Balancing

People are like trees, the more they yearn for the sunshine in the high places, the more their roots will stretch to the dark underground.

Ma Huaixing died, the carotid artery ruptured, blood entered the trachea and he died of asphyxiation.

It only took a minute for the forensic doctor to arrive at the scene to see his wound, and then he got up and took off his gloves while shaking his head: "I can't save it if I don't jump off the building. With such a deep wound, I don't have enough time to hit 1. I am so cruel to myself..." Flowing on the air cushion A large piece of black and red blood was shocking, and the scene was filled with a thick and strong smell of rust.

When Lu Heng returned to the hotel, he rushed into Ma Huaixing's room immediately. There were only two police officers investigating the scene left in the room. "Where's Jian Ming?" he asked.

The two police officers were probably on the outside all the time, and they didn't know who he was asking, so they shook their heads blankly at him. Lu Heng didn't say a word of nonsense, turned and rushed to the opposite room. Yan Donglai was directing the finishing work on the first floor at the moment. no one.But vaguely, Lu Heng heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom. He walked over slowly, turned the doorknob tentatively, and unlocked it, "Jian Ming, is that you? I... came in."

The door was slowly pushed open...

Jian Ming was sitting blankly on the edge of the bathtub. There were a few bright red bloodstains on his pale face, extending from the brow bone to the lower forehead. His light gray suit was covered with mottled bloodstains. He held red-stained glasses in his hand, and his bloodshot pupils were transparent. There was a scattered light and shadow, staring straight at the sizzling water flowing down the washbasin, motionless.

In an instant, it seemed as if a gust of cold wind passed through Lu Heng's body, and his entire back felt chilly.

"Jian Ming..." He squatted halfway in front of Jian Ming, tightly wrapped Jian Ming's arms, and shook slightly, "What's wrong with you?" Lu Heng knew that he saw a person committing suicide in front of him in a bloody way. , How much impact would it have? He didn't expect Jian Ming to be as calm and normal as usual, and he just expected a response from the other party.

Jian Ming remained silent the entire time, but lowered his head weakly, trembling slightly following his shoulders and neck...

"Mingming, don't scare me..." Lu Heng panicked. He had never seen Jian Ming like this before. He was crying, not silently, but sobbing.

"Mingming..." Lu Heng got up and hugged him, pressed his head against his belly, gently rubbed his back to comfort him, the sobbing in front of him was intermittent, but forbearable and gentle, without big ups and downs, and He himself gave Lu Heng the same impression, even if the pressure is overflowing and he can't bear it anymore, he can still deal with it calmly and comfort you lightly—it's okay.

Only Jian Ming knows how long he hasn't vented like this. He is a psychiatrist, he can listen to everyone crying in front of him, he can help everyone heal their sick hearts, and even in his weakest moment, he can only give it to himself. He does counseling by himself, but he doesn't remember how many times he wanted to cry out loud but was swallowed back, and how many times he couldn't fall asleep because of anxiety and fear. There is a problem, his heart is also sick, or...in fact, he has never been healed...

In the bathroom, apart from the sound of running water, the previous silence gradually returned. Jian Ming slowly raised his head. Tears turned the blood on his face into red marks. Coupled with those red eyes, it was really pitiful.

"Dirty your clothes." He looked into Lu Heng's eyes, and his hoarse voice also tore Lu Heng's heart into pieces.

"There are tens of thousands of clothes, but...you are the only one."

Lu Heng doesn't know tenderness, but Jian Ming can always make him reveal tenderness like water without knowing it.He stroked Jian Ming's face, gently wiped the smeared blood on the other's cheek, and said softly, "Wash your face, let's go home, shall we?"

Jian Ming nodded.

When they got down to the hotel lobby, several city journalists were already standing at the hotel entrance. Yan Donglai was very distressed, and was walking back and forth at the side entrance.Seeing Lu Heng and Jian Ming, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he gestured for them to come over.

"Lu Heng, I have to stay with you and the few special police officers who came with you. You can see that there is a mess outside. I will greet Team Gu later." Yan Donglai's tone of not treating himself as an outsider really made Lu Heng Very angry, Lu Heng's face was not good-looking, and his tone was naturally not much better.

"How can anyone turn around and say hello? You want to keep them to say hello now, let me say yes first, I can't stay." It's not a case task, just helping to maintain the scene, what do you think of us special police?The more Lu Heng thought about it, the more aggrieved he became.

"Okay, are you really fighting with me?" Yan Donglai raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Jian Ming with drooping eyes, "Jian Ming, you can't leave, come back to the bureau with us to take notes in a while, in some cases we don't Clearly, I need your cooperation."

This trick of fighting cattle across the mountain was not bad, but it made Lu Heng speechless.

Jian Ming's pale face didn't even have a trace of blood. He was only discharged from the hospital in the morning, and he didn't drink a drop of water all night. He already looked sick, but even though he knew that the other party did it deliberately, he still maintained his usual demeanor, smiled slightly, and said: "Okay, I'll stay, but can I wait for you at the hotel restaurant, I have a bad stomach and I have to eat something."

Lu Heng stood in the same place, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, "Yan Feng...cough...cough...team..." Now is not the time for verbal battles, and he still has a clear picture of the current situation. "... Captain Yan, look at Jian Ming's complexion. He has just been discharged from the hospital. Don't bother him today, can you go tomorrow?"

"Yo, are you relatives? You know he just got out of the hospital?" Yan Donglai glanced at him teasingly, but quickly turned to Jian Ming and said, "Go to the restaurant to have something to eat, now you won't be able to leave for a while." , The scene has not been dealt with yet, so we can talk about whether to go to the bureau or not." Without giving Lu Heng a chance to speak again, he turned around and shouted at the policeman behind him: "Call the special police team, call me..."

Obviously, what Lu Heng listened to meant: you can go down when the steps are paved, if you insist on going to the sky, you deserve to die if you fall.

Jian Ming smiled slightly, seeing Lu Heng being suppressed by his senior's strength, he felt pity, and whispered in his ear before turning around and going to the restaurant: "Don't argue with him, you are still far away from winning him, hurry up!" Go help, I'll wait for you in the restaurant." After speaking, he patted him on the shoulder comfortingly.

Lu Heng curled his lips, feeling bad all over.

After a busy night, the hotel gradually returned to calm. Yan Donglai asked the higher-ups in the bureau for instructions at the risk of being reprimanded. Finally, after the senior leaders of the police station spoke with the senior leaders of the Radio and Television Bureau, the reporters at the door dispersed one after another.Ma Huaixing's body was also transported back to the forensic examination room of the anti-narcotics corps, and the onlookers left without watching. Only the air cushion remained on the scene, and several firemen stared at the pool of blood, with helplessness on their brows.

"Captain Yan, it's all over, and my teammates have gone back, can I go?" Lu Heng was still very unconvinced, but he had no intention of fighting because he only cared about Jian Ming, and only wanted Yan Donglai to be kind and stop Make things difficult.

"Well, I've worked hard for you today. Although Ma Huaixing is dead, it doesn't count as a failure of your mission. I will explain this in the report." Yan Donglai took out two cigarettes and handed one to Lu Heng, tired again. The tired Lu Heng really couldn't stand the temptation of this cigarette, followed Yan Donglai to the hotel entrance and started to puff.

"What's your relationship with Jian Ming?" Yan Donglai asked out of the blue.

"..." Lu Heng's smoking motion froze, and he hesitated for a few seconds before answering: "A very good friend."

Yan Donglai squinted his eyes and squinted at him, twitched the corner of his mouth, and said doubtfully: "Oh, good friend? How good is it?"

"...A fatal friendship." Lu Heng threw out five words, then turned his head to look at him, and asked back with a puzzled face: "No, Captain Yan, why, does my relationship with him prevent you from solving the case?"

"Don't get excited, don't get excited, I'll just ask, you know, Ma Huaixing's thread is broken, I also have a headache, this poisonous king won't get rid of it for a day, my whole team doesn't sleep all day, how much pressure is there on the top, You understand." Yan Donglai took a puff of cigarette, raised his head and exhaled a three-layer ring and middle ring smoke ring.

Lu Heng faintly had a bad premonition, his eyes were hazy by the smoke rings floating in the air.

"Have you ever thought about it, if what Ma Huaixing said is true, then your good friend is very dangerous. Just now when he went to the restaurant, I sent two people to watch him from the dark. There must be people from the poison king in the hotel." Yan Dong came to the rhythm It was carried very steadily, and Lu Heng was forced to go in.

"Team Yan is still careful, thank you. I will protect him well in the future." Lu Heng's thank you is very sincere, but Yan Donglai is the one who only wants to thank him.

"Then you have to go to work, you special police are not more relaxed than us, you are not by his side? What about his safety?"

Lu Heng was hit at the fatal spot again, "... Captain Yan, what do you think?"

Yes, I will ask for advice, knowing that it is good to be modest, Yan Donglai was overjoyed, and waited for his words.

"Lu Heng, what do you think of this? From now on, I will send someone to secretly protect him 24 hours a day. You can rest assured in terms of safety, but if the poisonous king really seeks him, we need Jian Ming's cooperation to catch him." Yan Dong Lai finally articulated what he had planned to say since he passed a cigarette.

Lu Heng's eyes widened, and just about to be rude, Yan Donglai pressed his shoulders and added: "Don't refuse in a hurry, I wouldn't be able to talk to you about this matter, I can ask him directly, but when I think , you, Lu Heng, are not stupid, and you are in a life-and-death friendship with him, how can you treat him better, I think you care more than him, don't you?" Yan Dong said while looking at Lu Heng and softened a lot. Facial expression, and then emphasized: "Besides, asking him to lure the poisonous king is not to let him arrest for us. As soon as the poisonous king shows up, we will immediately protect Jian Ming, and the danger will never get close to him."

"I have two conditions." Lu Heng said suddenly, then threw the cigarette butt, rubbed his feet vigorously, put his hands on his waist, and looked at Yan Donglai with a serious face.

"Say."

"You still have to ask Jian Ming himself about this matter. If he agrees, I agree, but the premise is that I must be the person who protects him 24 hours a day. This... You, Team Yan, think of a way. Also, I want to know about the poisonous king's case." The whole story of the case, I want to get acquainted with the poisonous king as soon as possible, his nature and style of doing things." Lu Heng knew that he was a little pushy, after all, if Jian Ming agreed, the harsh winter he mentioned could be regarded as his fart.

But, unexpectedly, Yan Donglai agreed, and the refreshingness was so unreal, that Lu Heng almost worshiped him in an instant.

"I will apply to Captain Gu and transfer you to assist in this case. Since you have come to assist in the case, your two requests will be logical. What do you think?"

Lu Heng looked at him with a glimmer of light in his eyes, perfectly explaining what Lu Zhuanfan is.

"I'm afraid that Jian Ming won't agree, hey, he doesn't look like a coward..." The idol's worry made the fans anxious too.

"I think... as long as I protect him, he will agree."

Yan Donglai raised his eyebrows, gestured to touch the back of his head, and there was an imperceptible smile from the corner of his mouth.

"Captain Yan, Lu Heng."

Lu Heng looked back, and Jian Ming was walking towards them from the hotel, holding two packing boxes in his hands, "I see that the people at the door have dispersed, so come out and have a look," then handed Yan Donglai a packing box, smiling Said: "I asked the restaurant to make this newly, Team Yan, you haven't eaten it yet, so take it home and eat it."

"Thank you, thank you, you are really careful. Well, it's too late today, you go back to rest first, find me in the team tomorrow, and I still need to take notes." Yan Donglai took the packing box, with a considerate expression on his face After he finished, he patted Lu Heng on the back and said, "Take your good friend home, and be careful on the way." The word attention is slightly accented.

Lu Heng smiled and nodded, the atmosphere was harmonious and harmonious.

From the looks of it, turned an enemy into a friend?Seeing the friendly interaction between the two in front of him, Jian Ming was surprised by the rapid reversal.

Saying goodbye to Yan Donglai, the two of them were about to go back to the opposite side to pick up the car, passing the main entrance, Jian Ming inevitably saw the bloody air cushion, he frowned, couldn't hold back the sour gas in his stomach, and rushed He vomited by the tree by the roadside. He vomited up the gruel that he had eaten before, and he didn't recover until he vomited out his stomach and spit out acidic water. His face turned from white to blue, as if he couldn't even speak No more strength.

Lu Heng stood on the side, unable to do anything except support him. He finally understood what his mother used to say when he was sick when he was a child—it would be nice if I could take care of you.

Jian Ming, I really want to bear all this for you...

It was Lu Heng who drove home. He insisted on it. For this reason, he threw his driver's license in front of Jian Ming to get his wish. He didn't drive for three years, and he focused on looking ahead all the way without saying anything.

This day passed as long as a year, and Jian Ming was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. With the steady speed and exhausted body, he fell asleep within a few minutes.

The car parked steadily in the Zhumeng Huacheng parking lot. After turning off the engine, Lu Heng decided not to wake him up. Who could bear to sleep so deeply?

He got closer, held his breath and gently took off Jian Ming's glasses. Jian Ming moved subconsciously, found a comfortable position, and fell asleep more soundly.The faint warm yellow light from the roof lights reflected on his tired eyelids, and the ends of the eyelashes fluttered with his breath, as if two tufts of fine velvet were kissed by the breeze. Lu Heng took off his coat and gently covered him.

It's past midnight and a new day has begun...