A charming and dangerous character

This is a public hospital located in the suburbs of S City.

Although the geographical location is somewhat remote, it still covers almost all departments including internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and because there are no other medical institutions within a few miles, residents living nearby usually choose to come here for medical treatment.

The weather that is about to snow will not stop the enthusiasm of the children to come out to play. In the small garden at the back, it seems that a game of "police and thief" is going on - this is a kind of game by playing two different roles of policeman and thief. The content of the traditional game is mainly the chasing and fighting between two characters. Once the "thief" is all caught by the "police", the game is over, and then the roles on both sides will be swapped.

And the noise made by the children downstairs was heard from time to time through the windows of the upper floors into the ears of the people in the corridor.

Although the relationship between Qiu Chuyi and Song Zhengrong may not have been close in the past, they are actually neighbors who live next door and have known each other for more than ten years.

When Song Zhengrong was very young, he and his neighbor's younger brother Qiu Chuyi often played games of this nature with other boys in the yard.At that time, they all played the role of "policeman" or "thief". Maybe they can't remember the specific content of the game, but they can recall three or four points of the joy in the past through the voices of the children outside the window.

Even though Song Zhengrong was older than Qiu Chuyi, this did not prevent the two from becoming good playmates, and they never seemed to feel a generation gap between them when they got along with each other.

For Song Zhengrong, because he is the only child, Qiu Chuyi is like his younger brother with a different surname—it’s just that this younger brother is not only good-looking and pleasing as the adults say, but also in During the two of them getting along, he also found that this younger brother is more mature and delicate than his peers.

Although this kid always had a smile on his face and looked very talkative, he could also feel that this little guy must still have many secrets hidden in his heart that he would not easily tell others.

And the memory stops here, and time goes back to the present.

Standing in front of Song Zhengrong at this moment, the man in a black coat exudes a gentle and elegant temperament just like his father in the past. Even though his outstanding appearance is covered by a scarf at this moment, his facial features can be seen to be abnormally handsome.However, these are not much different from what Song Zhengrong imagined Chu Yi would look like when he grows up.

The young and promising director of the Arrow Group on TV who seems to be living a simple and healthy life with a happy family seems to Song Zhengrong to be an ideal that Qiu Chuyi, whom he is familiar with, can easily achieve. state.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this to happen is - if so many changes in these years have never happened, then Qiu Chuyi will definitely continue to live happily as he did when he was a child, either pretending or in reality.

There was a sudden gust of cold wind blowing outside the window, and snow particles the size of soybeans kept falling from the sky one after another. The cold seemed to penetrate into the warm room through the cracks in the window.

Although the heaters are always burning in the corridors, people's body temperature seems to have become lower. The nurses in the hospital couldn't help speeding up their steps when passing through the corridors, trying to quickly pass through this low-temperature area. Pass.

However, the three people standing in the elevator didn't seem to notice the coldness around them at all, or in other words, the atmosphere that pervaded them now might be more severe than the severe weather outside.

"why?"

After calling the two of them to stop, Song Zhengrong suddenly raised his head to look at Qiu Chuyi, and the air exhaled from his nose and lips condensed into a ball of white steam in the air for a moment.Originally, he wanted to get closer to those two people, but when he saw Qiu Chuyi's whole body tense because of his movements, he finally stopped.

But he still asked him: "...why have you never been to that hospital?"

Song Zhengrong did not ask Qiu Chuyi any questions related to "Eleventh Two". Instead, he asked a question that was completely irrelevant but had been in his mind for many years: "After so many years, don't you know that at all?" Miss your father?"

In fact, as early as when Song Zhengrong called them to stop, Qiu Chuyi was already prepared to use violence to leave here as a last resort—but when Song Zhengrong asked this question a little abruptly, Qiu Chuyi The brain that had been running at high speed also stopped suddenly.

It's like the tense node where the two armies are about to fight, but the enemy suddenly starts to greet you just before the war starts.

He thought he had thought of all the ways to get out of here, and was even prepared to die in an emergency—but what he never expected was that after so many years of not seeing each other, Song Zhengrong was the first to take the initiative The question to ask him would be this.

Perhaps Song Zhengrong was asking him why he never visited his father.But what kind of angle is Song Zhengrong, and what kind of role can he justify blaming him?

For some reason, the moment Qiu Chuyi heard this question, his life in China or abroad for so many years seemed to be a passing scene, and those pictures flashed quickly in Qiu Chuyi's mind without repeating for a moment ——

Whether it was his overwhelming shock after learning all the truth, or watching Qiu Chuchu, who was actually his own sister, grow up little by little, or he kept pretending to be ignorant and accompanied Amber (bo) in her ridiculous "" "Undercover" game...

For so many years, he had no other choice and no other choice.If he wants his father's unjust case to be retried, then he can either prove that his father did not do this (but the police had already detected Qiu Jian's DNA in Amber's body), or he can only learn from the rape case. The whistleblower (who is also the victim) starts.

This also means that no matter what the reason is, Qiu Chuyi cannot leave Amber easily, and he even has to live "happily" with the woman who murdered his father day and night pretending not to know.

There should be no more outrageous things than him, even Qiu Chuyi can't remember exactly how he spent all these years, always calculating and always on guard, there should be no more lies than accompanying him "Victims" have a harder life.

Perhaps the birth of his younger sister Qiu Chuchu was his only consolation for so many years. At the same time, he was also very grateful that although this little girl could see some shadows of her mother, her character was still more like her father's kindness—and in these years Thanks to his continuous efforts, his father's original property has come back again. It seems that everything is going in a good direction after he returns to China.

But now, Amber is dead.

And he also became the main suspect under the deliberate frame-up of others.

This bad news seemed to represent a bolt from the blue, but it also meant that everything he had done for so many years was in vain.Whether it's his plan for many years or his companionship like a painstaking effort, in short, everything Qiu Chuyi has done no longer has any meaning, and it seems that his father's grievances are no longer possible to be justified.

Although the cold wind blowing in from the window felt biting on his body, but Qiu Chuyi's eyes were colder than the weather outside.

He didn't know how to express to Song Zhengrong the true emotions that he had been hiding in his heart for a long time, and he was suffering from being unable to confide, and he didn't know how to express his disappointment when all his efforts were declared ineffective.

So everything he had experienced for so many years finally came to his mouth and turned into a silent sigh.

Qiu Chuyi also raised his head, and looked at Song Zhengrong without any evasion: "So what about you?"

He didn't answer Song Zhengrong's question directly, but asked him another rhetorical question: "For so many years, why have you been going to see him?"

When Qiu Chuyi asked questions, his breath was still steady, and his handsome face did not show any excessive emotion. He was like a lake with calm surface, but his words were like the sharpest sword in the world, piercing straight into Song Zheng. Rong seems to have a strong heart.

And Cheng Ye, who seemed to be cut off by both of them, chose to hide his already negligible sense of existence completely at this moment with a sense of current affairs.

He shook his head back and forth to observe the two people who seemed to be getting along well, but in fact their eyes were full of gunpowder, subconsciously regarded himself as a mass of transparent air, and now he had no intention of knowing what happened between the two people's unclear words What charades are you playing.

When Song Zhengrong heard Qiu Chuyi's rhetorical question, his body seemed to be pierced by the cold winter wind instantly, and his limbs were stiff and silent.

Qiu Chuyi was not in a hurry to hear his answer, or in other words, he didn't expect Song Zhengrong to answer this question—although he hadn't seen him for ten years, he still had some knowledge of him. .

The elevator behind the three of them was switched on and off, and countless patients or family members passed by in front of them. Because this floor belongs to the ward floor where the patients live, fortunately, everyone only pays attention to their own affairs, so there is no People noticed the strangeness of looking at each other silently.

"This time, I'll let you go—" After a while, Song Zhengrong turned around neatly, and with his back to the two, he came to the window and looked at the children in the garden who were still playing policemen and thieves. Finally, " Eleven. Two" case temporarily put aside, and then silently closed his eyes.

"If we meet again next time, and you haven't found any evidence to prove your innocence, then don't blame me for not remembering the past, and do business."

It seemed that there was only the sound of playing and playing from the first floor. When Song Zhengrong turned his head again, the place where the two stayed just now was no longer there.

He stared at the white, solemn and empty hospital corridor, thinking in his heart: This time, let's treat it as repaying the debt he owed Uncle Qiu that year.

As for where Cheng Ye and Qiu Chuyi went, Song Zhengrong didn't know and didn't intend to ask.Since he said to leave time for them to prove it, he will definitely do what he says.

And Song Zhengrong, in order not to let himself continue to think wildly, immediately threw himself into the busy work as soon as he returned to the S City Bureau.

But on the day when he returned to his office, he opened the door and saw the letter on the table at a glance.

Song Zhengrong walked over quickly, put down the document in his hand and picked up the letter to open it. The date on the envelope was signed about two days ago, and he happened to be still in City D at that time, so the letter It has never been moved.

The manuscript paper of that letter and the envelope it contained seemed to be made of some special material. The color of the paper was unpretentious but not simple.

After Song Zhengrong read a few lines carefully, he immediately thought of another thing he learned from others not long ago.

In fact, as early as a week ago, Song Zhengrong learned through his own secret channel that the central government would soon send people to S City to set up a monitoring team.

And the main purpose of this monitoring team's trip is also to examine the atmosphere of government agencies in various places.

As for the content written in the letter on the table, it is nothing more than the hope that all agencies can cooperate with the above actions. If you have relevant evidence at hand, you are welcome to report anonymously.

Song Zhengrong looked at the thick material on the table that he had just put down—it was his reorganization of the Qiu Jian rape case seven years ago during this period, and the evidence in it could not help but remind him of the fact that he recalled it during this period. The relevant reports that were transferred to City D contained doubts about the case that had not been discovered back then.

Moreover, these materials also include the information of the informant who may have provided his father with the news back then.

While Song Zhengrong was gently placing the letter in his hand on the table, his eyes also glanced at the thick stack of documents he had brought into the office just now.

Just like the famous "to be or not to be" line in Shakespeare's play, now he seems to have traveled back to his childhood, and he also needs to make a choice between the "policeman" or "thief" camp.

The wind that came through the cracks of the open windows silently blew the letter and the front page of the information on the table.In the end, Song Zhengrong still put away the stack of organized materials, and then sealed them all at the bottom of the bookcase next to him.