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It was still this townhouse, and the time was reversed to two hours ago.

Yi Shaoqing dragged a large suitcase with 300 million cash in it, and left behind his mother Yi Lidan's nagging words, rushed out of the door and entered his garage.

There were two cars in the garage, one black and one white. Yi Shaoqing put the suitcase in the trunk of the black off-road vehicle and began to rush to the destination designated by the kidnappers.

Five minutes after Yi Shaoqing left, Xiang Songtao and his son Xiang Chao followed in Kuang Jie's white car in the garage.

The kidnappers demanded that Yi Shaoqing go alone to pay the ransom, not to call the police, not to be accompanied by anyone, otherwise the ticket would be torn up.But Yi Lidan disagreed desperately. Although she loved her granddaughter, Yi Shaoqing was the backbone of the family, the flesh that fell from her body.

The three men, who had never been at odds with each other, had a peaceful discussion for the first time.In the end, it was decided to let Yi Shaoqing turn on the real-time sharing location on his mobile phone to take the first step, and Xiang Songtao and Xiang Chao, father and son, kept a distance from him to ensure his personal safety while not being discovered by the kidnappers.

Xiang Songtao and his son followed Yi Shaoqing's car from a distance.But what is strange is that the destination sent by the kidnappers temporarily is not in a hidden or sparsely populated area.

According to the shared real-time location display, Yi Shaoqing's car went straight to the largest shopping mall in the city center, and finally stopped in the underground parking lot of the shopping mall.Xiang Songtao drove the car and just entered the underground parking lot. When he was less than 200 meters away from Yi Shaoqing's location, Yi Shaoqing suddenly ended the location sharing.

Xiang Songtao and his son were looking for Yi Shaoqing in the parking lot. Fortunately, they found Yi Shaoqing's car very quickly.But there was no one in the car, and Yi Shaoqing's cell phone and his coat and pants were placed in the back seat of the car.

This kidnapper is too cunning.

When the father and son were at a loss, Xiang Chao suddenly pulled his father's shoulder and pointed towards the distance.

"Dad, do you think that man is brother?" Xiang Chao pointed to a man in a black coat and a black hat, pulling a black suitcase, and hurried through the vehicles.

"Shaoqing..."

Xiang Songtao shouted in a hurry, and as soon as the words fell, Xiang Chao suddenly covered his father's mouth: "This is the place designated by the kidnappers. The other party asked my brother to leave his mobile phone and change his clothes. Maybe someone is watching nearby. If you look like this Called, exposed, provoked the other party, what should they do if they tear up the ticket?"

Xiang Songtao suddenly became hoarse, looked at Xiang Chao and said, "Then what should I do?"

Xiang Chao said calmly: "I'm not sure that's my brother. But there are only two exits in the parking lot, the north and the south. The man went to the north exit just now. I'll follow to see. Dad, you go to the south exit to guard, just in case Follow him when he goes out from there. Let's call."

Xiang Songtao hesitated: "Should we act separately?"

"The chances of finding brother are better if we act separately."

Xiang Songtao paused for a moment, finally there was a different emotion from the usual expressionless face on that face.

This emotion, farther away, often appeared on Xiang Songtao's face when Xiang Chao was young.Every time he falls, every time he gets sick, every time he is bullied by his classmates, every time he hits a wall with Yi Shaoqing, Xiang Songtao always comforts him with this worried look.

After the paternity test came out, Xiang Songtao chose to forgive Kuang Jie, and even the slightest behavior of Xiang Songtao became partial in Kuang Jie's eyes, and became evidence of Xiang Songtao's hypocrisy, back-and-forth, and still holding a grudge against her.An intimate expression or a small gesture between father and son can stimulate Kuang Jie's sensitive and guilty heart. When this happens, the family will cry and cry.

Later, Xiang Songtao became a sculpture of a human figure with a stern face all the time.He thought that such a concession would bring harmony to the family, relieve his wife's suspicions, and reconcile the two children who were increasingly estranged.

After long-term suppression and deliberate restraint, Xiang Songtao was no longer sure whether the expression on his old dull face could accurately reflect his mood at the moment.

For the sake of this family built on the sand dunes, while he chose to give in, he also forced his son to give in to Chao all the time.

He always felt that he owed his son too much.

Xiang Chao stared blankly at his father for a moment, then leaned over and hugged him suddenly: "I know you are worried about my safety, it's okay, I've grown up. Not only can I protect myself, I can also protect you."

Xiang Songtao patted his son on the back: "Dad knows, it's useless to let you suffer..."

"Dad." Xiang Chao let go of his father and interrupted him, "Don't say such things. After this incident, our family will live well."

"En, um." Xiang Songtao was both happy and sad, almost bursting into tears, "Our family is having a good time."

Xiang Chao looked at the exit facing north, and said urgently: "Dad, time is running out, I'll follow first, you are driving, let's call."

After Xiang Chao finished speaking, he pressed his hand on his father's arm.He is already a head taller than his father, and his father used this gesture to appease him, but now he uses this gesture to appease his father.

Following Xiang Chao's instructions, Xiang Songtao drove the car outside the south exit and parked on the side of the road.He carefully observed every passerby who passed by, but after more than ten minutes, he still found nothing.

Just when he was about to call his son Xiang Chao to confirm the situation, Xiang Chao called.

"Dad, I was in a hurry just now, so I didn't come in a hurry to contact you. I didn't catch up with that man, but I saw him get into a car, so I took a taxi and followed him all the way."

"Did you see his face? Are you sure it's Shaoqing?"

Xiang Chao was silent for a while: "There is a distance, I looked at the profile, but nine out of ten it is brother. Now the car is on the Chengnan Expressway and is driving out of the city. Dad, why don't you go home and wait for news. Yes I'll contact you about anything."

"No, no, son... I'm here to find you. You share a location with me." Xiang Songtao just finished speaking, when the phone started to sound a low battery mode reminder, he immediately changed his words, "My phone is almost out of battery, and the network is also running out. Slow, time-consuming. You tell me your current address first, I will use this car navigation to go there, and when you get to the place, you will update the address for me."

"The car turned out from the A302 exit. It looks like a botanical garden outside. It is very hidden at night, and the kidnappers are very likely to set the money there. Dad, you go to the botanical garden first. If your phone is out of power, you can't get in touch. Me, you go home first. I will call home as soon as I have news. "

After Xiang Chao hung up the phone, the voice mixed in the wind disappeared completely, and the car fell into a deathly silence.Because he was separated from his son, Xiang Songtao was even more nervous than before. He glanced at the phone and turned it off quickly for fear of wasting electricity.So I started to enter the botanical garden in the southern suburbs that Xiang Chao mentioned in the car navigation.

Xiang Songtao seldom drives after retirement.Yi Lidan paid for this car, saying it was for family use, but it was actually Kuang Jie's personal car.Xiang Songtao drove once for something, and Kuang Jie wanted to disinfect the car inside and out.Unless Xiang Songtao was forced to do so today, he would not find it difficult to use this car.

He walked when he was close, and took the bus when he was far away, and he was quiet.

He has only used this car navigation once or twice, and he is not very familiar with the operation. When he was looking for a place to enter the destination, Xiang Songtao accidentally clicked on the historical navigation record.He was just about to exit the interface when a navigation record on the screen caught his attention.

The colorful neon lights beside the road make the small space in the car even darker, as if it is isolated from the world.All of a sudden, the busy traffic, the hustle and bustle of people's voices, and the hustle and bustle all gradually subsided, and it became a distant world for others.

Xiang Songtao stared at the navigation record, the screen emitted a yellow-blue shimmer, dividing his face into two parts, one bright and one dark.And the expression on that face, if someone happened to pass by the window at this moment, they would definitely be so shocked that their backs would break out in cold sweat.

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Coming down from Xiping Mountain, Ji Shang's sleep in the car was really heavy.But intermittently, there seemed to be one or two brief waking gaps, pulling back and forth between dream and reality.

The back, illuminated by the lightning white light, turned around but still wore the nameless mask.The green radish on the window sill was tripped and fell to the ground. Someone picked it up from the ground, but it changed in an instant.

The green radish turned into a Dendrobium with splashing ink, the man handed the flower to Ji Shang, stretched out his palm and shook it: "The deposit is [-]%."

The figure lay back on the bed again, leaving Ji Shang with a back that made him confused in the brief bright colors that pierced the darkness.And the green dill that disappeared on the window sill turned into an orchid.Ji Shang leaned closer and sniffed, the orchids swayed frivolously in the wind, and the blooming flowers gradually swept from Ji Shang's chin to the corner of his lips.

He woke up suddenly, most of the dream, his eyes were blurry.Only the touch left by the orchid is left on the cheeks.The cool and soft touch is slowly spreading, fading little by little.

Outside the car window, the sky has been covered with a thin layer of black gauze.Yin Hao came out of the fast food restaurant carrying a bag, and ran towards Ji Shang from afar.

Ji Shang thought of the orchid in his dream, and thought that the flower, like the person who bought it, was drunk and so frivolous.

The wind makes it difficult for flowers to hold their own, and wine makes it difficult for people to stay awake.So it's all down to the wind, the wine.However, people who are awake are like plants and flowers, and they have no memories to find.He couldn't close his eyes and go back to that dream, smashed the flower with two hands, and he couldn't slap that person's smiling face after all these years.

In short, it is Ji Shang himself who is annoyed, bored, and indelible.

Yin Hao put the bag in Ji Shang's arms, and he came back to his senses.

Ji Shangpa opened the bag.Apple pie, pineapple pie, red bean pie, taro pie, plus a pink pie star thermos wearing green pants.

Yin Hao drove the car onto the main road and glanced at Ji Shang who hadn't made a decision yet: "Team Cao called. The disappearance of Kuang Jie's mother and daughter is really not that simple. We have to go to Kuang Jie's house now. I don't have time to take You have eaten, you should pad your stomach first."

Hearing Yin Hao mention the case of Kuang Jie's mother and daughter, Ji Shang was not surprised on the face, still bowed his head to pick and choose in the bag, as if everything was in his expectation.

Yin Hao said: "That cup contains honey grapefruit tea, which is hot. I don't know when you will wake up, so I bought a thermos to keep it in it."

Ji Shang took the cup and glanced at the back seat. There was a pink children's thermos on the seat: "Are you temporarily affected? Or is the aesthetics so unique?"

"I didn't have anything to choose, so I took one at random." Yin Hao caught the gap and gave Ji Shang a sideways glance, "I've washed the cup, you can try it."

Ji Shang took a sip, the warm, sour and sweet tea made him sober up a lot in an instant, and at the same time, his stomach, which had not eaten two meals, gradually began to feel empty.

Ji Shang finished eating an apple pie, and asked lightly, "The disappearance of Kuang Jie's mother and daughter, why is it not an easy solution?"

"Kuang Jie brought her daughter Yi Xiangxue home."

"Good thing."

"Guess what?" Yin Hao smiled mysteriously, but didn't take Joe, and said bluntly, "But Kuang Jie's husband, father-in-law, and brother-in-law Xiang Chao are all missing."

"Xiang Chao disappeared? What exactly happened?"

Ji Shang picked another taro pie, and when he tore off the outer packaging and was about to eat it, he faintly felt Yin Hao's eyes shift over.

Ji Shang asked, "Did you eat?"

"Didn't eat." Yin Hao looked ahead, observing the red light counting down, "I've arrived at Kuang Jie's house, I'll take two bites after getting off the car."

Ji Shang paused for a moment, then handed the taro pie to Yin Hao's mouth: "Take a bite?"

The green light at the intersection turned on, Yin Hao didn't look at Ji Shang, stepped on the gas pedal, lowered his head and took a big bite.

The car was quiet for a while, Ji Shang suddenly let out a short 'hiss', gritted his teeth and said, "Your uncle! Are you sure! You bit my hand!"

Yin Hao said with a cheeky smile: "Don't be my uncle all day long, he is over 70 and his body can't take it."

Ji Shang stuffed the remaining half of the taro pie directly into Yin Hao's mouth, so that no more obscene words would come out of his mouth.

Ji Shang recalled the first time they met, he offered to reach out to Yin Hao, but he just skipped it.Then he changed the topic: "I said you, why do you have so many faces? Where is that righteous Lingran, who is so cold-faced and refuses to be approached by the masses?"

Yin Hao was gagged and couldn't speak for a while.But he slandered that I would never be unsmiling and tense all the time.People have at least two faces, one for outsiders and one for themselves.

One of our own?Yin Hao smiled faintly.

"What are you laughing at?"

Yin Hao didn't answer, but his smile didn't hold back at all.Seeing this smile made Ji Shang feel weird, and even the pain in his fingers gradually faded away.