Despicable Games [lower part]

Regardless of the screams behind him, Kang Wenwen walked alone in the direction where the gray-robed man ran last night.

After walking through the tree trunk where the man was hiding, he found a gray piece of debris hanging on a low branch.Kang Wenwen knelt down and reached out to take it off, but out of the corner of his eye he saw two small police officers following behind him.

There was a slight pause in the movement of reaching out, and he took off the rag and examined it carefully.

Xindao, the county magistrate and Wang Maoshi really made people stare at him, but the follow-up work was so-so, and no one dared to follow him when he went out of the city at night.

After twisting the rag in his hands, Kang Wenwen frowned slightly.

"Du Qianlin."

Hearing Kang Wenwen calling him, Du Qianlin patted Zhang Dengjin's dog's head and gave two instructions in a low voice.

Get up and walk to Kang Wenwen.

"what happened?"

Zhang Dengjin vomited with tears in his eyes, just as he was about to scold Du Qianlin for being human, the next wave of churning in his stomach came up again.

Kang Wenwen looked at his pitiful appearance, and said with a smile, "Why are you torturing him so much? Anyway, you didn't intend to let him enter the game alone."

Du Qianlin folded his hands and turned his head to look at Kang Wenwen, smiling without saying a word.

"What are you doing?" Kang Wenwen looked at Du Qianlin vigilantly, "What the hell are you thinking?"

"Wenwen, are you... are you jealous?" Du Qianlin asked with a smile.

Kang Wenwen turned his head to look at Zhang Dengjin, and said, "Aren't you still worried that I like Zhang Dengjin?"

Du Qianlin stretched out his hand and pulled Kang Wenwen's face back, "Don't look at him, it's nauseating."

Kang Wenwen waved his hand away, and handed the rag in front of him, "Look at this."

"This is?" Du Qianlin asked while taking the rag.

"This is what the gray-robed man hung on the branch when he ran away in a hurry last night..." Kang Wenwen looked up at Du Qianlin's darkening face, and immediately realized that he had slipped his mouth again.

"Uh, what... the autopsy here is not good, you guys! Go and carry the corpse back to the yamen."

"Kang! Wen! Smell!"

"Cough." Kang Wenwen covered his mouth and coughed, "There is something wrong with this cloth, please take a look."

Du Qianlin grabbed Kang Wenwen's wrist, "Don't change the subject for me, what happened last night? Did you meet the murderer face to face?"

Kang Wenwen wrinkled and struggled with no effort, but Du Qianlin was not like usual, the more forceful his palm was, the more Kang Wenwen felt that his wrist was about to be crushed.

"Yes, when I came last night, he just put down the flowers, and he hid behind this tree and looked at me."

"Kang Wenwen, don't you know how to write dead characters? I just said yesterday that you should not be impulsive and act alone..."

The more Kang Wenwen struggled, the more angry Du Qianlin became. At the end, he pulled his arm hard, forcing Kang Wenwen to face him face to face.

"I'm not impulsive!" Kang Wenwen also turned to stare at him, "Last night..."

"What happened last night?" Du Qianlin asked.

"Shouldn't the young couple quarrel here!" Zhang Dengjin's voice came from the other side.

Only then did Kang Wenwen and Du Qianlin realize that they were making too much noise, which attracted everyone's attention.

Du Qianlin loosened Kang Wenwen's hand slightly, and Kang Wenwen took the opportunity to shake off his hand and walked quickly outside the woods.

Zhang Dengjin took a look, and hurriedly approached Du Qianlin, "Lin Tsai, didn't you just ask him if it's green tea? Don't tell me, you..."

"I didn't say it!" Du Qianlin was also very angry and couldn't help shouting.

"...No, it's a small matter." After shouting, he felt that it was too much, and lowered his voice again.

"Okay." Zhang Dengjin shrank his head in embarrassment.

"But the two of you should wait until you get out before breaking up, otherwise what if he stabbed a knife in the back?" Zhang Dengjin whispered.

Du Qianlin stared at Zhang Dengjin, gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Dengjin, your skin is itchy again, isn't it?"

"....without..."

Kang Wenwen walked in front, listening to the indistinct voices of Du Qianlin and Zhang Dengjin behind him, his head became more and more heavy.

The two principals had a quarrel, and the others were afraid to speak and kept silent.

After entering the city gate, Kang Wenwen didn't look back, and said to the air in front of him, "I'm sleepy, go home and catch up on sleep."

After speaking, regardless of other people's reactions, he walked directly into the alley.

Du Qianlin looked at Kang Wenwen's back, opened his mouth to speak, but didn't know what to say, and watched Kang Wenwen disappear into the alley.

"Don't look, the person has already left." Zhang Dengjin leaned against Du Qianlin, shaking his head and saying.

Du Qianlin glanced at him, "Aren't you sleepy?"

Zhang Dengjin looked refreshed after watching the play, "Why are you sleepy, I'm refreshed."

"Okay, follow me to the autopsy."

"What?!"

Before Kang Wenwen got home, he saw Zhang Zhengde standing at the door of his house from a distance, bowing his waist and nodding to a middle-aged man.

Standing in the distance and waiting for the man to go away, Kang Wenwen came out, "Brother, what are you doing here?"

Zhang Zhengde was distracted when he suddenly heard Kang Wenwen tell him to startle, "You! .. you're back."

"Yes." Kang Wenwen nodded.

"En." Zhang Zhengde nodded indiscriminately with dodge eyes, and entered the room.

Kang Wenwen narrowed his eyes slightly seeing Zhang Zhengde's distraught look.Turning his head to look at the man who was walking away, he turned and entered the house.

"I seem to have seen my brother talking to a man outside just now, who is that man?" Kang Wenwen asked before Zhang Zhengde sat down when he entered the room.

Zhang Zhengde obviously stiffened a lot, "What man?"

"He's a well-dressed man of medium height." Kang Wen heard.

At first glance, that man is not an ordinary citizen, nor is he dressed in a yamen.In retrospect, it looks a bit like the clothes he wore when I saw Zhang Dengjin for the first time. Could it be someone sent by Wang Maoshi?

"Oh, that person. He just came to ask for directions." Zhang Zhengde twitched the corners of his mouth and said, dragging his arms over the stool unnaturally and sitting down.

Kang Wenwen looked at Zhang Zhengde, but he didn't dare to look directly at him, and he blinked more frequently, his back was stiff and his hands were flat on his knees.Obviously lying.

"That's it." Kang Wenwen didn't ask further, "Then I'll go back to my room to rest."

On weekdays, when I don't go to work, this brother makes a lot of noise.Today, he didn't even ask a single word. It seems that he has a ghost in his heart, and he still treats himself.

"Go, let's go." Zhang Zhengde said with a smile.

Kang Wenwen also nodded with a smile, turned and went back to the room.

Sleepy is very sleepy, but lying on the bed can't fall asleep again.

When I close my eyes, it is full of flowers, Du Qianlin and Zhang Dengjin.Their faces, their words....

"younger brother?"

Just vaguely, Kang Wenwen heard Zhang Zhengde's voice outside the door.Kang Wenwen couldn't hear his voice as light as a mosquito's.

Presumably it wasn't to tell me that something was wrong, but just to test whether I fell asleep or not.

In this case, Kang Wenwen relaxed and pretended to be asleep.

"Brother?" Zhang Zhengde gently pushed open the door and tiptoed in.

He walked to Kang Wenwen's bed and called again to make sure that Kang Wenwen was asleep.

"Brother, you... oh." Zhang Zhengde sighed, and put something on Kang Wenwen's bedside.

Kang Wenwen could smell it without opening his eyes. It was Zhang Zhengde's favorite meat and wine.

It's really rare, even willing to give this thing to yourself?I'm afraid nothing good will happen next.

After Zhang Zhengde left, Kang Wenwen planned to pretend to sleep for a while, but he really fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

"I slept too long." Kang Wenwen stretched his waist, his eyes clear.

"Crack—"

Kang Wenwen looked up, and he met Zhang Zhengde.

"Brother...brother." Zhang Zhengde looked embarrassed, "You, you're awake."

"That arrester Lu came to look for you just now, and saw that you fell asleep and left."

Kang Wenwen nodded, pointing to a bowl of white meat and wine jug on the bedside and asked, "This is?"

Zhang Zhengde smiled immediately, "Well, it wasn't your friend who came to give me a large sum of money yesterday, and I bought a lot of meat."

"You didn't come back last night, I cooked it for you just now."

Kang Wenwen got out of bed and picked up the bowl of cold white meat, and said, "Is there something you're hiding from me, brother?"

"No, no..." Zhang Zhengde quickly waved his hand, but then withdrew his hand and smiled awkwardly at Kang Wenwen.

"Actually, there is something."

"What?" Kang Wenwen handed the bowl in his hand to Zhang Zhengde, and turned around to arrange his clothes and hair.

Zhang Zhengde smiled foolishly, "Well, I have a friend who came from the south. I'm not familiar with the way here, can you go out of the city to meet him?"

"Why didn't brother go? I don't know what your friend looks like." Kang Wenwen asked.

Zhang Zhengde said awkwardly, "He, he arrived at night."

Kang Wenwen stopped and looked back at Zhang Zhengde.

"Evening?" What?Tell yourself to die?

Zhang Zhengde didn't dare to look directly at Kang Wenwen, "Brother, you didn't come back last night. Now the ogre will not eat people after eating flowers."

"Don't worry, I, I will wait for you to come back inside the city gate."

"Wait for me?" Kang Wenwen said with a smile.

"Well, even if I am willing to go, the city gate will be closed at night, how can I get out?"

"No, no, the city gate is closed late tonight," Zhang Zhengde said.

Kang Wenwen raised his eyebrows, "It was closed late? Why?"

"Yes... I was told by the passer-by today. He is a businessman from out of town. He said that the city gate will not be closed if there is goods going out of the city tonight." Zhang Zhengde said stumblingly.

Kang Wenwen sneered in his heart, this Wang Maoshi really thinks highly of Zhang Zhengde, he would believe the lie.

"Well, anyway, the ogre won't come out to make trouble now. My brother will wait for me to come back at the gate of the city."

"Okay, okay." Zhang Zhengde was overjoyed and agreed again and again.

"Then I'll help you warm up the meat now."

Kang Wen asked in his heart, is this the last 'meal on the road'?

He waved his hand and said, "No need, you can eat the meat."

He glanced at the wine jug on the bedside, "Leave this wine for me to taste."

"Okay." After speaking, Zhang Zhengde went out with a smile.

Kang Wenwen curled his lips, walked to the short table, studied ink and picked up a pen.

After going out for a while, Kang Wenwen saw Zhang Zhengde standing at the door looking around eagerly when he returned home.

"Brother is waiting for me? Are you afraid that I will run away?" Kang Wen asked with a smile.

"You, what are you talking about? How could I be afraid that you would run away?" Zhang Zhengde said with a grimace.

Kang Wen smiled and said nothing, only to find that Zhang Zhengde had cooked a table of dishes when he entered the room.

"What day is it today? Brother is willing to cook so much meat and vegetables?"

"No days, no days."

Kang Wenwen sat on the bench without moving his chopsticks, just picked up the pot of wine, filled himself up, and took a sip.

It doesn't taste like alcohol, just like the current rice wine.Kang Wenwen took a sip in peace, not because he was afraid of being poisoned, but because he couldn't drink too much, and he didn't know how he would die if he got drunk.

Although it was low-alcohol rice wine, Kang Wenwen stopped pouring it after drinking a cup.

Zhang Zhengde didn't eat much, seeing Kang Wenwen sitting there not eating or drinking, he stood up abruptly.

Kang Wenwen was startled, and looked up at him, "What's wrong?"

"Brother, let's burn incense sticks for parents." Zhang Zhengde looked very nervous, and there were some fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Why do you want to offer incense? Today is not a good day." Kang Wenwen was puzzled, and he didn't want to offer incense to others.As a modern person, he does not go to temples and has no elders, and he has never offered incense to anyone.

Zhang Zhengde didn't force him, he took out three incense sticks from the incense table and lit them, and bowed three times to his parents' tablet, muttering something in his mouth.

Kang Wenwen turned his head to see that it was getting late, got up and said to Zhang Zhengde, "Brother is gone."

Zhang Zhengde was still muttering.

Kang Wenwen didn't really think that he would send him to the city gate, so he left by himself.

Before going out, I went to the Yamen to leave a letter to Du Qianlin. If Wang Maoshi's people saw it first, then I would really end tonight early.

But even if Du Qianlin saw it, he might not be able to come out.Wang Maoshi must have guarded against him.

"Oh, anyway, I was impulsive. People have invited me, can I not go?" Kang Wenwen said to himself.