north bird south

The commotion outside the classroom quieted down, Yu Yao heard Dong Yibai's voice, he didn't know what they said, anyway the booing crowd dispersed.

When he returned to the office, it was getting dark, and the last teacher happened to run into Yu Yao when he went out.He said, "Teacher Yu, why did you come back? Your student is waiting for you inside."

Yu Yao's heart skipped a beat, he said goodbye to the teacher, walked in, and really saw Xu Zhiyuan sitting at his office desk.

Yu Yao walked in, took a deep breath, and asked, "It's getting late, why don't you go home."

"I'll wait for you to go back together." Xu Zhiyuan's voice was hoarse, as if he had been burned by charcoal, "Let's go?"

Yu Yao was silent, and then said: "Okay, I'm looking for a book." He tidied up the documents on the desktop to cover up, and tried not to look into Xu Zhiyuan's eyes.

But he still didn't hide from Xu Zhiyuan's question.

He asked: "Yao'er, don't I need to avoid suspicion?"

Yu Yao paused and said, "No need."

"They will misunderstand our relationship."

"Let them think what they want," Yu Yao pursed his lower lips, and said, "...the one who cleans up cleans himself."

"The clean is clear..." Xu Zhiyuan murmured.

"I don't really understand," he said, staring at Yu Yao clearly, "What do you think we are related to?"

Yu Yao stayed in place without saying a word.

"Why don't you tell Cao Xiangfan directly that you and I are innocent." Xu Zhiyuan said, "You are the teacher and the person involved, and you are the more authoritative person. As long as you clarify this sentence, at least there will be no trouble. Like that. But why don't you say it."

Yu Yao lowered his eyelashes and said, "...the book is found, let's go home."

Xu Zhiyuan sat still, and said, "Yao'er, you used to say that I was a rascal, but I think you are the most reckless one."

Yu Yao pursed his lips. He wanted to stop Xu Zhiyuan from continuing, but he couldn't say a word.

"I heard that you are slowly changing your words, but you have become hesitant." Xu Zhiyuan laughed and said, "Yao'er, you seem to be torturing me."

"No, I just think..." Yu Yao got stuck.

I just feel that it is too heartless to unilaterally put aside the relationship.

Yu Yao couldn't say the second half of the sentence.It was as if he was going to tell a lie, although he himself didn't figure out where the "lie" was.

"Do you think I'm pitiful?" Xu Zhiyuan laughed at himself, "That's quite reasonable."

"I……"

Xu Zhiyuan stood up and walked out of the office, returned to his usual state, and said at the door, "Let's go, little uncle."

Yu Yao looked at him, and there was no response for a long time, until Xu Zhiyuan said to himself, "Then I'm leaving."

When the door was closed, Yu Yao seemed to be enveloped by a huge loss for a moment. The uncomfortable feeling was pressed in his throat, making him dare not move a half step, and he could not say anything. It seemed that only in this way could he maintain his life. It's a precarious balance, otherwise you can be overwhelmed by this emotion if you don't pay attention.

He has never had such a mood, and he can't explain it with any term or logic that he knows.

Just like he couldn't answer the question "what's your relationship with Xu Zhiyuan".

After a while, Yu Yao sat down slowly, leaning against the back of the chair and covering his eyes with his arms.

……

"Mr. Yu, have you stayed up late again?" The owner of Yangzhi Bookstore sighed helplessly, "Every time you come to my place, you can always see bloodshot eyes...why don't you listen to my advice."

Yu Yao belatedly rubbed the corners of his eyes, and responded with a smile.Although he was restless, he did not forget that he had business to do. He lowered his voice and asked, "Boss, have the books I wanted a few days ago been in stock?"

"...Are these books?" The boss read a few titles, Yu Yao said "hmm" and listened to the boss's instigation, "It's in the east corner of the second floor. I put them there."

Yu Yao thanked him, went upstairs and went to the designated corner.Find a place against the wall and sit down.

In the past, he occasionally ran into Xu Zhiyuan a few times in Yangzhi, most of the time Xu Zhiyuan was reading by the window, sometimes when the sun was strong, he would move to the wall and sleep with one arm on his head, the other with long and thin fingers , The hand with sharp bones hangs beside the book.He breathed quietly, as if he had no defense against the outside world, and he couldn't wake up even if someone rubbed the back of his hand when passing by.

Even though they met, Yu Yao didn't greet him specially, instead, he found a place where he could see him and sat down, observing Xu Zhiyuan's lazy naps and inadvertent little movements, just like a customer visiting the store to watch the rabbit raised in Yangzhi's backyard Similarly, when looking at Xu Zhiyuan, the corners of Yu Yao's mouth turned up inexplicably, and he relaxed physically and mentally.

Yu Yao was in a daze, and inadvertently rubbed his fingers along the lines of the table.

"Mr. Yu," said the person across the table, "it's me."

Yu Yao didn't look up at him, but quickly put away his fingers, looked around carefully, and whispered: "Is there any news?"

Like him, Wu Xiaofeng also took the book and pretended to be reading it, and said, "There's a joke. Now I've been mentioned by Uncle Wang as a police patrol, and I've met a lot of people, and I've pried some things that you asked me to pay attention to."

Wu Xiaofeng paused, glanced at Yu Yao secretly, saw that his face was not good, thought that the rumors flying all over the sky in the past few days had disturbed his mind, and comforted him: "Mr. Yu, don't hurt yourself because of bad words. Those evil spirits will be punished by God!"

Yu Yao smiled and said: "I don't mind, you continue to talk."

Wu Xiaofeng nodded and said: "Wu Shenyuan disappeared around October last year. During this period, he was actually imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau for a while, and was removed two days later. As for where he went, the coalition government has a secret prison. The special prisoners are probably sent there."

Wu Shenyuan is independent from the intelligence network of Huai City. It is an important role with dual identities of supervision and undercover. Finding out directly will not have much impact on the intelligence network.But it also made him "isolated and helpless". If he didn't call for help, his bones might be cold when he was found.

Yu Yao remained silent, motioning him to continue talking.

"Our prison is just a decoration. It can't lock people up. Get some things and release them within a few days. At that time, Uncle Wang thought that Wushenyuan had been redeemed by someone, so he didn't care about it. It was only later that he found out. They were not released at all." Wu Xiaofeng said, "The foreign prison guards who guarded there before always liked to steal tips from the prisoners. If the prisoners had no money, they would accept some valuable things on their body. But after giving the money, it was nothing more than It is to make myself feel better in prison, and I have to follow instructions whether to let him out..."

Yu Yao thought of the Jade Bodhisattva Wu Tongqiu saw at the pawn shop. He originally wanted to start an investigation from the foreigners who pawned him, but suddenly he was blessed and asked, "After they collect things, do they usually consume them on the same day?"

"This... I will collect the money. After all, it is not a formal source. It will save trouble if you spend it early. But if you collect important things, they will still help keep them for a few days. If the prisoner does not come back after going out, they will Just go and be..."

"Where do you usually go?"

"This..." Wu Xiaofeng said, "Anyway, you can't go to a family for this kind of thing. If it's me, find a street and go to pawnshops from east to west..."

Yu Yao put down the book and said, "I understand, thank you."

Wu Xiaofeng blinked his eyes, looked at Yu Yao getting up in a daze, and said, "Hey, okay, you go slowly."

Yu Yao also has an amulet that he brought up since he was a child. He knows that these amulets are usually given by important relatives and have special meaning to the wearer.

The moment Wu Shenyuan was arrested, he must have known that he would be transferred to a special prison, and that he would escape death...why did he use the precious Jade Bodhisattva to manage the prison guards in the public prison?

He can only stay in a public prison for a while, and the prison guards have no right to release him or "make his life easier."And after he "bribed" the prison guards, the most likely way for that Bodhisattva Jade was to be pawned off.

And that pawn shop happened to be not far from his house, and it happened to be discovered by Wu Tongqiu.

When it comes to other things, it can be said to be a coincidence, but when it comes to Wu Shenyuan, Yu Yao feels that it is not just a coincidence.

Although he felt a little inconceivable about the inference that "Wu Shenyuan observed the previous actions of the prison guards and deduced the approximate location of the next pawn shop", but he has never held such a position, so he cannot jump to conclusions and say that this is impossible of.

He immediately went to Diagnosis Medical College—Wu Tongqiu had been hiding there recently—to find Wu Tongqiu and get the Bodhisattva Jade.Although Wu Tongqiu didn't understand the meaning, but out of trust in Yu Yao, he didn't ask more questions.

He gave the Bodhisattva Jade to Boss Yangzhi at a hidden meeting place, and the experienced boss just picked it up and looked at it for a few times, and immediately discovered the clue.

He gestured to Yu Yao with his eyes, and Yu Yao glanced at Wu Tongqiu, put his hand on her shoulder, and said, "Tongqiu, it may be a bit sudden to say that... I will handle the withdrawal procedures for you in a few days, and send you and Your parents moved to a safe place...would you like to."

Wu Tongqiu is a smart girl. Ever since she entrusted her brother's affairs to Yu Yao, she has a faint feeling that her brother's disappearance is not that simple.She opened her mouth, probably because she still had something she was nostalgic for in Huai City, and after struggling for a while, she finally said, "Yes."

Yu Yao patted her head and said to the boss: "Tell me, she will know sooner or later."

Wu Tongqiu looked at the boss, and saw that he took out a small thing that was only one finger long from his arms, opened it, and the purple light hit the Bodhisattva jade, and a small and dense string of letters appeared on the Bodhisattva jade.The boss said: "This is one of the secret technologies of the R&D layer of the fellowship club."

Wu Tongqiu was stunned when he heard the word fellowship meeting.The boss looked at the line of letters, frowned, and said, "This is just ciphertext, and the encryption rules commonly used by the organization should be used... Do you know where the key is?"

Wu Tongqiu shook his head in a daze.

Yu Yao looked at the piece of Bodhisattva jade and guessed: "Since he carved the cipher text on the Bodhisattva jade, maybe the key is also in the same way..." Yu Yao looked at Wu Tongqiu and said, "Wu Shenyuan he Do you have any other valuables with you?"

Wu Tongqiu first sat on the stool to digest for a while, Yu Yao and the boss were not in a hurry, and waited for her to accept it slowly.

Yu Yao poured Wu Tongqiu a glass of water. After a long time, Wu Tongqiu said slowly, "Actually, I also had a Bodhisattva jade, but I accidentally lost it when I was very young. At that time, my brother was only in his teens. It can't be that jade." ..." Wu Tongqiu looked at the steam wafting from the water glass and said.

"Apart from your family... Does your brother have any important people? He often contacts."

Wu Tongqiu thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said, "He once met an actor, who seems to be called... Niantang."

Yu Yao and the boss looked at each other.

"I don't know who he is from my brother, and he seldom talks about himself in front of me, but he mentions this name a few times... But I always feel that his expression is different from mentioning other people. Same." Wu Tongqiu grasped the cup tightly, seemed to be recalling his various resistance behaviors before, thought carefully and terrified, and said nervously, "I... just intuition, I didn't know he was a member of the same robe... I just want to find him ...Maybe...I don't know."

Yu Yao knelt down, looked up into her eyes, and comforted: "It's okay, don't be afraid, you did nothing wrong."

Wu Tongqiu suddenly met Yu Yao's gaze, and his voice gave people a gentle sense of security, so the corners of her eyes couldn't help getting wet, and said, "Mmm..."

"Niantang...is the owner of Liluofang." The boss said, "Are you familiar with him?"

Wu Tongqiu shook his head and said, "Not very familiar."

Yu Yao probably thought of the relationship between Xu Zhiyuan and Niantang, lowered his eyelashes, was silent for a while, and said, "...I can think of a way."