Qi spirit

My grandfather started out by planting pineapple. He lives in a remote town. After marrying his grandmother, he started running a grocery store to improve his life. Every day he got up early in the dark and took a motorcycle to the nearest place to pick up the goods. The round trip took at least three hours. , the pineapple garden is taken care of by grandma, but the rough work is still done by grandpa.

Han Yuling lived in the city center when he was young, and it took two hours to drive to his grandfather's house, and he had to go through a bumpy path. His mother often suffered from motion sickness and vomiting, so the family rarely visited their grandparents once a year.

Now the path has been developed and the driving is very smooth. There are a few small factories built in what used to be an open grassland, but there are still not many shops. Obviously, the population has not increased significantly, and this place is still a quiet place.

Han Yuling leaned against the car door, greedily taking the scenery outside the window into his mind, some of these scenery overlapped with his incomplete memories from the past.

Suddenly he said 'ah', "That's Grandpa's pineapple garden."

"Wow, do you still remember?" Yan Yucheng responded, "But it was sold a long time ago!"

"yes……"

"When was the last time you were here?"

"The Lunar New Year when I was 14 years old." Han Yuling licked his lips, thinking of the sweet and juicy pineapple that his grandma cut for him at that time.

The car drove away from the road and drove into a yellow mud path. A few families in twos and threes could be seen in front of them. They were all single-family wooden houses at a certain distance. They were built in various ways. Clothes were drying outside the house, and there were cats, dogs, chickens and ducks in front of the door. , or an old man sitting on a rattan chair shaking a fan.

Han Yuling pushed down the car window, the cool breeze hit his face, insects sang and birds sang, he seemed to hear grandma's excited call: "Ouch! The second child is here! Bring our beautiful grandson!"

The car parked under a mango tree with luxuriant branches and leaves. Not far in front was Grandpa’s house, a wooden house with almost all the blue paint on the exterior wall peeled off. The grocery store next door was built into a garage. wheel drive.

"Brother Cheng, you climbed this tree and fell down." Han Yuling poked his head out of the window to look up at the mango tree.

"Hahaha!" Yan Yucheng's laughter came from outside the car, and suddenly he came to the door of the car Han Yuling was leaning on, bent down and said, "Get out of the car and have a look."

The car has been off for a while.Han Yuling turned his head back, and glanced at his godfather who was still by his side.

"This is a good place, very similar to our ranch." Lu Shaozong smiled.

Yes, very similar, both are places filled with joyful memories.

Han Yuling opened the door and got out of the car. Instead of entering the house, he walked around to the back of the house and stopped on a grass-free gravel ground, and slowly squatted down while supporting his knees.

——That brat Shengcheng likes to go to the river and get dirty!My dear grandson, you are too young to go to the river, it is dangerous, stay here and grandpa will teach you how to play marbles.

Han Yuling picked up several larger stones, kept one in his hand, and threw the others in the middle of the sand.He stood up, took a few steps back, squatted down again, squinted his eyes for a while, and then threw the stone in his hand. The stone hit another stone on the ground, but neither stone bounced like a marble. Fly.

Han Yuling pursed his lips and smiled, started to continue walking in, he walked down a slope with the trunk of a tree, brushed away the grass that grew to his knees, and was careful to keep his feet firmly on the ground.

——Be careful!Wait, only I can go down the river, and I will show you the fish I catch, but you are not allowed to go down, if you fall, grandpa will kill me!

The soil under his feet gradually softened, Han Yuling slowed down, and finally saw a river less than one meter wide. He looked up and looked around, and Yan Yucheng shouted behind him: "That's it! It's getting narrower and narrower, like a river There are too many ditches to cross the river, and it may disappear in a few years, remember? You slipped and slipped, and you were obviously not injured, so I was beaten by grandpa."

Han Yuling chuckled, "I'm sorry."

"You were only four years old at that time, do you remember?" Yan Yucheng said as he ran downhill in three steps at a time, and then crossed to the other side of the river in one step.

Han Yuling tilted his neck, "Unforgettable." It didn't hurt to fall into the river, and the water was only up to his chest when sitting. The river was cool, and the small fish still swam to his feet. My brother half-dragged and half-carried him ashore. Grandpa and grandma were very nervous when they saw that he was drenched. Grandma immediately gave him a hot bath. Unfamiliar crackling.Later, when my parents came to pick me up, my mother asked me what I did for a day at my grandfather's house.That was the first time he could remember telling a lie that he had been in the house reading.Lies are not exposed.Even the cousin who was punished to stand with his red butt exposed after being beaten didn't say anything.

"Brother Cheng, I owe you a favor." Han Yuling looked at Yan Yusheng.

Yan Yucheng raised his eyebrows: "What do you owe? Are you going to pay it back? You have to pay me."

Han Yuling smiled without answering, turned around and saw two people standing on the slope, watching him together.

The tall and mighty Lu Shaozong, and the bewildered Yan Yunhyuk.

Han Yuling knew from Lu Shaozong's worried and slightly reproachful expression that his godfather would seriously ask him to pay attention to safety and climb back up the slope carefully in the next moment.

But Lu Shaozong didn't speak.Unexpected, yet plausible, he turned and walked away.

"Ah... then... go... come up and go into the house, it's hot, I made... herbal tea." Yan Yunhe stammered.

Han Yuling turned his back immediately, "I have something to talk to brother Sheng about." He said coldly.

After a few seconds of silence behind him, Yan Yunhe only heard Yan Yunhe say that you two should chat slowly and don't bother.

After the footsteps went away, Han Yuling couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.He didn't know what he was holding back.

thump.Yan Yusheng threw stones into the river.

"Dad told me that when you ran away from home, I really didn't believe it. You, a psychopath who was selected as a model student almost every year from elementary school to high school and won the No. 1 national math, science, and general knowledge competitions, didn't answer The family must have been abducted."

"I won the best player." Han Yuling said.

"The runner-up team that year had a player who was better than you and was injured and missed the game. You were so lucky."

"Have you investigated me?" Han Yuling frowned.

"That's right." Yan Yusheng answered it as a matter of course, "Because I didn't believe that you would run away from home, so I tried my best to check the people and things around you. Speaking of which, you are the first case in my detective career."

"Cut." Han Yuling pouted, noncommittal.

"After searching for a long time, I finally found you through He Xingyu's line."

Han Yuling smacked his lips secretly, he hated to think about this adult past, but when Yan Yusheng talked about this critical point, he was really curious how much Yan Yusheng knew about what he had experienced, so he settled down and continued to listen.

"When I found you, you were already a model. You took flat photos and walked on the flyover. I was almost taken aback. Didn't you, Shu Nian was so good that you ended up doing this job? I concluded that you were blackmailed. I think you should know at that time? The boss of the agency you belong to is a gangster."

"How long have you been a detective?" Han Yuling asked back.

"Including self-exploration, being an apprentice, five years as a policeman, partnering with others, and finally setting up your own business, a total of 20 years." Yan Yusheng looked very proud.

Hearing that Yan Yusheng had been a policeman, Han Yuling's heart trembled, and he immediately decided to avoid talking about Han Feng.He originally wanted to say that if he was really a capable detective, he should know that the underworld member was Han Feng.But soon he felt that it was illogical to think so. Yan Yusheng was still a young boy at that time, and it was impossible to find out a person like Han Feng. If he really found out, he should have some disabilities now.

"As an apprentice, you have the ability to investigate to this level, which is very powerful." Han Yuling said casually.But in fact, if it is really good, you should find it during the period when you have suffered so much to make a living. How hard can it be to find the photos that have been published in magazines?

"But I just found out here and suddenly became discouraged and became a policeman."

This sentence really challenged Han Yuling's patience, and immediately gave Yan Yucheng a very rude look, and said, "Can you tell the story more simply?"

"Then it's all my psychological shadow, please be considerate." Yan Yusheng put on an innocent image.

picture.Yan Yusheng and his father Yan Yunchi are very close!picture!Han Yuling couldn't help but recall that every time he saw his uncle in the past, he would be teased so hard that he couldn't laugh or cry.

It seemed that seeing Han Yuling's unkind expression, Yan Yucheng raised his face, "Okay, I'm serious."

"I don't want to hear it anymore..." Han Yuling turned around and wanted to leave.

"I saw my uncle beat you."

Han Yuling held his breath and turned his head slowly.

"He's going to kill you, I'm scared, I'll run."

There was a brief silence.The atmosphere froze in an unformable emotion.

Because the matter has passed, Han Yuling felt angry but knew it was pointless.Maybe Yan Yucheng was waiting for him to get angry before apologizing, or, no apology?

"I really didn't know what to do at the time, so I ran back to my mother to hide. Later, my father told me that if you stop contacting your uncle, you may really have to report the missing person. I almost collapsed. I dare not say that you can't do it well. It was for my uncle to destroy the corpse."

"So you became a policeman?" Han Yuling thought it was too ridiculous.

"If I can take over your disappearance case, I can justifiably arrest uncle."

"Ha!" Han Yuling laughed loudly.Of course, it was a sarcastic laugh.

Yan Yucheng spread his hands, "Okay, I admit it, I'm just timid and inferior. After five years as a patrol policeman, I couldn't get up to the position, so I resigned."

"Is it because I found out that I'm still alive and well in less than a year, so I don't have the motivation to kill my relatives righteously?" Han Yuling asked.

Yan Yucheng took a deep breath, looked into the distance for a while, then looked at Han Yuling, and said in a serious and serious tone: "I owe you, not an apology, you can tell me what you want me to do."

Han Yuling sneered, sneered, sneered again.

It's not easy, after living such a stable and affluent life, is it necessary to make waves just to get a taste of adulthood?

Han Yuling raised his hand and patted Yan Yucheng's shoulder: "You don't owe me, I should thank you for not saving me, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am today."

"So...you don't blame uncle?"

Han Yuling lowered his hands, thought for a while, and said, "I don't want to resent, I don't want to forgive."

"How is that?"

escape.

It takes a very strong sentiment to admit that you are escaping.

"That's my business." Han Yuling threw down this sentence and strode up the slope.

"I have something to prove." Yan Yucheng was still standing where he was, "Uncle got angry and beat you after he knew that you were not his own, but he loved you very much since you were young, and anyone with eyes can see it. You are also very close to him, what is it that makes you have to leave home?"

"Anyone with eyes can see." Han Yuling repeated this sentence, then turned around and asked, "Do you remember the follow-up when I caused you to be beaten by grandpa?"

Embarrassment appeared on Yan Yucheng's face, and he hesitated, "Just...just stand."

"And then? My mother came, and I told her that I didn't play anything, why didn't you expose it?"

Yan Yucheng seemed to be trying to remember for a while, and said in an uncertain tone: "It's because you...look scared."

Han Yuling snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Your eyes are not broken, can you think about the truth along this line?" After speaking, he stepped onto the flat ground, clapped his hands and walked towards the house