The selfish gene

Can you help him?

Of course you can.If it wasn't for "helping" him well, why would I bother doing such a troublesome thing?

"Let's talk in the car." Tilting the umbrella towards him, I said softly.

The umbrella was too small to completely cover the two of us, and each of us had a small half of our bodies exposed.Fortunately, the parking space is not far from the convenience store, only a dozen meters away.

During this short distance, Ji Chenfeng held the tortoise box in his hands and remained silent throughout the entire journey, as if the short sentence he said to me when he asked for help had exhausted all his strength.

After getting into the car, I immediately turned on the heater, and then took out a stack of paper towels and stuffed them for Ji Chenfeng to wipe his clothes.

"What happened?" I also took a few tissues for myself and pressed them on the surface of the sleeve covered with water droplets. I took the initiative to speak, continuing the previous topic, "How do you want me to help you?"

Ji Chenfeng sat in the dark holding a tissue, his eyes fell on the plastic box on his lap, the rain outside the car started to hit hard again, crackling on the glass, cutting the light projected by the street lamp into countless irregular shapes.

"I need 30 million."

He raised his eyebrows uncontrollably.Yan Shanhua really knew how to pick numbers, and it was 30 again.

"Are you in a hurry?" You can also just ask him for the card number and transfer the money without asking anything, but in order to make the performance more realistic, I decided to learn more about how Yan Shanhua fooled him.

Ji Chenfeng nodded silently, and said after a while: "Whether it's the previous 30 or the 30 this time, I will pay it back. I can write an IOU. If I find a job, I should be able to pay it back within five years."

I thought that a good person would do it to the end so that he would not have to pay it back.But when he opened his mouth and stared at his lonely side face, the words he said changed without knowing how.

"Do you think it's embarrassing to ask me to borrow money? Worried that I will look down on you?" I picked out the crumpled tissues in the other party's hand, and gently wiped the hair from his hair. Yu Shui said with a smile, "Doctor Ji, you always seem to think badly of me. It's okay, it's only 30, I won't take it to heart."

Ji Chenfeng finally looked at me after hearing the words, his expression did not become relaxed because of my words.

"You should take it to heart, you are not my cash machine, and you don't even know why I want the money."

I don't know if it's because you shut your mouth as tight as an oyster and won't tell me?

"If you don't want to tell me, don't tell me. I completely believe in Dr. Ji's character. If it's not an urgent matter, you will never ask me to borrow money."

I crumpled up the wet paper towel and threw it into the storage compartment next to the door. I adjusted the gear and slowly drove the car out of the parking space.

"……thanks."

After a long time, Ji Chenfeng's voice suddenly sounded from the passenger seat.

I just couldn't help laughing out loud.It's a sad and comically dark comedy in which the victim thanks the perpetrator.If you tell Ji Chenfeng the truth now, his expression will definitely be wonderful.

Unfortunately, there will never be such a chance.

After sending Ji Chenfeng home, I took Xiao Wangba back to the hotel, and transferred 30 to him that night.

It was very difficult to find him for the next week, either because he was busy, or because he might not be free for the time being.If it wasn't for my initiative to plan everything, I would have wondered if I was jumped by their mother and son fairy.

Did you turn your face and deny anyone when you got the money?Lying on the sofa, he threw his phone aside in frustration.

What the hell is he doing?You are out of work, why are you still so busy?Is it possible to repay the money as soon as possible to gamble?

Randomly thinking about all kinds of possibilities, I suddenly sat up from the sofa, reached for my phone, and clicked on the mailbox I hadn't checked for a long time.

There were several "investigation reports" lying quietly in the mailbox that hadn't been opened in time. The latest one was sent yesterday.

I almost forgot, I also hired a private detective to monitor Yan Shanhua and Ji Chenfeng.

From the e-mail that has been separated the longest, the detective is very dedicated. In the whereabouts report of the two, the part about me was not deliberately omitted, and they were all recorded truthfully.

[Ji Chenfeng and Sang Nian stayed overnight at Wuyan Mountain. 】

Seeing this record, the veins on the forehead twitched twice, and I felt deeply uncomfortable when I thought that every move of Ji Chenfeng and I in the bubble house might be under the surveillance of detectives.

I returned the email to the detective, told the other party that there was no need to record any part of me in the future, and then clicked on the last email.

No wonder...Ji Chenfeng kept saying that he was not free and that he was busy, so it turned out that he was not in Hongshi at all.On the second day after receiving 30 yuan, he took Yan Shanhua to the capital, and registered as an expert at the Capital No. [-] Chest Hospital.

What, I asked Yan Shanhua to trick Ji Chenfeng into borrowing money, so coincidentally, she is really sick?Does this woman have such good acting skills?Are you not afraid to play off?

I searched for the detective's cell phone number, hesitated for a moment, and called.

Just two beeps, and the person on the opposite side picked up.

"Hey, boss, what's the matter?" A young and energetic female voice came from the other end of the phone.

I don't know her name, she is only called "A Yao".

Compared with men, women are less likely to arouse suspicion and vigilance, and are more careful and thoughtful in doing things. This is the reason why female detectives were chosen in the first place.And the other party has lived up to my trust, and the tasks entrusted to her over the years have been carried out very well.

"Are you still following them?"

"Yes, but their itineraries are pretty much the same these days, that is, hotels and hospitals."

The fingers holding the phone tightened slightly, and I asked her, "Do you know what disease Yan Shanhua has?"

"It should be a serious illness. The specialist they saw is good at diagnosis of chest tumors and comprehensive treatment of lung cancer." A Yao didn't know what she was drinking, and she sucked the straw while talking, her mouth was stuffed, "Need to find out." ?"

do you need?Is it about me?Whether it's her or Ji Chenfeng, whoever is seriously ill and whoever is about to die will only be a good thing for me.

The money is also given, do you still want me to do my filial piety at the bedside?

So... no need.Do you know, what's the difference?

"No need. Just let me know when they come back." After speaking, I hung up the phone.

The most annoying thing in winter is continuous rain.Let alone the refreshing rainstorm, it comes and goes quickly.It happened that the drizzle fell all day, and finally stopped at night, and continued the next day.The cold vapor pierces the fabric and penetrates the bones, like a mosquito that emerges after the lights are turned off—you know it's there, but you can't do anything about it.

Knowing that Ji Chenfeng wasn't in Hongshi at all, I immediately felt a lot better. It happened that Zheng Jieyuan invited me to the pool party. Anyway, I was idle, so I went.

When he was about to reach the place, two intertwined urgent meows suddenly sounded in the silent carriage.After calling twice, it disappeared strangely.

Thinking that I heard it wrong, I opened it again for a while, but it didn't take long for me to call again.

I have cats in my car.

Because it is not easy to stop and check on the elevated road, I can only drive the car to the hotel where Zheng Jieyuan sent the address as soon as possible.

I parked the car under the rain eaves, and the hotel staff was about to come forward to park the car for me. I signaled him to wait a moment, went around to the front of the sports car, opened the hood, and listened carefully to the sound inside.

"Meow meow!"

A more anxious cat meow came from the lower right. I rolled up my sleeves and put my hand into the gap, but nothing came out.

"Sir, it may be on the side of the tire." The hotel staff also saw my intention at this moment, and hurriedly reminded me.

Before I could move, he lay down on the ground and poked his hand into the gap between the tire and the frame.

"Yes, yes!" Soon, he grabbed something and raised his hand.

He grabbed the back of the neck and slid out a white kitten whose eyes hadn't opened yet. It opened and closed its toothless mouth and screamed in horror.

Facing this furry, dirty creature, I took a step back and snapped my fingers to the doorman in the distance, telling him to find a cardboard box.

The other party nodded again and again, and quickly rushed into the hotel.

"There is one more..." The staff lying on the ground put the kitten aside, stretched out their hand again, and caught another orange kitten after a while.

Standing up, holding the two kittens no bigger than the palm of your hand, the staff member sighed and said, "It must be because the weather is too cold, the mother cat wants to move the kitten to a warm place, so she got into your car I went. I am so young, how can I live without my mother."

"Sir, box!" In his emotion, the doorman ran to deliver a small express carton to me.

I took it and signaled the staff to put the cat in.

Looking at the kitten in the cardboard box, because of this sudden accident, my mood became depressed again like a roller coaster.

Take them to a party, and by the time the party is over, they'll probably be dying too.

How the hell do you not know that the car will drive away at any time?

Just throw it into the grass on the side of the road as if nothing happened. It may not be possible to survive this winter.

Cats are different from tortoises. They shed hair, and shed a lot of hair. The three cats in Xu Xi's family shed hair all year round, so...

Fuck!

I returned to the car with the cat box, didn’t go upstairs to the party, and didn’t call Zheng Jieyuan to talk to him. I just wandered around the hotel entrance and went back the same way.

Although the hotel suite where they are temporarily staying is like spring all year round and is kept at the most comfortable temperature all year round, the two kittens are too small.I was worried that they would freeze to death without the body temperature of the mother cat, so I made a simple warming device for them—a mineral water bottle filled with hot water, and then wrapped in a towel.

The two kittens kept crawling around in the box, making piercing calls from time to time, as if they were hungry.

How to raise a kitten?Find them a cat nurse?It's really troublesome, why do so many cars get into my car...

Just about to retrieve the information, Ji Chenfeng called.

"Hello?" He clamped the phone between his shoulders and ears, pulled out a tissue, and poked the kitten's body through it. He felt relieved after watching them move.

"What are you doing?" Ji Chenfeng's voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of disturbing others, and he seemed too tired to even raise the volume.

There was a lot of black dust on the kittens. I wanted to wipe them off, but I didn't know if it was too hard. One of them suddenly raised its neck and screamed, and the other started to scream as if it was infected.I snapped the lid of the carton shut, shutting in the kittens and their meowing.

"I picked up two cats." I said.

"Two cats?"

I told him how I found the kitten and how I took it out of the car. I thought that he is a veterinarian and no one is more professional than him in taking care of small animals, so I asked him how to raise them. These two things.

"A cat whose eyes are not open will not be born for more than a week. It needs to be fed every two to three hours with a syringe. Let me see if there is a pet hospital near you, and I can call a pet milk powder delivery..."

two to three hours?

It usually takes more than two hours to feel drowsy, which means I don’t need to sleep in the future, right?

Maybe my long silence made Ji Chenfeng feel something. With a little smile, he discussed with me: "Tomorrow... tomorrow night I will find you. You work harder today, and tomorrow I will take care of them, okay ?"

The phone seems to be leaking electricity, and the electricity makes my ears itch.

I took it away suspiciously, the screen was jumping with the talk time, and the touch of my fingertips was normal, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

"Sang Nian?"

I quickly put the phone back to my ear, I collected my mind, and said back to him: "Well, I'm waiting for you."