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The glass door of the restaurant was pushed open, and a man in a formal suit walked in. He stood at the door and raised his wrist to look at his watch, and stopped the waiter who happened to pass by: "Hello, what number is the room that Mr. Su Xingye ordered?"

When the waiter was about to use the computer to check, he heard Su Xingye's voice coming from directly above.

"Ji Zheng, here."

Ji Zheng looked up and saw that Su Xingye was sitting at a table next to the glass railing on the second floor and was waving to him. A woman was sitting opposite.

He went upstairs, and when he was walking towards Su Xingye, the woman stood up, smiled at him and said, "You are Ji Zheng?"

Ji Zheng didn't know her identity, so he didn't answer, just smiled at her.

The woman looked back at Su Xingye again, and said, "Sure enough, it's a good match." Then she went towards the stairs: "I'll go to the kitchen and call me anytime I need anything."

After the woman left, Ji Zheng sat opposite Su Xingye, took off his suit jacket and put it on the back of the chair, straightened his shirt cuffs and said, "Sorry, I'm 5 minutes late."

Su Xingye dragged his chin with one hand and looked at him with a smile: "It's okay, I just arrived too."

Ji Zheng picked up a menu on the table: "Have you ordered?"

Su Xingye said: "No, wait for you to order together."

Ji Zheng smiled, summoned the waiter who had been on standby for a long time, quickly ordered the meal, then handed the menu to the waiter, saying: "Please hurry up, thank you."

While waiting for the meal, Su Xingye and Ji Zheng were chatting about work topics, and found that Ji Zheng was frequently looking at his watch.In fact, Ji Zheng hides it very well. When he looks at his watch, his movements are often accompanied by drinking water and occasionally bowing his head. But Su Xingye knows Ji Zheng too well, so Ji Zheng's hidden little movements can't be hidden in front of him.

"Are you in a hurry?"

Su Xingye smiled, and asked without showing any anger.

Ji Zheng took a sip of water and said, "Don't rush."

That being said, his demeanor has never been immersed in the atmosphere of the restaurant.

The corners of Su Xingye's slightly raised lips slowly fell, and he said with a sneer: "Ji Zheng, you are really rude to me."

Ji Zheng put down the water glass, finally calmed down a little, and looked at him squarely.

Su Xingye said: "I agreed to invite me to dinner, but you still haven't moved. I finally asked you out today, but you were half-hearted. Do you think this thank you dinner tonight is really a thank you to me? "

Ji Zheng was silent for a while, and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm really too busy these days, so I have been procrastinating until now. If you are not happy tonight, I can invite you again."

Su Xingye said: "Then you continue to be half-hearted?"

Ji Zheng didn't argue or explain, just smiled lightly: "No."

Su Xingye smiled perfunctorily and said nothing.

Ji Zheng took out his mobile phone to look at the appointment form Xiao Jiang sent him, and said: "I will be fine after three o'clock on NO.16. If you have time that day, I will treat you to dinner."

Su Xingye thought for a while, and said: "No. 16... I will go to court that day, so I probably don't have time."

Ji Zheng put away his mobile phone and said with a smile: "It's okay, let's make another appointment."

"Okay, then today it won't be counted as your invitation to me, it will be counted as my invitation to you."

"Please what?"

The look on Su Xingye's face suddenly became serious, he looked at Ji Zheng and said, "Count me...apologize to you."

Ji Zheng's eyes changed slightly, and the shallow smile on his face dimmed a lot.He looked at Su Xingye, but didn't answer.

Su Xingye lowered his eyes, with real regret in his expression: "Actually, I wanted to apologize to you a long time ago, but you have been avoiding me and not giving me a chance."

Ji Zheng smiled, but his eyes turned cold: "If it's still because of that, there's no need to talk about it."

Su Xingye looked at him with pleading eyes: "Give me a chance, I really want to apologize to you."

Faced with Su Xingye's weakness, Ji Zheng couldn't say anything. It seemed that he couldn't be so strict that he didn't even give him a chance to apologize, but could only acquiesce.

Su Xingye took a sip of water, and said with a disappointed expression: "After that incident, I regretted it very much. We could have continued on without breaking up. Just like what you said to me, as long as we are honest with each other and don't suspect , we will be able to accompany each other for a long time." As he said, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Between you and me, I took the initiative first, and you hesitated for a long time but did not agree to me...Suddenly one day, you Tell me that you want to be with me, but you have to confess to me that you seem to like your neighbor next door, but you know very well that you and him are impossible, one is that he is young, and the other is that he and us Not the same. You also said that you feel guilty because you found out that you like him, so you are adjusting your mentality to erase the excess affection for him as soon as possible, and only treat him as a brother. I heard you I think your honesty is a very annoying thing for the first time, I would rather you not be so honest with me... because you are too honest with me, I have not had a good time with you Not happy. I believe you will treat me well, but I still can't ignore that person."

Slowly, Ji Zheng also recalled some old events back then. He suddenly felt that he didn't have to be so guarded against Su Xingye. After all, Su Xingye had accompanied him through those difficult days. He should be more tolerant and gentle to Su Xingye Some, so he said: "I did have a good impression of you at the time, and I really wanted to go down with you seriously. I even wanted to go abroad with you, and I even thought about settling in a foreign country with you. After all, the environment abroad is much more tolerant than that in China. ——" Halfway through the speech, Ji Zheng looked dazed, and felt that his words had crossed the line, so he stopped abruptly, leaving a suspended tone.

It was the first time for Su Xingye to hear the unspoken plans in his heart, and An couldn't help asking excitedly, "Have you really thought about it that way?"

Ji Zheng lowered his eyes, his face unknowingly became alienated and indifferent, and smiled: "It's all happened in the past, and it's meaningless to bring it up again."

Su Xingye insisted on repeating: "Since you want to go so far with me, why did you break up with me so easily?"

This sentence, Ji Zheng heard a trace of resentment.

Ji Zheng raised his eyes to look at him, and suddenly felt extremely alienated and unfamiliar with the person in front of him: "Easy...you mean easy, right? You think I broke up with you very easily back then? "

Su Xingye suddenly realized that he had said something wrong, or that he had wrongly blamed Ji Zheng. Seeing that Ji Zheng was dumb,

Ji Zheng didn't explain himself, let alone argue with Su Xingye, he just said: "I've already told you that I broke up with you because you didn't trust me. I ask you to give me some time, you promise did, but didn’t do it.”

Su Xingye asked, "You blame me?"

Ji Zheng thought about it seriously, and said: "No, I don't blame you, it's because I think everything is too ideal."

Su Xingye said, "You lied, if you don't blame me, why did you break up with me?"

Ji Zheng finally looked at him again, and said: "Because you are using him to hurt me, and you are also using me to hurt him. He doesn't know that I like him, and he has never been between us. I can understand that you want to hurt Me, but I can't understand why you would hurt an innocent person."

Su Xingye seemed to have forgotten his purpose for initiating this conversation, and couldn't help but sneer: "If I can hurt him, it means he is not innocent."

Ji Zheng frowned, quickly looked away from his face, and picked up the suit jacket draped over the back of the chair.

Su Xingye realized that he was about to leave, so he grabbed Ji Zheng's hand and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I admit that I was wrong, I did a stupid thing, I shouldn't let him see that kind of thing on purpose. I know That incident hurt you and him a lot, I really regret it. Ji Zheng, I'm sorry."

Ji Zheng was pulled by him, watching his behavior of losing his composure due to excitement, in order not to further stimulate him, he sat back reluctantly, and said as if responding to his continuous pestering: "When I am with you, I took your feelings very seriously and worked hard to change my feelings towards him. I know that is not fair to you, and I have always felt guilty for you. At that time, I had already decided that unless you take the initiative to break up, Otherwise, I will never be separated from you. But after that happened, I had to break my promise." As he spoke, Ji Zheng moved lightly, but pushed Su Xingye's hand away forcefully, and smiled wryly: "Actually, I I bought the ticket for you, which is a surprise for you. But that surprise was not sent out."

Nearly ten years have passed, Ji Zheng has already put down the past with Su Xingye, just like the faces he has seen before, put them in a dusty corner of his heart, and he will not easily think of them , but when you take it out to recall, it can still clearly appear in front of your eyes.Because Su Xingye was a part of his life, just like his friends, mentors, and classmates, he had participated in his life, so he reserved a place for them.

Can not remember, but will not forget.

Ji Zheng was relieved when he said these words, but Su Xingye was regretting it.

Su Xingye looked at the slender fingers he pinched on the wall of the cup, and remembered that the temperature on his hands was always cold, but when he held hands with him, he could feel the softness of his palms... Right here At that time, Su Xingye finally understood that the problem between him and Ji Zheng was not anyone, but that he did not trust Ji Zheng. Ji Zheng was such a frank and promise-keeping person. That person, Ji Zheng said he would go to the end with him, he would go to the end with him.Ji Zhengruo has only one commitment to him, but it is enough to support them through the long decades.But he didn't believe in Ji Zheng's promise, and he didn't believe that Ji Zheng could do what he said.

If there were no accidents back then, Ji Zheng would really be able to forget Xia Bingyang and go to the end with him.

It was only now that Su Xingye spoke his true heart to him: "At that time... I was so jealous of him, I was so jealous that I wanted to declare some sovereignty in front of him. Now that I think about it, really So stupid."

Su Xingye's voice choked up, his eyes were red.

But the past that Su Xingye can't let go of has only one sentence for Ji Zheng: "It's all over."

Su Xingye grabbed Ji Zheng's hand again, and looked at him with pleading eyes: "Ji Zheng, can you give me another chance? I still like you, and I believe you have feelings for me. We were so good before, don't you Have you forgotten all? I keep all the gifts you gave me, I have never forgotten you, we... can we start again?"

Ji Zheng looked at him without answering.

Su Xingye's tone became more mournful and embarrassing: "Give me a chance, let's start again, we will go to settle abroad, and never come back—"

Ji Zheng didn't wait for him to finish, and pushed his hand away again, his expression no longer calm: "I'm sorry, it's all over."

Su Xingye was like a moth flying towards the light, but the cluster of flames went out as he approached. His eyes were blank for a moment, and he said with the last bit of dignity: "It is indeed over, but we can Start over, can you forgive me once? I really know I was wrong, just forgive me once...just once..."

Ji Zheng didn't know how to answer, and he couldn't answer. He picked up his suit jacket and put it on his arm, and said softly: "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

He took a few steps forward, and suddenly heard Su Xingye say coldly: "Don't you think you are ridiculous and ridiculous?"

Ji Zheng stopped and looked back at him.

Su Xingye sat where he was, and Su Xingye who had begged Ji Zheng to give him another chance just now had disappeared, as if he had never appeared before.At this time, Su Xingye's face was cold and he couldn't see any emotion. Only his slightly red eyes revealed his anger and shame.

He said: "You kept saying that you were serious about me, but for him, you didn't even give me a chance to forgive me. It's been so long since that incident, he may have forgotten it long ago, maybe he even you Forgot, but you are still brooding, don’t you think you are ridiculous? Don’t you think you are ridiculous when you reject me for someone who doesn’t care about you at all? "

As he said that, he sneered sadly, and turned to look at Ji Zheng: "Don't you think you are too cruel to me?"

Su Xingye was actually right, at least in his understanding, Ji Zheng was really ridiculous, absurd, and cruel.

Ji Zheng didn't defend himself, because he couldn't explain what happened to him. More importantly, Su Xingye was lost in his heart, and he would not explain everything he encountered emotionally like a passerby.

He admitted that he did have the cruel side that Su Xingye said.

Ji Zheng didn't say anything, even omitting to say goodbye, he looked at Su Xingye for the last time in silence, this look contained the possibility of never seeing each other again in this lifetime.Just like when Su Xingye sent him to the airport, he walked through the security checkpoint with his suitcase, turned his head to look at Su Xingye for the last time, and said 'goodbye' to him in his heart.

Leaving the restaurant, Ji Zheng looked up at the endless darkness of the night, and when he lowered his head, his eyes were dazzled by the street lamps on the side of the street.He collected himself and walked along the sidewalk to the square where the car was parked.

The crowd around him brushed past him, and he could clearly hear the laughter of the crowd, feel the shock of being accidentally hit on the shoulder, and he could reply that it was okay after the other party apologized to him, but His heart was always empty and empty, and everything around him didn't give him the slightest sense of reality and heaviness. He seemed to be walking in the clouds top-heavy.

After walking forward in a daze for a while, Ji Zheng finally knew why he was anxious and what he wanted to prove urgently, so he took out his mobile phone and dialed Xia Bingyang's number.After waiting for the call to connect for more than ten seconds, he was so flustered that he almost rushed straight through the humanoid road with the red light on.

"Hello? Brother?"

Xia Bingyang called him, Ji Zheng Gaoxuan's heart suddenly fell heavily, and there was a muffled sound in his chest.

He followed the crowd down the sidewalk and asked, "What are you doing?"

Xia Bingyang's tone was irritated and listless: "Stay up late, work overtime. Where is Xiao Sun?" Sun went to buy food for [-] people, Deng Yujie took her to my office after taking notes, and Sister Lou told me when she came back."

There was another sound of closing the door, the noisy background sound from the phone disappeared, and Xia Bingyang seemed to have entered a relatively quiet room.

After not hearing Ji Zheng's words for a long time, Xia Bingyang called out again: "Brother?"

Ji Zheng listened to his voice, the feeling of being top-heavy and erratic gradually disappeared, and his feet became firm. He smiled and asked, "Why don't you call me Brother Ji Zheng?"

This question came up suddenly, Xia Bingyang leaned on the window sill and thought about it carefully, and found that after being with Ji Zheng, he did change his name to call Ji Zheng 'Brother' instead of 'Brother Ji Zheng'.He didn't think about the reason, but now that he thinks about it, the reason may be that he always retains a respect for Ji Zheng, and in order to appear close to Ji Zheng, he no longer calls Ji Zheng's name easily.

But the fact is that he never called Ji Zheng's name in front of Ji Zheng's face.

Xia Bingyang thought of the reason, but didn't say it. He took out a lollipop from Lang Xixi's desk just now from his pocket, and with the mobile phone on his shoulder, he tore off the candy wrapper and smiled, "Why? You don't want to hear me call you elder brother?"

Ji Zheng arrived at the small square where the car was parked, walked past a row of vehicles, and said, "It's the same name, it's just a name."

This is the truth, but Xia Bingyang was not very happy when he heard it. With a lollipop in his mouth, he slurred his words, "Can I call you the same as other people call you?" He bent over to the balcony Lie down, looking at the night scene of the street outside the window of the police station: "I think about what else I can call you—"

Before he finished speaking, he already had an idea in his mind. He took out the lollipop from his mouth, bent his lips and smiled, and his voice became sweet and greasy like sugar: "I'll call you like that from now on, okay? ,husband."

Ji Zheng found his car, stood beside the car and was holding the car key to unlock it, when he heard Xia Bingyang calling his husband sweetly, he flicked his wrist and dropped the car key on the ground.

He collected himself, then bent down to pick up the car keys, unlocked the car, opened the door and got in the car, before saying, "Okay."

Xia Bingyang was dissatisfied with his slightly flat reaction: "Don't want to hear it? Forget it, let's call Dr. Ji. Why is Dr. Ji calling me? Tell me something, I'm very busy."

Ji Zheng drove on the road very calmly, no matter how hard Ren Xia Bingyang thumped in front of him, he could easily pinch Xia Bingyang's seven inches, and said: "I miss Officer Xia, I want to hear Officer Xia's voice."

When Xia Bingyang heard it, he immediately laughed, cleared his throat and said, "Oh, then what do you want to hear?"

Ji Zheng said with a deep laugh: "I want to hear Police Officer Xia call my husband again."

Xia Bingyang heard the answer he wanted, picked up Joe again, and said: "Once a day, today is no longer a chance."

Ji Zheng pinched him seven inches again, and said softly: "Can't you be more flexible?"

Xia Bingyang has never been able to resist his gentleness, but when Fan Jizheng spoke to him with a smile in his voice, he didn't have any morals or standpoints, so he immediately fed what he just said to the dog, honestly He called out 'husband' on the spot.

Ji Zheng smiled lightly: "Good boy, my husband heard it."

Xia Bingyang held his forehead, his ears were hot, and realized again that he was not Ji Zheng's opponent. Ji Zheng always had a way to hold him firmly in his hands, but he liked and enjoyed the feeling of being controlled by Ji Zheng.

Ji Zhengdao: "Husband is going to Jinshi Warehouse in the northern suburbs now, does Officer Xia have anything else to explain?"

Xia Bingyang's head is so hot being teased by Ji Zheng now, he wants to imitate his tongue when he opens his mouth, but fortunately, a trace of shame made him change his words temporarily: "Where have you been?"

"I haven't left the city yet, and it is estimated that there are still more than two hours away."

Xia Bingyang looked at his watch: "It's already past eight o'clock, and the mountain road is difficult to walk at night, you must drive slowly."

"Well, don't worry."

Xia Bingyang thought for a while, and then said: "Forget it, don't go at night, go tomorrow morning."

Ji Zheng smiled and said: "I don't have time during the day, so I can only go at night. Don't worry, my driving skills are not bad."

Xia Bingyang said: "Then I won't talk to you, it's easy to distract you."

"Okay, you are busy."

Having said that, Xia Bingyang did not answer the phone.

Ji Zheng waited for a while, seeing that there was no sign of him hanging up the phone, he laughed and said, "Don't you want to hang up the phone?"

Xia Bingyang took a while longer, until someone knocked on the door outside, before saying: "Then I hang up?"

"Well, go to bed early."

After Xia Bingyang hung up the phone, Ji Zheng put the phone on the driver's seat. In order to prevent himself from driving tired at night, he turned on the car speaker and played a song with a soothing rhythm.

After looping through his limited playlist seven or eight times, he drove on the illuminated mountain road and saw a wide road deep into the mountains and forests with a bright light, which was Jinshi Storage Park.The street lights are only built to the fork leading to Jinshi Storage Park.

Considering that there are no street lights going up, Ji Zheng parked the car on the side of the road and walked instead.

Gradually away from the fork in the road, the road ahead is getting darker and darker. The trees on the side of the road cover the faint light from the half moonlight in the sky, and it is dark all around. The sound of scraping forest leaves.

Ji Zheng turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, climbed up the mountain road, and quickly climbed to the top of the mountain.There is a dense forest on the top of the mountain. Although it is hard to tell the direction in the mountain forest, it is not an impossible task to find a different Davidia involucrata tree.Ji Zhengzai specially prepared a compass, relying on the clue that Xia Bingyang told him to go straight west after entering the forest from the mountain road, and finally found the Davidia involucrata tree hidden in the heart of the mountain forest after walking for 10 minutes.Six years ago, the Davidia involucrata tree was not so tall and straight, its height was only as high as half of the miscellaneous trees, and it hadn't yet shown its outstanding demeanor.

Ji Zheng walked around the tree trunk and looked at the ground with his mobile phone. The ground he saw was hard and flat, and the surrounding vegetation showed no signs of being broken.If a dead person is buried under the tree, the newly dug soil will have a color gap with the surrounding land, and there will be a slight sense of subsidence when stepped on. At 23 degrees to the south, Xia Bingyang said that three or four scattered ant holes were found in the exact position where the corpse was buried.He even used his palms to feel the humidity of the soil everywhere, and finally confirmed that the soil under the tree had not been turned over, which meant that Wu Zheng's body had not been buried here at this time.

After reaching the conclusion, he took a few photos of the tree under the tree with his mobile phone, and then returned along the original road.There was an accident when he returned. Although he had a compass with him, the compass was not accurate to within a millimeter. On the way back, he deviated from the original route and deviated to the southwest.Ji Zheng knew very well that he could not take the exact same route as when he came, but he also knew that as long as he walked in a straight line in the exact direction, he would definitely be able to get out of the forest.

The forest was very quiet, so quiet that there were only the sound of his own footsteps, the sound of his pushing aside the branches of the trees, and the friction of weeds and his trousers.For other people, walking in the deep and quiet forest, it is inevitable to panic in the heart, but Ji Zheng is not, his heart is strong enough, so strong that unknown creatures rushing past behind him are not enough to make him turn back to find out.However, after walking for more than ten minutes, in the silence around him, he suddenly stopped——

The touch of his left foot is different from the touch of his right foot. The touch of the right foot on the ground is firm, but the left foot feels soft, like a fluffy new layer of soil on the solid ground, like he is trying The touch found under the Davidia involucrata tree...

He turned around and looked down with his mobile phone, his expression suddenly cooled down.

The first thing he saw was a patch of weeds with heavy damage marks. The patch of weeds was about two meters long and one meter wide, in an irregular rectangular pattern.The reason why the pattern appeared on the ground is that the color of a piece of soil is different from the color of the surrounding surface. The color is darker and the soil is newer, even a little fluffy, just like new soil just dug out from the ground, and the new soil The image is like a coffin, just enough to bury a corpse...

Ji Zheng squatted down, took out the dagger he carried with him from the pocket of his suit pants, and inserted the dagger down, the soil was indeed soft.He put down his phone and dug down with the dagger little by little. After digging down more than [-] centimeters, the dagger suddenly pierced something soft but resilient.He pulled out the dagger and looked at the light of the mobile phone, and a chill fell on his back instantly.

The point of the knife brought out a lump of soil, and the reason for the lump of soil was that it was stained with blood, and the blood coagulated them together.Ji Zheng put down the dagger, squatted on one knee by the pit, continued to dig down with both hands, digging, his whole body froze, his left hand slowly turned in the soil layer - he touched something similar to a human finger, He pinched one of the fingers and pulled it out, and a human left hand was lying in the mud, exposed in front of his eyes.

Ji Zheng's heart beat a few times quickly, and he continued to clean up the soil layer on the surface in the direction of this hand, and pushed away the soil on the head of the corpse lying in the deep pit.When he saw the face of the corpse, his heart felt cold again.

This corpse was not Wu Zheng. Xia Bingyang showed him a photo of Wu Zheng. Wu Zheng was handsome with sharp features, while the person lying in the corpse pit had a round face, a pair of rough eyebrows, and a short flat jaw. Not the slightest resemblance.

He didn't expect to find a dead body after leaving the Davidia involucrata tree, let alone that the dead body wasn't Wu Zheng.But now that he had found it, he had to figure out the identity of the body he found.He took a few photos of the corpse, then searched the pockets of the corpse, and finally found a stack of business cards in the lining pocket of the corpse's jacket. There were more than a dozen of them, already damp.

These dozens of business cards are all the same. Ji Zheng threw the soil on them and illuminated them with the light of his mobile phone. The business cards are very simple, with only his name and a contact number——Yang Shu, 1387879XX64.

Ji Zheng turned to the back of the business card, and this time he saw a line of small italic characters under the watermark, which should be the place where Yang Shu works.When Ji Zheng saw the small characters in italics clearly, the words crashed into his eyes like an inexplicable force, causing a tremor in his eyes.

On the bottom of the back of the business card is printed a line of small italic characters - Deep Sea Club.