A charming and dangerous character

At first, it was only the mountains in the distance that were suddenly removed by God, and a layer of white mist that was like thick soup in a pot began to spread silently in this small northern city. At this time, no one noticed that the boundary between the sky and the land in the suburbs was gradually blurring It is not clear, and those towns that are farther away seem to disappear in the fog.

Soon came the evening rush hour for people to get off work. The traffic flow from the various branch roads into the main road was like a small stream flowing into the ocean, and the number of cars driving in the urban area gradually increased.At the beginning, the visibility outside the car was still about one or two kilometers. Slowly, even if the drivers turned on the brightest high beam, they seemed to be able to only see the scene closest to them.

Accompanied by this thick smog, there are also car horns beeping non-stop due to traffic jams and various car accidents that occurred in every corner of the city, but as soon as these appeared, they were immediately surrounded by countless white particles. Cities seem to be isolated.

"...The Municipal Meteorological Bureau reminds the general public that visibility is low in smoggy weather, and road traffic accidents occur frequently. Please try to reduce travel..."

The beautiful female anchor of the news program is enthusiastically telling everyone not to go out, but no one in the drugstore pays attention to the old-fashioned TV with an antenna in the corner.

This is a 24-hour chain pharmacy located in the lower district of City S. At this time, there are two ladies of different ages standing in front of the row of glass medicine cabinets near the door. Their anxious expressions and tone seem to be due to something. There was a dispute.

"No! Girl, stop gesticulating, I really can't understand or understand!" The older of the two is the aunt of the salesperson in the pharmacy.

I saw her anxiously looking at the foreign girl with an obvious Western appearance on the other side of the counter, and found that the girl seemed to be crying because she didn't understand what kind of medicine the girl was going to buy, and she was so anxious that even the corners of her eyes were wrinkled A lot of folds: "Oh no, don't cry! I'm old, I really can't understand English, can you speak a few words of Chinese?"

It's a pity that the foreign girl didn't seem to understand what the Chinese aunt said, she just kept chanting a bunch of awkward English words on her mouth, very stubborn.The two couldn't communicate at all.

Originally, the aunt in the pharmacy wanted to ask others for help, hoping that a customer who could speak at least a little English would come in, but when the customers who came later who wanted to buy medicine saw the scene of these two "donkey lips not right with horse mouth", For some reason, they immediately turned around and went out, avoiding them far away.

Soon the foreign girl's tears flowed from her eyes, wet her thick eyelashes like a small fan, but she was still talking incoherently and excitedly.Although the aunt of the pharmacy was anxious, she was held by the girl's hand just now, and she tried to pull it out, but she couldn't get it out.

She had no choice but to raise her other hand to wipe the sweat that was slowly dripping from her forehead, thinking that I would be sweating in such a cold weather... She had no choice but to sigh, and the auntie at the pharmacy also spoke in Chinese. The girl started a "conversation": "Girl, I really don't understand... I can't pretend at my age, no matter how much you cry when you are here, I can't learn it right away..."

The induction doorbell at the door of the pharmacy rang again, but the two people in front of the glass counter only focused on talking to the person opposite. They didn't realize that the customer who came to buy medicine didn't hear them like the previous people. The conversation immediately turned around and went out.

"What she wants to buy is chlorpromazine hydrochloride."

At this time, the auntie of the pharmacy noticed that a new customer had entered the store—it should be a man, the exact age could not be seen, but he was tall and well-dressed, even though he was all black and wore a mask and hat, but If you take a closer look, you can see the distinctive elegance of this person——Auntie didn't realize it at first, and didn't understand what the person said just now, so she replied subconsciously: "Ah?"

The new guest of "ChlorpromazineHydrochloride Tablets" read out the repeated words from the foreign girl's mouth. His voice is like a double bass in a string orchestra. Although the volume is slightly low, it can be heard clearly by the people present: "One An over-the-counter drug, chlorpromazine hydrochloride tablets."

The young girl who was still crying with her back to the new guest turned around immediately when she heard that someone finally understood her, and let go of her auntie's hand, but seeing her excited look, she seemed to want to Reach out and grab the clothes of the newcomer.

Just when the foreign girl's fingers were about to touch the new guest, she seemed to be in a daze before her eyes, and she didn't touch the sleeve of the imagined man.

And the new guest didn't know how to do it. In short, when the girl turned around and was about to walk to him, he just avoided the body slightly to the left, and instantly left the foreign girl's field of vision.

"Chlorpromazine is a treatment drug for schizophrenia and mania, she should belong to the latter." The new customer had already come to the glass medicine cabinet at this time, and said politely to the auntie in the pharmacy, "Please help me get one." A bottle of povidone iodine and two Type II disposable dressing change kits."

The aunt in the pharmacy didn’t realize it until then—no wonder the girl’s emotions fluctuated so suddenly because of poor communication—but she heard the new customer’s needs clearly and handed the chlorpromazine hydrochloride tablets to the foreign girl Afterwards, I couldn't help but asked enthusiastically: "By the way, young man, thank you just now! You want to buy a dressing kit, is anyone you know injured?"

Because the type II disposable dressing kit contains suture needles and surgical sutures, the auntie of the pharmacy recommended it to the kind customer who helped her a lot just now: "Generally, trauma that requires stitches is not easy to deal with by yourself. You might as well Let the injured people come to us, there are professional nurses in the clinic above us to help treat the wounds, and the charges are not very expensive."

However, the new guest seemed to be interrupted by his aunt's question. He temporarily distracted himself from the news broadcast on the TV that "the police are warning the fugitive - the name is Qiu Chuyi..." and then he calmed down. Answer: "No, my pet was accidentally injured. I can take care of this minor injury myself."

"Oh, that's fine." The aunt said understandingly: "In my opinion, there is really no need to send cats and dogs to the hospital if they are injured. It is the master..."

When the male guest went out, the TV news program was still broadcasting the news that the important leaders of the Provincial Public Security Department were about to change their posts.The aunt of the pharmacy looked at the back of him leaving, thinking of the clothes on the customer's body, she seemed to realize something suddenly, but when she looked outside the door again, the customer had already turned the corner of the street, and the elegant figure of the back was more intense outside. It disappeared instantly in the white dust haze.

Residents of City S have long been familiar with this kind of sandy and hazy weather that only occurs once a year. Although some people wear masks when they go out to prevent their lungs from inhaling excessive dust, more people don't care about it. It should have common sense—anyway, the smog only lasts for a day or two, and for them, it will pass in the blink of an eye.

But this man who was wearing a mask and walking in the bustling crowd without being obtrusive, suddenly thought of the news that someone suddenly mentioned to him after someone was a guest at his house some time ago-it was what was mentioned in the news program just now. The news of "The Provincial Public Security Bureau is about to face a change of office"—should refer to the fact that Song Zhengrong's father, Song Guohua, is about to retire.

Except that he heard Song Guohua personally order to block his visa to go abroad through the monitor, and he was [-]% suspicious of this, but now he has no special feelings for this young father.Especially the illusion that "close neighbors are more affectionate than distant relatives" that he foolishly believed in before.

In fact, in Qiu Chuyi's view, what Cheng Ye said before leaving his house last time was contrary to the facts.

At that time, he said as if to warn him: "The closer the change of office is, the more the focus of the higher-ups will be on fighting crime."

Having said that - but, which big leader who is about to retire doesn't want to see that he is a high-spirited person in his later years, and finally retires with all his glory?

So the last thing Director Song wants to see at the moment is that someone deliberately "stabs" him.

If you think about it according to this way of thinking, for the two cases being investigated by the City Bureau of S, this should be the real reason why the higher authorities spared no effort to let them investigate the "[-]" and "[-]" separately. .

Everyone knows that the criminal group that Ye Tianchi relies on is too powerful. If the Public Security Bureau can bring it down, it must have already stepped down in the past two years.

But the relationship behind this huge organization must be intricate, just like the roots of trees in a tropical rainforest. In this place where there is no black and white, they are intertwined and intertwined. The deep earth constantly draws fresh nourishment.

When the man braved the white but extremely choking thick fog, he rushed back indoors from the outdoors, the little girl who had been waiting for him for a long time finally cheered, and then crossed from the window sill like a deer in the jungle Many obstacles came to the door.

"father!"

The smile on the little girl's face seemed brighter than the summer sun.She stretched out her arms naturally, trying to encircle her father's body that would squat down for her as usual, but this time the little girl hit a wall for some reason.

It wasn't that the man didn't want to hug her, but he took off the black coat he was wearing and confirmed that there was no trace of smog left on his body, then bent down and squatted down with one leg to embrace the little girl in his arms.

"Chuchu has been waiting for Dad for a long time, right?" Qiu Chuyi saw the little girl running over from the window sill, and said to her, "It's very foggy outside now, Chuchu don't open the window when I'm not around, be careful to inhale smog."

This is also the reason why he didn't hug Qiu Chuchu back immediately.Qiu Chuyi didn't want the little girl's lungs to inhale these potentially harmful fine particles.

"Okay, Chuchu got it." Qiu Chuchu put his arms around his father's neck and rubbed his cheeks with him very intimately. Qiu Chuyi's face was not like those students' fathers who were sloppy and full of stubble, but clean and tidy like an egg. smooth.

The little girl clung to her father like a cat and acted coquettishly for a long time. Feeling that the familiar "father-daughter love" atmosphere was almost in place, Qiu Chuchu put her little head on Qiu Chuyi's broad shoulders, and her tone sounded pitiful : "Dad... when will we be able to go home?"

The pair of apricot round eyes that are very similar to her mother are not simple in this room, but they are completely incomparable with her home. Looking around in the house-although there is everything here, and there is no shortage of food and drink, but this room The relatively small size of the room inevitably gave her the feeling that she was trapped in a "caged bird".

Qiu Chuchu remembered that it was the day before yesterday, and her father took her here directly after picking her up from elementary school as usual, and only explained to her that the house was recently renovated and they would live here for a while.But that evening, Qiu Chuyi left again. It was not until the next afternoon that he hurried back from outside and apologized to her.

However, these two days coincided with the weekend, and Qiu Chuchu didn't have to go to school. When her father was away that night, she could only stay in the room alone, and her life was boring.Even the TV, which was strictly controlled by her mother before, can no longer attract the attention of this poor little girl-of course, what she doesn't know is that the TV here has been remodeled by her father, and now she can only watch fixed programs CCTV.

Hearing this, Qiu Chuyi touched her little head with some distress, and then hugged Qiu Chuchu even tighter in his arms.But he still said: "When the room is decorated, Dad will take you home. When Dad is away these two days, he will take care of himself hard."

Qiu Chuchu was naturally dissatisfied when she heard this answer, but there was nothing she could do, so she asked her father again: "Dad, will you send me to school tomorrow morning? Mom, why hasn't she come back from a business trip for so long..."

"The smog is very heavy recently. I was worried about Chu Chu's body, so I took a few days off with the teacher. After the smog clears, Chu Chu will go back to school, okay?" Qiu Chuyi first answered the little girl's previous question. The tone of the sentence is clearly beyond doubt.

Thinking of her mother leaving her for so long, Qiu Chuchu's little heart felt the "pain of parting" for the first time.So she continued to ask her father: "Dad, Mom hasn't called us for so long, and now that the house is being renovated, she probably doesn't know where we live now... Should we take the initiative to call Mom?"

Just as she was talking, the little girl's voice suddenly became hoarse, and then she even lowered her head: "Chuchu, Chuchu misses mom a little..."

Qiu Chuyi didn't know how to describe his feelings at the moment—that was his wife in name, but she was also Qiu Chuchu's biological mother—no matter what kind of feelings between adults should be imposed on children.

So he also gently rested his head on Qiu Chuchu's little head as if comforting him, and with his deep and gentle voice, he made up a convincing lie for the little girl: "Father knows that Chu Chuchu I miss my mother. But the place where my mother goes is far away, and the mobile phone cannot receive signal there, so we may still have no way to contact my mother.”

Qiu Chuchu trusted her father's words very much, so to this day she does not suspect him as the reason for her mother's departure.

But after the girl heard her father's words, her small head was still like a bird eating. She leaned on her father's shoulder and couldn't help nodding frequently—it was just a drop or two at first, and then Qiu Chuyi could feel her entire shoulder. Wet by the girl's tears.

But he didn't hear the girl's cry, only the low breath that was deliberately restrained.

Generally, little girls like Qiu Chuchu who are seven or eight years old will use crying as a perfect weapon for them to express their vulnerability, dissatisfaction, or to ask adults for things.But Qiu Chuchu seldom cries in front of them.

Even when she was younger, no matter whether she was injured or what, this fragile and strong little girl would just keep silent and choose to go through it. Perhaps in her view, tears are the most useless thing—maybe this Same as her mother.

Soon Qiu Chuchu raised her head. Although there were still some drops of water on the end of her eyelashes, her voice had returned to normal: "Dad, when Mom comes back, do you want to tell her that we have visited grandma?"

For some reason, the little girl suddenly thought of the grandma she had only met once.After experiencing these two days of solitude, she didn't want this old lady, who seemed pitiful enough and lonely enough, to continue to stay alone in that desolate and gloomy nursing home.

"By the way, Dad, did you find grandma's brooch later?" Before Qiu Chuyi could answer, she asked again.

When the brooch was mentioned, Qiu Chuyi's heartbeat paused.He suddenly leaned his chin on Qiu Chuchu's small shoulder, and did not let the girl see his rare fragility.

These two seemingly unrelated questions reminded him of something from last year——

It was the wedding anniversary with his wife. When he came home from get off work as usual, he entered the door and saw the exquisite gift box on the dining table.

He didn't prepare anything for his wife, because they had never celebrated this "anniversary" for each other before.But at the urging of his wife, he still opened the gift box specially prepared for him, and saw the sparkling diamond necklace inside.

At that time, Jiang Nanxi picked up the necklace and brought it to her slender neck. Under the light, the pearl light flowed and the diamonds shone, making her look like a noble and elegant swan.

Qiu Chuyi remembered that she was suddenly close to his ear, as if the two were the perfect couple they showed to everyone, and whispered with some intimacy and a smile: "I already know where your mother is..."

Then she raised her head and winked at him mischievously, her eyes were as bright as the glowing diamonds in her neck: "This is the 'anniversary gift' she gave us, I am very satisfied—"

"So what about you? Do you like it, Qiu Chuyi?"

"..."

It was the little girl's voice that brought him back to reality from his memory: "...Daddy?"

"Dad, so did you help Granny find the brooch afterwards?"

Qiu Chuyi let out a heavy breath, touched the back of Qiu Chuchu's head, which was very similar to Jiang Nanxi, and thought: Of course this is not a single gift from her, but a "common gift" from her to both of them.

"That brooch..." So he said, "It must have been accidentally dropped by grandma, and it can't be found anymore."