Balancing

All the kinship between animals depends on blood, and the kinship between humans may also be kindness.

Jiang Luchuan disappeared for half a month, during which Jian Ming did not make a single phone call, not because he was afraid, but because the 16-year pure father-son relationship required time and space to face and accept the establishment of a new relationship. For Jiang Luchuan, it might just be face-to-face. To do more, to uncover that bleak shell, all of which he has to suffer, and then, there is no choice.

He has resentment and anger towards his adoptive father, Jian Ming, but he has never hated him. Yes, he does not hate Jiang Luchuan, and he has no right to hate him. No matter what the purpose is, it is true that he has taken care of him for so many years and worked hard to cultivate him. I can't find any reason to hate an elder who has devoted his entire golden years to himself.

That's why it's even more sad. When he looked at the sunken cheeks in front of him, his haggard face, who looked like Jiang Luchuan, who had aged several years, he felt really uncomfortable, a feeling of powerlessness that had been crushed. He has always had more than respect for Jiang Luchuan, and he has never had the normal intimacy between father and son, not even a single quarrel.But the occurrence of this incident unexpectedly made Jian Ming feel something similar to family affection.

"...Dad, where have you been all this time?" He was sitting in Jiang Luchuan's office, turning over a wooden hourglass on the desk in his hand.

Jiang Luchuan was very surprised. In his impression, this was the first time that Jian Ming didn't address him with the honorific "You", but he didn't feel any disrespect at all. Instead, it was like a kind of casualness in the family, and he instantly drew closer. their distance.Although it felt strange, he admitted that he heard it very well.

"I've been in Beijing, visiting Peking University for two weeks." Jiang Luchuan briefly mentioned it, then looked at Jian Ming with concern and said, "Why do I feel that you... seem to have lost weight."

The corners of Jian Ming's mouth slightly curled up, and he looked back at him, "Dad has also lost a lot of weight."

The two were silent for a moment, looking at each other and smiling.

Looking at the familiar face in front of him, Jiang Luchuan felt a little dazed, as if he had gone back to the long past, back to the green high school years. The current Jian Ming is so similar to the young Jian Fangzhou, why has nothing happened in more than ten years? This feeling has only been seen for half a month, but the person in front of him gave him a sense of time and space.

Jian Ming turned the hourglass over, put the table on the table, left his hands, and stared at Jiang Luchuan: "Something happened recently, about my parents, Dad, did you know them a long time ago?"

"Jian Ming, why didn't you wear glasses today?" Jiang Luchuan asked as if he didn't hear him, raised his eyebrows slightly, and stared at his face suddenly.

Jian Ming subconsciously touched the eyebrows and eyes, and really forgot, Jiang Luchuan didn't ask such a question until now, and he still didn't realize that it was the first time that he had completely forgotten the glasses that never left him outside.He touched his forehead, coughed lightly to cover up, and said, "Well, the lenses are worn out and haven't been replaced yet."

"It feels like you are a little different from before. Maybe it's because you're used to wearing glasses... Oh... What did you ask me? What happened in the past two weeks?" Jiang Luchuan was stuck in his own thoughts, without saying a word Too much to listen to.

Jian Ming shook his head, and suddenly lost the urge to ask, "It's nothing, let's talk about it later, Dad, you look very tired, do you want to go home and rest first?"

As soon as the words fell, there was a knock on the door.

"Uncle Jiang, are you back?" Lu Heng pushed open the door, stood at the door and greeted Jiang Luchuan.

"Hey, it's Lu Heng. Why are you here? I remember you stopped your treatment and returned to the SWAT team?" Jiang Luchuan was surprised to see Lu Heng in Baichuan at [-]:[-] in the morning.

Lu Heng smirked twice, and glanced at Jian Ming from the corner of his eye. The other party frowned, his serious expression obviously implying that he should not say what he should not say.

"Uh...I have something to do with Jian Ming, can I bother you?" Lu Heng didn't enter the room, but waved to Jian Ming, motioning him to come out.

Jiang Luchuan smiled, although he had doubts in his heart, he didn't delve into it too deeply. After all, he came back from the plane early this morning and wanted to meet Jian Ming. He had thought a lot about it in the past two weeks, and he was willing to talk about many things in the past, but He prefers to be a father. "Okay, tell me, I'll go home first." Then he turned to Jian Ming and asked, "Have you moved there?"

"Well, yes, pick Kiki back tomorrow and test her acceptance first." Jian Ming nodded.

Jiang Luchuan: "Oh, how about this, you come back next week to stay for a day, let's have a good chat, I'll go first, you take Lu Heng to your office."

Jian Ming: "Okay, I see. Just next Monday."

The two went out, and when they passed by Lu Heng, Jiang Luchuan suddenly had a strange feeling, he couldn't explain clearly, a kind of look, a kind of aura, a sense of déjà vu emerged spontaneously.

Seeing Jiang Luchuan's back disappear at the entrance of the corridor, Jian Ming stepped into the office. As soon as he entered the door, he said in a calm voice, "Didn't you tell me to wait for me in the office? Why can't you sit still?"

After answering Jiang Luchuan's phone call in the morning, Jian Ming's mood has been fluctuating. When he heard that he asked him to come to Baichuan for a meeting, he didn't bother to explain too much to Lu Heng. It's not allowed, it must be close to the body. Is this for protection or surveillance? Jian Ming decided to take care of this matter.

"I... really wanted to find you, and your phone was left in the car again, so I knocked on the door because I couldn't notify you." Lu Heng was very wronged, he felt as if he was wronged ten times or eight times a day. Normal.

"What's the rush? It's only been half an hour since I went in." Jian Ming was a little upset, he was used to walking around by himself, and it was really hard for him to adapt to having someone by his side all the time.

Lu Heng sighed, and held back his temper to explain: "I just received a call to go to the anti-narcotics team. There was news about the car following us yesterday, and I just happened to go to find out about the drug king's case."

"So? You mean you don't have to carry out the mission if you have something to do? You don't need to be close to me? Are you afraid that I'm in danger?" Jian Ming raised his eyebrows coldly and asked reluctantly, "I asked you to stay at home in the morning. Didn't it mean that I can't leave your sight even a step? Now it's okay again?"

"Jian Ming, what's wrong with you?" Lu Heng was more shocked than angry, he felt that the person in front of him was deliberately finding fault. "I went to look for you, just to ask how long you will be there, and if you want to go with me? Or..."

Before he finished speaking, Jian Ming raised his hand impatiently, made a stop motion, and said with a cold face: "I won't go. Lu Heng, do you think that I can not work and accompany you every day? I can live a happy life just by looking after you? How about I don’t have to be a doctor and just go to your place to apply for a police job? Let me ask you, is this what the so-called 24-hour personal protection is for? Do you have to follow me when you go to the toilet? I see Do you also want to watch the patient?" After he finished talking, his face flushed and his breath became short of breath, Lu Heng was shocked and fell silent.

This was the biggest anger that Jian Ming made in his memory, and it was an unknown anger. He thought that his actions were not enough to make the other party start a fire.

Lu Heng remained silent, he felt that Jian Ming still had something to say.

"I don't want to do this. You go back and discuss it with Team Yan. If you want to protect me like this, I don't think I can last a day."

Lu Heng was a little bit hurt. He could understand that Jian Ming was emotionally unstable when he saw Jiang Luchuan, and he could also understand that the anxiety and helplessness these days would inevitably affect his mood. Nervous.

However, Jian Ming made it very clear that he just didn't want this kind of protection. Lu Heng actually wanted to tell him that I don't have to be so clingy to you, and I can protect you 24 hours a day without being discovered by you.I just thought you were like me... wanting to see each other every minute, but the fact is that I was wrong, you Jian Ming has always been a hard-edged, unpredictable person, I misunderstood again...

Lu Heng took out his mobile phone and car keys from his pocket, and put two tea eggs and milk he bought somewhere on Jian Ming's table, and said softly, "I brought the mobile phone up for you. I bought it downstairs earlier. You can take advantage of it." Let's eat hot." He looked at the time on the wall clock, and finally gave him a deep look with his eyes, "I'm leaving, there will be other colleagues around to protect you for the time being, don't worry, they won't disturb your work." Speaking of which, he didn't say when he would come back, turned around and left.

Jian Ming looked at the things on the table, feeling confused.He knew that he was abnormal and a little unreasonable, maybe more than a little, but he couldn't control it for some reason, and suddenly he didn't want to be reasonable, wanted to be a rascal, wanted to be willful, and wanted to make unreasonable troubles in front of Lu Heng just once.

He leaned against the edge of the table, subconsciously trying to pull off his glasses, heh, he didn't wear them, he sneered, as if he found a reason for his abnormality, it turned out that he forgot his sense of security at home.

silly boy...

Jian Ming had a fairly fulfilling life for most of the day. After finishing his official business, he also took care of some personal matters. He obtained 50 cash from the mysterious person and applied to the bank to collect it on Tuesday.He didn't know if this mysterious person would appear, but he seemed to think he had already guessed who this person was.After analyzing the call records that Lu Heng got for him, he found nothing special, but there was a phone number that made him more convincing and confirmed that what Ma Huaixing said was not the whole truth he wanted.

From three o'clock in the afternoon, he began to count the minutes and seconds until he got off work at five o'clock. Two hours seemed as long as two days.

For a whole day, Lu Heng didn't show up again, didn't make a phone call, and all messages and WeChat were completely silent.

The silly boy is flustered...

On the way home, the car drove fast and slow, interspersed in the traffic flow in a snake-like way.Jian Ming glanced at the phone for the nth time, threw it to the passenger driver angrily, stepped on the accelerator and overtook several cars in front of him.

What about personal protection?

What did you say to protect your own life?

What did you say where there is me, there is you?

It's all about coaxing three-year-olds, right?

Jian Ming slammed on the brakes, and the car stopped at the entrance of the community. He didn't drive into the parking lot. In fact, he didn't even want to go home. The shadow of that little bastard was everywhere for ten miles around...

Including in the car.

Jian Ming stopped at the side of the road, picked up his coat and got out of the car.

As the sky turned dark, he walked aimlessly along the road, passed by an unknown number of intersections, and several traffic lights, until he looked up and found that he had unknowingly walked downstairs to Lu Heng's house.

There was a film-like light in his eyes, which complemented the moonlight. Without the cover of glasses, the lake-like pupils that should have been more moving were now dimmed. He unbuttoned the collar of his shirt and bit his lip. , looked indifferently at the window of Lu Heng's house, it was pitch black.

After crossing back and forth several times, he suddenly stopped, took out his phone and stared at it for a while, then snorted out his nose: "Okay, great, the game disappeared." He turned around without hesitation for a second after speaking decided to leave.

Before the man took two steps, there was a voice from behind that had already been baked into every cell of him.

"Can't you just give me a call?"

Little bastard! ! !

Jian Ming kept his back turned, motionless, but the messy and broken light flickered in his eyes, he tightly grabbed the edges of the clothes on both sides of his body, so stubborn that he didn't look back.

Lu Heng got out from the green belt of the unit, walked behind Jian Ming, was very close but didn't touch him at all, "Can't you admit that what you said is insincere?"

Jian Ming was speechless, his vain self-esteem was broken to the ground.

He didn't want to face Lu Heng like this, so he raised his feet and took a step forward. In a blink of an eye, Lu Heng hugged him tightly from behind and nestled against the other's chest. He could clearly hear the chaotic heartbeat in the other's chest.

"You only drank a cup of milk at noon, I bought it in the morning, you didn't leave the office all afternoon, you passed eight cars on your way home, cut the line four times, you were photographed for speeding on the viaduct, your car parked illegally In a residential area, it is estimated that a ticket has been posted..." Lu Heng paused, and moved his head closer to Jian Ming's ear, "It took you 94 minutes to walk to my house, and you changed four roads, two streets, and five A traffic light, wandering here for 25 minutes, it is now 8:59, may I ask... Can you talk to me at nine o'clock?"

Jian Ming slowly raised his arms, opened his cuffs, looked at the dial on his wrist, and smiled innocently.

"It's nine o'clock, let's go home."