daytime firefly

"I, I can't remember."

"It's okay," Bai Shengnan put his palm on the back of her hand, trying to recall the question Ping Bokuan asked her to ask, "Xiaowei, if you don't want to answer my sister's question, you can scratch my palm, okay?"

Zhou Xiaowei hugged her legs and leaned against the head of the bed. Hearing her words, she hummed obediently.

Bai Shengnan went on to say, "Since then, you have been staying in that 'home' by yourself and never went out?"

Zhou Xiaowei was silent for a few seconds, then nodded clumsily, and then suddenly became flustered, she raised her eyes to look at Bai Shengnan, and held Bai Shengnan's hand instead, "Also, there are others, every once in a while, they will come once, come one , and, two."

Shock, intolerance, and sadness flashed in Bai Shengnan's eyes, and half an hour later, she withdrew from the ward, and Ping Bokuan was waiting outside, seeing her, he asked, "How is she?"

"Asleep," Bai Shengnan looked away from the people inside, "Officer Ping, you are right, besides Liu Xintong, there are many little girls." After finishing speaking, she took out her phone and turned the screen to Uncle Ping. Kuan handed it over, and on it was the page of the memo, with a crooked map drawn with a brush, "Everything she can think of is here."

Ping Bokuan's gaze rested on it, his brows were tightly furrowed, he thought it was difficult to distinguish, but when he looked carefully, he felt that the outline looked like somewhere, after a while, Ping Bokuan thanked her, turned around and started typing. The phone left in a hurry.

The next day, Xinghe Lane was blocked, and the residents of the innermost tube building were emptied by the police. The old men and women gathered in the alley to talk about it. It was almost noon, and 120 stretchers came out of the underground passage. , the person lying on the head was tightly wrapped, even the TV reporters and the media did not take pictures of the wounded with long guns and cannons.

Half a day later, the police cars, ambulances, and fire brigades all left, and the tube building returned to its former appearance. It is ambiguous to say that this incident was like a stone falling into the sea. The news said that a "bad case occurred in a certain block of Jiangbei City" was mentioned , there has been no report since.

The coffee table in front of Xu Zhi was covered with materials, and some papers were scattered around the coffee table. The computer was charged and fell over the papers.

Xu Zhi was too hungry, and there was a sudden spasm in his stomach, he curled up in pain, and broke out in a cold sweat. He reached for the remote control, turned off the noisy evening news, and then leaned on the back of the sofa to wait for the spasm to pass.

His stomach gradually calmed down, Xu Zhi took out his phone again, the unread message reminders on it were stacked like blinds, he only opened one, and the sender was Tan Xiao——

[During this time, we have enjoyed working together, Lawyer Xu, you have been fired. 】

The resignation was handed in the day before the court date, and he said, "After this lawsuit is over, it's time for me to go back to work in the law firm."

It's not that I think, it's that I should, after Xu Zhi finished speaking, he waited for an answer from the other end of the phone, and after waiting for a long time, the other end said, "I respect Lawyer Xu's choice, and I will resign after the court pronounces the verdict."

Watertight.

Xu Zhi snorted, at such a juncture, Tan Xiao actually kept himself out of the matter.

"Mr. Tan," Xu Zhi called out before the other party hung up, "Have you ever loved Liang An?"

When I was young, there was only a busy tone.

At that time, Xu Zhi looked at the message on the screen, and couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth ironically.

2017.4.209: 41am

Western suburbs construction site

There were two rains in early April, and the construction site was muddy, and the vehicles of the police special police would completely seal the main building, which was only half built.

Fine rain fell from the sky, and countless guns were aimed at the building in front of them.

In the building, in the empty lobby on the first floor, building materials, cement and pipes were pushed everywhere. Lin Dang and his colleagues sneaked in, and separated from the special police, hiding behind walls and pillars.

On the innermost floor, a naked man was hung upside down, his mouth was gagged, and hoarse screams came out from his throat from time to time.

"Zhou Jianming," the negotiator was outside the gate, and his calm and solemn voice came in through the loudspeaker, "Your sister is outside, she is only 17 years old, when she gets better, she has to go to school and make friends, You come out now, let's have a good talk, and in the future you can still pick her up to and from school, isn't that good?"

boom!

After a loud noise, there was a silence of two seconds, and the man who was hung up there let out a long and penetrating whine.

So, in the headset, someone from the SWAT team told the others, "The hostage was shot."

"Sniper?" Lin Dang scolded secretly, "You're so fucking crazy."

It was also at this time that Xu Zhi's car stepped on the accelerator and rushed straight to the construction site in the western suburbs. There was a live broadcast on his mobile phone on the center console. From this angle, he could clearly see the people hanging in the air in the factory building. This man had just been shot, and the lump of flesh on his lower body was instantly shattered, bloody and bloody.

When Xu Zhi stepped on the accelerator, the live broadcast was suddenly interrupted, and the screen displayed illegal content. Xu Zhi didn't care anymore, but he knew that this lynching was no longer a matter of blocking the live broadcast to silence people.

Xu Zhi's car stopped behind the rows of police cars a few minutes later.

Seeing him break through the cordon and rush in, several policemen on duty immediately stopped him, "This place is dangerous, please leave immediately!"

"Leave what! Let me in, I want him to stop!"

"Irrelevant personnel are not allowed to enter, leave quickly, otherwise you will be arrested for interfering with law enforcement!"

"What's the noise!"

This sound came from the side, Xu Zhi looked over, and an old man in police uniform came over, Xu Zhi glanced at the epaulettes again, and said, "I'm Zhou Jianming's lawyer, let me in!"

Two minutes later, a car slowly drove up to the door. Ping Bokuan happened to meet the eyes of the people in the car. After the car stopped, Xu Zhi opened the door and got out of the car. He held the horn in his hand and said the first sentence The words were not addressed to Zhou Jianming.

"Liang An, I know you're here. You asked me to come because you wanted me to see how Zhou Jianming died under the threat of the public prosecutor, right?"

There was no answer inside, only the echo. Xu Zhi's gaze was always on the innermost place. He knew that among those hidden places, there must be one where Zhou Jianming was standing.

"Why are you so self-righteous? At the beginning, in order to get Tan Xiao in power, you put Liu Xintong on Zhang Dingquan's bed, let the Liu family slander him for molesting girls, and Zhang Dingquan lost all fame and fortune. Now you are living under Tan Xiao's feet. Is it because you feel happy, or is it you Are you happy for Tan Xiao?"

Still no one responded, for a moment, it seemed that everyone was listening to a lecture.

Xu Zhi continued, "Li Ziran's mother learned from Li Ziran that Liu Xintong was bullied, and it happened that Zhang Dingquan was brought to court. When you learned about Li Ziran's family, you asked Yu Haili to take money to seal it up. Later, you learned that Liu Xintong was bullied in Liu Xintong's diary. Speaking of your protective umbrella, in order to get back that piece of paper, you put Li Hua's body in his house to coerce Zhou Jianming into stealing from my house. I think it was probably in my name or his sister's name later on? Of course, besides Zhou Jianming, there are also Feng Xiangjun, Wu Yuanqing, and even Li Dazhi, these people who died or half died in your hands all have one thing in common, their sisters and daughters are all girls in their teens."

"Liang An, for the past two days, I've been thinking about who is protecting who between you and Tan Xiao. When you called me and asked me to watch the show, I suddenly figured it out. It's you who spared no effort , protect him."

As soon as the words fell, there was a red spot on Xu Zhi's left temple.

Lin Dang and all the policemen present broke into a cold sweat. Xu Zhi also noticed it, but he tightened his grip on the loudspeaker and did not do anything else.

He took a deep breath calmly, and then said, "You could kill me just now, but you didn't, let me guess why."

"Because—you dare not," Xu Zhi said, "Tan Xiao answered your call and told you that he was on his way here. If you kill me now, maybe you won't be able to wait for him to come," Xu Zhi said. , turned around suddenly, facing the building with the same frame on the left, "Liang An, he doesn't love you, he won't come."

With a whoosh, the bullet grazed Xu Zhi's ear and cut a deep hole in the concrete wall.

He was angry, Xu Zhi thought, that's good, there is no need to say the rest.

Within a minute, several gunshots rang out in that building, and four or five minutes later, Liang An was escorted downstairs by the special police.

Surrounded by police officers, he passed by Lin Dang, passed by Jiang Xuzhong, and finally stopped in front of the two bureau chiefs, Shen and Lou, "Long time no see, two bureau chiefs."

Seeing that the two were speechless, Liang An spat blood, "The matter is over, and the two of you should be promoted again, how can you say that you are really good at eating public rations, stepping on everyone's corpses, you have to stand firm. "

At that time, inside, Zhu Xinyang was rescued by the firefighter. He was dying and went with the ambulance team.

Xu Zhi's legs were a little weak, but he couldn't care less, he rushed inside, looking for Zhou Jianming's figure in every corner where he could hide, but it was always in vain, Xu Zhi couldn't even find a hair, "He's not here this?"

"Lawyer Xu!"

Lin Dang ran over from the outside, "Ping team let you go there."

Xu Zhi was taken to a commercial vehicle with a public security logo on it. Lin Dang opened the door for him, seemingly not intending to get in, "Lawyer Xu, it's hard work."

"Hard?"

Xu Zhi didn't know much, and got into the car with his waist down. He first saw Ping Bokuan, and then he saw Zhou Jianming, who was sitting in the middle of the last row and staring at him.

"Xu Zhi, uh,"

Just as Ping Bokuan opened his mouth, a gust of wind swept by, and Xu Zhi suddenly threw himself into Zhou Jianming's arms.

The two embraced as if no one else was around, and the car was so quiet that only the rapid breathing of Xu Zhi could be heard. When the car door opened and closed for a while, Lin Dang saw Ping Bokuan who had come down with a disheveled face, and squeezed the corners of his mouth into a smile, "I said you Don't sit on it, you won't listen."

Ping Bokuan gave him a sideways look, snatched the cigarette from his mouth and put it in his mouth.

In the car, it took Xu Zhi a long time to slowly let go of his neck, rubbing the tip of his nose against his face, listening to his even breathing, and said, "Do you know what I was thinking when the gun hit Zhu Xinyang?"

Zhou Jianming remained silent, holding the back of his neck with his hands, and gently stroking his flesh with his fingertips.

"I was thinking, I didn't want to be a good lawyer in the first place, and then defending a murderer, I will completely flout my oath. I not only want you to live, but I also want you to be free."

"Xu Zhi..."

"When did it start?"

After a long silence, Xu Zhi heard him say, "Detention center."

During Zhou Jianming’s first month in the detention center, Ping Bokuan went to visit him, and Ping Bokuan asked him, “Did you find your sister?”

Xu Zhi was a little farther away, but he still sat on his lap, and was held firmly by his waist, "So what robbed your sister, kidnapped Zhu Xinyang, stole Liu Xintong's diary and put it under the pillow, it was you all." Planned? No, it’s real to take it away, and it’s planned to put it back, right?”

Zhou Jianming looked at him and said, "I don't want to go to jail, I want to be with you when I couldn't tell which of the complex emotions on his face was the strongest."

So I chose another way, revenge.

Xu Zhi couldn't tell what he was feeling at the moment. Zhou Jianming was overjoyed that he didn't kill Zhu Xinyang, and Zhou Jianming cooperated with the police to stage a big show without telling him. He was furious, but comparing the two, Zhou Jianming's intact body And the warm body temperature is like a weight, all accumulated on the overjoyed.

Xu Zhi opened his mouth, unable to speak, and then Zhou Jianming kissed him. In the police car, he held him in his arms and kissed him for a long, long time.

The author says:

Just the beginning.