A Real Man Isn't Afraid Of A Little Demon

Yu Chu wanted to open her eyes, but felt that her eyelids were heavy and she couldn't open them no matter what.One half of the body seemed to be on fire, scalding the internal organs, but the other half was soaked in ice water, piercing the cracks in the bones with coldness.

In a daze, he felt that he had returned to a certain icy and snowy night when he was a child. He and Abao and other children huddled in the cement pipe, roasting a pile of firewood that the older children got from nowhere.

It was covered with snow outside, and the concrete pipe wall behind them was very cold, so they kept getting closer to the fire.As a result, they got too close, not to mention singed their hair and eyelashes, and burned a few burning blisters on their hands.

He felt that another ball of firewood was placed in front of him, and his back against the wall of the cement pipe was chilling to the bone. He tried his best to open his mouth, trying to remind Ah Bao to stay away from the fire, but his lips seemed to be sticky. Together, we tried our best to only spit out a few words.

"Treasure... fire... stay away... hot..."

He heard intermittent voices, indistinct as if separated by deep water, but it wasn't Ah Bao's voice.

"What is he saying?"

"...It seems to be saying that the body is very hot."

"The antipyretic injection...the temperature will drop after a while...I choked on water...there is a little infection in the lungs."

After Yu Chu moved her lips and spit out a few words soundlessly, she finally fell into a slumber of ignorance.

When he woke up, he found that the sky was bright, and the sunlight passed through the gaps in the curtains, casting mottled shadows on the ground.He was lying on the hospital bed, wearing a hospital gown, with an infusion set attached to his arm hanging beside him, and there was only a little liquid left in the bag, dripping slowly from the thin transparent tube.

He pulled out the needle on the back of his hand, and when the blood gushed out, he pressed it with the adhesive tape attached to the cotton ball, and slowly turned over and sat up.

There were footsteps at the door, and the door of the ward was pushed open. A nurse stood at the door and said in surprise, "Are you awake?"

Yu Chu nodded.

Hearing the movement, an indoor door connected to the ward was suddenly opened, and the baby-faced policeman named Li Siming whom he had seen on the boat came out of the bathroom.

The nurse walked to the bed, looked at the needle hole on the back of Xia Yuchu's hand, took off the empty medicine bottle hanging on the infusion stand, and said gently: "I'll call the doctor to check you, you just woke up from a coma , don’t sit up, lie down and rest, be obedient.”

She was not very old, she was only three or four years older than Yu Chu, but her tone seemed to be coaxing a child, and even her eyes were kind.Yu Chu looked away uncomfortably, and gave a stiff hum.

After the nurse left, Li Siming asked, "How is it? Do you feel better?"

"Well, it's better." Yu Chu's voice was still a little hoarse when he spoke, and his chest was throbbing with dull pain.

Li Siming poured a glass of water and handed it to him: "You just choked on the water when you fell into the water, and your lungs were a little infected. You just need to infuse the fluid for a few days."

Yu Chu took the water and wanted to ask him where Xie Xingmu was, but he moved his lips a few times but still didn't make a sound.Li Siming seemed to see his thoughts, and took the initiative to say: "Captain Xie is very busy these days, and he has to try the case. He took the time to drive you twice in the middle, and let me take good care of you."

"Yes." Yu Chu added, "Thank you."

For the next few days, he spent the next few days in this ward, lying in bed watching TV every day after the infusion, catching up on the latest episode of this drama, and then quickly changing channels to watch another drama, the schedule was full. .

Li Siming also loves to watch dramas, so the two of them watch them together and talk about the plot seriously. In just three days, they have watched dozens of episodes of a Korean mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drama.

Sometimes when he changes shifts temporarily with other police officers, the first thing he says when he comes back is to ask Yu Chu: "Where did the show go? Tell me quickly, is her mother-in-law and the old man in the gym on good terms?"

Yu Chu acted very cooperative, never asked to leave the ward, just stayed on the bed, didn't ask what happened to Yu Shiqing's group in Xingyuan Island, and didn't even make insinuations, as if he didn't care whether his father was dead or alive .Eat when you should eat, sleep when you should sleep, and the cheeks that were thinned due to this disease are swollen again.

Only occasionally asking about Xie Xingmu's news, Li Siming said: "Team Xie is very busy, but he called me today to ask you."

Yu Chu smiled obediently and stopped asking.

When his pneumonia almost recovered, he was discharged from the hospital and followed Li Siming back to the criminal investigation team.

As soon as Yu Chu stepped into the office of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, his gaze quickly swept around.There were already many people in the office, all busy, and he didn't see Xie Xingmu among them.

However, the intern policewoman named Jiang Shasha saw him immediately, stood up and went to the door and asked, "Yu Chu, are you well?"

Yu Chu blinked, smiled and said, "It's much better."

When he smiled, there would be a dimple on his cheek. Jiang Shasha looked at him with bright eyes, and suddenly said: "Captain Xie asks you every day, and cares about you very much."

"Yeah." Yu Chu didn't know why she said that suddenly, but her heart skipped a beat because of this sentence.

Li Siming took Yu Chu to the interrogation room and left, leaving him alone in the empty room.He sat on the single chair in the center of the room and began to look around. When his eyes fell on the single-sided glass on the left wall, he paused for a few seconds.

Soon after, two strange policemen came in. They sat behind the long table opposite him, looking down at the documents and asking questions.

"Name."

"Yu Chu."

"age."

"Twenty soon."

"Be specific."

"February [-]th is my birthday."

Yu Chu had already written down all the experiences of the original body and engraved them in his heart, so he answered very naturally.

A policeman looked up at him: "Who are you, Yu Shiqing?"

"It's my biological father." Yu Chu said.

Hearing this, the policeman remained calm and continued to ask, "How is your relationship with your father?"

"not so good."

"You lived in Haiyun City with your mother before you were ten years old, and you moved seven times. After you were ten years old, your mother Zheng Shan passed away, and you were picked up by your father Yu Shiqing to live in Yujiabao on Xingyuan Island. I’ve been living there until now. Is it correct in the information?”

Yu Chu pondered for a few seconds: "That's right."

"Then do you know your father's usual business dealings, and what he did in private?" the policeman asked.

Yu Chu said: "I know a little bit. Occasionally, my uncle will come to the island to look for him. As for what he did in private, I don't know."

"Then do you know that he is engaged in illegal and criminal activities behind his back?" the policeman asked in a deep voice.

Yu Chu: "I don't know, and he won't tell me these things."

"Have you ever participated in his criminal activities?"

"No."

The police asked: "Who are the people who committed crimes with him? Tell me everything you know, and you can't hide any clues."

Yu Chu's pupils constricted slightly, and he caught the message reflected in this sentence in an instant: Although they were able to convict Yu Shiqing, they failed to get the deeper things behind it.

His mind turned quickly, but he replied: "I only know a man named Abang, who came to Xingyuan Island from Myanmar to trade with him."

"How did you know?" The expressions of the two policemen were not surprised at all, Yu Chu understood that they already knew everything that happened on the cliff from Xie Xingmu.

"I overheard the conversation between the man named Abang and my father——and Yu Shiqing. I knew that they would go to Broken Heart Cliff to trade on the night of Yu Shiqing's birthday party. I was curious, so I sneaked to see it. Later... later……"

Yu Chu's voice became smaller and smaller, and she lowered her head sadly. Suddenly, two small balls of wet water stains appeared on the dark trouser legs illuminated by the bright headlights.

The two policemen gave him time to calm down, and instead of continuing the interrogation, they just flipped through the folders in front of them and had a small conversation.

Behind the one-sided glass, Xie Xingmu and a dignified middle-aged man stood there, looking at Yu Chu in the interrogation room.

"Is he pretending?" asked the middle-aged man whose face was covered with frost.

Xie Xingmu said: "It's hard to say."

"It's hard to say what it means? Is it an act?" The middle-aged man turned his head to look at Xie Xingmu this time.

Xie Xingmu raised his hand to touch his sharp-edged chin, where a thick beard had already grown, and said: "The demeanor is fake, but the content is not necessarily fake, that's probably all he knows. After all, because Because of the key, Yu Shiqing is not close to him, it can even be said to be very cold."

In the interrogation room, Yu Chu continued to answer the interrogation.

"...He might just like Yu Feng. After all, I let him down too much. I'm timid, and I wouldn't go to the shipyard to take care of his business. I really want to get my father's love, but... I still blame myself in the end." Yu Chu's voice trembled slightly, and everyone could hear his suppressed crying and the sadness in his tone.

The middle-aged man standing behind the single-sided glass was touched somehow, lowered his head, and put his hand on the center of his brow.Xie Xingmu leaned slightly towards him, and said in a low voice: "Bureau Lin, pretend, he doesn't like his father even more than his father doesn't like him, it's different from your family."

Director Lin coughed twice, and put down his hands as if nothing had happened.

Yu Chu looked up at the two policemen behind the long table, moved his lips and said, "So I really don't know..."

Perhaps it was because he had just recovered from pneumonia, or because Yu Shiqing had just experienced the pain of being arrested, under the light, his face was unhealthily pale, and his lips were chapped and peeled, making him look a little pitiful.

The voice of the policeman who asked the question softened: "Just say what you know."

Bureau Lin was concentrating on looking at Yu Chu in the interrogation room, when Xie Xingmu beside him suddenly turned and walked towards the door.Forest Bureau asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go get some water, I'm a little thirsty, would you like a glass?"

Bureau Lin picked up the tea mug on the small table: "No, I'll take it with me."

"Ah."

Xie Xingmu went outside the door and grabbed a little policeman who passed by: "Go and bring me two glasses of water, and bring one to the interrogation room for the person who is being interrogated."

The little policeman had just started working not long ago. Although he had heard the reputation of the criminal investigation team leader in front of him for a long time, he still said in a daze: "Send him to the interrogation room, this is not good."

Xie Xingmu casually slapped him on the head: "Go as soon as I tell you, what are you talking about?"

"...Yes." The little policeman covered his head and ran to the tea room.

"Put some tea in that cup, good tea."

"understood."

"Amnesia?" The policeman who asked the question and the policeman in charge of recording looked at each other in blank dismay.

Yu Chu nodded: "I know this sounds funny, like an excuse I made, but I really lost my memory."

The policeman couldn't help laughing: "You mean, you don't know the whereabouts of that key at all?"

"I don't even remember that I have a key." Yu Chu said a little aggrieved: "You can ask Xie Xingmu about this, he knows it very well. And I am a victim. Yu Shiqing originally wanted to kill me, but luckily Xie Xingmu rescued me Now, you can ask him all these."

As soon as Xie Xingmu pushed open the door, Bureau Lin behind the one-sided glass turned his head and said, "He's pretending again, he looks like an honest kid, why isn't he telling the truth?"

"what?"

"He said he lost his memory." Bureau Lin put the tea mug in his hand back on the small table, shook his head and said, "It's the same as the TV series my wife watched these days. Since he wants to say that , send it to the hospital for examination.”

"I've had the hospital do a full body check on him and there's nothing wrong with him."

Bureau Lin asked, "There's no tumor growing in the brain, but it's oppressing the cranial nerves or something?"

"No." Xie Xingmu walked up to him, folded his arms around his chest, and said in a secretive way: "But regarding amnesia, maybe he really isn't just pretending."

Bureau Lin looked sideways at him, and said after a while, "Are you also watching the TV series my wife is chasing after?"

After Yu Chu revealed that he had lost his memory, the two policemen flipped through the documents at hand.

knock knock knock.

There was a knock on the door of the interrogation room, and it was pushed open. A policeman stood tremblingly at the door holding a cup of hot tea.

"Excuse me, but I'll bring him a glass of water." The little policeman brought the disposable water glass to the small table in front of Yu Chu and put it down.

Yu Chu took the water and nodded politely: "Thank you."

"No, you're welcome." The little policeman quickly flashed out of the door.

Yu Chu handed the water cup to his mouth, the steaming hot air overflowed into his nose with the fragrance of tea, the water was very hot, he blew lightly twice, and took a sip carefully, the tea slowly trickled down his throat, letting He felt a warmth in his stomach.

He put down his teacup, and turned his gaze to the single-sided glass on the left wall. Xie Xingmu was also taking a sip from his water cup, and his gaze met him through the top of the cup.

Yu Chu suddenly bent his mouth and smiled, a dimple appeared on his cheek, if he didn't know that it was a one-sided glass, Xie Xingmu almost thought he could see him.