quarter quotient

The view from the terrace on the fourth floor is excellent.Here you can see not only the lawn with sporadic lights inside Xianxiao, but also the pond that incorporates the moonlight together with ordinary lights, and the road outside the wall that is full of crape myrtle flowers under the light of street lights.

The owner of a homestay business reserved the floor with the best view and the quietest for himself.He is either not short of money to play tickets or too casual, this feeling makes Yin Hao feel a little confused.

What puzzled him even more was Ji Shang's former identity, the proud student of Professor Hu Yongyu of the OUHK.

Ji Shang stood on the edge of the unlit terrace, his arms were hidden in front of his chest, and he moved occasionally.

Yin Hao stood behind him and looked at it for a while, remembering that last time Ji Shang said that he was quitting smoking, but at the moment he might be addicted to smoking, so in order to avoid being discovered by the little mud, he hid himself on the dark balcony and smoked.Yin Hao inexplicably wanted to laugh.He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he unwittingly laughed softly.

Ji Shang turned around, and the two met each other's eyes, each with its own embarrassment.

Yin Hao suppressed his smile, and asked knowingly: "Smoking needs to be so sneaky? If you can't quit, don't quit."

Ji Shang waved to him, and there was no spark in his hand.

Yin Hao took a closer look, only to find that Ji Shang was holding a pink and green lollipop in the shape of a dog's paw in his hand.

"Little mud made it by myself, give me something to quit smoking." Ji Shang raised the 'dog's paw' in his hand, and said mockingly: "You who can't sleep even looking at pink, I'm an eight-foot man in front of you."你的面舔棒棒糖，我怕你交感神经暴走揍我一顿。”

Yin Hao suggested solemnly: "You don't need to lick it, but bite it."

Ji Shang gave Yin Hao a sideways glance, groped in his pocket for a moment in silence, and handed Yin Hao the same 'dog paw'.

Yin Hao removed the candy wrapper with disdain, raised his eyebrows provocatively, and bit the dog's paws with his mouth.But it took only two or three seconds to be proud, Yin Hao couldn't bear the sudden stimulation in his mouth, he turned his head and grinned, winking his eyebrows.

After a while, Yin Hao adjusted his facial expression, and when he turned his head, Ji Shang had already laughed so hard that he almost lost his breath.

"Aren't you good at eating sour? You ate half of the orange without blinking."

Yin Hao said, "How do you know I didn't blink?"

Ji Shang just smiled and said nothing.It took a long time before he said: "You seem to have one intestine to the end, but I didn't expect that you can act quite well."

"Each each other."

Yin Hao looked at Ji Shang. Once he restrained his smile, the original deep and tough features on his face would look extraordinarily serious, even with a sharp sense of edge.

When Yunpan met Yin Hao for the first time, Ji Shang felt this way about him. He has a sharp nature, because of his youthful temperament, he is straightforward, and at the same time, he also has a sense of sharpness. This kind of sharpness makes people invisible and can stab at any time Break through the secret darkness.

But at this moment, although it is the same face and similar expressions, Ji Shang's feeling is quite different.He was still leaning against the railing in an unfocused manner, facing Yin Hao, looking him in the eye, and smiling calmly: "If you want to ask anything, just ask. It's not easy to bear it for more than half a month."

Yin Hao was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that his hesitation was already in Ji Shang's eyes.The person in front of him is so smart, he never expected those little tricks to fool Yin Hao, which also shows that Ji Shang is not afraid of being known by him.

Judging from this alone, Yin Hao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why did you go to fireworks and copy the video again in my name?"

Ji Shang smiled and said: "Then why did you copy the video records for two full months? I think the police didn't have to pull the timeline back to two months ago at the stage of the case's progress."

Yin Hao said: "You don't know much about the case, why can't I think of it first?"

Ji Shang chuckled, and no longer faced Yin Hao directly, but leaned against the balcony, lazily leaning his elbows on the railing.

While staring at Ji Shang's face, Yin Hao put his hand around Ji Shang's back, and gently blocked his right elbow: "Don't use any force on this arm."

Ji Shang was stunned for a moment, then lowered his right arm, and said seriously: "If this is your answer, then you don't want to hear my answer."

Yin Hao said bluntly, "What do you want the fireworks video for?"

Ji Shang smiled narrowly, and then said mysteriously: "One day I ran into a little brother at the fireworks, and I couldn't think of seeing him day and night, so I wanted to see if I could find some clues about him in the surveillance video."

This passage contained a very obvious joking element, and Ji Shang threw the decision-making power to Yin Hao as if he was practicing Tai Chi, as if to say, if you don't confess to me, you will never hear the truth from me.

Yin Hao was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Ji Shang, can I trust you?"

Ji Shang said: "I chose to trust you first, so I will suffer anyway."

"Then what is your purpose?"

Ji Shang raised his eyebrows: "Maybe our purpose is the same, we are all looking for the same person."

Yin Hao was shocked and said, "Are you also looking for Zhijie?"

Ji Shang nodded, and said in a low voice, "Go into the room and talk."

The beginning of the year, the last day of winter, the day before New Year's Eve.

Xianxiao officially closed its doors to thank guests a week ago and entered the Chinese New Year holiday.The Chinese New Year is the busiest and most short-staffed time in the orphanage. Little Niba will go back to help at this time of year every year, and spend the holidays with the elderly and children in the orphanage.

The employees left one after another, and in the morning of this day, Xiao Niba also reluctantly left after thousands of exhortations and ten thousand instructions.

Ji Shang was the only person left in the huge homestay.But he planned to go home on New Year's Eve, so he would never go back a day earlier.When he went back, he just listened to his mother urging him to get married, and his strong father hinted him insinuatingly that when he got older, it was time to put on the agenda that the several star hotels at home should be taken over by Jishang.

Coincidentally, a high school classmate asked Ji Shang to go to the bar at night. Hearing that the bar had invited a well-known folk singer to stay temporarily on New Year's Eve, Ji Shang agreed to leave.

On the way, Ji Shang left the bar, intending to smoke in the alley outside.As soon as he stepped out of the door, he set foot on the walking path, and four or five people walked towards him.

One is female, the others are all male.The woman was walking on the farthest side. Ji Shang was not interested in paying attention to what she looked like.

On the contrary, it was the man who walked at the top that caught Ji Shang's attention.The other three men stood on either side of him and behind him. At first glance, it looked like the elder brother was leading the younger brother to sweep the street, but upon closer inspection, he felt a bit out of place. Ji Shang didn't understand it for a while, so he looked at the scene more. The man glanced.

The broken hair in front of the man's forehead partially covered his eyebrows and eyes, but it was still vaguely visible that his eye sockets were sunken, the surroundings of his eyes were gray, and on his shriveled black and yellow cheeks, there was a circle of stubble that had just emerged around his lips.He was a young man who was overworked, and his facial features were considered correct, but his whole person had a sense of disobedience.

Ji Shang took a quick glance and looked away, but who would have thought that the man deliberately walked towards him and bumped him hard on the shoulder.

Ji Shang frowned and stopped, stepped back, stretched out his hand and flicked his left shoulder in extreme disgust.

Those people all stopped.The man who hit him not only didn't apologize, but approached him step by step, teasingly said, "Hey, why did you get out of the fireworks?"

Ji Shang looked up at him, and went in without knowing.

The man continued to laugh and said: "Wrong place? Shouldn't you go to the opposite 'Shanmu'?"

The person in front of him is indeed somewhat familiar to Ji Shang.

Although the number of times Ji Shang went to Shanmu was very small, when he heard Shanmu mentioned, he guessed that the other party might have seen him there.However, Shanmu's internal environment is extremely dark, and it is normal for him to be unable to remember a certain idler who came to strike up a conversation with him for a while.

"Can't remember me? Hey, this is too sad."

The man put on an exaggerated look of grief and disappointment, and reached out to touch Ji Shang's shoulder.Ji Shang grabbed the other party's wrist, in order not to cause trouble on New Year's Eve, he has already restrained himself very much, but who would have thought that this person would go further and further.

But the conflict did not break out.The woman walking on the farthest side suddenly rushed over and pulled the man away: "Brother Jie, let's go, it's important to get down to business first."

After the woman nodded to Ji Shang in apology, she dragged the man away.After walking a few steps, the man turned his head and blew a kiss to Ji Shang.

Ji Shang was so disgusted that he even lost his craving for cigarettes.

This little episode is over.Ji Shang returns to Fireworks to listen to folk singers singing with his friends, and Ji Shang plans to leave at one o'clock in the morning.

Before leaving, he went to the bathroom alone.Coincidentally, Ji Shang met that man again in the corridor leading to the bathroom.

The man's mental state at this moment is very different from before. Even though he was a little bit decadent, his expression was clear.But at this moment, he seemed a little dazed, his steps were unsteady, and he looked drunk.

There are still people behind the man, but there are one less man and one woman compared to before.Those two people followed neither far nor near, they didn't intend to step forward to help, nor did they have any words to talk to each other.This is the strangeness that Ji Shang feels outside the Fireworks Gate, whether it is his subordinates or friends, the atmosphere should not be like this.

Ji Shang had no intention of thinking too much, and quickly withdrew his gaze, aiming to stay away from right and wrong, and walked quickly away towards the bathroom.The man behaved so badly when he was sober, he couldn't be more of a madman when he was drunk.

The drunk man blocked the door of the bathroom that was about to close with his hand, he smiled frivolously at Ji Shang: "Handsome guy, what a coincidence."

Ji Shang ignored him and went straight to the sink.

The man sniffed obscenely, and said to the two people behind him, "Dude, let me catch up on the old days, do you want to go together?"

The two stood outside the door without moving, and someone scolded in a low voice: "It's so fucking unlucky, gay."

Another person laughed and said, "Forget it, forget it, that thing is really fierce, look at him, he is like a male dog in heat..."

Once the toilet door was closed, no sound could come in from outside the door.The man's expression changed abruptly, the greasy and exaggerated smile disappeared instantly, and then he staggered towards Ji Shang unsteadily.

Seeing him approaching from the corner of his eye, Ji Shang calmly shook off the water on his hand.

After raising the corners of his mouth contemptuously, he quickly dodged sideways to the man's oblique rear, grabbed his right wrist and buckled it to the back, and at the same time raised his leg against the opponent's knee, facing the floor, in a half-kneeling posture Hold it tight.

Ji Shang smiled while exerting all his strength: "You're playing hooligans on my head, you really know how to pick a partner."

The man was originally weak and feeble, but after being subdued by Ji Shang, in addition to gasping in pain, he also mumbled something in a low voice.

Ji Shang listened carefully, and suddenly froze.

"Senior, it's me, Qin Zhijie."

Ji Shang let go of his hand abruptly, took the other person's clothes and turned him over.Because he was lying on his back, the man's too long bangs had been parted, and his eyebrows and eyes were clearly exposed.

Ji Shang sized him up for a few seconds before finally confirming that the person in front of him was Qin Zhijie, a public university student he hadn't seen for nearly five years.

However, although he is Qin Zhijie, he is very different from the high-spirited, sunny and handsome young man in Ji Shang's impression of the past.

What happened to him like this.