sincerity of lies

They brought Lianda Zhang back to the police station.

Along the way, Ji Xun was not in high spirits. When he arrived at the gate of the police station, he got out of Huo Ranyin's car, hummed casually to the chasing voice telling him to go home and rest, and came to the nearby Park chairs sit down.

Behind him is the outer wall of the police station, with a line of red characters on it.

"Loyalty and justice, impartial law enforcement."

Today's police stations like to put up slogans for publicity. Regardless of whether they can be fully realized in actual operations, the slogans are shouted out, as if there is a target in front of them and a police whip across their heads. In any case, All more vigilant.

Ji Xun sat down, intending to take a taxi home.

But he turned the phone, a little distracted, and accidentally fell into his own thoughts, until Huo Ranyin's voice sounded again, waking him up.

"...Ji Xun?"

"Well, why did you come out?" Ji Xun said, feeling that there was something wrong with the surroundings, the light was much dimmer than before, he looked up at the sky, and met Huo Ranyin's examining eyes, "Is it a dark cloud?"

"It's getting dark."

Huo Ranyin replied.It was getting dark, but the lights in the city were on, and one after another light strips dotted the city at night, making the night as bright as the day.

"Accidentally." Ji Xun, "Actually, I was conceiving the plot of the novel."

"Conceived—" Huo Ranyin looked down at his watch, "A full eight hours?"

"Writing is something that needs to be immersed, but today I have been immersed for a long time—"

"Do you think you were defeated by Liandazhang?" Huo Ranyin challenged directly.

"To be honest, I don't think so." Ji Xun denied.

Huo Ranyin slightly hooked his lower lip, and made a mocking smile.

"It is indeed possible that Liandazhang escaped legal sanctions, but he did not escape the eyes of detectives." Ji Xun continued to deny in detail, "Although my reasoning had a small mistake at the beginning, in the end, it was still perfect. As a detective, I haven't failed at all."

"Look at yourself from a different perspective." Huo Ranyin said lightly, "You don't want to be a detective."

"We've debated this before."

"Well, and this only proves that you have been deceiving yourself for a few days." Huo Ranyin replied.

Now Ji Xun smiled, and the mocking smile passed from Huo Ranyin's face to Ji Xun's.

"So you want to say that I, who is not a policeman, worry about the policeman's heart, worrying that the law cannot judge the sophistication; but as a policeman, you don't have any feeling about this person in this case, right?"

"I really don't have your anger."

Huo Ranyin said, but not indifferently, he continued:

"—Because the case is far from over. The police can continue to collect evidence, and then there is the procuratorate, and after the procuratorate, there is the court. There are still so many people with you, working hard for this matter. Ji Xun, in this case Among them, Liandazhang may indeed be acquitted due to insufficient evidence, but he will not escape so easily. Every round of investigation, every questioning, and every court appearance is against him. A severe torture. Legal, moral, spiritual."

"Justice has a cost, and crime also has a cost. When a person who wants to commit a crime realizes that the cost of crime is getting higher and higher, he will fear crime. Your reasoning, my investigation, and our efforts are all It is to let the criminal always remember that no matter how much time passes, no matter what method he uses, there are always a pair of eyes staring behind him, and his crimes cannot be hidden. If one person gives up, there will be another person, if a generation gives up, there will be another A generation. Those eyes belong to the police collective."

Ji Xun's tense neck loosened.

"It's as if you are my successor." There was still a sneer at the corner of his mouth, but there was a little more intimacy in the sarcasm, "Brother policeman, are you going to be my retreat?"

"Why not?"

The horns of the vehicles on the road sounded almost at the end of Huo Ranyin's words, and the sudden sound pierced Ji Xun's heart like an arrow.He looked at Huo Ranyin, Huo Ranyin's face was dyed, the light of street lamps and the light of the building converged into a magnificent translucent butterfly wing, perched on his face.

If this is a pursuit, Ji Xun thought, he was moved.

But this is not a pursuit, it is just an idea, a yearning, something that maybe shouldn't be said to him now.He doubted that this was just a relapse of Huo Ran's workaholic nature.

Ji Xun said, "Brother."

Huo Ranyin seemed to have been numb by what he called his younger brother, and he was too lazy to correct him, and only gave him a questioning look.

"If I hadn't been a cop, would you have said these things to me?"

"Of course not." Huo Ranyin took it for granted.

"Cruel enough!" Ji Xun exclaimed, "So you just like the police uniform I used to wear, and you and I just want to play role-playing with me, right?"

Huo Ranyin seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end, he just said: "Okay, get in the car, I'll take you home."

They got into the car.

The winter night was still cold, and I didn't feel anything when I was in a daze. When I got into the heated car, my body's senses were awakened immediately, and Ji Xun sneezed.

"Do you need cold medicine?" Huo Ranyin asked while starting the car.

"Thanks, I don't think I need it." Ji Xun said, and took out his mobile phone by the way, took it out to take a look, only to find that Yuan Yue had sent him several messages.He turned on the phone and asked Huo Ranyin, "If you don't leave Ning City during the Chinese New Year, will your parents come to see you?"

"I'm afraid they won't come."

"Why, did they live a two-person world together?"

"Been dead for many years."

"Sorry." Ji Xun said, but he wasn't too surprised.

"It's okay." Huo Ranyin said lightly, "I don't have any impression of them."

"Then how do you eat tomorrow? Order takeout for New Year's Eve?"

"Maybe."

"It's desolate enough. You can come to my place." Ji Xun suggested that he was scrolling through the news in Moments and saw the cruise photo of Yuan Yue's mother. This fashionable aunt will go on a European cruise at the end of the year this year. mean--

"Yuan Yue doesn't go home for dinner this year. He just owes me a meal. The three of us eat together. It's also a trip for contemporary homeless youth to keep warm."

Before Huo Ran could refuse, Ji Xun had already opened Yuan Yue's chat box and sent a voice: "You are alone this year, right?"

Huo Ranyin, who was driving, pricked up his ears and was always ready to interrupt.

"It's a person." Yuan Yue said, "I plan to spend my time in the hospital."

"Then we have dinner together, you cook, I eat, and Huo Ranyin washes the dishes... Huh?" Ji Xun understood Yuan Yue's words clearly, "Why?"

Yuan Yue sent a photo of his hand wrapped into a pig's trotter.

Ji Xun looked at the photos again and again, and finally remembered that before they went to arrest Sun Fujing, Yuan Yue jumped in from the window, and the back of his hand was cut by the window glass, but if he remembered correctly——

"Isn't that a small cut?" Ji Xun flipped through the pictures in his mind, he didn't quite believe that his memory was wrong, "Your wound is infected, tetanus?"

"Well—" Yuan Yue said, "It's indeed a small hole."

"So?"

"Recently, I always feel that Qingqing is beside me."

"so……?"

Huo Ranyin retracted his ears, he continued to drive as if nothing had happened.

"Ji Xun, she deleted me, but maybe she didn't delete you. Please help me post the photo on Moments. Write it pitifully. The most important thing is to write clearly which hospital I live in. Maybe she will come..."

"..."

"Is this plan a bit too rough?" Yuan Yue was worried, "But I'm ready to fail."

"..."

"I can be 'injured' a few more times, maybe the quantitative change can achieve a qualitative change."

"..."

"Do you think there is no possibility at all?"

"Not really," Ji Xun finally said, "I'm just a little surprised. It's not easy for you to open up when a dead tree blooms."

"...I don't know if Uncle Cai's advice is reliable or not." Yuan Yue said in embarrassment.

"I can help you with this, but you owe me the New Year's Eve dinner, and you have to cook three meals for me to compensate." Ji Xun bargained again.

"All right, all right," Yuan Yue repeated, "Anything is fine, I will listen to you, and you will be what you say."

Only then did Ji Xun accept the picture with satisfaction, opened the Meitu software, helped Yuan Yue edit the picture, and then uploaded it to Moments, it took about 10 minutes, another person brushed it, and she came to find Ji Xun up.

Xia Youqing: "..."

Ji Xun: "?"

Xia Youqing: "Yuan Yue injured his hand?"

Ji Xun: "I'm injured."

Xia Youqing: "Is the wound deep?"

Ji Xun said indifferently: "It's not deep."

Xia Youqing didn't speak for the time being, and Ji Xun didn't care. Regarding Yuan Yue's feelings, he pursued the "Three-Self Policy", "Wives chase after themselves, risks are borne by themselves, and results are borne by themselves." Yue here is lying for him.

Sometimes, though, it's better not to lie than to lie.

This may be because people believe what they see with their own eyes more than words.

Xia Youqing said again: "It's not deep, why are there so many layers?"

Ji Xun: "Because of quack doctors."

Xia Youqing: "...the gauze looks a little dirty."

Ji Xun: "The dirt on the outside doesn't reach the wound."

After a long time, Xia Youqing asked, "Which hospital does Yuan Yue live in?"

Before Ji Xun could answer, she added: "I want to see him, but I don't want him to see me. Help me find a way to blind Yuan Yue."

Ji Xun: "..."

You are also a cruel person.

He said something for Yuan Yue: "Do you still need to do it? He is quite blind."

Xia Youqing was persuaded by him.

After Ji Xun finally finished chatting with these two people, his residence also arrived. He looked at the dark windows of his house outside the car window and said with emotion: "Okay, everyone go back to their respective homes and spend a bleak ordering takeaway together." It's thirty."

With that said, he pressed the safety switch and was about to get out of the car, but Huo Ranyin's hand pressed his hand first.

The lights in the car were turned off, and in the darkness, there seemed to be a flame hidden in Huo Ranyin's palm that suddenly covered him, scalding the back of Ji Xun's hand.

His palm shook slightly, and then he looked at Huo Ranyin.Outside the windshield of the car window, lights were lit in the small windows of the building. The lights were dim, flickering, and hazy, forming a dimly lit curtain outside the car window.

Huo Ranyin's face was in front of the curtain.

Those lights scorched his neck and his chin, but they didn't reach his face for a long time.

His face was hidden in shadows under the light.

"Come to my house tomorrow night."

"Why did you go to your house?" Ji Xun teased, "Didn't you just joke before, did you really plan to have something happen to me?"

"Come to my house for dinner at night, dumplings, can you?"

Ji Xun raised his eyebrows unexpectedly: "You specifically proposed dumplings because you only know how to make dumplings?"

When Huo Ranyin exerted force on his hand, the seat belt bounced off.

Ji Xun was asked to get out of the car by him, and the silver-gray car roared away.

Ji Xun touched his nose.

Dumplings are dumplings.

I didn't say no, you don't have to get angry when you get told what you want, and drive away, right?

He took out his phone again and sent Huo Ranyin an "OK".

See you tomorrow for dumplings.