daytime firefly

In the evening, the Eastern District seemed to be separated from Jiangbei, and became a small town by itself. Yu Hui didn't even let the ants in the corners be spared. The deeper the rendering, the more lonely people feel.

The man bought a pack of cigarettes and came out of the canteen, went down the three steps at the door, and cut off the neat line of ants with one kick. Of course he didn't notice it, but he was squatting on the ground not far from the right front and dripping. The little boy with a snotty nose glared at him, and then he stopped, and he lowered his head belatedly. After a while, he moved his feet and walked in front of the child, "What's the matter?"

The child wiped his snot with his dirty hands, raised his head and said firmly to him, "You killed them!"

The man twitched the corner of his mouth, took out a cigarette and handed it to the child before leaving, "I'm sorry."

This is the canteen closest to home. It took about 15 minutes to walk back. When the man hit the stones on the soles of his feet, the sky became darker again. A bunch of lights came out from the red brick house. It speeds up.

Until entering the house, the room was filled with the choking smell of smoke, and the smoke wrapped around the dusty light bulbs, and the visibility seemed to be even lower.

"Yo, you're back."

The speaker was sitting on a bamboo chair, with a bald head and wearing a flowery shirt. There were about five or six people in the room, sitting scattered and leaning against each other. The men didn't care about these people. He just said, "What are you looking for?" Wrong place, I live next door."

The flower shirt smiled when he heard the words, "Is there a difference? This old lady..." As he spoke, he reached out and patted the face of the old man who was restrained by him, "The old lady is very righteous, and people talk about your affairs , I don’t know, I don’t know, I haven’t seen it.”

The man looked calm, pulled a stool from under the table and sat down, "What's the matter?"

"Will you be able to recover Li Hua's debt or not?"

"I'm working on it." The man said concisely.

Hua Shirt leaned forward, as if he was about to talk privately, "I'll tell you, if you can't get it back, report it to the police as soon as possible, and you have an escape route at Brother Liang's place. It's been two months, and you haven't got a penny. If you don't say anything when you see it, and you still don't let go, who will you make it difficult for you?"

"In the next month, at the latest," the man raised his eyes to meet him, "let go of her."

The floral shirt leaned back again, and after raising his hand to signal, someone untied the rope tied around the old lady's hand.

"Zhou Jianming, I didn't say that it's not good to be kind and soft-hearted in this business," Hua Shirt said again, "Li Hua is rich, so he's holding on to those flats just waiting for us to let go, this is you, let's see You are so bullying, I think you dare not kill me," he said, stood up, grabbed the man's shoulder with one hand, and tightened his fingers, the force would have deformed an enamel cup, "Do it as you want , Disabled, brother Liang is still here, what are you afraid of?"

Without changing his face, the man raised his hand and waved off the shackles on his shoulders, "Middle of the Moon."

"All right, all right, I'm here to deliver a message, you know what to do, I'm leaving." After saying that, he left with a group of people.

The old lady was not surprised, she seemed to be loose, and passed him, "The rice is in the pot, and your pants have been repaired several times, so you can't wear them anymore. Go to the mall tomorrow to buy a pair that fits."

Zhou Jianming was speechless. He walked to the stove, lifted the lid of the pot, and a burst of heat came out. He took out two dishes and a bowl of rice, and ate them standing by the pot.

The old lady collected the clothes and came in, and said to him, "By the way, go to the market and bring back the sugar, and I will make syrup tomorrow."

"Ah."

Zhou Jianming ate quickly. By the time the old lady folded the clothes, he had already put down the bowls and chopsticks, and took his own clothes back when he went out.

There are actually several households living in this area, and further inside there is a couple working on a nearby construction site, and a 50-[-]-year-old single man.

Zhou Jianming has nothing to do with this old lady. One is a widowed old man who has lived for decades, and the other is a stranger who just moved here a few years ago.

The old lady didn't like to talk to people at first, just like Zhou Jianming, the two of them had been neighbors for a whole year before they started communicating.

The old lady often goes out to set up a stall, and sometimes sells some small accessories, but most of them are selling candied haws. Talk to him a few words, and later get to know him well, so I ask him to come over for dinner, probably because he feels that the child is young and not good at taking care of himself, so I help him wash the clothes by the way.

Zhou Jianming doesn't care much about dressing up. He often goes out in a pair of loose trousers and a T-shirt. After returning to the house, he takes out the pair of pants that have just been folded, spreads them out, and looks them over. Some places were injured, and the trousers had been mended too many times, and it was indeed impossible to wear them.

The next day, Zhou Jianming postponed the arrangement of going to Li Hua's house to collect money, and went to the city first.

Most of his clothes were bought casually at small stalls in the market. I don’t know if the old lady’s words yesterday had an effect. He didn’t feel his presence until he walked into the mall and looked at everything in this huge mall. It should be too inconsistent.

But he didn't intend to leave either. He went from the first floor to the second floor, and then went from the second floor to the third floor listening to the voices of the shopping guides introducing products.

The third floor is full of women's clothing. Zhou Jianming was bored looking for the elevator to go up. Just passing by in a blink of an eye, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in an underwear store.

Zhou Jianming avoided vigilantly, moved over from the side, and arrived at the door of the underwear store.

"Lao Li, hurry up. Don't you have a passport? Go abroad to hide for a while. If you come to my shop suddenly like this, and those debt collectors catch up, how can I do business!"

"In your store?" Li Hua's voice couldn't contain the contempt and excitement, "Don't forget who owns this store, who bought the store for you, and who bought the goods for you!"

"I know I know, but Lao Li, if you can't even keep this store, then we really have no way out!"

Li Hua has a house, Zhou Jianming is very clear, but he did not expect that this person has a shop, the house can not be sold for a while, it is easy to say, there is a business in the mall, so it is clear that he will renege on his debts, and he went in at this time to catch him. Zhou Jianming didn't intend to do anything lightly.

But just as he was about to go in, there was a shout behind him——

"Candied haws, what are you doing?"

Zhou Jianming was about to tell him to shut up, when the man strode over, first glanced at the underwear store next to him, and then said, "Sneaky, peeping at the underwear store?"

As soon as the words fell, Li Hua rushed out like a black mouse. Zhou Jianming didn't even intend to chase after him. He grabbed the man in front of him by the collar and led him to the safe passage.

"Let go!" Xu Zhi was annoyed, and straightened his neckline after breaking free, "Rude, do you know that I can sue you?"

"What are you doing here?"

"Dining upstairs," Xu Zhi said, and then said, "Don't ask around, I can sue you for this."

Zhou Jianming was speechless, and turned to leave, but was stopped by Xu Zhi's yell.

"how?"

"Stop peeping at women's underwear, tidy up and find a decent job," Xu Zhi said, "You're not ugly, so find a girlfriend, eh!"

Before Xu Zhi finished speaking, he was pinched by a huge force and pushed against the wall. He was like a pendant fixed to the wall by those hands, and he was so painful that he even forgot to struggle.

Zhou Jianming was very close to him, with anger in his eyes, but he said very little. After looking at Xu Zhi at close range for a while, he only said, "Idiot."

It took Xu Zhi a long time to realize that he was the only one left in the safe passage. He leaned against the wall, pinched his waist, and tried to relieve the pain in his ribs with gentle rubbing.

"idiot."

The voice echoed again, Xu Zhi was stunned, his brain sank for a moment——

"What did you call me to do?"

"I'm not interested in being your bodyguard."

It's so similar, that slight and thick voice...

On the way back, Xu Zhi didn't drive fast, maybe he was too unfamiliar with this car and didn't dare to give gas.

The phone is on the center console, and the call is displayed on the screen.

"When I first came to the office, you told me that private lending cases, if you can't accept them, you won't accept them, and I will return them to you intact."

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, and then he smiled, "I answered all the calls, besides, the defendant has money to pay back."

"It's rich. I've seen his girlfriend's lingerie store. In addition to his few suites, the court will freeze the property or force repayment. It will be difficult for your client not to seal you a big red envelope."

"My client just doesn't want to go that far. It's not good for anyone to force him to death."

Xu Zhi listened and thought it was funny, "Even if Li Hua died, he couldn't have died in the hands of your client. If he went later today, the debt collector would have gone in and smashed the shop. Qi Jingyi, we checked his property." It turns out that his other creditors can also find out, others are not as devious as we are, and it is not an exaggeration for them to rob directly."

Qi Jingyi clicked his tongue, "Xu Zhi, you are a lawyer, you can't talk like that."

"...I called you, and I am running errands for you now, are you still attacking me?"

"No, I was wrong," Qi Jingyi said quickly, "Come back and take you to dinner."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Zhi stopped the car in front of the red light. That face was actually quite young, Xu Zhi thought, despite the scars, even though his voice sounded so deep.

But whether that guy came to his house that day, he can't be sure, if so, the time on the overpass was not accidental, it means that he was followed and monitored by that guy a long time ago, and if No, who the hell came to his house...

Xu Zhi started to return to work because of the frequent accidents during this period. He felt that even if he stayed at home, the accidents would not stop.

The same is true of public opinion. I don’t know which media received the news of the “murder” of Liu Zhendong’s family gas poisoning case on 627. After it was widely reported, netizens became detectives. Some people pointed the finger at Xu Zhi, and more people pointed the finger at Zhang Dingquan .

Overnight, netizens seem to have re-aware of the danger of Zhang Dingquan. In addition, Yuehai Group is discussing the new CEO position at this stage, and the security downstairs of Yuehai Group is no longer enough to resist citizens' accusations.

Some hung up banners, some burned paper at the gate to pay homage, some cried, some cursed, and some raised placards demanding that Zhang Dingquan resign.

Xu Zhi pressed the remote control and changed the city's news channel to an entertainment channel. Then he went to get the wine and glasses, and when he came back, he put the towel on his head to wipe his hair on the back of the chair.

With wet hair, he curled up on the sofa wrapped in a bathrobe, and held the wine glass in his hand, but he didn't drink the wine in the glass for a long time.

Because the TV somehow returned to the news channel, the screen switched to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, with Ping Bokuan's face in front of the camera, and the reporter asked, "Officer Ping, what is the current progress of the case of killing the Liu family, please tell us and the TV Tell the audience in front of the plane!"

"Sorry, the case is still in progress, and the Municipal Bureau will issue an announcement if there is a result."

After Ping Bokuan finished speaking, he passed through the densely packed microphones and cameras, squeezed into an SUV, the car drove away, the camera flickered, and a small figure beside the sentry box flashed quickly, and the screen cut back to the news In the live broadcast room, Xu Zhi suddenly sat up straight, took the remote control to adjust, played back the news on the channel program, and fast-forwarded to the second before the end. It was vague, but Xu Zhi was sure, he had seen that child before.