Fire to the Abyss

From Mrs. Zheng's mouth, Xia Yan knew for the first time that her mother was also an escaped woman, and the blurred face in her memory suddenly became clear and vivid.

Mrs. Zheng's eyes became distant with the deepening of memories, her voice was delicate and long, and the tone of her eloquence really seemed to penetrate time and space.

"When people get old, they will always think about the things when they were young. In the first half of my life, I only had a good sister like your mother. Maybe that time was the most carefree time in my life. I always think about the two of us. When I was a girl...

"Guess how your mother and I met? You can't guess it... At that time, I was only a little higher than this table, and I went to see our orchard with my father. As soon as I approached, I heard a tree There was a rustling sound, my father thought it was a wild monkey on the mountain coming to steal the fruit, but when he looked up, a pair of big black eyes stared at him... That was your mother, my father took her from the tree When I fished it out, my body was covered in mud, and I couldn't tell the difference between a boy and a girl...

"Now that I think about it, your mother was really skinnier than a boy when she was a child. No child in our area dared to bully her. Who would have thought that such a naughty child would grow up to be a juicy girl. This picture is her just now. A full shot. At that time, many young men pursued her. This picture is about [-] years old. We just started working. This is when we first got married. Look, it looks like a happy little woman...

Mrs. Liu flipped through the pages, and tears fell, because there were no more photos of that woman in the future.Her trembling fingers rested on the last photo, and the tears she shed blurred the bright smile of the woman in the photo.

At this time, Zheng Xing had already packed the dishes, he walked over lightly, handed the tissue box to Madam Zheng, and winked at Xia Yan.

Xia Yan moved to Madam Zheng's side, and gently placed Madam Zheng's trembling hand in his palm, not knowing if he was infected by Madam Zheng's emotions, his voice also trembled a little: "Godmother!"

Mrs. Zheng raised her head in surprise, and looked at Xia Yan with teary eyes. Even though her vision was blurred by tears, the sincerity in the man's eyes still reached hers.

"...Hey!" Mrs. Zheng responded, and then held Xia Yan's hand with her backhand, wrapping Xia Yan tightly with her thin fingers.

Zheng Xing nodded to Xia Yan with a face of relief, Xia Yan just had a cheap godmother.Of course, if Xia Yan were to change his name to Zheng Xing's "godfather", he would definitely not be able to do it.

Prior to this, Xia Yan never expected that he would recognize a woman whom he had met for less than two hours as a godmother. He himself was not easy to get close to other people, and he always gave people a feeling of being alone.But Mrs. Zheng seems to have an aura that makes people let go of her guard. I don't know if it's because of being hugged by her when she was a child. Xia Yan always feels very at ease by her side.

What Xia Yan didn't expect was that this cheap godmother of hers had a special skill - sorting out emotions quite quickly.Mrs. Zheng was still reminiscing about the past, and after hearing Xia Yan call her godmother, she quickly recovered from the state of "sad spring and flowers are gone, and the crying oriole can't be called back", and began to investigate. account.After hearing that Xia Yan didn't have a partner, she changed into a matchmaker in seconds, and arranged a blind date for Xia Yan quite effectively.

It was late at night, when Mrs. Zheng rubbed her eyes for the third time, she was finally driven back to her room by Zheng Xing to rest. Zheng Xing put on a coat and personally sent Xia Yan downstairs.

"Our old couple have been living apart for various reasons, and it hasn't been long since she came back to Chengzhou. If I had known that the old woman liked you so much, I should have brought you to see her when she first came back."

Zheng Xing muttered as he went downstairs, the sourness in his tone came over his face, Xia Yan laughed silently.

"Old Zheng, call me here today, besides showing love and accepting godmother, do you have anything else to say?"

"...Well, indeed." Zheng Xing stopped at the entrance of the corridor, turned around and looked at Xia Yan, his eyes were a little far away by the dim light of the corridor, as if he was looking at someone through him.

"Actually, you are more like your father than your mother."

"I know," Xia Yan smiled inexplicably, "Why, are you also afraid that I will think wildly after hearing Zhang Chi's words that day?"

Zheng Xing keenly grasped the key words: "Also?"

Xia Yan nodded: "Well, Secretary Liu has 'enlightened' me on purpose. If it's about this matter, there's no need to talk about it. I'm not that fragile."

"What I want to say is not this...Xia Yan, you don't know your father well."

"Yes, I don't know him, because he doesn't even want to talk to me." Xia Yan leaned against the wall, turned his head to look at the gloomy night outside the corridor, leaving only the back of Zheng Xing's head refusing to communicate.

Zheng Xing looked at Xia Yan's lonely back cut by the light, and said to his old friend who had been away for many years in his heart: "Old Xia, I'm sorry, I have to sell you once."

"Xia Yan, it's just that he doesn't love you the way you want, it's not that he doesn't love you, it's just that the way is a bit clumsy."

"Old Zheng, I'm almost thirty, don't make me sound like a brat who is fighting for favor with my younger brother."

"Hahaha...you sometimes look like this..." Zheng Xing smiled awkwardly, and Xia Yan rolled his eyes in return.

"Actually, Lao Xia doesn't want you brothers to be policemen at all. In our line of work, we are used to seeing life and death parting, and we don't want our children to flourish. They are satisfied with spending their lives in peace."

Xia Yan agreed deeply: "If my son wants to be a policeman, I must break his legs."

"Let's talk about it when you have a partner... But, if you don't want to come here, you will come here anyway. The two of you brothers are just discussing it, and each of you is clamoring that the son will follow the father's business. Lao Xia will desperately send you two to another place." Breaking off on the road, Xia Lin is soft-tempered, basically listens to everything my father says, you are different, you are so stubborn that you can’t pull back a few cows, it is said that in junior high school, you were brave enough to be beaten up by a group of knives. After a while, that thing really scared your dad."

Xia Yan touched his earlobe: "You also know about this..."

"That's not true." Zheng Xing automatically ignored Xia Yan's little gesture to ease the embarrassment, "I was also in the district police at that time, because the relationship between my wife and Lao Xia was closer. If you don't come out, you're still obsessed with virtual idols..."

Xia Yan coughed dryly twice: "Ahem, you're digressing."

"Oh, let's go on, in short, you are a stubborn boy who just graduated from the police academy and joined the district police. Your father, out of fear of people gossiping, said that you joined the detachment because of his relationship, so he didn't have much contact with you in the workplace, but it seems You misunderstood Lao Xia because you were afraid that you would lose face. The stubborn tempers of the two of you are actually exactly the same. Neither of you is willing to put down your body and say a few soft words, and the gap is getting deeper and deeper. You don’t even know it. At that time Your father's irritable appearance is not much different from yours now.

"Later, you were transferred to the Chengzhou detachment to work under me. The grassroots detachment is no better than the district. It often has to go to the front line to do real work. I still remember that the first time you went out to the field, went to Surrounding and suppressing an armed violent gang, your father called me seven times a day. Fortunately, you came back safe and sound, otherwise I would have been drowned in saliva..."

"...Is that so? Usually he doesn't take the initiative to contact me." Xia Yan was very surprised by this. Dad never took the initiative to call him when there was nothing urgent, and he usually replied with a simple word, " Oh", "Okay" and the like.

"That's because the phone calls come to me, at least twice a week, and you still don't want me to tell you. By the way, your brother will occasionally take over Lao Xia's shift and come to me to ask about the situation. Your father Ah, he is the god of war that everyone worships outside, but he is a complete coward in front of those who value him. He dare not even express his love clearly. The bravest thing he has done in his life is probably to be with you Mom proposed. But, I don't mainly want to talk about this today."

Xia Yan: "...What exactly do you want to say?"

"I can't tell you the specifics... I just think, in the years since he left, have you pushed yourself too hard? I know you have admired him since childhood and have been following his footsteps. But you are you, He is him, you don't need to break his case to prove yourself, and you don't need to be a continuation of 'God of War'. He just wants you to go on as you wish, I just want to tell you that he has recognized you long ago."

Xia Yan didn't answer, lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, tightened his coat, turned around and walked out of the corridor, he raised his hand and waved, "Got it".

Soon, the figure melted into the night without a trace.

Zheng Xing sneezed, turned around and went upstairs.

Do you agree?Xia Yan had to admit that it was indeed what he had been chasing, longing in his heart for his father to pat him on the shoulder, show an approving smile, and say to him: "Son, you are awesome", but that man didn't give up until he died. When I said a word of praise to him, the smile was quite stingy.Xia Yan did not deny that he had set himself up as a prison, and took solving his father's case as the basis for his approval.The file was turned over and over again, and he almost memorized it word by word. It had been too long since he had discovered anything new. A person who claimed to know the truth happened to appear. Although he knew that what the person said was not necessarily true, it was very likely for Although he was provocative, he still inevitably came up with some dangerous ideas—using some illegal means to force Zhang Chi to tell the truth.

"Is this like when you quit smoking, because you have been suppressed for a long time, you can become agitated even with a lollipop in your mouth?" Xia Yan stared at the cigarette butt in his hand, thinking seriously about the philosophical issue of life and smoking.However, this person was born lacking in emotional thinking cells. After a while, he put the half of the cigarette butt back into his mouth, returning the problem to a shallower level, and decided not to make trouble with cigarettes no matter what.

After a week, Xia Yan returned to the Chengzhou detachment again, and the detachment had changed from lifeless to lifeless.

Thanks to Zhang Chi, the district police had a major earthquake—since there was one undercover puppet master in the public security system, it was very likely that there would be a second or third one. The district police organized a comprehensive internal affairs investigation.

When Xia Yan arrived at the detachment, a group of staff from the Ministry of Internal Affairs was collecting information from everyone's office, and even the computer of intern Xia Lin was confiscated and awaiting inspection.

Seeing Xia Yan coming in, Yang Ming squeezed into his side worriedly, and whispered in his ear, "Captain Xia, that..."

Yang Ming just got up when he was rudely interrupted.

"Captain Xia, long time no see." A honest middle-aged man came over and extended his hand politely to Xia Yan.Although his expression and body language are polite, his tone is very harsh.Yang Ming gave Xia Yan a look of "I'll talk about it later", and consciously rolled away.

"Minister Sun, don't come here without any problems." Xia Yan smiled politely, held his hand back, and let it go immediately.

It was Sun Jin, the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Xia Yan had only met him a few times, so he didn't know much about this person's personality, so he shouldn't be easy to get along with from his appearance.Sun Jin's figure is short and lean, but he has a rather fierce face on his neck, and he doesn't feel friendly when he smiles, but there is a sense of hiding a knife in his smile.

Sun Jin glanced around from the crowded office, and then returned to Xia Yan's face: "Captain Xia, the recent special situation is not aimed at the Chengzhou Detachment, the whole district is under investigation, please understand our Work."

Not for the Chengzhou detachment?If the ministers hadn't personally come forward to investigate the Chengzhou detachment, Xia Yan might really believe it.

Xia Yan: "Of course, I fully support Minister Sun's work. If there is anything that needs our cooperation, just say it."

"Captain Xia, thank you very much for your understanding. There is a file cabinet in your office with a private lock, please open it."

"Okay, no problem," Xia Yan led Sun Jin into the office, and opened the cabinet without saying a word.Standing on the sidelines with a calm face, watching the staff move away the things in his cabinet, he also explained consciously: "My girlfriend was so embarrassing to me, and the salary was squeezed out, so I occasionally evened it out." The money for cigarettes is locked in the cabinet."

"By the way, Captain Xia, speaking of cigarettes," Sun Jin picked up a note from Xia Yan's desk and handed it to Xia Yan, "You have to pay the fine as soon as possible for the ticket sent from the district."

Xia Yan took a look at the note, and immediately lost his composure: "Smoking is fined 500 yuan!?"

Sun Jin said blankly: "The district is very strict, and I have been fined several times."

After Xia Yan dealt with Sun Jin, he paid a fine of 500 yuan with great pain. By the way, he wrote a sum to Secretary Liu in the small vengeance book in his heart-who told him not only not to stop, but also to help the tyrant, so he went to Yang Ming.