flirt with opponents

That night, the man who drove the Ford Mustang didn't get in the car, and the man who walked back to the hotel didn't leave.

Guan Ruoyu and Chu Yue faced each other, sitting in a coffee shop that was not closed yet.The lighting in the coffee shop is very moody—or rather dim—they sat by the window, and through the tulle by the window, they could see that the streets and roads beside them were getting less and less crowded.

Guan Ruoyu turned on his phone and glanced at the time - 23:21.

"If I'm not wrong..." There was a cup of fruit tea in front of Chu Yue, but he hadn't drunk it since it was served, "Guan Guan you... want to investigate the serial suicide case of eight people back then?"

"If I'm not wrong, senior, you may have already checked it?" Guan Ruoyu drank his coffee slowly, half-jokingly replied with the same sentence, and then said, "Don't say 'back then', That was five years ago. And what is another name for 'serial suicide of eight people'? Do you think this is reading a detective novel? Our teacher's wife is the last victim!"

"Don't point the finger at me, Guan Guan, I'm not your enemy." Chu Yue leaned on the back of the chair, clasped his hands on his lap, "I know that you want to investigate this matter to find out the cause of Master's wife's death .But do you only think about the dead, have you ever thought about the living?"

Guan Ruoyu put the coffee cup back on the tray on the table, propped his elbows on the table, and clasped his hands, and the atmosphere of confrontation spread between the two: "Senior, is it interesting to go back and forth between the two of us?" ? It's getting late, don't put your speaking skills on me, just speak up."

"Yes." Chu Yue suddenly straightened his back and sat up straight, as if he was suddenly pressing towards Guan Ruoyu, "Then let me just say it - I don't agree with you reopening the investigation."

This is Chu Yue's typical posture for exerting pressure on conversations, but Guan Ruoqu's posture didn't change, and even his expression didn't change much, as if he wasn't surprised by this sudden obstacle.However, Teacher Guan still said, "Tell me your reason."

"Because at that time, the teacher and I also insisted on investigating the truth about the serial suicides." Chu Yue narrowed his eyes, "Guan Xuedi, I know what kind of information you got, because I also produced a copy of that information." It's not just me, but also the brothers who were investigating together at that time.

"It can be said that the reason why you can get such detailed information now is because back then, our urgency to find the truth was no weaker than yours.

"But in the end, what made us stop was not the pressure from all sides caused by this incident, the huge insoluble problems encountered, nor the excessive time and energy consumed that made us unable to continue..." Chu Yue paused when he said this, and his searching eyes fell on Guan Ruoyu's face, "Do you know what it is, junior?"

Guan Ruoyu only had one sentence: "I said, don't play guessing games at this time."

"...Okay." Chu Yue smiled wryly, "Then I'll tell you bluntly, the reason why we postponed the investigation of this matter is actually because of Mr. Xu's own state."

"...you can guess it." Guan Ruoyu replied, "When I talked about it with him, his attitude showed how much pain he had in the past, and how much he dared not touch it now."

"Teacher Xu was in a very bad state at the time. Although he looked normal, I and other senior brothers felt that he must have been depressed." Chu Yue's expression softened a little, and there were some signs of memories in his eyes, and he wiped He said with a face, "We decided to investigate together at the beginning, in fact, because we thought that the teacher might temporarily forget the pain after he was busy with other things. But we, in fact, made a big mistake.

"That is, when sorting out materials, when facing the family members of students who committed suicide, and when doing psychological analysis, the teacher had to recall the moment when the root of the pain happened over and over again. And the parents of the students regarded the suicide of the teacher's wife as her 'redemption' ’, infinitely passed on the grief and pain to the teacher. At that time, let alone investigating as objectively as possible, even investigating as smoothly as possible was difficult.”

"But what you said just now is that you have 'suspended' the progress of the investigation." Guan Ruoyu said, "Does this mean that this investigation will be carried out later?"

"No, it's the opposite. We decided to suspend the investigation at the beginning because our brothers and sisters found that the teacher's state was not very normal. In order to find out the teacher's state, we found a reason to suspend it, and we were soft-hearted. Ask the teacher to do a series of tests." Chu Yue turned his gaze to the night outside the window, a little lost in thought, "And the results of the tests made us decide to end this investigation completely."

"...to what extent?"

"It's hard to give you a definite conclusion, but what I can say is that the test showed that the teacher was in a very unstable state at that time - although he seemed relatively calm on the surface." Chu Yue replied, "We feel that this state is consistent with The teacher's wife's situation at the beginning was a bit like..."

Guan Ruoyu narrowed his eyes: "You mean, suicidal tendencies?"

"I can only say that more than half of the brothers think there is such a sign."

"including you?"

"including me."

Guan Ruoyu changed to propping his chin with one hand, and silently tapped the fingers of his left hand on the table, repeatedly saying: "So the end of this matter is that you persuade the teacher to end the investigation, so this investigation will be over?"

"If you want to express it like this, I can't refute it." Chu Yue withdrew his gaze from the window and said, "But I hope you understand that I don't agree with you reopening the investigation, not because of anything else, but because of the teacher's State. After all, you have to know that the dead are gone, and so are the living."

Guan Ruoyu glanced at him: "I wouldn't have been persuaded by you if you pretended to be profound."

"..." Chu Yue was choked by him, and then said, "I know you won't be persuaded so easily, but I hope you will seriously consider what I said. You were still studying abroad when the teacher left, but We saw the state of the teacher with our own eyes. If you don’t believe me, I can let the brothers who came to help investigate explain it to you in detail.”

Guan Ruoyu: "Okay."

Chu Yue: "..."

"It seems that you really don't trust me." Chu Yue said helplessly, "Guan Guan, I said that although I don't agree with you reopening the investigation, I am not your enemy, and I am also very concerned about the cause of Master's wife's death. But Can we not…”

"Senior, if you repeat these words over and over again, just listen to what I say."

Guan Ruoyu interrupted Chu Yue, but after Chu Yue fell silent, Guan Ruoyu didn't continue talking.He picked up the coffee cup and took a sip before slowly saying, "I want to investigate this matter. It's not a whim this year, but I've been thinking about it since I came back... even before I came back."

The rhythm of Chu Yue's previous advice was interrupted, paused, and resumed by him, causing the rhythm of the conversation to be in the hands of Guan Ruoyu.Chu Yue had no choice but to follow his words and think for a while: "...Huh? If you put it that way, did you come back to China just to..."

"You don't need to think that way." Guan Ruoyu stopped him, and continued, "Anyway, I've thought about it, and I didn't 'attack' the teacher this year. Do you think he doesn't know that I want to investigate? ?He knew it a long time ago, but he was pretending that he didn't receive my signal. I come every year anyway. If he is not ready this year, I will hint next year. I don't force him to accept it right away, but I don't want him to keep running away."

Chu Yue thought for a while: "Sometimes, escaping may not be a bad thing."

While he was talking, Guan Ruoyu's cell phone on the table flickered on.While listening to him, Guan Ruoyu turned on the phone and glanced at it.

"But sometimes, yes." After reading the message, Guan Ruoyu put down his phone and replied, "The dead are gone, and it is true, but if even the living escaped, who is going to seek justice for the dead?" Woolen cloth?"

"I didn't say it was wrong to recover it." Chu Yue said, "But it doesn't have to be now."

"The longer the matter drags on, the more impossible it is to solve it. This is a truth that everyone knows." Guan Ruoyu looked at Chu Yue, "It seems that the teacher is ready, at least the teacher has mustered up the courage to face Chu Yue again. By the way, what about you, Senior Chu?"

"what?"

"Among the people you participated in the psychological intervention in the past, some people committed suicide in the end. Are you ready to face investigations that may involve your mistakes, other people's mistakes, or anyone's mistakes?"

***

When Guan Ruoyu walked out of the coffee shop, it was past midnight.

The landscape lights on the exterior walls of nearby buildings have all been turned off, and only street lights are still illuminating the street.Guan Ruoyu rejected Chu Yue's invitation to let him get in the car again, and slowly walked towards the hotel with a lighted sign in the distance.

What he just ordered at the coffee shop was a black tea latte, which actually didn't have any caffeine at all, so he was already a little sleepy in the shop.But when he came out, he was gradually sobered up by the cool night wind.

Guan Ruoyu took out his mobile phone, opened the information interface, and was about to enter some words "The weather is getting colder, pay attention to adding clothes to keep warm", and then saw the message sent by the other party not long ago, and suddenly stopped thinking about sending the other party a caring message.

There is no other reason, that is, when the chat in the coffee shop was almost finished, Teacher Guan's mother sent him a message.

【Which skirt looks good?I’m going to wear it for an outing (attach two photos)]

The seemingly simple text message, Guan Ruoyu immediately realized that his mother was "fishing for law enforcement" after reading it!

He must have stayed up late yesterday, so my lord mother secretly decided to check around the corner!

Guan Ruoyu was not fooled at the time, but just now he almost jumped into the fire pit, but fortunately he stopped temporarily.But if you don't reply to your mother, you can send a caring message to another person!

[Guan Guan Jujiu: The nights in S City are quite cold... Sure enough, the weather is cold and you need to add clothes, not as cold-resistant as when you were a child: (]

Originally, Guan Ruoyu just flicked him habitually, and didn't expect to receive a reply immediately, and didn't even expect that fluffy CEO to reply to such a non-painful message.Unexpectedly, when he just stepped into the hotel, he had just recovered from his body, and the reply came.

[Pseudo-Bingshan Zhuang: Staying up so late, have you gone to S City to sneak around? 】

[The author has something to say]: Mr. Guan: It's not stealing!I went on a date with a wild man [X.