Chasing the Mist

Gu Xun returned to the villa where the family lived during the Spring Festival. His parents and younger brother were sitting around the sofa. When he entered, the air conditioner in the living room was turned on low, and the room was very cold. He couldn't help shivering when he entered.

The three people on the sofa stared at him without saying a word, as if they had never met the person who entered the door.

Gu Xun changed his slippers, first asked his aunt for the remote control, and wanted to increase the temperature.

Aunt brought over the remote control of the air conditioner, Gu Xun just reached out to pick it up, Gu Renli caught it first, and scolded: "Sit down."

"Turn up the temperature a bit, this room is like a refrigerator." Gu Xun said while grabbing the remote control from his father.

Gu Renli turned around and threw the remote control into the trash can.

Gu Xun: "..."

Gu's mother got up and pulled Gu Xun to sit down, "Your father just got off the plane, tossing all the way, it's very hot, bear with it first."

Gu Renli gave his wife a fixed amount of money every month, which was Gu's mother's only financial income. In order to serve the rich man these years, she has always been submissive, and her husband said nothing. When the children and husband had conflicts, she always stood by her husband. .

Gu Xun was quite helpless towards his mother, and couldn't bear to argue with her, so he sat down on the sofa alone, while the other three surrounded him, as if they were interrogating a suspect.

Gu Renli stood in front of his son. He was tall, with a straight face, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

"I'm not your subordinate, don't act like you're training employees, go over there and talk about it.

Gu Renli listened to Gu Xun's words this time, sat down between his wife and youngest son, then took out a stack of photos from his bag, and threw them at Gu Qun. The photos were scattered all over the floor, all of them were beauties, "Choose one, Go to get married tomorrow."

Gu Xun glanced at the photos around him and on the ground, "You choose a concubine for the emperor?"

"Don't catch me poor." Gu Renli's tone was not kind.

Gu Yuan looked left and right, squatted down knowingly, picked up the photo, and put it on Gu Xun's lap, "Brother, Dad is also kind. If you take a look, you may meet someone you like."

Seeing the emperor at home, Gu Yuan instantly turned into a fool, and stood in Gu Renli's team just like Gu's mother.

Gu Xun realized that he could only fight alone tonight, so he picked up the photo on his lap and put it on the coffee table, "Dad, I can't marry a woman, just accept the reality."

Gu Renli stood up abruptly, raised his hand, slapped Gu Xun's face, and panted, "You bastard."

Gu Xun had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and grabbed his father's wrist in time, "Can't we talk calmly? Listen to my thoughts, why do you have to let others do things according to your ideas?"

The father and son fought hard with their wrists. Gu Renli's physical strength was not as good as that of a young man, so he had no choice but to stop, pointing at Gu Xun's nose and yelling: "There is no such person in the Gu family. I will never allow my child to be a different kind."

Gu Xun said with a smile: "It's the 20th century, don't be like living in the Qing Dynasty, okay? In many countries, same-sex marriages can already be registered."

"Don't tell me that, my kids are not allowed to be gay."

"I have long legs, and you can't stop me from doing what I want to do."

Gu Renli raised his hand to hit Gu Xun again.

Gu Xun bent down to dodge, "You can't beat me, don't waste your energy."

Gu Renli clutched his chest, panting heavily, his teeth chattering, but he couldn't speak.

Gu's mother hurriedly stood up and helped him to sit down, then poured a glass of water and handed it to Gu Renli. When Gu Renli breathed more evenly, she turned her head and said, "I'm 30 this year, can you be less angry with your father? When you become a father, you will naturally understand." Your father worked hard."

"I won't be a father, let alone a father like him who is full of control."

Gu Yuan gently wiped the sweat from Gu Renli's forehead with a handkerchief, "Brother, don't say a few words, my dad is so angry, I still feel bad."

Under the siege of the whole family, Gu Xun shut up and sat quietly.

Gu Renli paused for a while, then sighed, "What sin did I do in my previous life to give birth to such a disobedient son like you." Looking at Mother Gu again, he said angrily, "Look at the good son you gave birth to."

Gu's mother lowered her head, turned away from Gu Renli's gaze, and looked at the ground, "If you want me to say, it's not our Gu Xun's fault, Lin Yiran must have seduced you first, otherwise why didn't Gu Xun like men before? He didn't start until he was thirty .”

These words touched Gu Renli's heart, and the angry eyes softened a bit, "The little white-eyed wolf has been eating, drinking and living in Gu's house for so many years, who do you think spends money for him? How much money does Gu Mingli take for food, use, and housing? Not only did it cost me all of my money, but in the end I dared to seduce my son, I'm really tired of it."

"His parents died early, so the child is also pitiful." Gu's mother, who had made Gu Renli feel at ease just now, made him angry again.

"His parents live or die, what does it matter to me? I didn't kill him. I raised him for no reason. I didn't know how to be grateful, and even seduced my son. He thought I, Gu Renli, was a vegetarian?"

Gu Xun's complexion darkened, and he said in a cold voice: "I chased him first, and you come to me if you are dissatisfied. He spent your bad money when he was a child, and I will pay you back." His tone of speech was colder than the air conditioner in the house.

The little anger that Gu Renli had just lowered came up again with a "babble", "I'm against you, I won't show you any color, I don't know what my last name is."

Gu Xun sneered: "I'll be waiting for you, get up and go outside."

Seeing that he was about to leave, Gu Renli became anxious, "Stop for me."

Gu Yuan ran over quickly and grabbed Gu Xun, "Dad came back after a long time, you talk carefully."

Gu Xun was not allowed to forcefully shake off his younger brother, "You have the guts to get fat, right? Get out of here."

Gu Renli straightened his back, and shouted towards the door: "Yuanyuan, let go of him." As soon as the words fell, the door lock locked with a "click".

Gu Xun pushed and kicked hard, but couldn't open the door no matter how hard he tossed, turned around and walked to the window, pushed the door and window, there was a circle of tall men in black suits standing outside the window, Gu Renli hired bodyguards to trap him, went crazy up.

He slammed the window with a bang, and walked back to Renli, "I'm thirty fucking years old. If you trap me for a while, can you trap me for the rest of your life? I don't pay much attention to those people outside you, you know? "Put these words aside, get up and prepare to go out again.

"If you dare to take a step away from home today, I will die in front of you."

Gu Xun didn't take it seriously, and continued to walk forward. He heard his mother screaming, and turned around to see the knife in Gu Renli's hand, with the point pointing straight at his neck.

It's really crazy to force him to die.

Gu Xun stood there for two seconds, took a deep breath, turned around and sat back, looked straight at Gu Renli, after a long time, he gave a thumbs up, "I'm not leaving tonight, what do you want to say."

Gu Renli put away the knife, Nuannuan said: "It's very simple, get married, have children to continue the incense for the Gu family, and stay away from Lin Yiran."

Gu Xun laughed angrily, and mocked: "Continue the incense? Do you really think it is in the Qing Dynasty? Besides, I am not the only son. In the future, Gu Yuan will inherit your business, marry a beautiful girl and have grandchildren. He can do all these things." Come on, why do you keep staring at me?"

Gu Renli was silent for a moment, "Our Gu family cannot have homosexuality."

Gu Yuan asked in a low voice, "Why?"

Gu Renli didn't speak, his eyes began to droop, like a room that has been empty for a long time, the objects are still there, but the people are gone.

Gu's mother glared at Gu Yuan, and he immediately shut up and stopped talking. The four members of the family fell silent with their own concerns.

"You have to choose a marriage partner tonight, otherwise no one will have a good time." After leaving these words, Gu Renli got up and went to the bedroom on the second floor.

The emperor left at home, Gu Yuan became active, picked up the photos and looked at them one by one, screened them around, and kept 5 photos, and put them in front of Gu Xun, "These look good, why don't you choose one? The big deal It's a marriage, why bother to make Dad angry with this matter."

Gu Xun flipped through the photos with a wave of his hand, and went upstairs. He entered the room, turned off the light and lay on the bed. His eyes were like copper bells, and he was not sleepy at all. Consciously emerging, the back view of Lin Yiran sitting in front of the desk every night when he enters the door.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed the number, but Lin Yiran didn't answer, so he sent him a WeChat message, 【Are you asleep? 】I waited for a long time without replying, it was almost midnight, Lin Yiran might go to take a shower, but couldn't hear the phone call.

Throwing the phone on the bed, he stood by the window, opened the window, raised his head slightly, the city lights were too bright, covering the night sky with bright stars, only a few stars, he thought of that camping time, lying side by side with Lin Yiran outside the tent, looking up at the starry sky , The night sky in the mountains is black and pure, and the stars are bright and clear. At that time, I didn't feel anything. Looking back now, the night in the mountains is like a paradise.

At that time, I never thought that one day I would be trapped by my father with such absurd means. Father and son have known Gu Renli's character for many years. If he insisted on leaving today, he would really insert a knife. Love is important, but as a child , He couldn't look at his father, he died in front of his eyes, so he had to compromise, he always wanted to slowly infiltrate with Gu Renli, but he never thought that things would come so fast, like a tornado, he was at a loss as to what to do.

Confusion rushed from all directions, and pressed Gu Xun firmly. At this moment, he really wanted to hear Lin Yiran's voice. He closed the window and went back to bed. The screen of the mobile phone was always black, and there was no reply on WeChat, so he sent another WeChat message.

Turning off the screen of the mobile phone, the room fell into darkness, and his heart sank in the endless blackness. The mobile phone became the only thing he cared about. He turned on the screen, and the faint light was the hope in the dark night.

Wechat still didn’t reply. It was almost 1 o’clock in the morning. Gu Xun felt restless and dialed the phone again, but there was still no one answering the busy message. See if Lin Yiran is here."

Yuan He: "I just checked Moments and saw that Gu Yuan posted a photo with him in it. A group of people seem to be in a bar. Didn't you see it?"

Gu Xun doesn't have many friends on WeChat, and rarely opens Moments. The first one was posted by Gu Yuan half an hour ago.

Text: Leave me alone, you can enjoy yourself.

Pictured: six or seven people sitting on the sofa, each holding wine in their hands, toasting towards the camera.

Among them, the person sitting in the middle is Jiang Chen, and Lin Yiran is sitting next to him, the distance between the two is very close.

Gu Xun quit Moments, dropped his cell phone on the bed, picked it up again after a while, and kept calling Lin Yiran, half an hour later the call was connected, "Where are you?"

"Playing outside with friends."

"Which friend? Where? I'll go find you."

Lin Yiran was silent for two seconds, "Brother, don't worry, I will explain to you tomorrow."

"I don't need your fucking explanation. No matter what the purpose is, go home immediately and stay away from Jiang Chen. He has been interested in you for a long time, don't you know?"

"I know, it's because of this that I am..." Before I finished speaking, the sound of Jiang Chen calling Lin Yiran to go back to drink came from the phone, and the phone was hung up.

After a while, Lin Yiran sent a WeChat message, [I'm home. 】

Gu Xun dug out a pack of cigarettes from the bedside table, took out one, and left his mouth unlit, knowing that there must be a reason for Lin Yiran to be close to Jiang Chen, but he still felt uncomfortable, his heart was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe, and he was extremely depressed.

He lit the fire, and the familiar smell of tobacco hit him, but his mood was different from before. In the past, he smoked just to relieve boredom. This time, every time he took a puff, it was as if someone took a knife to cut a piece out of his heart. After two cigarettes, he left the room , knocked on the door of Gu Renli's room.

Gu Renli has the habit of sleeping alone, when Gu Xun walked in, he was sitting at the computer desk dealing with emails.

Gu Xun sat beside him and said calmly, "Let's have a chat."

Gu Renli stared at the computer screen, not at him, and responded coldly, "If it's about Lin Yiran, you go out, there's nothing to talk about, it's my life to choose love."

Gu Xun stared at his side face, speechless for a long time, he didn't know when his black hair at the temples had turned white, and fine wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, even if Gu Renli knew how to take care of it, he still couldn't escape the ravages of time.

His father was getting old, and Gu Xun's heart sank in an instant, as if he had aged a lot, "Face is more important than my lifelong happiness? I have already embarked on this path, and I can't turn back. Even if I don't get along with Lin Yiran, I don't The way to marry a woman, I have handled the case of the same wife, they are a group of lonely people, living in a corner where no one cares about, suffering from neglect and torture alone, this kind of life is an invisible knife, it will kill the other party, I Can’t do it, never can do it.”

Gu Renli snorted, still staring at the screen, not looking at him, not speaking, ignoring his existence.

Gu Xun couldn't see his father's expression clearly, and couldn't guess his thoughts. He just felt tired. He talked to his father for the first time in 30 years, but ended the conversation in this way. He went back to the room again, leaning on the head of the bed, and sat quietly all night.

Gu Xun's heartfelt words did not impress Gu Renli. The next morning, he still insisted on asking him to choose a photo. If he didn't choose, Gu Renli would choose on his behalf, and then went directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau in the afternoon.

Gu Xun planned to jump out of the window and leave later, when Gu Renli's cell phone rang, and he didn't know what the other party said, but he said, "Let it in."

The door of the villa opened, Gu Mingli came in from the outside, and went straight to his younger brother, "Are you crazy? Half your life has been wasted, and the city bureau has a murder case that hasn't been completed yet, let him go back with me."

Gu Renli didn't raise his eyelids, "My family's affairs have nothing to do with elder brother, go back and take care of your adopted son when you have time."

"Your family affairs have nothing to do with me, but Gu Xun is my subordinate, there is a murder case to be investigated, so I can't waste time with you."

"He can leave if he wants. He will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau in the afternoon, and he can leave as he pleases after marriage."

Gu Mingli let out a sigh of relief, "This kind of thing can't be controlled, and it's useless for you to force it, just like" before the next words could be said, Gu Renli became anxious, slapped his hand on the table and stood up, "It's all because of Big brother, now you are making sarcastic remarks. If you hadn’t brought Lin Yiran home back then, my son would not have been bent. Heh! You purposely asked a little boy to seduce him in front of him, just wait for this day, come and see my joke ?”

Gu Mingli smiled helplessly, "It's unreasonable." He pulled Gu Xun out.

Gu Renli shouted: "Gu Xun, you dare to go try." The knife rested on his neck again.

Gu Xun stopped in his tracks.

Gu Mingli pulled him forward, "Don't be afraid, he doesn't dare to die. If he wanted to die, he would have died more than thirty years ago, and he can't wait until today."

After leaving the villa and getting into the car, Gu Xun asked, "Uncle, how do you know I'm here?"

"Xiao Ran waited at my door early, saying that you were in the villa, worried that your father would embarrass you, let me come and have a look."

Gu Xun looked out of the car window and didn't speak.

While driving, Gu Mingli sighed again and again, and when he was waiting for the red light, he patted Gu Xun on the shoulder, "It's too hard for you and Xiaoran, don't hold on, if you have anything on your mind, talk to me, if you don't want to talk to me, just talk to your sister , she is young and can understand you."

Gu Xun nodded, "Thank you uncle."

Gu Mingli raised his hand and slapped Gu Xun, "Little bastard, be polite to me."

Gu Renli's strong and extreme attitude made Gu Xun feel that it was not just for the sake of face. When he was admitted to the police academy, his father also objected. Do you know why my dad is so anti-gay?"

Gu Mingli was taken aback for a moment, retracted the hand that was on his shoulder, turned his head to look at the traffic light ahead, and said in a low voice, "I don't know."

"You and dad were both born to grandparents, why is there such a big gap in personality?"

Gu Mingli's expression became more serious, and he didn't answer any more.

Gu Xun stepped into the office, and Meng Jia came over, "Boss, yesterday we went to Zhang Xingchao's house and met him in person.

For a while, Zhang Xingchao was obsessed with gambling and owed a lot of foreign debts. Every day, people asked him for debts everywhere. In desperation, he was introduced by a friend and went to the Miyou Women’s Club to take care of some rich women. Miao Mimiao, whom he knew at that time.

Miao Mi is generous, he once wanted to hug this big tree, but after a few times, Miao Mi stopped talking to him, and they haven't seen each other for almost half a year since then. "

"Have you checked the women's club?" Gu Xun asked.

"I've been there. Since this spring, Miao Mi hasn't been to that club again. If the murderer is someone she met through other channels, it will be even more difficult for us to investigate." Meng Jia paused, "Boss, what should we do now?"

The author has something to say: When I was writing this chapter, I thought of being forced by my mother to do things I didn’t like, and that feeling was really bad.