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. "The girl answered honestly.

"Did he make you dress like that? Is your hair fake? And you put on so much makeup?"

The girl nodded, blushing again. "I feel bad too."

"What are the specific things he asked you to do, please tell me?"

"Drink, chat, run errands..."

"Any more?"

The girl thought seriously.

"Sleep with them?" Deng Yi reminded her, "Did he say that he could make a lot of money this way?"

Although Deng Yi's tone was very calm, the girl was still startled. She glanced at the front in a random way, then lowered her head: "No. I'm his wife. I'm not a fool." She lowered her head deeply. .

28

Leaving from that old and remote factory building,

The two walked among the dead grass and bushes that were as silent as death.The shells of dead unknown insects scattered on the road occasionally made a crisp sound under their feet. They lowered their heads as if they were looking for something lost, their eyes looked at the muddy ground looking for a place to stay, and it was inevitable that they got mud on their shoes.

Zhong Xian felt annoyed, knowing that in such weather, he couldn't keep clean, but he still dressed too carefully and ruined a good pair of shoes.Deng Yi walked in front of him.Zhong Xian knew that the guy must have many thoughts in his head and couldn't figure it out, so he kept silent and moved quietly behind him.

Deng Yi stopped at a stone, looked up and said, "The scenery here is really nice."

Zhong Xian also looked at him, the wind blew across the grass, through their hair, and towards the miscellaneous bushes.The eyes here are full of green, not as neat and beautiful as the green area in the city center, but more of a natural beauty of outline, winding ups and downs of green and green.Zhong Xian couldn't help taking a deep breath, because he thought that the oxygen here should be the most abundant,

"Are you still planning to travel?" Deng Yi said slowly. "What scenery can solve your confusion. You can't even appreciate the scenery in front of you."

Zhong Xian didn't know what the other party meant, so he remained silent.

Deng Yi continued: "I think you know that traveling can't solve your problems."

Zhong Xian looked down at the soiled shoes, feeling troubled.This man surnamed Deng is really powerful, like the roundworm in his stomach. "Ask whatever you want," he said. "But if you want to ask me if I have slept with that girl, let me tell you, I haven't touched a finger of her."

"I don't doubt that." Deng Yi turned around and smiled at him, staring at him with a pair of bright eyes. "Pity……"

"What a pity?" Zhong Xian asked with a sullen face.

The light in Deng Yi's eyes bent into an inconceivable shape, and there was a faint sadness in his expression, as if something made him feel lost.

"Is it a pity for me?" Zhong Xian asked deliberately. "Have I broken any law?"

Deng Yi's eyes turned away from his face, lowered, and looked forward again after a while.

"What a man!" he said, and walked on.

It was as if something shattered in this sigh.

Zhong Xian stood there in a daze.He didn't understand why he felt so bad.He took a deep breath and caught up with Deng Yi.

"Any other arrangements today? Sir? You don't have time for lunch. Let's find a place to have dinner, please." Zhong Xian sincerely courted her all the way.

Deng Yi glanced at him, "You get out of people, out of the car, and out of 'blood', even if you're helping me, you don't have to do that."

"Aren't I free recently? I'm afraid you might suspect me. I want to find out quickly and get rid of the suspicion." Zhong Xian said with a smile on his face. "I didn't ask you for nothing, I have a request."

"Say, I don't necessarily agree."

Zhong Xian said clearly: "You can doubt me. You can also investigate me. Although it makes me uncomfortable, but I know this is what you have to do. I only have one request, no matter what you suspect, please ask Me, don't hide from me, give me a chance to explain, don't make judgments and conclusions directly."

Deng Yi didn't answer him immediately.He gave a slight nod until they had reached the car.

"You agreed?" Zhong Xian hurriedly confirmed.

Deng Yi nodded again. "good."

"Then ask."

"what?"

"Do you dare to say that you have no doubts now?"

Deng Yi glanced at the suburban sky one last time, and opened the car door. "I doubt it, but I can't ask anything yet."

After they got into the car, Deng Yi spoke again. "Ask something that has nothing to do with the case. You don't go on a trip or go to work, so you plan to follow me all the time?"

"Actually, I have a plan. I have arranged a travel time for one month, and will start a new project next month." Zhong Xian said. "As you said, I now also feel that traveling may be useless to me. Spending this month with you to solve the case, instead..."

"Then you're planning to pester me every day." Deng Yi sighed, a little tugged, but it showed that he didn't hate it. "How do I remember that you are a person who always keeps a distance from others."

Zhong Xian started the car, and with the slight sound of the engine, he searched for the answer in his mind. "You are different from others." He started the car and drove forward slowly. "We talk differently. I sometimes wonder if what you said to me is my hallucination. How can anyone really care about my psychological problems? No matter what your purpose is, you are different from others."

The car drove out of the muddy path and onto a relatively wide road.

Zhong Xian never heard Deng Yi's response, he turned his head and saw the other party's eyes looking at him very intently.

They stared at each other for ten seconds.The wheels hit a stone.The bells immediately braked.

"Why are you staring at me instead of looking at the road?" Deng Yi said slowly.

"Why are you staring at me again?"

"I'm staring at you wondering why you're staring at me."

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29

On the way back, they rarely talked.

The Cherokee was driving slowly on the dirt road.

Zhong Xian felt a pain in his head, so he turned on the stereo in the car and played an English song to refresh himself.The song is "Good Foot" by Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

"Listening to B-BOX driving, it will drive faster and faster. Do you want to fly?" Deng Yi said.He rested his left elbow on the bottom of the door glass, and his fingers tapped involuntarily.

Zhong Xian aimed at Deng Yi from the corner of his eye.In the middle of the song, there is a long series of raps, and the singer reads the words at a very fast speed. "If you sing like this, your tongue will become disabled just around the corner."

"You don't necessarily need to understand the 4/4 beat. It's enough to grasp each drumbeat. Control a paragraph of rap to exactly 4 bars, and make it rhyme with the last sound. It's easier than solving the case." Deng Yi followed Rhythm played the B-BOX drumbeat with his tongue, and sang two sentences in English, looking decent.Zhong Xian turned his head to look at him in amazement. At this moment, Deng Yi was a little more unruly and cool, and he couldn't tell he was a policeman at all.

"You still do this?"

"Who doesn't have any hobbies yet."

"Do you sing often?"

"I won an award in the campus singer competition. Now I seldom sing."

Zhong Xian's eyes glowed: "We still have this in common. I built a band when I was in school. Singing folk songs."

"Your student days were really rich. You opened a detective agency and built a band. Do you know what students do as a profession?" Deng Yi said.

"The thing that pissed people off was that I skipped class to start a band, but my academic performance was really good. I was a guitarist and lead singer in the band."

"Lead singer? What song did you sing?"

"Countless." Zhong Xian pressed on the operation panel of the vehicle computer, and GoodFoot interrupted.Not long after, a melodious flamenco guitar sound slowly sounded in the car, and the drum beat quietly joined in after eight bars.After the tenth measure, a male voice began to sing, his voice soft and immature.The style of the song should obviously be sad, but the singer sang with a long and tenacious feeling.

Deng Yi listened very intently, while Zhong Xian drove the car silently.It was as if there was a peaceful river flowing slowly in his heart.He glanced at Deng Yi from the corner of his eye from time to time, that guy had been listening carefully.

"I recorded this a long time ago."

"I know. You can tell by the voice that you have just passed the voice change period."

"Know this song?"

Deng Yi nodded.

Zhong Xian was pleasantly surprised: "Really?"

""After This Cigarette Is Extinguished"." Deng Yi said the title of the song directly

"This song is rarely heard. The original singer is unknown and never promoted. I adapted it, how about it?"

"You used to be talented." Deng Yi praised without hesitation.

"What does it mean to have talent before? I also have it now."

"You can't sing like that now. Have you ever written your own song?"

"Of course. I wrote a lot when I was young, ignorant, connotative, and experienced, but now I can't write a single one. Forget it, let me listen to one."

Zhong Xian opened a folder on the car computer screen, and a row of audio files appeared in it. He randomly clicked on a song named "Gan Wei" to listen to it.

The guitar sounds again, the prelude is only four bars, and when the C chord is turned to the G chord, the song directly enters the main theme with the bright voice of the boy:

[You say I am rampant,

My symbol is rebellion,

Someday

I want to be rich

[…]

Zhong Xian laughed first, "It's shameful. I haven't listened to it for many years, but I only remember that the melody is not bad. Listening to it now, I am an idiot..."

Deng Yi made a gesture to tell him to shut up and not to disturb him listening to the song.

[I am willing to be a miser,

Will not miss any chance,

with a clear purpose,

All I want is money and love,

I'll give everything, endlessly, no matter the cost,

my head