daytime firefly

Zhou Jianming not only did not leave, but also made breakfast. Xu Zhi had no dreams all night. When he woke up, he saw a naked back. Zhou Jianming stood at the end of his bed with his head lowered. The smoke dispersed from his ears. do what.

Xu Zhi didn't get up, rubbed his eyes, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Jianming just put down the things in his hands, turned sideways, and under Xu Zhi's gaze, smashed the cigarette butt on the counter.

Xu Zhi regained his energy very quickly, got up and crawled to the end of the bed, stroking the place where the cigarette butts had been poked with, "Do you know how much this cabinet costs!"

"..." Zhou Jianming paused, and apologized a little bluntly, "I'm used to it at home."

There was nothing wrong with the counter, Xu Zhi softened his heart for no reason, sat at the end of the bed and looked up at him, "Bad habits need to be changed, okay?"

Zhou Jianming nodded, bent down, pinched his chin and kissed him, then left slightly, and said to him from a distance of a fist, "Get up and eat, I'm leaving."

"Where are you going?"

"go back."

Xu Zhi straightened up and let out a hey, "Where do you live?"

"East of the city," Zhou Jianming replied truthfully, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xu Zhi shook his head, for a moment, "When will you come next time?"

Zhou Jianming probably couldn't give a specific time, just said, "I'll call you."

Then he got dressed and left. Xu Zhi came out after washing up. On the dining table was a bowl of noodles in clear soup, with chopped green onions spread on the surface, a cup of soy milk next to it, and two deep-fried dough sticks on the plate.

"Tch, do I have such a big stomach," Xu Zhi muttered when he sat down, "Little bitch..." Then, "Little bitch? That's a good name."

There were no plans for the weekend, so after breakfast, Xu Zhi cleaned up the mess that was full of the house yesterday and the leftovers from breakfast and went downstairs.

Liu Zhendong's family passed away unexpectedly, and the community has not been so lively these days. Without the person who led the trouble, it turned out that the people's anger was mediocre.

"Hey, give me this."

The garbage in Xu Zhi's hand was hanging above the mouth of the trash can. Looking over his head, an auntie cleaner in a gray uniform stretched out her gloved hand to him, signaling him to pass the cardboard box in her hand.

"Oh, it's troublesome." Xu Zhi thought about it, took two steps, and then turned back, "Auntie, are you in charge of public health in this building?"

"Yes, I recognize you, Lawyer Xu."

Xu Zhi said again, "Then, thank you, it's so dirty and you still help me clean it."

"What did you clean up for me?" Auntie looked at him strangely, "All I do is clean the public stalls, nothing is very dirty."

"Didn't you clean up the dirty water in front of my house?"

"When did your house have dirty water? The quality of the people in this community is quite high, so it's not easy to talk nonsense."

"That," Xu Zhi felt weird, stopped his voice in time, and turned back to the monitoring room.

"Yes, you can go a little further," Xu Zhi stood behind the security guard, pointing to the time bar on the screen, "Go a little further."

"here?"

The progress bar stopped at a node and started to play at 1.5x speed. After Xu Zhi saw the person who was cleaning the door of his house with a cleaning tool, he said, "Pause, can you zoom in?"

"Yes." The security guard zoomed in on the screen several times.

What Xu Zhi saw was Zhou Jianming's cold side face. After cleaning up the stains, he squatted down in front of his combination lock.

Xu Zhi thought, no wonder there is an extra layer of plastic film on the combination lock, no wonder he knows the combination of his house, this bitch...

Back home from the monitoring room, Xu Zhi was hesitating on the landline whether to give him a call. The phone rang at the right time, and he grabbed the receiver and put it to his ear, "You can do it, little bitch, just give it to me in a low voice." I,"

"Xu Zhi, what are you talking about?" Qi Jingyi's voice said.

Xu Zhi paused, "Qi, what are you doing calling my landline?"

"I don't know who is on the phone. I made three or four calls and didn't answer any of them."

Xu Zhi looked around, only to realize that the phone was still on the bedside table in the bedroom, and said, "You are looking for me, what's wrong..."

"Li Hua found it."

"Just find it. Is there anything else? If nothing else, I'll hang up."

"He died, and the body was washed up on the beach by the river. The photographer who took the scenery by the river called the police."

"..." At that moment, Xu Zhi realized that what he was thinking about was not how Li Hua died, but Zhou Jianming. Zhou Jianming's debt would never be returned. When he returned to his thoughts, he asked, "Did you commit suicide?"

"Homicide, there is a hole in the back of the head."

Xu Zhi opened his mouth, and it took him a long time to say, "Congratulations, Lawyer Qi, the case is over early."

Qi Jingyi seemed to have never heard of it, "Do you still remember that day when we went to Li Hua's house and met that debt collector?"

Realizing that he was asking this on purpose, Xu Zhi couldn't figure out the intention. After a moment of silence, he heard him say, "Li Hua has his fingerprints on him."

The phone was cut off by Xu Zhi. He dialed a series of numbers, but the other end didn't answer for a full minute. Xu Zhi persevered in calling, one call, two calls, three calls, and the call was answered at the end of the fourth call. When I got up, the wind was loud and the tone was unstable, or in other words, it was the sound of forced breathing trying to maintain a steady state——

"Speak up quickly."

There was obviously only a second or two of vacancy in the middle, but Xu Zhi felt that it seemed to have been stretched for a whole century, "Did you kill someone?"

"No."

"What are you doing?"

After another burst of violent wind and uncontrollable breathing, Xu Zhi heard two words——

"Escape."

Xu Zhi regained his sanity almost instantly, "I'll call you on my mobile phone, and you can find a chance to send me the location. Tell me the approximate location now, and I'll pick you up."

Half an hour later, Xu Zhi's car stopped suddenly near the pier. He turned on the double flashing lights and unlocked the car. Within 2 minutes, the co-pilot's door was opened, and Zhou Jianming got in with a smell of blood, "Go open in the city."

"Seat belt." Xu Zhi ordered and started the car.

The off-road vehicle behind disappeared after chasing them into the city center. Thanks to the traffic congestion in the city and the traffic police everywhere, Xu Zhi didn't stage a desperate pursuit with their pursuers.

"Do you want to take care of your injury first?"

Only then did Zhou Jianming put the wound on the arm under the left shoulder into his eyes. He tore off the coat stuck to the wound, and then hissed. Xu Zhi smiled, "Little bitch, are you afraid of pain?"

"what?"

Xu Zhi turned his eyes to the side of the street, looking for the pharmacy, and said, "It's okay."

"I heard."

The car stopped, and Xu Zhi said, "Wait, I'll go buy medicine." After speaking, he got out of the car and went into the nearby pharmacy.

Xu Zhi really doesn't know how to bandage. Zhou Jianming's bicep has already thickened around the circumference. Now that he can bandage it, it looks even more exaggerated. Xu Zhi was a little proud of it, and patted his wound through the gauze. "How about it, Teacher Xu lives up to his reputation?"

Zhou Jianming remained silent again, so Xu Zhi suppressed his smile and said seriously, "Li Hua is dead, do you know that he has your fingerprints on him."

"Is that weird? He won't pay back the money. I've beaten him many times."

"It's not surprising, but it's dangerous. Don't fight against the law. It will hollow you out."

It's not that Zhou Jianming doesn't understand, but he doesn't want to understand. He feels that apart from this person in front of him, other things, good or bad, seem to be meaningless.

Xu Zhi didn't know what he was thinking about for a moment, so he started the car and asked, "Where are we going?"

"East of the city," Zhou Jianming sat upright, his eyes fell on the rearview mirror outside the window, "drive to the east end."

In the east is Zhou Jianming's home in Jiangbei.

Xu Zhi came here for the first time, and felt that even dogs would not like to live here.

The low red brick houses are lined up in a row, and on the roof is a railway track, and the train passes over it, leaving behind a deafening sound.

"Little bitch?"

Zhou Jianming ignored it.

Xu Zhi said again, "It's not that you don't have money, why don't you rent a better house?"

When he reached the door, Xu Zhi was about to follow him in, when an old man came out from the next room. The old man was carrying a big cloth bag, looking like a fleeing man carrying all his belongings.

Xu Zhi paused, and the old man paused too, looked at him, looked into the house, passed him at last, and left.

Only then did Xu Zhi follow in, and there was only an incandescent light bulb hanging in the room, covered in dust, and the wooden table was also covered in dust and a few packs of crumpled cigarette cases.

"What about you?"

Zhou Jianming dragged a box from under the bed, went out and took some clothes that were hanging out to dry, stuffed them into the box, and before closing the box, he took a red plastic bag from the box on the cabinet, which was obviously a stack of RMB. .

Xu Zhi watched him go out, went to the next room, and when he came back, his hands were empty. Finally, he closed the box and walked up to him, "Let's go."

"what?"

"Move now."

"Where are you going?"

Zhou Jianming said, "Your home."

Xu Zhi heard it right, but he couldn't believe it. He saved his life, but he didn't really put himself in it. He couldn't move, "Little bitch, I suddenly felt that your place is actually quite good Yes, there is everything, look, hey, don't go!"

Zhou Jianming put the luggage into the trunk and got into the driver's seat by himself. After a period of psychological struggle, Xu Zhi got into the co-pilot, and the car drove away. Xu Zhi asked compromisingly, "How long will you stay..."

Zhou Jianming didn't answer, he stepped on the gas pedal, feeling the back push, Xu Zhi subconsciously grabbed the handle on the roof, "No one is chasing, you drive slowly, this car still has a deposit of 1500!"

Zhou Jianming hummed, the speed did not slow down, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Xu Zhi felt that he had to ask about some things, but he also knew that not all questions could be answered correctly. The police would of course look for Zhou Jianming, but in today's chase, the other party was obviously not the police.

Zhou Jianming didn't want to talk when he was serious, and even the lines of his side face showed a stern look. Xu Zhi's thoughts went around in circles along the way, and finally the car stopped at the gate of the community, and Zhou Jianming asked , "Where to return the car?"

Xu Zhi raised his chin forward, "There."

Zhou Jianming drove a little further, and when Xu Zhi returned the car, the two went back to the community and went upstairs.

The suitcase stood on the carpet in the entrance, Xu Zhi blocked Zhou Jianming behind the door, and said to him word by word, "I can trust you completely, but do you trust me?"

Zhou Jianming just looked at him.

Xu Zhi added, "I have to take you to the Public Security Bureau. If you didn't kill anyone, tell the police everything you know. After that, whether the police still pursue your violent debt collection behavior is up to me. I will help you." You handle it."

"No need," Zhou Jianming said, "the body was left in my house, right where you stood today."

There was a chill on Xu Zhi's body, but he was surprisingly calm, "Did you throw the body?"

"Returning the corpse, does that count as dumping the corpse?"

"Who else will go there?"

"Liang An, the person who lent money to Li Hua."

"Do you have legal awareness?" Xu Zhi was furious, poking his chest with his fingertips, "So the person chasing you today is also the man from Liang An?"

Zhou Jianming acquiesced, and Xu Zhi said again, "How much hatred do you have with this Liang An, why do people cheat you so much?"

Zhou Jianming looked a little indifferent, and avoided answering, just asked, "Teacher, now, do you decide to report me or hide me?"