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Half an hour ago.

Ji Liao, who returned home from a rest, had lunch with his brother and sister as a routine. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to visit his long-time friend Xiao Zhiyu in the Qinjiang villa area.

In fact, I received a message from the other party last night, saying that there is something important to report.

So he bought a large iced watermelon along the way, drove to Xiao's villa, opened the door, and saw Xiao Zhiyu who was nestling on the sofa, shaking his head and swiping a small video.

Hearing the sound, Xiao Zhiyu raised his eyes and glanced at him, and said angrily.

"Finally remember me?"

Ji Liao called yesterday and asked him to help deliver things to the bureau. Unexpectedly, he was busy at that time, and the two of them didn't have time to see each other. He was actually a tool person.

Get angry when you think about it.

However, Ji Liao didn't receive the other party's complicated mood swings at all. He put the melon on the table, grabbed the remote control on the sofa and pressed it a few times.

"Don't lower it below 22 degrees in the future, it's easy to suffer from heat stroke."

"?" Xiao Zhiyu looked at him in disbelief.

"Do you have a knife?" Ji Liao continued to ask.

Xiao Zhiyu was stunned, and slowly raised his finger to point at the knife holder. It took him a long time to realize: "No... I haven't seen you for two weeks, why have you become so caring? Have you been taken away?"

Or... have you been beaten by society after joining the job?

"No." Ji Liao took out a fruit knife, cut the melon into pieces, and handed it to him, "Eat your melon."

Xiao Zhiyu stood up and took the plate.

"Oh……"

He finished eating a piece of melon in two or three bites, coughed lightly, and asked routinely, "Is sister Shuwang okay? She must have been a little frightened by being held hostage that night?"

"She is very courageous." Ji Liao replied.

"Hmm... How does it feel to be a newcomer?" Xiao Zhiyu thought for a while, then asked, "Will you have dinner tonight?"

"That's it," Ji Liao went straight to the point, "What do you want from me?"

Xiao Zhiyu sighed softly, and said pitifully, "You have changed, and you don't even want to listen to my nonsense anymore."

"..." Ji Liao made a gesture to get up, "I'm leaving."

"Don't," Xiao Zhiyu quickly finished speaking in one breath, "Remember what I told you before. Am I chasing that cute little boy in the next street?"

Xiao Zhiyu's unique taste orientation is not a secret in the mutual circle of friends. The two have been at the same table for more than ten years from elementary school to high school, and they have not been misunderstood as having any unusual relationship.

Ji Liao recalled for a while, and replied: "I remember."

"Guess where I ran into him yesterday?" Without waiting for Ji Liao to answer, he said to himself, "It's just beside the corridor of your detachment!"

Ji Liao: "..."

Fate is really wonderful.

"Before I saw him so cute, I thought he was only in his early 20s... Now that I think about it, if he can join your team, he must be older than me! This is the next year!"

As number one Xiao Zhiyu said so.

Ji Liao: "?"

Cute + older than the two of them? ?Ji Liao stopped breathing inadvertently, hesitated for a while, and asked tentatively, "I'm afraid what you said..."

"It's that Zhang Jingze!"

Ji Liao unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Zhiyu signaled Ji Liao to get the car keys, led him towards the gate, and said a lot to himself.

Ji Liao didn't listen to a word, a familiar face popped up in his mind, and suddenly asked, "What are the two men going to do..."

Xiao Zhiyu's voice suddenly stopped, and he turned his head alertly, unable to believe his ears.

"……What did you say?"

"I'm asking, two men..." Ji Liao repeated halfway through his opening, and let out a soft breath, "Forget it."

"Don't count it!" Xiao Zhiyu howled, "What are you thinking about the eighteen forbidden issues?!"

Ji Liao pretended to be innocent and said: "I asked two men how to fall in love! What are you thinking?!"

Xiao Zhiyu was fooled: "Oh..."

He pondered for a while, and then he came back to his senses, and said with a shocked expression: "You are... are you also? Damn..."

"No, I'm not." Ji Liao raised his forehead.

...Why can't I think about asking Xiao Zhiyu?

"Then why are you asking this?" Xiao Zhiyu murmured, "No, you have never been in love with a girl before!...Are you a double? Or did you like a guy?"

Ji Liao: "..." Pure curiosity.

"Who do you like?" Xiao Zhiyu's eyes seemed to see through everything, "...is it from your detachment?"

"No," Ji Liao couldn't bear it and said, "How can I like men."

The moment the voice fell, he walked across the corner in front of him, and happened to meet Yan Cun who was a meter away in long-sleeved uniform.

Yan Cun: "..."

Ji Liao: "..."

Zhang Jingze: "?"

Xiao Zhiyu: "??"

The eight eyes met, and the four faces were confused.

The surrounding air instantly fell silent.

Ji Liao was terrified, he didn't know how much Captain Yan had heard, anyway, he caught a glimpse of complexity from his eyes.

Yan Cun's mind echoed what Ji Liao said just now, and slowly shifted his gaze to Xiao Zhiyu, while Xiao Zhiyu stared at Zhang Jingze intently.

Zhang Jingze, who had no eyesight until now, finally had a quick wit and looked at Ji Liao, the four of them looked perfectly staggered.

He opened his mouth to break the silence: "Hey, Xiao Ji, why are you here?"

No matter how cold and cold Ji Liao is usually, now that the steps are in front of him, there is no reason why he should not go down, so he replied: "Come to find friends."

Without taking his eyes off Yan Cun, he coughed lightly and introduced, "This is my friend Xiao Zhiyu."

"Well," Yan Cun nodded lightly, "It's okay, you don't need to tell me. Are you not going to take a day off today? Go play."

Ji Liao: "..."

Although he felt that he didn't seem to say something wrong, why did he feel a little guilty all of a sudden.

"Yes, let's go play," Zhang Jingze quickly echoed, and whispered in Yan Cun's ear, "Hurry up!"

Seeing Zhang Jingze and Yan Cun turn around and prepare to go in the direction of the car, Xiao Zhiyu's brain was running at the speed of light, and he suddenly stopped them: "Wait! How about... having dinner together!"

Yan Cun: "?"

What unfolds?

Zhang Jingze paused, and only then did he have time to give him a look, with a complicated expression on his face: "..."

Xiao Zhiyu put his hands behind his back, pulled the corner of the clothes of the person beside him, and said ventriloquically in a low voice: "The person next to him, name, identity, hurry up."

"..." Just as Ji Liao was about to answer him, he seemed to think of something, and finally gave him two words, "Team Yan."

Xiao Zhiyu coughed lightly: "Then what... Captain Yan?"

Yan Cun was not easy to notice and took a step back: "?"

Xiao Zhiyu stretched out a hand towards him in a dignified way, and said with a smile: "Thanks to you for taking care of my Xiao Ji these few days. Sigh... this child doesn't like to talk usually, so he will take care of him in the future? Let's eat together by the way A meal? Huh?"

Ji Liao: "..."

Before Captain Yan had time to extend his hand politely, he slapped Xiao Zhiyu's hand back.

Xiao Zhiyu suddenly noticed something.

"It's nothing, it should be." Yan Cunxin said that he didn't really take care of it, and replied, "There is no need to spend money on meals."

Don't even look at what the atmosphere is like now?There will be ghosts there.

"Uh..." Xiao Zhiyu stepped forward, "Go, just have a meal! Really!"

He was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead, and he noticed Captain Yan's glances at his friend beside him from time to time, and he was keenly aware of something.

So he pulled Ji Liao's clothes.

So Ji Liao took a deep breath, and after thinking about it for a while, he persuaded him: "I said to go to Chengfeng Hotel for dinner last time, but I didn't go."

Yan Cun hesitated and let out a "huh".

Ji Liao met his gaze with downcast eyes, and asked tentatively, "Let's go?"

So half an hour later, the four of them arrived at Chengfeng Hotel again and sat at the Chinese restaurant on the 15th floor.

Xiao Zhiyu took the opportunity to choose a seat next to Zhang Jingze, spread the menu on the table and began to introduce the dishes, trying to strike up a conversation with Zhang Jingze for the first time tonight.

In desperation, Yan Cun had no choice but to sit beside Ji Liao.

After a while, the two spoke at the same time and uttered a syllable——

"you……"

"you……"

Yan Cun turned his head and looked at him, and said slowly: "You talk first."

"Why are you going to the villa area?" Ji Liao asked, and immediately realized, "Is it Zha Gaoya and Wang Yuan?"

"Well, I originally wanted to find out if Wang Yuan had violent tendencies, but now they have broken up...and they are not violent," Yan Cun recalled the messy questioning process just now, and said slowly, " I even missed you a little bit just now."

Ji Liao took a deep breath: "???"

Yan Cun thought about what he said just now, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong, so he completed what he had just said: "Every time I go on a mission with Jing Ze, I miss you and Jiang Huai, a reliable teammate."

"..." Ji Liao got used to it, "Oh."

He breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Yan Cun: "What did you want to ask just now?"

Yan Cun came back to his senses, his eyes inadvertently lingered between the two people on the opposite side, he leaned over to Ji Liao's ear and whispered: "Your friend...why is it so weird?"

Xiao Zhiyu hadn't stopped talking since he took his seat, and Zhang Jingze didn't seem to resist, it seemed that he just couldn't stand the enthusiasm.

He added in confusion, "Is that what I think?"

Ji Liao didn't pay attention to them at first, so he answered casually: "Yes."

Yan Cun understood "Oh".

The money owed has not been paid.

After a while, the waiter brought the dishes to the table one by one, and everyone said a few words one by one, and the atmosphere on the scene was quite good.

Until around eight o'clock in the evening, seeing that everyone had almost eaten, he thought about how to end the meal.

Just at this moment, the cell phone in his police uniform pocket suddenly rang.

He nodded to the others, glanced at the caller ID on the screen, answered the call and walked towards the bathroom.

"Hey……"

Before he finished speaking, Shen Lin on the other end of the phone shouted anxiously: "Captain Yan! Received a report call! Something is wrong! Come back soon!"

Yan Cun's heart suddenly stopped beating.