Zero-sum game

Zhou Xingchuan was speechless for a while, Shen Yan was right, so he went over and hugged Shen Yan, buried his face in his neck and whispered, "Then I will earn money to support you."

Shen Yan wanted to continue to refute something, but he still didn't say anything, but said: "I eat too much of this sweet, I really want to drink sparkling water."

"What sparkling water?" Zhou Xingchuan opened the refrigerator and said, "I bought some drinks from the supermarket yesterday."

At this time, Shen Yan's mobile phone on the low table next to him rang, Zhou Xingchuan picked it up, saw that the message person displayed on it was Liang Zhe, and asked: "Liang Zhe sent you a message? He didn't trouble you, did he?"

Zhou Xingchuan felt a little strange, after all, Shen Yan didn't get along well with him in the theater before, and Liang Zhe rarely appeared at the rehearsal scene after that, as if he was dissatisfied with them.

Now I actually contact Shen Yan alone...

"Well," Shen Yan stretched out his hand to take it, but didn't reply after seeing the message above, "Don't think so badly about him."

"Why is he looking for you?" Zhou Xingchuan asked as he handed him a can of fruity wine.

Shen Yan took it and said vaguely: "Discuss the script."

This topic is also over.

The next morning, Zhou Xingchuan was full of classes, so he went out early in the morning. Before leaving, he rubbed Shen Yan who was still curled up in the quilt, and said, "Remember to get up and have breakfast."

Shen Yan didn't answer, and shrank under the quilt humming and chirping.

When Zhou Xingchuan went out, the door slammed shut, and Shen Yan poked his head out from under the quilt.

His eyes were very clear, he just stared at the ceiling in a daze for a while, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a few minutes, I got up to wash and change clothes.

He originally had classes starting at 10:[-] in the morning, but he went out early, called a car at the gate of the community, and arrived at the place he had agreed with that person not long after.

The other party was sitting on the edge of the booth by the window. On the morning of weekdays, the tea restaurant was empty, and there was only a glass of plain water in front of him.

Shen Yan sat down, and the other party didn't say hello, but said directly: "You didn't go anymore, did you?"

"En." Shen Yan said.

The other party handed over the mobile phone, and there was a photo on the lit display screen. The girl in it looked at the camera and smiled, with long curly hair hanging on her chest, and the background looked like a seaside in a certain scenic spot.

"Where did you put the things I sent you?"

"At Zhou Xingchuan's house, he has nothing to do with those people, so he is safe." Shen Yan said.

The other party was silent for a moment, then turned to look out of the window, "Actually, you acted quite well, work hard, and there will be more opportunities in the future."

"What are you going to do?" Shen Yang asked, "Brother Liang Zhe."

——Sitting opposite him was Liang Zhe.

"Didn't I tell you clearly, I want to confirm that her death was not an accident, those people killed her." Liang Zhe stretched out his hand and turned the glass on the table half a circle.

"But the police have closed the case, you..." Shen Yan's voice revealed his lack of confidence.

"Do you think a living person can be so stupid as to be hit by a car while lying in the middle of the road in the wilderness?"

Shen Yan remained silent.

"I can meet you at the theater and let you prove that she got into their car in the end. I am already very relieved. You don't have to worry about the rest," Liang Zhe said slowly, "If it succeeds, that thing is decisive. The evidence, thank you for helping to keep it."

"Have you opened it?" Liang Zhe asked.

Shen Yan shook his head.

"Go back and have a look." Liang Zhe smiled wryly, "It was written with my sister's blood, and it was bought with her life."

"Brother," Shen Yan whispered, "you will succeed."

Thinking of the difficulty of this matter, Shen Yan repeated, "You will succeed."

Liang Zhe seemed to see his worry, smiled and said: "Well, I will succeed, I have found two other friends to help, they are much stronger than me, this time I will definitely succeed."

Shen Yan didn't go to class that morning, he sat in his room over there, unpacked the things in the bedside table, and looked at them for a long time.

It was a sunny day outside, and the bright light would make people's eyes turn white, but he was covered in cold sweat from behind.

On the title page of the book, there are two small characters "Liang Han" written in elegant handwriting.

It was the first time he knew her name.

However, the various crimes written in the same font and the names with titles are really chilling.

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Yan heard the sound of the door opening downstairs, and knew that Zhou Xingchuan had returned, so he quickly packed his things back into the cabinet.

Zhou Xingchuan saw Shen Yan coming downstairs, and asked, "Why are you here?"

I took another look at his attire, "I wanted to go and wait for you after class, but your class was empty, so you didn't go to class?"

Shen Yan shook his head, "No."

It is very rare for Shen Yan to skip class, Zhou Xingchuan asked: "Then what did you do?"

Shen Yan pretended nothing happened, and said: "Didn't Senior Brother Liang Zhe come to me yesterday and gave me some of his study notes, I forgot to go to class after seeing it."

Zhou Xingchuan felt that this statement was a little unnatural, but he said nothing, "Then go and eat, I've packed takeaway."

"En." Shen Yan walked out of the house, Zhou Xingchuan looked at his back thoughtfully.

On the weekend night, Zhou Xingchuan took advantage of Shen Yan's tutoring class, stood on the balcony, hesitated for a moment, and dialed a number on his mobile phone.

If he didn't figure it out, he didn't think he would be able to sleep well.

Picked up right away.

"Hey?"

The sound is a bit noisy, it seems to be from the street.

Zhou Xingchuan asked: "The person who asked you to help investigate last time, has he been in contact with 'Xiang' recently?"

There was a pause over there, and he muttered, "Why are both of them asking this question?"

Zhou Xingchuan asked: "Who else is investigating Shen Yan?"

"Ahem," said the other side, "guest privacy..."

"Add five thousand."

"It's Mo Qiang, that Bai Fumei."

Zhou Xingchuan was silent for a moment, "Why does she ask this?"

"Who knows," said the other side, "Anyway, the result is no, Shen Yan hasn't been to 'Xing' for a long time, it should be completely broken with that side."

"I see," Zhou Xingchuan said, "The money will be credited to your account later."

He hung up the phone and looked back at the room on the second floor. Shen Yan was still in the study and did not come out, and the tutoring would end in half an hour.

No contact, that's fine... he thought.

When Shen Yan came down from the second floor, Zhou Xingchuan was sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching something on the tablet.

He poured a glass of water to moisten his throat, walked over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Zhou Xingchuan held it up and showed it to him, "The replay video shot by Tian Xin."

"By the way," Shen Yan took out his mobile phone, "I still have the video I took at the beginning, so I can compare it."

As expected, the first time a play was performed was different from the first time. Shen Yan looked at his former self on the screen, his eyes flickered, his lines were not clear, and his expression was still stiff.

"Looking at it this way, it's really much better than before." Shen Yan said.

"That's it," Zhou Xingchuan added, "I don't even look at who I'm acting with."

Shen Yan laughed, knowing that he was teasing himself, put down the water glass and said, "I'm going to take a shower first."

Zhou Xingchuan also put down the tablet and went in after him, "Let's wash together."

Shen Yan pushed him back, "Then I'll go wash at my side."

"Forget it." Zhou Xingchuan said helplessly.

Shen Yan said with a smile: "You have to mess around."

Zhou Xingchuan stretched out his hands to pinch his face, "Am I messing around, am I..."

Shen Yan was so painfully pinched by him that he slapped his hand away.

"Forget it." Zhou Xingchuan didn't finish what he wanted to say, "Are you hungry? I'll cook something for you."

Just now in a hurry to go to the tutoring class, Shen Yan's dinner was just a few bites in a hurry.

"It's okay," Shen Yan said, "Is there any more stewed chicken with chestnuts that my aunt brought over last time? I want to eat that."

"I can't even eat that. When the hourly worker came over in the morning, I asked her to throw it away." Zhou Xingchuan said.

"Ah, fine then."

"I'll cook it for you next time." Zhou Xingchuan's voice came from the kitchen.

Shen Yan put the phone on the table, and was about to go to the bathroom to take a shower, when the phone vibrated, and a real-time news was displayed on the notification bar.

[A man who entered the subway with a homemade bomb was arrested, claiming to have murdered and dumped the body and asked the police to search the place where the body was buried...]

He stared at the news for a long time, and after clicking on it, he tried to see the clues from the mosaic picture.

Then he dialed Liang Zhe's number. After a long beep, there was a cold female voice that the system informed that there was no answer.

Let's get started.he thinks.