A charming and dangerous character

Cheng Ye's current home (perhaps, it can also be called a single apartment opposite to his parents) is located in the new district of D City.However, this originally sparsely populated suburb suddenly "emerged" and flourished after entering the millennium.

With the relocation and completion of government agencies and commercial centers, large areas of residential buildings and various types of commercial buildings have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, until they developed into row upon row at the current stage.

It's just a pity that Qiu Jian, who is now lying on a hospital bed in the distant city of S, can no longer see the bustling scene here. After all, this land originally carried his beautiful vision for his family and future.

It seems that I have always forgotten to mention that when this suburb was still undeveloped, Qiu Jian not only bought a house here for self-use, but contracted a large piece of land—the apartment where their family lived before was The first residential dwelling to be built on this land.

And the huge benefits brought about by this farsightedness may have been envied by countless people in that era, and even became the reason for some people to do it-but it is also undeniable that it is precisely because this investment is the reason for Qiu Chuyi to return to China later. Re-entering the business world provides a perfect opportunity and strong support.

Perhaps even Qiu Jian back then never thought that this blood-stained wealth would become the last gift he left to his son.

Now let us throw away these forewords and focus on the present time.

It was predestined, that the house Cheng Ye bought was developed by a real estate company under the Arrow Group.

Because it is a new type of residential housing developed in recent years, the conditions of this community are excellent in all aspects, whether it is the internal structure of the building or the living environment downstairs. It can be said that it is unique and suitable for all ages.

Although this house was bought as Cheng Ye's wedding house at the time, he himself seemed not to care about the decoration and furnishings inside.Coupled with the fact that Cheng Ye's occupation is often reversed day and night, before moving into the new home, he just found a construction team to simply deal with the living infrastructure such as walls, water and electricity.

But in order to prevent Ms. Cui from secretly "handling", she decorated her home in the Chinese-European mix-and-match style of red and golden, with the texture of Cheng Ye, and repeatedly "brainwashed" with her parents: Don't look at the rough house now, but in the future There is also a lot of room to play. As for the specific style of the house, it will be decided by their (not necessarily available) future daughter-in-law.

Fortunately, the original design structure of this house is very beautiful. Even if only the most basic treatment has been carried out, Cheng Ye, who is particularly tired after a busy day, can have a warm feeling of "going home".

So on this day, when Qiu Chuyi came back from the outside, the first thing he saw after opening the door was not Qiu Chuchu who was waiting for him in his imagination, but Cheng Ye who rarely got off work early and came home early.

At this moment, the little girl didn't know where to play, but this adult friend who was also childlike was lying on the sofa in an extremely lazy posture like a Persian cat basking in the sun.

And the reddish-brown sofa cushion stuffed with cotton under him seemed very comfortable to the touch. Even when he heard the sound of someone entering the room, Cheng Ye only slightly opened his eyes—but just turned over, Let the sun fully shine on the other half of his body, and then calmly look towards the door.

The warm and bright winter sun shone on the face with a clear and handsome face. Qiu Chuyi, who was at the door, could only see the slightly smiling eyes that looked at her silently.

"Are you back? What's for dinner tonight?" Only things like dinner can attract the attention of this greedy cat.

Originally, Cheng Ye heard the sound of a key unlocking the door, and subconsciously wanted to sit up straight and put on an air in front of outsiders—but then he thought again, the person who came in was probably either his mother or Qiu Chuyi, and it seemed that there was no need to be in front of the two of them. Putting on airs in front of you.

Yes, although he and Qiu Chuyi had only met again for a short dozen days, he felt that the relationship between the two of them seemed to be still in the old days.Therefore, he felt that there was no need for him to be so "outsider" with his friends.

When Qiu Chuyi hung his coat on the rack, he showed him the bag containing only the children's milk in his hand, and reminded him by the way: "Your mother told you this morning, let us have dinner tonight."

"Damn it! I almost forgot about it!" Cheng Ye sat up from the sofa with a bang, and no longer played the role of the arrogant and noble Persian cat.

He said worriedly: "It's a good thing you remember, otherwise, Ms. Cui will nag me for several days. Thinking about it makes my head hurt..."

"Is Chuchu in the room?" Qiu Chuyi asked, "I'll ask her to go there together."

However, Cheng Ye did not answer immediately this time.

I saw him suddenly hooking his fingers in the direction of Qiu Chuyi, with a cat-like smile on his face: "Wait a minute, come to me first—" His tone was pretending to be mysterious: "I have a secret to share with you." you say."

Seeing this strange scene, Qiu Chuyi first thought of the goblin in Pansi Cave in "Journey to the West"—but when he replaced Cheng Ye's face, he shivered for no reason.

So, he also instantly rejected that not-so-good picture from his mind.

After he put the ingredients in his hand on the table beside him, Qiu Chuyi walked towards the sofa again: "Coincidentally, I also have something to tell you."

"Okay, then let's talk about it first." Cheng Ye was not out of the beautiful spirit of Kong Rong giving pears, but he was just curious about what Qiu Chuyi wanted to tell himself.

Qiu Chuyi told Cheng Ye the whole story of the little boy he met downstairs and the things he reminded them to be more careful recently.

Unexpectedly, after Cheng Ye heard this, the expression on his face did not change at all.

This policeman who has been at the grassroots level for many years and has been threatened by others has become a common occurrence. In the spirit of "debts are not worrying", he waved his hands and said to his companions meaninglessly: "Oh, this is a trivial matter! It's just being sought for revenge, what is it?" ?Not enough, not enough."

Here Qiu Chuyi was also staring at his friend for a moment, hearing what he said, there was a smile in his eyes, and he agreed: "I think so too."

——Anyway, he already has enough burdens on his body, does he still care about such trivial things that are not much bigger than lice bites?

"Then what do you want to tell me?" Qiu Chuyi remembered Cheng Ye's pleasing content just now, and signaled him with his eyes: now it's your turn to say it.

Cheng Ye didn't pretend to be mysterious again this time, and simply told Qiu Chuyi: "It was an informant of mine who revealed the news today. He said that there seems to be a cruise party held at Ye Tianchi in City D recently. There is a 'big move'——" As he spoke, he turned his face to Qiu Chuyi again, and his tone was still fearless: "How is it? Are you interested in this matter?"

Although they did not directly point it out, both of them could hear that this "big move" was probably related to the criminal group behind Ye Tianchi—and whether Qiu Chuyi wanted to learn from the "[-]" case Whether he wants to get out of the middle or want to avenge his father successfully, he will inevitably have to deal with this criminal group.

Therefore, Qiu Chuyi nodded naturally.And he also knew that since Cheng Ye had talked about these few days, he must have prepared other bigger "surprises" ahead.

Sure enough, Cheng Ye took out two envelopes from his uniform pocket in the next second, and there was a row of beautiful bronzing letters printed on them in the middle: "I finally got two invitation letters for the two of us. "

But soon he changed the subject and said: "This is very difficult to get! I spent a lot of money to get it from the channel! However, the budget I paid to the informant may not be so adequate……"

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Ye took out a pure black matte crocodile leather short wallet that was full of texture at first glance—the iconic "H" logo buckle on it showed that it was from a certain top-line brand— But another fact is also obvious, this wallet is not something poor Cheng Ye can have.

Therefore, he immediately curled his mouth towards Qiu Chuyi, but his smile was full of wisdom and cunning: "But the opportunity must not be missed! So I will make my own claim, and I will 'borrow' from you to pay for it." The money for those two invitations."

Qiu Chuyi: "..."

He really didn't know when his wallet was "borrowed" by this old friend without anyone noticing... No wonder he couldn't find it before he went out today.

And looking at Cheng Ye's brighter farewell, Qiu Chuyi now has serious doubts: If this old friend of mine doesn't want to continue this cause of justice for the people, maybe——

He can also rely on this method of stealing things from other people's pockets silently, and have a "better" development in the theft business.

Everyone had a great time at dinner time.

The main reason is that Ms. Cui Xiuli is now deeply trapped in Qiu Chuchu's innocence and loveliness.She even often has the urge to recognize this well-behaved little girl as her granddaughter.

However, due to Cheng Ye's obstruction and the fact that the child's father did not express his opinion, Ms. Cui's whimsical proposal had to be abandoned.

"Yezi," although Ms. Cui didn't tell Cheng Ye about the things that bothered him today, she mentioned another matter.

She pointed at the TV in the living room with her chopsticks, and said, "Hurry up and help mom fix the TV. How long has it been? You want to use our TV to watch a news broadcast, but the screen is full of snowflakes! Now I can only watch those VCDs, and I should be able to memorize the lines in "My Fair Princess" backwards!"

Although Qiu Chuyi didn't know what happened during this period, he just had a subconscious intuition that the TV "strike" at Cheng Ye's parents' house was most likely related to Cheng Ye.

On the other hand, Cheng Ye on the side didn't show any guilty expression on his face, he was doing Tai Chi on his mouth: "Okay! Mom, I'll show you later!" But he was thinking in his heart: "Of course I can't fix it for you!" Otherwise, what would you do if you saw the wanted news on TV?"

"It depends on how many days you have repaired it? It's really not good. Mom will go to the street to find a master to repair it tomorrow..."

When Cheng Ye heard this, he immediately became excited: "Don't! Mom, I'm sure I can fix this thing, why are you spending so much money outside to invite someone over!"

"Can you really fix it?" Ms. Cui really seemed to be pinched seven inches by someone, she was skeptical: "Then you should fix it... If it doesn't work, I'll go to Mr. Zhang, the electrical repairer on the street corner, and he will charge once. It's quite expensive."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of you! I don't think it's a problem with our TV. Tomorrow, I'll go to a friend I know at the cable TV station to see if there's something wrong there."

After Cheng Ye finished speaking, he beamed at Qiu Chuyi who was sitting across from him, and his eyes were full of a triumphant smile.

Qiu Chuyi didn't know how to describe his feelings at the moment - obviously he was in the state of being wanted by the police station, but all the thrills and escapes that should have accompanied him all the time disappeared, and even the atmosphere was abruptly captured by Cheng Ye and his team. The family has changed into warmth and tolerance—as if he and Chuchu are not running away in despair, but this is just an unexpected "family vacation".

After dinner that day, Ms. Cui dragged Cheng Ye to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Cheng Ye's father took Qiu Chuyi to the living room and found a set of tea-making tools that looked very professional under the coffee table. Then, he He poured two cups of Kung Fu tea at just the right temperature for the two of them.

Cheng Ye's father, Cheng Jiang called Qiu Chuyi to come and sit next to him: "Xiao Qiu, come and sit by Uncle, I just made two cups of tea, how about you try this tea?"

Upon hearing this, Qiu Chuyi had no choice but to sit down politely.He took the teacup that Cheng Ye's father handed him, and took a sip—a strong, somewhat bitter taste took the lead in occupying Qiu Chuyi's taste buds, as if the whole tip of his tongue could only taste the taste of "bitterness" , but this feeling faded away quickly, and was replaced by a faint sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits, and a smooth taste also permeated Qiu Chuyi's mouth.

"When I get older, I like to drink strong tea after meals." Cheng Jiangxiao and Qiu Chuyi said: "One is to clear the mouth, and the other is to drink too much tea when I was young and stay up late. Slowly, it has a light taste. I really can't get used to it."

Qiu Chuyi nodded slightly: "Raw Pu'er is rich in tea polyphenols, which can lower fat and blood pressure." He paused, and after careful consideration in his mind, he still said: "But uncle can also try cooked Pu'er, raw Pu'er There are too many active ingredients, Shupu is more suitable for middle-aged and elderly people.”

Cheng Jiang knew that Qiu Chuyi reminded himself out of kindness, but he was always stubborn and used to seeing things. Although he knew that life would hurt his health, the possibility of changing it was not high, so he still smiled and said: "I heard from Yezi before that your hometown is also in City D. I don't know where your family originally lived in our city?"

"It's the Junsheng community on the opposite side." Qiu Chuyi answered truthfully.

"That community seems to have been built for a long time, right?" Cheng Jiang asked again with a smile: "Then you should have studied in our local high school too? By the way, when did you and Yezi meet?"

He seemed to recall some memories from the past: "My kid was an out-and-out 'asshole' before he went to high school! At that time, he was against me all the time, hey! I was very worried about this kid. A path of crime."

"You should have heard what Cheng Ye said? I used to be a soldier in the army, and then I started working as a policeman after I changed jobs. I have thought before that if this kid really made a mistake, then I, as an old man, must do it myself Arrest him!"

Cheng Jiang said while making the movement of "handcuffing" the air with handcuffs. Realizing that this might look a little silly, his arms stopped in mid-air awkwardly.

Qiu Chuyi didn't expect Cheng Ye's father to be so humorous, but while listening to Cheng Jiang's words, he also remembered the "gangster" Cheng Ye when he first met, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curved upward: "We were just in high school. I know him, but I'm two years older than him."

"Then when you got to know him, it is estimated that this kid has already changed his ways."

But Qiu Chuyi just laughed when he heard this, without nodding or shaking his head.

Seeing this expression on his face, Cheng Jiang changed his mind and had a general direction in his mind, but he was afraid that the other party would notice his cryptic interrogation, so he changed the topic this time.

"Then you and Cheng Ye had such a good relationship back then, have you ever seen Cheng Ye get along well with any little girl?" Cheng Jiang asked again.

Asking this question made Qiu Chuyi pause for a moment - if he said yes, he would not know the name if asked; if he told the truth that there was no, Qiu Chuyi had a faint feeling that something was wrong.

In fact, when he was answering the question just now, he suddenly had the illusion that he was being "interrogated" by the police.Looking at Cheng Jiang opposite, although he had a kind and kind smile on his face, it always reminded Qiu Chuyi of the well-known criminal investigation expert surnamed Xiong in the province.

"No way?" Cheng Jiang here immediately noticed Qiu Chuyi's hesitation for a moment: "Isn't there none?"

The time left for him to think was too short, Qiu Chuyi didn't dare to say too much, so he had to explain carefully: "Maybe, but we don't have much time to meet, so I don't know much about it."

When Cheng Jiang heard this, he immediately understood.

He resisted his urge to ask further, so he took a sip from the teacup, but the expression on his face could not return to the calmness just now anyway.

Obviously, there is a battle between man and nature going on in his heart.

Although Cheng Ye's mother "missed" her daughter-in-law too much, she had a lot of oolongs before - but as a retired policeman with rich interrogation experience, he had already discovered that his son's behavior in front of Qiu Chuyi and others the difference.

For example, Cheng Ye's mentality is more ups and downs in front of Qiu Chuyi, and Qiu Chuyi's father and daughter are "friends" that Cheng Ye brought home for the first time, not to mention that Cheng Ye's eyes when looking at Qiu Chuyi are full of special light ...In short, there are too many details worthy of the old policeman's doubts about the true relationship between his son and his friend.

Therefore, this conversation after dinner today was also deliberately arranged by Cheng Jiang for Qiu Chuyi.

The silent and embarrassing atmosphere between the two seemed to last for a long time, until the street lights outside the window were lit, Cheng Jiang raised his head in the darkness, and sighed silently again.

"Cheng Ye's temper is stubborn and willful. I never see him take the initiative to bring anyone back. Even if he went to school before, I didn't hear him say that he made any good classmates."

The father who missed a lot of his son's growing up because of work, his eyes finally brightened, but his tone became cautious.

As if explaining something extremely important, he said to Qiu Chuyi:

"Since he told us that you are his best 'friend', then... from now on, please take care of this child more."