brave and coward

"...No. I just think it's creepy to burn incense on a camera. I haven't heard Luoyang mention it. Forget it, let's go back first. I'll ask if there is any news from the hospital. Let's go." Hua Lin finally said Said.

Wen Dong looked at him: "Brother Lin?"

Hua Lin met his gaze calmly: "What are you doing?"

Wen Dong was silent for a while, and asked, "Are you all right?"

"What's the matter? Luoyang is missing. It's possible that something happened, but I can't tell. Anyway, we have called the police. Let the police solve it." Hua Lin said.

Wendong felt that things were not that simple, but he couldn't figure it out for a while—Wendong didn't know Peter's existence at all, so he didn't connect Luoyang's disappearance with Xue Younian.He had no choice but to say nothing.

Both of them came by car, and they said goodbye in front of the car.Wen Dong originally said that he wanted to send Hua Lin back, but Hua Lin refused, and said: "It's already troublesome for you to accompany me on this trip, I'm sorry."

Wen Dong smiled: "You don't have to make such a difference."

Hua Lin didn't speak, opened the car door and got in.

Wen Dong watched him bow his head to fasten his seat belt, opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say, so he could only lick his lips awkwardly.

Outside the concert hall that day, Wen Dong understood Hua Lin's words.It was precisely because I understood it that I backed down at that time.

To put it more directly, Wen Dong was a little scared by Hua Lin.It is the first time in his life that he has not officially dated someone yet, and the other party said "life tenure" and "single life" very seriously, this...

It's not that Wendong absolutely doesn't want to have a "lifetime system" with Hualin, but Wendong can't guarantee it.He knows what kind of thing he is, he really likes Hua Lin, and he can do anything for Hua Lin if he is passionate, but he really can't guarantee how long this enthusiasm can last.

When it comes to falling in love, talk passionately one day, don’t just make do with the past, it’s not necessary.This is Wendong's consistent attitude, so he has never thought about getting married, which is incredible to him.

When I started chasing Hua Lin, it wasn't that I didn't think that Hua Lin would be serious, but I really didn't expect that Hua Lin would be serious to that extent.Life is so long, if you don't know what will happen tomorrow today, how can you guarantee that your relationship will still be there next month?So what if it's really gone?

Wen Dong was very afraid that the show would not end.

Hua Lin glanced at Wen Dong beside the car: "Is there anything else?"

"No." Wen Dong said.

"Oh. Then I'm leaving." Hua Lin said, "Thank you for today."

Wen Dong said: "It's okay, if you have something to say, you can find me."

Hua Lin said lightly: "I won't look for you in the future. Today I forgot all of a sudden, I got used to it."

Wen Dong smiled again, didn't answer the words, and took two steps back.

Hua Lin drove away.

Wendong watched Hualin's car drive away, stood there and lit a cigarette, and then turned back to his car after smoking.But when I got into the car, I didn't rush to drive. After thinking about it, I lit another cigarette, leaned half on the car door, and typed in the phone dialog box with the other hand: If you need anything, you can call me.

But it took a long time to send it out. After a while, I deleted each word and stared at the screen in a daze until the cigarette burned my hands.

Startled, he quickly put out the cigarette butt, patted the ash on his hands and clothes, and drove off.

Hua Lin returned home, took a shower, sat cross-legged on the bed and was in a daze for an unknown amount of time, and finally dozed off, not remembering how he lay down and fell asleep. He was having a nightmare when suddenly his phone rang .

Hua Lin fumbled for the phone with his eyes closed: "Hello?"

"Director Hua, you have a courier here, and I will sign for it for you."

Hua Lin recognized the voice of a colleague, and responded: "Okay, thank you, just leave it in my office." He asked casually, "What express delivery?"

He usually sends courier to his home community, and most of the things he goes to the hospital are for official business, but business business is generally not sent to him, and he is not an administrative post.Could it be that his peers or various associations sent him information?I haven't received any news recently.

The other side of the phone said: "It's a file bag, let me take a look. It's from the same city. It's not thick. The sender's name is Zhang Bo."

Hua Lin sat up abruptly: "Who?!"

"Zhang Bo."

"Which blog is which?"

"Zhang Zhang, the doctor's blog."

"..." Hua Lin's heartbeat stopped for a few seconds.

"Director Hua? Director Hua?"

"...No, it's okay. I see, thank you. You put it in the drawer of my desk, and there is a key hanging on one of the drawers. You put this express in it, lock it, and take the key with you. Before I go Don't drop it." Hua Lin warned.

"Huh? Oh, good."

Hua Lin hurried to the hospital to find the colleague, got the key, opened the drawer, and took out the courier, on which the sender clearly wrote "Zhang Bo".

He swallowed his saliva a little stiffly, first locked the office door, then quickly opened the file bag, and took out a photo and a USB drive from it.

The moment Hua Lin saw the photo, his whole body lost all strength, he slumped on the chair, and his eyes were sore.

It's a group photo, a photo of Luoyang and Peter.

Hua Lin inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, put on the earphones, and opened the video on the USB flash drive. Luo Yang sat in front of an indoor white wall, smiled at the camera, and said calmly, "Director Hua, did you see At the time of this video, I should have disappeared. If I don’t get this far, I don’t intend to involve you. You are a smart person, and you should have guessed my identity and purpose. I know Peter, and his so-called suicide must be There is something inside. It's just that I didn't expect that in the process of investigating the truth of Peter's death, I discovered a lot of 'very interesting' things..."

The video wasn't long, only half an hour, but it was enough for Hualin to break out in a cold sweat, as if he had suffered for half a century.

Although Luoyang is just a one-sided statement, Hua Lin has a hunch that he is not lying to himself.

Xue Younian is not only related to the death of Peter and Zhang Bo, but also involves some gray areas.

But Xue Younian is very cautious, and there is a lot of power behind it. Luoyang has not been able to get strong evidence. If he exposes it rashly, it will only scare the snake. The key is that Xue Younian will not be shaken at all. He has been troubled by this.

Just when things were at an impasse, Luoyang got a piece of news: Xue Younian was likely to return to China to deal with some underground transactions.

Luo Yang came back before Xue Younian, and hid beside Hua Lin, because he expected Xue Younian to come to Hua Lin.

At the end of the video, Luoyang stated his ultimate purpose of sending this courier to Hualin: "Director Hua, if possible, I hope you can find a way to get close to him and get evidence to expose him. I know you once sent the German The local police reported that Xue Younian was suspected of killing Peter and Zhang Bo. This is enough to prove that you are a kind-hearted person who hates evil. I think you should agree to my unfeeling request. He is too cunning, but he has a The biggest weakness is you. My intuition tells me that only you can completely kill this demon. Peter, Zhang Bo, and I are already dead. We can’t save Xue Younian if he is dead, but you can prevent more people were killed by him, you can save many people in the future."

……

It was getting dark, but Hua Lin still stayed in the office and did not leave.He was lying on the table with his face buried, as if he was asleep, or not completely asleep, groggy, unable to distinguish whether he was dreaming, remembering, or thinking about tobeornottobe.

Suddenly, he heard a knock on the door, and he didn't answer. He shouldn't be working overtime today. Logically, no one came here to ask him to work. Maybe someone just saw the light in the room.

The door rang a few times, but there was probably no answer, so I didn't knock.

Hua Lin ignored him and continued to lie on his stomach.

After a long time, Hua Lin finally regained some strength and sat up, put the USB flash drive and photos back into the courier bag, got up and put them in the small safe, then took the mobile phone and car keys and prepared to go back first.

Hua Lin left the office door, just after locking the door, he suddenly heard a voice behind him: "Lin Lin."

Hua Lin bounced visibly to the naked eye, as if he had been shocked by an electric shock at that moment, and looked back at Xue Younian who was two steps away in panic.

Xue Younian was stunned for a moment, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Your complexion is very bad."

Hua Linqiang calmed down and asked, "Why are you here? You knocked on the door just now? How do you know I'm here?"

Xue Younian said, "Your father said you came to the hospital for something."

Hua Lin frowned: "Why are you still in contact with him?!"

"I--"

Hua Lin didn't want to talk nonsense with him here, so before he finished speaking, he strode towards the stairwell.Xue Younian hurriedly followed, explaining in a low voice: "I really don't mean that to your father anymore, he and I are just friends..."

Hua Lin reminded him coldly: "I am your friend's son, you respect yourself."

"Linlin—"

Hua Lin suddenly stopped on the stairs, looked back at Xue Younian, was about to speak, felt that the difference in height was not good, stepped back a few steps with a frown, lowered his head to look at Xue Younian, and then spoke: " What are you looking for—what are you laughing at!"

Xue Younian coughed and couldn't help laughing: "It's nothing."

Hua Lin asked impatiently: "What do you want to do when you come to see me today?"

Xue Younian looked at him tenderly: "Xiao Nian went to school and only came home on weekends."

"……so?"

"So, I want to invite you to dinner, take a walk with you, and then send you home. Don't refuse me in a hurry, Linlin, I won't do anything else, I know you won't forgive me for a while, I Don't rush you, as long as you can give me a chance and let me stand next to you. You, you can just treat me as Uncle Xue. Okay?" Xue Younian anxiously, earnestly, and fragilely, Looking up at Hualin enthusiastically, like believers looking up to their own gods and beliefs.

His god said grimly: "But if you stand next to me, I will feel sick."

After Hua Lin finished speaking, he continued to go downstairs.Xue Younian still followed closely behind him, but he didn't dare to speak anymore, as if he was afraid that he would discover his existence and expel him.

Walking to the second floor, Hua Lin stopped suddenly, turned around and looked at Xue Younian, his eyes moved down to Xue Younian's hand: "Give me the ring."

Xue Younian had been wearing the rings of the two of them back then, and hearing what he said at this time, he took it off and gave it to him without thinking.

Hua Lin took the ring, opened the window next to it, stretched out his hand, let go of his finger, and the ring fell off.

Xue Younian didn't look at the ring, but only looked at Hua Lin.

Hua Lin said calmly: "Within 10 minutes, if you don't find it without lighting, I will go to dinner with you today."

Downstairs is a flower bed with patches of roses, and the automatic sprinkler is working at this time.

Xue Younian looked around, his eyes fell on the warning sign prohibiting entering the flower bed, his face was a little hot.Although no one passed by at this point, he was still uncomfortable.

But when he thought of Hua Lin who was waiting for him, he gained courage.

The roses are growing very well, and the thorns are also very hard. It’s okay if the clothes are scratched. The main reason is that Xue Younian has to touch the ring in the flowers with his hands. He can’t use his mobile phone to illuminate, so he can only use the moon and the tall street lamps a few steps away. The light is actually quite dark.Then clusters of sharp thorns scratched across the skin of his bare hands, leaving many scars and bleeding.

Perhaps this is nothing, what's more important is that the flower bed has been sprayed with water, making him a miserable drowned rat.

Xue Younian always paid attention to his image, and now he was only glad that it was not broad daylight, which saved him from the embarrassment of being watched by the crowd.

But if it was daytime, he thought, he would still do it, even if it would make him a laughing stock.Because he wanted to have dinner with Hualin so much, and today was their anniversary together.

Fortunately, the ring was not difficult to find. Xue Younian groped under the window for a while, and finally found it within 10 minutes.

He cherishedly wiped off the dirt on it, was about to leave, hesitated for a moment, glanced at the surveillance camera on the wall next to him, his face was hot, but unspeakably excited and impulsive, he bowed his head and picked a huge flower. The pure white rose, ignored the tingling of fingertips, glanced at the time, hurried back to the building, and went up to the second floor.

There was no sign of Hua Lin in front of the window in the corridor on the second floor.

Xue Younian held the branch of flower and stood there quietly and for a long time. The moonlight dragged his figure very long, very lonely.

In fact, he had thought of it a long time ago, but he was more willing to lie to himself.