born criminal

Xu Ran's concert was held on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which happened to be the day of the new year.

Nowadays, the global economy and humanities are highly integrated, and the festivals of various countries and nations have become carnivals for the people of the world. In Base No. [-], the Spring Festival has a special weight.

The recent kidnapping case cast shadows over the entire city, and now that Kyle Green is dead, no matter how long the follow-up discussions about the whole incident are, in the base, its impact has finally come to an end.

People's lives are back to normal, and even better - there are new options for this year's New Year's goods because the coalition government has relaxed trade controls.

Anna and Andrew were sent by Chen Jian to go shopping. After two hours of hard work, they brought back a pile of large and small bags of food.

Anna couldn't keep her mouth shut, and vividly described the crowds in the shopping mall to them, her eyes and brows were full of joy.

Yangzhou laughed when he heard that.In fact, he has no special feelings for various festivals. He used to work at UNPO, and the Spring Festival was either on duty or performing tasks, and his life was very ordinary.This time at Base No. [-], I was surrounded by a lively atmosphere, unknowingly tainted with a little taste of the New Year.

"Chen," Anna put all the things away, and said to him, "I'm going on vacation, come back on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month."

With a bitter face, Chen Jian tilted his neck on the sofa cushion, and said desperately: "Oh, how can you make me live after walking for so long."

Anna let out a hearty and crisp laugh.Although she is in her 40s, she still has the elegance and sophistication of a French woman. Even if she laughs out loud, she still feels full of charm. "Chen, don't always be like a child!" She said with a little gentle reproach in her words, "Take care of Mr. Yang."

"Who is your employer?" Chen Jian turned disgusted in a second, and waved her to leave quickly.

"Mr. Yang, ask Chen to cook for you," Anna kept talking before leaving, "He's a good cook, but he's just too lazy."

Yang Zhou glanced at Chen Jian suspiciously.Chen Jian pretended to be angry: "What are you looking at, you are not my boyfriend, why should I do it for you?"

Yang Zhou said flatly, "I didn't ask you to do it, but Andrew."

Andrew was arranging the food bags, when he heard his name, he stood up quickly.

He was holding a flower-shaped candy in his hand, Yang Zhou was taken aback: "That is..."

"Sun Rain." Andrew said: "MZ Company was approved by the Ministry of Commerce of the coalition government a few days ago, and it has supplied a lot to the base, and the price is cheaper than outside. Many parents and children are queuing up to buy."

Yangzhou and Chen Jian looked at each other, and both showed ironic smiles.

"Anna bought some today," Andrew brought over two lollipops: "Do you want to eat?"

The sun rain was green in Andrew's hands, but when Yangzhou took it, it turned into light yellow, and when he handed it to Chen Jian, it turned into indigo again.

"It's interesting, does it change according to the temperature?" Chen Jian stretched out his arms and moved the candy towards the fireplace. As expected, the blue rose turned into a red rose. He "tsk" in surprise: "No wonder children like it."

Yangzhou tore off the wrapping paper and put the candy in his mouth. He unexpectedly found that the taste was very refreshing, not too sweet, and had an indescribable fruity aroma.

On the other hand, Chen Jian became interested in color changing, wandering around the room, pasting the sun rain on the refrigerator, glass, and wooden dining table, watching it change into various beautiful colors.

Yangzhou watched him jump up and down for 5 minutes, and asked, "Aren't you going to eat?"

Chen Jian finally finished his experiment, and Shi Shiran came over: "Whoever eats this will die of childishness."

Yangzhou paused, staring at the candy, not knowing whether he should lick it again.

Chen Jian saw his embarrassment, but he wanted to add fuel to the fire: "How old are you and you still like to eat sugar?"

"It's delicious." Yang Zhou was telling the truth, but in this atmosphere, his description became darker and darker, like a swollen face to pretend to be fat.He simply crushed the sun rain and swallowed it whole.

Chen Jian held back his laughter so that his abdominal muscles twitched, and he had to sit down holding his stomach.He stuffed the lollipop in his hand to Yangzhou, with a strong buying and selling posture: "I like it so much, then I will give you mine too."

When he opened his mouth, his laughter could no longer be suppressed, and it echoed in the living room continuously, attracting Andrew and D3 to watch the fun.

"What's wrong with Mr. Chen?" Seeing Chen Jian leaning back and forth, D3 asked worriedly, "Could it be that he inhaled too much nitrous oxide?"

"Crazy." Yang Zhou said succinctly.

He looked calm on the surface, but in fact his face was very hot, and the hand hanging by his side was tightly clutching the tassel on the edge of the sofa cover.Chen Jian was very shameless, laughing and pouring himself on him intentionally or unintentionally, Yang Zhou was so out of breath that he bumped him hard with his elbow: "Stop laughing!"

Chen Jian was also miraculous, he immediately stopped his crazy laughter, and it was amazing how freely he retracted.It's just that there are still a few shallow lines in the corners of his eyes that haven't disappeared. When Yang Zhou looked over, he felt inexplicably gentle.

In fact, it's not that he doesn't understand some things, but he just doesn't want to understand.Yangzhou had many suitors, they showed love to him, either straightforwardly or tactfully, but they only got rejected again and again.

Yangzhou might not look forward to love, but he knows that he has demons.The devil suppressed all his resistance, imprisoned him in a small world, and did not allow him to stretch out even one tentacles.

He's been waiting, hoping that someone special will show up, and it's worth trying his best to try again.He was clearly on the verge of despair, but Chen Jian suddenly appeared, this unreliable guy who was supposed to be the enemy.

Will he be the one?

Chen Jian met Yang Zhou's probing eyes calmly, grabbed the candy that was thrown aside and handed it to him: "Just kidding, eat it."

Yang Zhou was still angry, and was hesitating whether to pick it up, when D3 not far away suddenly said, "Mr. Fang is here!"

Yang Zhou looked away and frowned indistinctly.

Fang Xing has been coming here for dinner these days, and Chen Jian couldn't help complaining: "Why are you here again? Is his house out of food?" But after all, the friendship between him and Fang Xing for so many years is not good As for worrying about one or two buckets of rice.

D3's hearing was better than theirs. After a few minutes, Chen Jian and Yang Zhou heard footsteps.

"Chen Jian!" Fang Xing pushed open the door, showing a weak smile to Chen Jian, then glanced at Yang Zhou, and added coldly: "Mr. Yang."

His hoarse voice, coupled with his pale face, made everyone present immediately notice that something was wrong.

"Have a cold?" Chen Jian said, "If you have a cold, why don't you rest at home and run around?"

"I want rock candy pears." Fang Xing took off his coat and said, "You cook it for me."

Chen Jian was annoyed: "Your family doesn't have a chef?"

Fang Xing put his fist against his lips and coughed a few times, as if speaking was already very difficult for him: "That's different, Aunt Huang is not as delicious as your cooking."

He has been like this for a while, frequently running to Chen Jian's house, and often bringing up the past when chatting-those things that Yangzhou can't get involved with, belong to their teenage years.

Chen Jian is not a rough-and-tumble person, so Fang Xing's changes are naturally noticed, but he has never thought about it, and it is impossible to think about Fang Xing's real intentions.He simply thought that Fang Xing's actions were a reminder to himself that Yangzhou was not in their camp, and he had to distinguish between friends and foes and be careful.

In fact, it's not Chen Jian's fault. Friends have been friends for too long, and they are too familiar with each other, so they often ignore whether there is something else in each other's eyes.

"Oh, it's really annoying." Hearing Fang Xing's muffled cough, Chen Jian finally stood up.In fact, he seldom refuses Fang Xing's request. No matter how many years have passed, he will always remember Fang Xing's life-saving grace.

"What's for dinner? We'll figure it out together."

Yangzhou has been reduced to a background board since Fang Xing entered the door, sitting bored, and simply took out his mobile phone to check the news.He was absent-mindedly reading. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the candy Chen Jian brought to him and dropped it on the ground. He bent down to pick it up. At this moment, he heard Chen Jian say impatiently, "Hey, I'm asking you."

Yang Zhou was stunned for a moment, his first reaction was to look at Fang Xing, but Fang Xing did not expect that the same action, the eyes of the two met in mid-air awkwardly.It turned out that they all thought that Chen Jian was talking to each other, so they didn't answer.

Yangzhou was still stunned, but Fang Xing had recovered and began to report the name of the dish: "I want to eat..."

"I didn't ask you, you can only order one dish." Because he was an old friend, Chen Jian spoke in a casual tone, and did not pay attention to the corners of Fang Xing's lips that drooped suddenly.

The surprise after the twists and turns made Yangzhou feel a strange emotion in his heart. He let out an "uh", picked the plastic packaging of Sun Rain with his right index finger a few times, and finally said, "Whatever."

"What nonsense, if you say it, it's the same as if you didn't say it." Chen Jian's words were also very blunt, but compared with the sentence just now, it seemed to have more intimacy.

He turned and went into the kitchen, Andrew was called to help, and D3 undertook the photography task of "recording his stalwart figure".Chen Jian can tease anyone. Even if there are two robots next to him, the kitchen is full of laughter and laughter. From time to time, D3 protests in vain: "Don't call me a little trash can!"

In contrast, the atmosphere in the living room was very deserted.Yang Zhou and Fang Xing sat around the burning fireplace not too far away, each staring at their phones, and neither of them took the initiative to talk to each other.

Yangzhou scanned the news and found that the current political situation is still relatively stable, and it is still under the control of the Rose faction. They strike while the iron is hot, while promoting the formation of a party, while drafting the so-called "Equality Act".

Even if the rose faction has the upper hand now, it will be very difficult to pass the Equality Act, and Yangzhou is not optimistic about it.What's more, there is also the contradiction of genetic experiments that may erupt at any time.Jeffrey once told Yang Zhou that if the genetic experiment is true, they will change their position, and Yang Zhou is very suspicious of this.Politics requires struggle and wrestling, not conformity.When the leaders of the Rose faction raised their arms and called on everyone to unite, it was not because they sympathized with the born criminals, but because they would support whatever the opponent opposed.

Therefore, Yang Zhou speculated that the Rose School must have made two-handed preparations.One is to promote the "Equality Act" so that the born criminals will dispel the idea of ​​​​separating from the United Nations. The other is that if the leadership of Base [-] is stubborn, they will act first and carry out a purge.

It can be predicted that when the White Pigeon faction completes its reorganization two months later, it will definitely send people to base No. [-] to investigate, and once the genetic experiment is confirmed, the Rose faction will also send people to destroy the corpse.

At that time, what does Chen Jian plan to do?The strength of the No. [-] base is too weak, and fighting against the United Nations is like a mantis arm against a car. It is impossible for him to not even have this judgment.At this moment, Yang Zhou really hoped that he had some secret weapon, otherwise, if he broke with the coalition government, Base No. [-] would be besieged on all sides, and Chen Jian would be a dead end.

Death, Yangzhou's heart trembled when he thought of this word.

"Are you okay?" An insincere question came from beside my ear.

When Yang Zhou came back to his senses, Fang Xing twitched his lips.

Fang Xing had a full view of his worries and anxieties, thinking that his little trick had worked, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he felt comfortable all over.It was the first time he was so happy after meeting Yang Zhou.

"Bingtang Sydney is ready." Andrew came over and put the two ceramic bowls in his hand on the small round table next to him.

Fang Xing was in a good mood, so he didn't care that Yangzhou also had a share.

The contents of the bowl look good and taste and smell okay.Yangzhou took a sip, but he didn't think it was special, it was just ordinary Sydney with rock sugar.

On the other hand, Fang Xing looked cherished and satisfied, stirring the spoon slowly in the bowl, as if he was reluctant to drink.

"Have you slept?" He asked abruptly.

Yangzhou took a mouthful of soup and coughed twice due to choking.He tried his best to hold back the itch in his throat, and said lightly, "This has nothing to do with Mr. Fang, does it?"

He didn't answer directly, it sounded like he was acquiescing.Fang Xing felt uncomfortable, so his movements became rough, and the spoon made a dull sound on the bottom of the bowl.

"It's nothing, I just want to remind Mr. Yang not to take it too seriously. Chen Jian loves to play. You may think that he likes you very much now, but he will soon get bored and won't settle down."

It was much easier for Yang Zhou to deal with this tit-for-tat situation than flirting, so he immediately sneered: "How do you know?"

Fang Xing no longer concealed his hostility, and said word by word: "No one knows him better than me."

Yang Zhou didn't answer, he finished his drink of ice sugar pears in silence, and then walked into the kitchen with a bowl in his hand.

Chen Jian was yawning and chopping cucumbers, while Andrew was washing the vegetables. D3 couldn't do anything, so he stood aside and played music for Chen Jian.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing Yangzhou, Chen Jian changed his listless appearance, and his subordinates moved quickly.

Yang Zhou raised the bowl in his hand and walked to the sink.

The circuit of the dishwasher at home burned out, and I haven't bought a new one. Chen Jian couldn't bear to let the beauty do rough work, so he hurriedly ordered D3: "Go wash the dishes."

D3 is helpless: "I can't wash it, sir."

Chen Jian shook his head and sighed: "What a waste."

Yang Zhou couldn't help laughing: "Don't bully D3, I'll wash it." He glanced at the cutting board and saw that there were chopped beef, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, mint leaves, celery, lettuce, green onions, and said curiously: "What do you cook?"

Chen Jian turned his head and smiled at him, showing a row of white teeth, looking silly and youthful: "Come here and I'll tell you."

His move was too old-fashioned, but Yang Zhou was really curious, so he moved a few centimeters to the left perfunctorily, raised his chin, and signaled Chen Jian to speak.

Chen Jian shrunk his shoulders mysteriously, covered his face with a kitchen knife hilariously, and said in a low voice, "The name of this dish is 'Casual'."

Yang Zhou didn't know what expression to put on, so he gave Chen Jian a final look, and returned all the ridicule he received in the afternoon: "Childish."

They talked and laughed, but no one noticed Fang Xing standing outside the kitchen door like a stake.

The sweet juice that I drank just now suddenly turned into a bitter poison, which broke my heart.

It is true that no one knows Chen Jian better than him, but he would rather not have this understanding.