meaninglessly, like a game of scrambling between children, but at that time, none of them thought about the future Gone are the days of pointless quarrels like this.

It's just that the people on the second floor who have been watching movies keep sneezing.