Heart fire

Wen Yue was discharged from the hospital today. Xi Yang originally wanted to pick him up before the appointment, but before leaving the house, he received a message from Huo Ci that he was "already on his way to the hospital" telling him not to run away. He had no choice but to put down the car keys and take the He took off Tu Ke's gloves and went to the training room. He continued to fight until the light in the room became dim, his vision was blurred by sweat, and he couldn't see the trajectory of the sandbag swing. Good point to six fifteen.

There was a sleet last night, and the temperature dropped sharply near nightfall, making people chatter with cold.

When passing by the small garden, Xi Yang stopped to take a look, and found that many of the tulip seedlings in that small piece of tulip were bent, weeds grew around the plant, and the leaves were covered with hoarfrost.

But among them, a small unremarkable plant broke out of the ground overnight, appeared strangely in the desolate land, braved the cold wind and gave birth to two vibrant, emerald green shoots.

The winter wind was bleak and hundreds of flowers died, he thought everything had withered and ended.

After sweating and suffering from the wind, his temples still throbbed a little after taking a hot bath. Xi Yang returned to the dormitory, took out an ordinary white shirt from the closet and put it on, went to the mirror and tidied it up carefully. Raising his arms, he slowly buttoned the last button of his cuffs.

Walking all the way back, the coldness was penetrating to the bones, and the soft brows and eyes were also stained with a bit of coldness.Looking at his pale face like clothes in the mirror, Xi Yang suddenly remembered that time in the restaurant, when Zhou Tong stuck a rose in his chest and used a bunch of exaggerated and straightforward words to describe his appearance. The temperature in the eyes, the tactile nerves on the paused thumb and index finger seemed to wake up, and lightly stroked the slightly shiny mother-of-pearl button on the wrist.

The rose has long since dried up, and it was put into the cabinet together with the box, but the dark fragrance is still kept deep in Xi Yang's memory, as strong, enchanting and romantic as Zhou Tong said, and it will not dissipate for a long time.

It is easier said than done to forget.

Five minutes to seven, Xi Yang left the camp and crossed the road, walked to a black Volvo parked on the side of the road with a military plate, opened the rear door and leaned in.

In addition to the driver, the co-pilot also sat a young soldier who looked like a guard in an armed police uniform.

After seven o'clock, the street lights on both sides of the street came on one after another, and the sky completely darkened at this time.After getting into the car, the door was locked manually. Xi Yang sat behind the driver and glanced at the young man from the side with the help of the faint light. Received instructions from somewhere.

Xi Yang didn't know him or have seen him, but after saluting and saying a simple "Xi team hello", he confirmed Xi Yang's identity without asking any questions, and signaled to the driver with his eyes that he could drive.

Leaving the port area, Volvo turned onto the expressway and drove straight east, and soon drove Xi Yang to a hidden private club, and drove into the parking lot.

As soon as the car stopped, Xi Yang's phone rang. He took it out and saw that it was from home. He was still hesitating whether to answer it, but the guard in the front row turned his head and said respectfully, as if he had been prepared for a long time: "Xi team is free, we are not in a hurry, we can wait."

He said so, but he didn't mean to turn off the engine and get out of the car to give Xi Yang a private space. He still sat upright on the seat, stared ahead and held his breath, and trained himself into an invisible person, quietly. wait.

Xi Yang understood that he had to answer the call.

Usually, when I make phone calls with my family, my father usually just listens from the sidelines, and will convey a few instructions to Xi Yang through his wife before hanging up.Although so many years have passed, he is still a bit brooding over the fact that his son gave up joining the art troupe. Even though his son performed so well and made him proud, the danger of this profession still does not allow him to accept the recognition and be satisfied as an individual The old father that everyone envies, enjoys his old age in a down-to-earth manner.

But this time, Xi Yang heard his voice after a long absence, and heard him ask himself a little stiffly and cautiously: "Son, are you busy? Do you have time to say something?"

I also heard my mother complaining in a low voice: "You first ask him if he has eaten!"

"Dad, I have time, tell me." Xi Yang switched the phone to the other ear, and turned slightly sideways to face the car window. "Well, I've eaten, it's not cold, and I'm not tired from training, okay, have you eaten with mom?"

"Your mother and I just finished eating." Dad replied, and then asked: "Son, why did you buy so many things all of a sudden, and why did you ask someone to give it away? We don't need it, you... "He hesitated a little at this point. "Did you... take advantage of others?"

Xi Yang didn't speak.For a moment, there was a "buzz" in his head, and the blood all over his body froze, and he even felt a pair of eyes staring at him from the rearview mirror, waiting for him to speak.

After a brief silence, the mother snatched the phone: "Son? Don't talk to your dad, he's just idle! We, Yang Yang, wouldn't do that kind of thing!"

"Parents are rich, and they can buy whatever they lack and eat. You take good care of yourself and don't worry about us, huh?"

Xi Yang closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and when he spoke again, his voice was as calm as before: "Well, it should be given by the family of the veteran soldier, and I helped arrange the job transfer, you can keep it, it's not a serious problem. "

"Okay, that's good." The mother on the other side of the phone breathed a sigh of relief obviously: "I said your father is nervous, it's just some imported fruits and health care products, it's definitely not enough."

"That won't work either!" Dad hurried to the microphone and emphasized to Xi Yang: "Son, don't tell others your home address in the future. It's a good thing to be grateful to you, but you are now a cadre, so you must guard against arrogance and impetuosity. Do you remember?"

"Remember, Dad, I'll listen to you and I won't let you down again."

With the son's verbal assurance, the couple's hanging hearts finally fell back to their stomachs.

"Then you should be busy. It's cold and don't freeze your knees. Are you back for the Chinese New Year?"

Xi Yang only had 20 days of family leave since this year. He thought about it and said to his father, "Go back if you don't have any special tasks."

"Dad, Mom, take care of yourselves too. When you go home, be careful on the way, pay attention to safety, and..." As he spoke, he felt a deep sense of despair and powerlessness in his heart. "I'm sorry, I can't be with you, it's my unfilial piety."

"Silly son, what are you talking about?" Mom's throat was hoarse, and the last word changed slightly. "Mom is proud of you. Everything is fine at home, don't worry about it, go and do your work. I'm going for a walk with your dad, your dad's stomach..."

After hanging up the phone, only the hum of the engine was left in my ears, and the ghostly lights of the instrument panel and the central control screen in the dark were still in front of my eyes.Xi Yang put away his mobile phone, and said coldly to the guard sitting motionless in the front row: "Okay, let's go."

After hearing this, the guard immediately got out of the car, turned around and opened the car door for Xi Yang.

"Captain Xi, please."

...

The clubhouse has a large area, and there are no other guests except for the courteous service staff along the way.The guard took Xi Yang around and changed three elevators before arriving at the door of a box. He stood at attention, gave a loud report, knocked on the door and took a step back, leaving Xi Yang who was standing aside. come out.

It was Tao Weinan in a suit and leather shoes who opened the door: "Hey, Team Xi is finally here, I really made my brother wait so long."

When Xi Yang entered the door, he winked at the guard again, and the guard immediately followed another soldier in the room to stop Xi Yang, sandwiching him in the middle.

Tao Weinan licked a shameless smile and said to Xi Yang: "Cooperate when you come, this is the rule."

"Offended." The two soldiers were about to start a body search immediately, Xi Yang stood still, raised his eyelids and glanced at the guard, the cold eyes immediately sent a chill down his spine, he stopped where he was and did not dare to continue.

"If you can still distinguish the ranks, I advise you not to act rashly."

"Hehe." The smile on Tao Weinan's face gradually faded, and he approached Xi Yang: "Brother, the police rank or something is useless to my brother."

Xi Yang glanced at the embarrassed guard, and smiled slightly at Tao Weinan: "That's right, only real soldiers recognize the rank of police. As an officer, I teach the soldiers who committed crimes below, and it has nothing to do with you, you are not worthy."

"you!"

It was this pretentious attitude that Tao Weinan hated to the bone.In the past, he didn't have the opportunity or the confidence to vent this kind of unreasonable hatred. Now that he is rich and powerful, every time he hosts a banquet, which one of the people who come has a police rank or military rank that is not higher than Xi Yang's shoulders? He held the handle and was polite to him. After a few cups of yellow soup, he saw that Qian Yankai was greedy for profit, showing an ugly face.

They are all lords who wear human skin and cannibalize people without spitting out their bones. Who is nobler than the other?What are you pretending to be?

Just when Tao Weinan was angry and wanted to take coercive measures against Xi Yang, the door of the box was pushed open, and Zheng Jiang slowly walked out with a wine glass.

He came in front of several people, waved back two soldiers, one left and one right, ignoring Tao Weinan who was gnashing his teeth, and said to Xi Yang with a smile: "Why don't you go in when you're here? We're all waiting for Team Xi, the food is almost cold."

The talent had just arrived, and he hadn't gotten to the point yet. He wanted to sing a good show to give each other a step up, but Xi Yang refused to follow. He turned around and raised his hand to slap the wine glass in his hand with a "slap". landed.

"I warn you, stay away from my family!"

A few drops of the spilled baijiu splashed on Zheng Jiang's military uniform and chin. He wiped it off with his fingers and brought it to his mouth to taste: "Tsk tsk, good wine, spicy enough."

"Team Xi, don't be too nervous. We will work together in the future. Of course I have the responsibility to take care of your family."

"How about it, is the gift I picked, uncle and aunt satisfied?"

This man was too calm, even if his family was involved, he just smashed a glass of wine, issued an expected warning, and did not respond to any further provocations and threats.Zheng Jiang was not sure if he was really angry, or if he just couldn't let go of his figure, and he pretended to be angry because he didn't want to join forces with others openly. His calmness made him feel uneasy and even frightened, and it also made him burst with self-confidence, which ignited him to catch up with others. You have to gamble your life and wealth, the desire to conquer and dominate.

Zheng Jiang thought that people like Tao Weinan would never understand how different he was from Xi Yang.

Both Zheng Jiang and Tao Weinan's self-confidence is built on material or power, while Xi Yang's self-confidence is natural and restrained, with self-esteem, self-love, fearlessness and courage coming from the bones.They are not innate, and only those who have really experienced it can understand this powerful, daunting and awe-inspiring state of each other.If they were not on opposite sides, Zheng Jiang guessed that he and Xi Yang might be able to become partners, friends, and close comrades-in-arms.It's a pity that there is no if, all he has to do now is to trample on and destroy these things that he once owned but have already left him.

So he ignored Tao Weinan's reminder again and allowed Xi Yang to enter the room without being searched.Xi Yang chuckled, took off his coat and put it on his arm, and asked Zheng Jiang who was walking beside him, "Are you really not afraid that I will get some evidence to denounce you?"

Zheng Jiang smiled without saying a word. After entering the door, he hugged Xi Yang's shoulders first, and introduced to him one by one the men sitting around the round table who were talking and laughing, and sincerely called him an armed policeman. The youngest and most promising lieutenant colonel in the fire brigade, please take care of me.

Some of these people, Xi Yang, had met them face to face on certain occasions, while others were totally unknown to them. Judging from their speech and behavior, it was very likely that they were not the armed police, but the leaders of the army.

After taking his seat, Zheng Jiang took the lead to raise his glass to announce that everyone was present, and then gave Tao Weinan a wink to let him continue to greet him. He put his arm on the back of Xi Yang's chair, turned sideways and whispered in his ear: "Do you want to go?" However, if it’s not the same group of people as them.” He paused for a moment, and quickly glanced around with the corners of his eyes. "Maybe you and I will be completely different today?"

"I know that your parents stayed in a small place like Yunling because they were squeezed out of the allocation quota. Don't you hate those people who work for tigers and abuse their power? If you hate them, then I will tell you to solve the hatred." The best thing to do is not to forget about it, but to take away the rights that the person you hate has, to take his place, to be him, to destroy him, to get back at him twice as much as he did to you."

It seems that Zheng Jiang has figured out Xi Yang's background, and he is at least half sure that he will tell him these words without any scruples.

Xi Yang gritted his teeth silently.

"Our experience is the same, so what am I afraid of? Believe me, as long as you try the thrill of revenge, you will be deeply involved in it. This is the truest side of human nature, and no one can escape."

Xi Yang didn't know how to drink baijiu very much, his esophagus and stomach felt as if they were on fire after drinking a glass of liquor, it was so hot that his eyes watered and his cheeks turned red quickly.

"So what do you want me to do?" He watched his wine glass being filled again calmly, and asked with some doubts: "I'm just a deputy team member of the secret service, an instructor doing ideological and political work, and I didn't participate at all. Bidding and purchasing authority, what do you expect me to do for you?"

Since he asked straight to the point, Zheng Jiang didn't need to go around in circles anymore, so he also smiled bluntly: "Xi team didn't say anything or do anything, it's helping me, and the benefits are naturally not less. Teacher-level universities are all talented people."

"However, there are other things." He poured himself a sip, played with the empty cup in his hand and continued, "Deputy Yao really needs Team Xi to make a move and loosen it."

After hearing this, Xi Yang sneered: "Why, isn't one lecture team enough?"

"What if I don't agree?"

"I believe that Team Xi is not the one to toast and not eat fine wine." After Zheng Jiang finished speaking, he turned his head and snapped his fingers at Tao Weinan. "Why don't we check it out tonight."

As soon as the words fell, dozens of soldiers who were about the same age as the previous guard and wore the epaulets of the armed police sergeant pushed the door in, and all of them held wine glasses in their hands, and walked in front of Xi Yang in an orderly queue. .

Tao Weinan stood at the front with a freshly opened bottle of Wuliangye, filling it for the leading soldier, and told him, "Give a cup to Team Xi, you little soldiers will depend on him for care and promotion in the future."

These soldiers add up to at least as many as a squadron, and a toast to each of them shows that it is killing people.Zheng Jiang withdrew his right hand behind Xi Yang, hugged his left hand on his chest, and said slowly: "I'm laughing at you, they are all soldiers I have led. I admire the knowledgeable and capable officer like the Xi team the most."

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers at the head immediately saluted Xi Yang. They did it first as a respect, and then turned their cups down to show their sincerity. Then they retreated to the end of the line and continued to wait for the next round. play.

After drinking three cups in a row, his empty stomach began to churn with fire. After five cups, Xi Yang's eyes became drunk, his face became paler, and his brows were slightly knit together.At this time, Tao Weinan brought another case of beer, filled a glass and placed it in front of Xi Yang.

Xi Yang raised his head a little dullly, watching Tao Weinan pick up and put down his small glass of white wine, and the glass and wine sank into the bottom of the beer glass with a "gudong".

They call it a "depth charge".

"Captain Xi, you are an officer, you can't drink the same as these little soldiers."

At that moment, standing and sitting, everyone was watching with cold eyes.Under their hostile gaze, Xi Yang picked up his wine glass and drank it down in one gulp. Taking advantage of the short gap before the next glass of wine was filled, he unhurriedly unbuttoned his cuffs.

...

Half an hour before the time, Zhou Tong hung up the phone and left Yao Hongwei's house in a hurry, took a taxi back to the secret service, and met Xiang Yu and Wen Yue who were waiting at the gate of the camp.

After getting out of the car, he slammed the door hard and ran to the two of them with long legs.

"How's it going? Haven't contacted you yet?"

"No." Wen Yue shook her head anxiously. "Tu team asked us to contact Officer Huo. He left shortly after seeing me off, and he will be back soon."

Zhou Tong didn't have time to think about it, and as soon as Huo Ci's herdsman arrived, he opened the car door and sat in, shook his phone out the window, and told Wen Yue and Xiang Yu: "I'll go, you wait in the team, if there is any Get in touch anytime."

Huo Ci didn't waste a second, let go of the handbrake, turned around and ran wildly, and got on the expressway in a blink of an eye.

In fact, the last thing Zhou Tong wanted to see was Huo Ci, and the last thing he wanted to seek was Huo Ci's help, but he knew very well that he would not be able to find Xi Yang by himself. At this moment he has no choice.

After the car drove away, Zhou Tong kept his head down and didn't speak to Huo Ci. It was Huo Ci who broke the silence first: "Damn it, something will happen if you don't watch for a day."

Zhou Tong turned to look at him: "What happened?"

"I can't explain a few sentences." Huo Ci lowered the window of the car and threw the police lights on the roof of the car, and honked the horn angrily a few times. "I'm so pissed off! I said that even ordinary friends can ask me for help, why are you so stubborn!"

"You don't... what do you mean?" Zhou Tong was a little dazed, but still stared at Huo Ci and asked urgently.

But before Huo Ci could explain, the phone rang.He picked it up and pressed the speakerphone, Zhou Tong heard the person on the phone report a series of license plate numbers to him: "The monitoring has detected, military license plate, take the expressway at the exit of Hong Kong University at around [-]:[-], and head towards the east of the city gone."

"Continue to check, send me the specific address, and everyone gathers in the past."

Putting down his phone, Huo Ci slammed on the gas pedal. He didn't think of Zhou Tong until seven or eight cars passed by on the road. He asked him without turning his head, "What did you just ask me?"

"I..." Zhou Tong suddenly couldn't ask.

Huo Ci didn't realize it while driving the car: "Oh right, you and Xiao Yueyue are good friends, right? I'm chasing him, I'll ask you later, does he like BMW 7 Series or Porsche Panamera?"

Now Zhou Tong was completely stunned, and it took him a long time to answer in a murmur: "He...maybe like the Titanic..."