love of life

At the dinner table, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was eerily quiet.Gu Ming raised his head from time to time, and saw Lin Zexi who was sitting across from him with his head down, picking up the rice in the bowl by himself, as if he had returned to the time when he first moved in a few months ago.Gu Ming didn't like this kind of atmosphere very much, it made him feel depressed and resentful, but he didn't know how to speak, he was afraid that things would get worse.

"I think I might be able to go." Lin Zexi said suddenly.

"Huh?" Gu Ming didn't realize what he was saying all of a sudden, he raised his head and looked at him suspiciously.

"I'm talking about traveling. If you're in China, you should be able to go." Lin Zexi's eyes wandered a little.

"Oh, okay, then I'll make arrangements." Gu Ming remembered that they were discussing the topic of traveling before.

"Well, so you're not angry, are you?" Lin Zexi asked softly, looking a little cautious.

"I'm not angry, just now I...was a little excited." In fact, he was angry not because he didn't go on a trip with him, it seemed that the focus of their attention was different.

Lin Zexi shook his head lightly, but did not speak.

Gu Ming suddenly felt that the distance between the two of them was much farther away, and they obviously got along very harmoniously before.Nothing serious happened recently, but he always felt stumbling, and before he knew it, the relationship between the two began to become strange.

Gu Ming wanted to get a bottle of beer, but as soon as he entered the kitchen, Lin Zexi took a rag and went to the dining room to wipe the table, as if intentionally or unintentionally avoiding him.Gu Ming frowned, and as soon as he opened the refrigerator, he saw the screen of Lin Zexi's cell phone light up on the stove, and there was a text message on it. The message came from Captain Liu. send me a message.Remember to come and see me before the end of next month.

In Gu Ming's mind, the Captain Liu he met last time when he followed Lin Zexi to the police station suddenly appeared, and he clenched his teeth unconsciously.What is the relationship between them?Tell him where to go?

Lin Zexi walked back to the kitchen, reached out to the stove, and met Gu Ming's deep eyes before touching the phone.He retracted his hand subconsciously, then grabbed the phone and put it in his pocket, and continued to wipe the sink with a rag.The air condensed in silence, instantly becoming thicker.Gu Ming just stared at him silently, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Who is that person?" Gu Ming deliberately lowered his voice and asked.

Lin Zexi continued to be busy, as if she didn't hear it.Gu Ming wanted to rush up and pull him to ask, but he kept trying to control his emotions.He stepped forward in two steps, stood in front of him and asked, "Who is the person who sent you the message?"

"Who? What information." Lin Zexi asked casually without looking up.

"Don't tell me? Where did you go that morning? Did you go to see Captain Liu? You still lied to me on the phone that you were making cakes at home." Gu Ming felt a stone stuck in his chest, and his anger shot up, his eyes Glowing red silk.

Lin Zexi kept wiping his hands on the sink without saying a word.

"What's your relationship with him? You have to ask his permission to go out? You have such a good relationship, why didn't you say anything when I asked you if you have any friends?" Gu Ming asked forcefully.

The other party still didn't speak. Under his direct gaze, he turned around and planned to leave the kitchen.He was the first to block the kitchen door.

"I..." He hesitated to speak, swallowed, and continued, "I'm not obliged to tell you, am I? I'm just your servant, and I still have privacy."

"Hidden..." Gu Ming couldn't help but wanted to yell, but stopped abruptly, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Obligation? Privacy? Can't we even have a normal chat? Is there something embarrassing for you? Speaking of obligations, should the servants go out for private affairs during working hours, should they tell me, the master? Instead of telling them, they lie, let me ask what's wrong?"

"I had something to go out that day, but it didn't affect my work."

"Who is that person? So important to you? You have to report to him when you go out?" Gu Ming asked relentlessly.

"It's just an acquaintance, it's not important."

"He's the police? What did you take a taxi to find him that morning?"

"I don't want to say." Lin Zexi lowered his head and wanted to squeeze through the gap between him and the door, but was stunned for a while, raised his head to stare at Gu Ming and said, "You follow me."

"I... just met by chance." Gu Ming replied with a guilty conscience.Lin Zexi stared straight at him, with a momentary flash of firmness in his eyes, which soon dimmed, and returned to his room without saying a word.

Gu Ming stood alone at the kitchen door, his hands clenched into fists unconsciously.

At this time, Gu Ming's cell phone rang, and his complicated thoughts returned to his eyes. He took out his cell phone, and it was Xu Zhe who called.

Xu Zhe has already made plans to go to Xishuangbanna, starting next Tuesday, tentatively scheduled for three days and two nights.He asked Gu Ming to send him his ID number to book tickets together.Gu Ming stood at Lin Zexi's door and hesitated for a while before knocking on the door.

Lin Zexi opened the door and looked blankly at Gu Ming who was standing by the door.After a moment of silence, Gu Ming said, "Give me your ID card, we will leave next Tuesday, and we need to book tickets in advance."

"Oh." Lin Zexi responded, turned back to the room and took out the worn-out wallet from the bedside table. After opening it, he stretched out his hand to dig through the transparent plastic interlayer with some difficulty. After trying two or three times, he finally pulled out the ID card from inside. To Gu Ming.At this time, Gu Ming caught a glimpse of a two-inch photo falling out of the interlayer and landed at his feet.Unexpectedly, he stepped on the photo and said nonchalantly, "I want to drink juice a little bit, please help me get it."

"Okay." Lin Zexi closed the wallet, put it back in the bedside table, turned around and went to the kitchen to get busy.Watching his back disappear around the corner, Gu Ming slowly moved his feet away, knelt down and picked up the photo.The moment Gu Ming saw the photo, he was stunned. It was a photo of Lin Zexi and another person when he was young.The background is the blue water and the blue sky. Leaning on the edge of the wooden fence are two young men, wearing white T-shirts and straw hats woven with rattan, smiling very happily.One of them is Lin Zexi. At that time, he looked like a student, completely different from the vicissitudes of life now. The other one was half a head taller than him, and he was about the same age. After careful observation, Gu Ming felt that the eyebrows and eyes of the person in the photo were similar to his own. There are seven or eight points similar.He turned over the back of the photo and wrote three words "Jie & Xi" in the lower right corner with a ballpoint pen.

He stared blankly at the photo for a few seconds, the thoughts in his mind kept rushing, and he couldn't figure out a clue.He took out his phone to take the picture, and put it back in Lin Zexi's wallet.As soon as he walked out of the room, Lin Zexi came over with juice and said, "Here, do you want to eat something else? I'll make it for you."

Gu Ming reached out to take the cup expressionlessly and said, "No need, I'm going to rest." After speaking, he went back to his room and closed the door.He couldn't help but took out his mobile phone and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more bored he was. The man in the photo was really similar to himself. He remembered that Yu Xiaoxiao had said something similar. Could it be that he had a picture of the public? Face?He took a few deep breaths of air to calm himself down, and turned his attention from the people in the photo to the background.It only took a few seconds for Gu Ming to recognize that the scene in the photo was on the Erhai Lake in Dali, and the railings in the photo looked like the balcony of a hotel room on the Erhai Lake.

Gu Ming dialed Xu Zhe's cell phone, "Xu Zhe, change this trip to Dali."

"What? Dali? But I have already booked the itinerary to Xishuangbanna. I have paid the deposit and everything, and I have contacted the car tour guide." Xu Zhe couldn't help complaining loudly.

"Retire, I will bear the loss, and change the itinerary to Dali." Gu Ming continued to insist.

"Hey, I said Gu Ming, don't be so arrogant and unreasonable, please, Xishuangbanna is a collective decision, you can't..." Xu Zhe was interrupted by Gu Ming in the middle of his speech.

"I'm going to Dali. If you don't want to go, I won't force you. I'll go by myself."

"You... OK, OK, you're amazing, Dali is Dali, I'll go and communicate with Wei Qing and the others, okay? Hurry up and send over your ID number in a while. Don't change it this time." Xu Zhe Muttering and talking.

"Xu Zhe, how old is Yu Xiaoxiao this year?"

The person on the other end of the phone was stunned for a while before saying, "Gu Ming, are you still involved with Yu Xiaoxiao? You don't really like her like that, do you? Let me tell you, her background is not pure, she... "

"It's not that complicated. I just want to ask how old she is this year, you know?"

"Well, I know, I can't forget it even if I want to. She is 25 years old this year. It happens to be half of my old man. Don't talk about spoiling the fun, Lin Zexi wants to go with you, right?"

"Well." Gu Ming replied perfunctorily, and continued: "I have a photo in my hand. You know a lot of people in Dali. Help me find out which inn the photo was taken in. We will live in that inn. I booked the same room."

"Gu Ming, do you really think I'm your servant? The requirements are so high."

"Xu Zhe, please."

"You... Forget it, it's my bad luck to know you as a bad friend. I will send you the photo and ID number later, and I will find a way." Xu Zhe sighed and responded.

After hanging up the phone, Gu Ming took out his mobile phone to edit the photos, covered their faces with stickers and sent them to Xu Zhe.