daytime firefly

"Jiangbei City is about to fall, and the temperature has risen recently. Today, the indoor temperature is 27 degrees, and the outdoor temperature is 32 degrees. Dear listeners, please pay attention to heatstroke prevention when traveling..."

When the taxi driver opened the window, Xu Zhi felt that it was time to buy a car. The sun was shining directly on him. He unbuttoned a button, and the driver beside him glanced at him, "Little brother, where do you work?"

"Law firm."

"Yo, no wonder..."

Xu Zhi looked at him leisurely, then looked down at the inch of his skin that was exposed in the air, and buttoned the button when he looked back.

Qi Jingyi was waiting for him on the side of the road, Xu Zhi stopped the car when he saw it, and was dragged in by Qi Jingyi as soon as he got out of the car.

"What's the matter with calling me so urgently?"

Qi Jingyi's complexion was not good, no, it was very ugly, and he said to him while walking, "Li Hua is missing."

"Dodging debt?"

"Missing," Qi Jingyi repeated, "his girlfriend called the police."

Xu Zhi snorted, thinking that this girlfriend is really good enough.

"Hey, Lawyer Qi!"

Xu Zhi had never seen the person who came towards them before, but it was not difficult to guess that besides Li Hua's girlfriend, the rest were the creditors who had not yet received their repayment.

Qi Jingyi stopped, and the man said, "I've finished the transcript, let's withdraw it."

"What did the police say?"

"Wait for the news," the man said, looking at Xu Zhi. Xu Zhi pursed his lips and took a step away before hearing Qi Jingyi introduce him, "Our colleague from the law firm, Xu Zhi."

"Oh~" The man nodded slowly with unknown meaning, and then said again, "I have troubled you, Lawyer Qi, a while ago, and we will talk about the rest when we find someone."

"Mr. Zhang," Qi Jingyi called to stop him, "You have to prepare for the worst. If force majeure happens to the defendant, there is no need to go back to this case."

Zhang Hao didn't have much emotion after hearing this. He seemed to have been prepared for a long time. When he was young, he supported his waist with one hand and grabbed the collar with the other to dust off the wind, "I never thought of driving him to death for this money." , if the person comes back, we will negotiate another amount, if he can't come back..."

"What did you say!"

The female voice came from behind him, Xu Zhi followed Qi Jingyi and looked at it, Li Hua's girlfriend who runs an underwear store came over angrily, "Zhang Hao, Hua Zi said that he used to have a fight with your buddies, now you are carrying him behind your back." Curse him to death!"

"Ma'am, don't get excited," Qi Jingyi said at this time, "Mr. Zhang didn't mean that,"

"What does that mean!" The woman's eyes were red and swollen, her hair was messy, and the four characters 'unreasonable' were written all over her face, and then she said in a crying voice, "Isn't it just a few fucking stinky money? It’s not enough for you to kill him, when he’s down and out, you wish you could chop him up and feed him to the dogs, what the hell are you brothers, bah!”

The woman spat on him, then passed among several people and left the police station.

Zhang Hao paused for a while, then followed without saying anything.

Coming out of the police station, Qi Jingyi's car merged into the traffic flow, Xu Zhi asked after a long time, "What's the situation..."

"Li Hua went to Zhang Hao on the night of the [-]th, saying that he wanted to sell the house and pay him back the money, and asked him if there was anyone he knew who could entrust the house."

Qi Jingyi seemed to be recalling the details, and explained unhurriedly, "He originally planned to run away. The cash, luggage, passport, and his girlfriend are all ready. He will go abroad as soon as the house is entrusted." After a pause, He said, "Zhang Hao was the last person to see him. To this day, nothing has been taken away, and he has disappeared without a trace."

"Today is No. 13." Xu Zhi murmured, on the [-]th... on the [-]th, he had sex with Zhou Jianming, and Zhou Jianming said he would come over on the weekend, and that was today.

"Xu Zhi."

Qi Jingyi called him, and he regained his composure and sat upright, "Why..."

"what happened to you?"

"I'm fine," Xu Zhi said, "Then this case is over?"

"What do you say?"

Xu Zhi didn't answer, and Qi Jingyi said, "A person who hasn't entered or exited the country, or even left the city, has been missing for nearly a week. The police should consider his survival index."

"How can it be so evil..." Xu Zhi thought about it after he had circled the matter in his mind, "Then why did you ask me to come?"

"Oh," Qi Jingyi freed a hand to take out a document from the drawer in front of him, put it on his lap, and said, "The police think Liu Xintong's suicide case is suspicious. I don't know what the evidence is. Officer Ping entrusted me to hand it over to you."

"Ping Bokuan..."

Xu Zhi opened the file bag, which contained a voice recorder and a few photos.

Qi Jingyi was driving, and Xu Zhiwu spread out the photos, saying that most of the photos were actually screenshots, monitoring screenshots, Xu Zhi saw that the protagonist of all the photos was a person...

There was that figure at the gate of the Public Security Bureau, near his house, and even near the law firm.

"What is it?" Qi Jingyi asked.

Xu Zhi didn't make a sound, and quickly pressed the recorder to play. From time to time, there was a conversation——

"Uncle, can I not take off my clothes?"

"Don't take it off, you come down first."

"Uncle, my mother said, you can't go down before the time."

"Who is your mother and how did you get in here?"

"I'm sorry, Uncle, you are a good person..."

Then there was a violent sound, followed by a burst of noise, and a man roared——

"Zhang Dingquan! You son of a bitch, what did you do to my daughter!"

It's over here. Xu Zhi has heard this conversation before, and he won the lawsuit because of this conversation, but the court is not broadcast live, and no one believes the news when it is spread.

Just as I was about to put it down, the recording automatically played the next segment——

"It's good that the child is dead."

"You don't like that kid?"

With a short sigh, "What's the use of liking? She passes by me after school every day, and I want to ask her to rest for a while before leaving."

"What's the meaning……"

"She looked very tired, with her hands tucked into her sleeves. Once when she came to buy a pen, she dropped it on the floor to pick it up. Only then did I see that there were large bruises on her arms."

"When did this happen?"

"When..." the woman recalled, "It wasn't when, it was a long time, before Zhang Dingquan happened, she came out of school very late, and her father was waiting at the door of my shop. "

"You mean, his adoptive father?"

"Yeah, otherwise, who else is there?"

"Okay, then you're busy."

The recording ended again, Xu Zhi waited for a while, and turned off the recorder after making sure there was no follow-up.

"That is to say, before Zhang Dingquan met her, Liu Xintong was injured?" Qi Jingyi asked.

Xu Zhi didn't even dare to point his head, but when he was investigating for Zhang Dingquan, he went to Liu Xintong's school, and everyone in the school said there was nothing unusual, so he gave up this line.

He thought of the short-haired girl, who always appeared alternately in dreams and reality, holding a red and blue cylindrical object, looking at him so quietly and longingly.

It was probably instigated by Xu Zhi's curiosity. He put away the photos and recording pen and said to Qi Jingyi, "Come with me to Liu Xintong's school again on Monday."

Qi Jingyi nodded and didn't ask anything else.

In the afternoon, I accompanied Qi Jingyi back to the law firm to sort out the case files, and returned home later. After Xu Zhi washed up, he took out the file bag again, and put the photos on the coffee table, lined up.

"What on earth are you looking for me for? Kid..."

beep beep-

After the sound of the door lock, Zhou Jianming flashed in. The light in the entrance was on, and there was only a bunch of floor lamps in the living room. Xu Zhi was sitting on the carpet between the coffee table and the sofa. Looking at the door like this, Zhou Jian was obviously dusty.

"How on earth did you know my password?"

Zhou Jianming came over, went to the freezer to get a bottle of ice water with ease, and when he came out, Xu Zhi had already put away the photos.

What else did Xu Zhi want to say, Zhou Jianming sat behind him and pulled him up and hugged him on his lap. Xu Zhi was about to struggle, but the wrists around his waist were very tight, so he quickly compromised.

"Do you remember when you were a child?" Xu Zhi asked while sitting on his lap.

Zhou Jianming was silent for a while, "I don't remember before the age of 12."

"I thought of Puyun Club that day, how is your grandfather, how is it?"

"Dead," Zhou Jianming said, "buried under the crabapple tree."

Grandpa was very kind to them, Xu Zhi thought, when he got a rash, Grandpa walked a long way to buy ointment for him, "It's been ten years, you've grown up so much."

Zhou Jianming hugged him calmly, until Xu Zhi's body was pressed against his chest, and he smelled the smell of smoke from his body. Zhou Jianming would still touch him with great force, his palms were rough, and his lips touched him. On his face, Xu Zhi's heart beat inexplicably accelerated, and finally grabbed his arm and asked, "Why didn't you ask me if I was single?"

Zhou Jianming kissed him from the corner of his eyes to his chin, and said, "It's none of my business."

"...Then you don't ask An Ge?"

"Lawyer Xu, it's your business to get along well with others," Zhou Jianming said, "I think you'll come over anytime."

Xu Zhi felt that this person might not be able to communicate, but he couldn't avoid it either, and then suddenly remembered something, and asked, "If it wasn't for my jumping off the bridge, would you never have jumped out?"

Zhou Jianming didn't talk to him, wrapped his arms around his waist, lifted his body slightly, and let him sit on his lap, "Mr. Xu, do you miss the time when you were in Puyun Club?"

Xu Zhi looked at him, but didn't answer, and then he took off his bathrobe.

The tip of his tongue brushed Xu Zhi's teeth, and because he didn't want to open his mouth, he tightly closed him in. Xu Zhi was in pain, and as soon as he let go, he broke in.

"Well……"

"Is there anything else I want to ask?" Zhou Jianming asked, kissing his Adam's apple, and forcing Xu Zhi to lean back. For some reason, Xu Zhi's body became hot, and he had something to say, but he didn't say a word ...

Zhou Jianming didn't leave after he fell asleep that day, Xu Zhi was in a daze, saw the man sitting beside him smoking a cigarette, and felt a hand touching his face, with a faint smell of dust and mud in his palm.

The author says:

There will be another chapter later today