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The bedroom door was gently blown open by a gust of wind, revealing a gap the size of a palm.A little orange head squeezed in through the crack of the door, first made a 'meow' sound inside, then walked lightly into the bedroom, and yelled at the person on the bed who was looking at it.

Ji Zheng sat up and leaned against the head of the bed, raised his index finger to his lips and gave the kitten a low 'shh'.

Sure enough, the kitten stopped meowing, and squatted on the carpet beside the bed, looking up obediently at Ji Zheng.

Ji Zheng picked it up from the floor and hugged it in his arms, stroked the top of its head, smiled inaudibly and said to the kitten: "Are you awake?"

The kitten seemed to understand, and raised its face and yelled at him.

Ji Zheng quickly covered its mouth, and turned to look at Xia Bingyang who was still sleeping beside him.

Xia Bingyang was lying on the bed, with half of his face sunk into the pillow, and his messy hair covered his eyebrows and eyes.He faced Ji Zheng, and a thin piece of silk was draped around his waist. After a night of tossing, the nightgown was loose, and the neckline on one side almost slipped off his shoulders.The meowing did not wake him up. He closed his eyes tightly and fell asleep, breathing steadily and evenly.

Ji Zheng pulled up the quilt on his waist, then shook his head at the kitten, signaling that it should stop barking.Then he looked towards the French windows with the curtains closed.

In fact, he didn't sleep all night, maybe the cup of strong tea he drank last night took effect, or maybe there were some other reasons, even though he hadn't rested well for more than a week, he didn't feel sleepy all night last night.After Xia Bingyang fell asleep beside him, he didn't even feel sleepy. He was groggy all night, but he seemed to stay awake all the time, so he waited until dawn.

This bedroom is very large, with thick beige curtains hanging in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, on which are two embroidered phoenix flowers with gold thread. Red and yellow in the sun.The sky outside the window is already bright, but the bedroom is still quiet and peacefully dark, only the two fern flowers on the curtains are faintly shining.

Gradually, the sky brightened, and a layer of transparent light appeared in the room.

Ji Zheng picked up the glasses on the bedside table and put them on, then lifted the quilt with the cat in his arms and quietly got out of bed, gently opened the bedroom door and walked out.

The living room and bedroom seem to be two worlds. The air in the bedroom is quiet and dark, while the living room has no curtains and is brightened by the sun.

Ji Zheng put the kitten in the cat litter by the floor-to-ceiling window, first changed the water for it, and encountered some difficulties when feeding it. He couldn't find the food that Xia Bingyang usually used to feed the cat, so he found an egg from the refrigerator When it is cooked, break off half of the egg yolk and give it to it.

After feeding the cat, he wanted to make some breakfast for Xia Bingyang, but the refrigerator was full of all kinds of beer and foreign wine, and the only thing that could be called food was the half board of eggs.

He looked at the refrigerator full of wine and was at a loss for a moment, then suddenly remembered that he saw a supermarket at the gate of the community yesterday, so he decided to go downstairs for shopping on the spur of the moment.The weather was fine today, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was cloudless. When Ji Zheng went out, he hesitated about whether to take a suit jacket or not. Finally, he gave up the suit jacket because of the hot weather and went downstairs with only his mobile phone and wallet.

The community is very big, and he followed the memory of last night all the way to the supermarket at the gate of the community.

Early in the morning, there were not many people in the supermarket, and the only few people who came to buy things were retired people in their 60s and [-]s.Ji Zheng pushed a shopping cart, looked around the rows of shelves, and finally chose to ask for help from the shopping guide who was selling milk powder.

Xia Bingyang might be getting up soon, he wanted to prepare breakfast before Xia Bingyang got up, so he didn't have time to go shopping.The shopping guide pointed him in a direction, and Ji Zheng pushed the car and walked over.

Most of what he puts in the car are semi-finished products such as milk, ham and bread. Even if he is not around, Xia Bingyang can easily process them into a meal.While he was comparing the ingredient lists of two brands of cheese, the cell phone in his suit pants pocket rang.

"woke up?"

Ji Zheng looked at the ingredient list on the cheese box and asked with a slight smile.

Xia Bingyang was lying on the bed, eyes closed and still awake, but when he saw that the bed beside him was empty, he immediately made a call to Ji Zheng.He opened half of his eyelids in a daze, and asked Ji Zheng in a hoarse voice: "Where are you?"

Ji Zheng said: "Buy things in the supermarket downstairs."

Knowing that he hadn't left yet, Xia Bingyang buried her face in the pillow and breathed a sigh of relief, then struggled to sit up from the bed, yawned and said, "I'll go find you."

There was a rustling sound over there for a while, followed by a 'hutong'.

Ji Zheng asked: "What's wrong?"

Xia Bingyang squatted down in front of the closet, clutching his head, and said angrily, "Kowtow."

Ji Zheng laughed, and said: "Don't come down, sleep a little longer, I'll go up after shopping."

"Do you know the way?"

"Recognize."

Xia Bingyang fell on the bed again, closed his eyes and raised the corners of his lips, "Okay, what did you buy?"

Hearing that he didn't intend to hang up the phone, Ji Zheng had no choice but to hold the phone in one hand and push the car forward slowly with the other, stopping from time to time to take things from the shelves and put them into the car.

"I bought a lot, what do you want to eat?"

"Um... bring a tub of ice cream."

Ji Zheng just walked to the yogurt and ice cream container, looked at Linlang's bottles and asked, "What flavor?"

"Yogurt."

Ji Zheng looked around and said: "There is no yogurt flavor, can blueberry ones be okay? I remember you used to like blueberries."

Xia Bingyang changed his mind immediately: "Then the blueberry ones."

Putting a bucket of ice cream in the car, Ji Zheng walked forward again, stopped after taking two steps, and asked, "What fruit do you want to eat?"

"It's all right, you can figure it out."

The fruits in the morning were very fresh. Ji Zheng took a box of cherries and a box of red plums. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of bags of pink peaches packed in yellow silk screen, and he stopped suddenly.

Xia Bingyang asked him to buy two bottles of cocktails, but did not hear Ji Zheng's response, so he called out, "Brother Ji Zheng?"

Ji Zheng's eyes trembled, and he suddenly came back to his senses, pushing the cart and hurried past the fruit stand: "Huh?"

"Buy two bottles of cocktails."

The time of falling into memory was very short, as short as a second or two, but his palms were still sweating.Ji Zheng squeezed his sore and numbing palms, and said calmly: "Don't buy it now, there is still a lot of wine in the refrigerator."

Xia Bingyang quibbled: "It's different, a cocktail is a drink."

Ji Zhengxin said that alcoholic beverages are also alcoholic beverages. Ever since his father died of advanced liver cancer due to drinking, he didn't think alcoholic beverages are good, and he also didn't want Xia Bingyang to drink too much.Although he didn't categorically reject it, he used silence to confront Xia Bingyang.

Xia Bingyang heard it, and acted softly to him: "Bring me a bottle, I drink it with Coke, a bottle can last for a long time, Brother Ji Zheng——"

The last sentence of "Brother Ji Zheng" warmed Ji Zheng's heart, and he immediately compromised.

"Okay, just one bottle."

He found helplessly that he might never learn to reject Xia Bingyang.

Xia Bingyang didn't hang up the phone until it was time to check out.

After paying the bill, Ji Zheng walked out of the supermarket with two large shopping bags, and smelled the scent of flowers wafting from the hot and dry air in front of the supermarket.There is a flower shop next to the supermarket, and there is a blackboard at the door, with the words 'Great celebration for the shop' written in colored chalk.

Ji Zheng walked into the flower shop and asked the clerk, "Are there any rhododendrons?"

The clerk was slightly surprised. She saw that Ji Zheng was only about [-] years old, and he was handsome in a mess. Men like him usually buy roses to coax girls, but no one buys azaleas, which are mostly liked by the elderly.

Seeing that the clerk looked at him in a daze, Ji Zheng asked with a smile, "Is there any?"

"Ah, there are some, and they are inside."

In fact, Ji Zheng doesn't like these flowers and plants, but he remembers that Xia Bingyang likes them. Xia Bingyang likes all the little things that look beautiful and cute, especially the rhododendrons that were planted in his house before.

Every time Xia Bingyang left his house, he would take two of them home and put them in a water bottle to raise them.

The rhododendrons in the flower shop are not pure red. In order to cater to the tricky tastes of young people, the boss buys mostly smoky purple and pinkish white.Ji Zheng picked some reddish colors as much as possible, and matched them with leaves and daisies under the recommendation of the shop assistant, and wrapped them into a bouquet of flowers.

He held the flowers in one hand, and walked towards the community with things in the other. The pink rhododendrons in his arms turned into a gradual red light on his chin. His face was now stained by the light, and the lenses of his glasses were also stained. There was a touch of red, and the whole person seemed to have stepped out of the bewitching red light.

At the gate of the complex, he saw security guards stopping a blue Porsche sports car, a big boy sticking his head out of the car window, yelling at the security guard annoyedly: "I am Xia Bingyang, the owner of Household 7, Block B, Building 707, his brother! I'm his younger brother! You can call and ask, brother!"

The security guard said something into the walkie-talkie while gesturing to the boy.

Ji Zheng has seen Xia Hang's photos, and now he sees Xia Hang himself and finds that Xia Hang has some similar outlines with Xia Bingyang when he was a teenager, such as the pointed chin, curved and thick black eyebrows.

He intends to help Xia Hang out, but he was brought in by Xia Bingyang yesterday, and the security may not even know him.He put down his things, took two steps away and took out his mobile phone to call Xia Bingyang, but when he dialed out, he heard the prompt of 'not in the service area'.

Ji Zheng's heart sank suddenly, and he turned his head to look at the gate of the community; the sports car stopped at the gate of the community, Xia Hang sitting in the car, and the young security guard who didn't know how to adapt were all gone, what he saw was the endless green The wilderness, and the blue sky and white clouds over the wilderness.

He was standing at the place where he got off the car last night. His car was parked on the side of the Dushan Highway. There was an endless stretch of black asphalt road in front and behind, shining like a giant dragon in the sun.

Everything that happened before was like a dream, if he hadn't held the bunch of rhododendrons bought from the flower shop in his arms, he would have suspected that the one-night meeting with Xia Bingyang was just a dream.

Now the dream is over and he is back.

Xia Bingyang was also calling Ji Zheng, so it was a long time before he received Xia Hang's call.

Xia Hang said he was stopped by security and told him to go down to pick him up.

Xia Bingyang answered him and hung up the phone, put on his short sleeves and played Ji Zheng's call again.The voice prompt is out of service area, just like 'before'.He looked at the phone and paused for a moment, already having a premonition of what happened in his heart.

He changed his clothes and hurried to the gate of the community, and saw that Xia Hang had already driven the car in, and was talking with the new security guard at the gate of the guard room.

"Brother, tell this new kid if I am your real brother."

Although Xia Hang is not domineering, but his personality is so high-spirited, it is no wonder that the security guards are not accommodating.Xia Bingyang glanced at him, and said coldly, "I picked it up."

Xia Bingyang reported Xia Hang's identity to the security guard, and then asked, "Did the person I brought back last night go out just now?"

The security guard said: "Yes, I saw him enter the supermarket."

"Is he back?"

"I'm back, I'm back with a lot of things."

The security guard pointed out the door: "It was still here just now, huh? Where is the person? Things are still here."

As he said that, he ran over and brought the two shopping bags that Ji Zheng put on the ground to Xia Bingyang.

Xia Bingyang was carrying two heavy bags, and his heart sank rapidly.

Xia Hang continued: "It's the one wearing glasses and the white shirt, right? He was holding a bouquet of flowers in his arms. I saw him too, but he disappeared in a blink of an eye."

Xia Hang helped him share a bagful of things, and said, "Brother, you brought that man back? Who is he?"

Xia Bingyang ignored him, turned around and walked back with his things.

When he got home, he put his things in the kitchen, walked out of the kitchen and saw the blue and black suit jacket that Ji Zheng took off last night and put it on the back of the dining room chair.

Xia Hang's sharp eyes saw it too, pointed to the jacket and said, "Suit? Brother, it's not yours, right? When did you wear a suit?"

Xia Bingyang picked up the suit jacket and put it on his arm, and said to Xia Hang: "Feed your cat, after feeding the cat, hurry up and leave."

After speaking, he took his clothes and went back to the bedroom.

He hugged the clothes in his arms and sat on the edge of the bed to call Ji Zheng, calling persistently, ten minutes later, the phone still couldn't get through.

With all his strength released, he fell back on the bed, staring at the hexagonal prism chandelier on the ceiling in a daze.He felt light and empty in his heart, and there was a vast white space in front of him. All the tactile sensations in his body were the heaviness brought by Ji Zheng's suit on his waist.

He could have stopped thinking about it so much, and not being so lost, but everything changed after seeing Ji Zheng.

When the phone rang, he didn't think it was Ji Zheng, but it turned out that it was indeed not Ji Zheng.

Director Chen Huifen called him.

The bureau chief talked to him a lot, Xia Bingyang responded mechanically, without taking a single word to heart, and only listened lightly to his ears.

Bureau Chen talked about the existing review team from the procuratorate, and also mentioned that after discussions in the city, it was decided that he would continue to be the team leader of the review team.

Xia Bingyang didn't realize that something was wrong until now.

"Who else are you looking for?"

He asked without any repairs.

Chen Ju smiled and said, "Are you still afraid of having nothing to do?"

Xia Bingyang stopped talking, he could feel that Bureau Chen was protecting him, and if the review team was not disbanded, he would have to stay in the second sub-bureau for a day, but the way Chen Bureau protected him was to bind him and the review team to live and die together, Is this really a good thing for him?

After a while, Chen Ju suddenly said: "Two years ago we and the anti-pornography office jointly established a prostitution organization, do you remember?"

"Remember, I still have to assist in the anti-pornography this year?"

Chen Ju laughed twice: "There is a pimp named Huang Lizhu who was sentenced to three years and four months and is currently serving his sentence in Chengnan Prison."

Xia Bingyang sensed something about this person from Chen Ju's tone, so he sat up and pulled himself together: "What's wrong with him?"

Chen Ju said: "Two days ago, he explained to the prison guard a case he had done before."

Xia Bingyang didn't take it seriously, it's not new for criminals to confess in order to reduce their sentence.

He folded Ji Zheng's suit and asked, "What case?"

Bureau Chen paused for a moment, then said, "Abduction and trafficking of children."

Xia Bingyang stopped with his suit folded, a dark cloud flashed across his face, and he said in a deep voice, "What does he want to do?"

"He wanted us to find the trafficked child."