Wound

"Haha..." The girl's voice suddenly appeared in the alley. Jiang Qing laughed, "How did you get lost and bring me here? The navigation said the police station is over there. My brother is very busy with a case. He finally took time out to come see me. Don't waste any more time."

As she said that, she went to pull Lin Nanyan, but the man didn't move at all.

"You know her."

Lin Nanyan spoke, using a declarative sentence.

The stranger's gaze passed over him and fell firmly on Jiang Qing's face.

"I know you—"

"Jiang Qing."

The voice was neither loud nor low, and it reached Jiang Qing's ears slowly and steadily, but she shuddered.

Her hand was still on Lin Nanyan's arm, trying to pull him, but her body suddenly stiffened, and her head snapped as she turned to look at the man who was speaking.

There was a fake smile on the girl's face that she hadn't been able to retract in time, and her eyes revealed deep confusion.

She knew nothing about it.

The man stared at Jiang Qing, as if his eyes were glued to hers. His gaze was straightforward and without any concealment.

"Jiang Qing, a student in Class 9, Grade 2, Jiangyuan No. 1 Middle School, is a day student. Her grades are consistently in the middle of the pack. She lives in the Jinhua Residential Complex."

"I like to eat sour and spicy food, and I like to eat strawberries. Every day during the break, I would go to the school supermarket with my classmates, and there was often a boy following me."

“I don’t like running, and I don’t like math.”

"Every night when I go home, I always stop by the barbecue stall outside the community gate to buy..."

A punch to the face stopped him from saying anything.

The man's face was hit and tilted to one side, quickly swelling up. He stuck his tongue into his cheek and turned his head to look at the person in front of him.

The veins on Lin Nanyan's forehead were faintly visible, and his eyes were burning with anger. His pupils contracted, his back was tense, and he punched down one after another without stopping.

The man who was beaten reacted and instinctively fought back quickly.

Jiang Qing was so shocked by the man's words that she couldn't recover from her shock. She stood there in a daze.

How could he know so much about her taste, whereabouts, preferences, and address?

Before I could figure out what was going on, I saw the two people in front of me suddenly start fighting.

She didn't care about anything else and hurriedly took out a bunch of things from her bag. Without even looking at them, she threw them all at the stranger's back.

The metal key made a shallow dent in the man's clothes, then slid off his back and landed on the ground with a thud.

The damage is not great, but the presence is very strong.

The man with sharp eyebrows took the time to look in her direction, but there was no emotion or expression in that look.

Jiang Qing unconsciously clenched her hands, watching the two men fighting more and more fiercely, with each move deadly, as if they were trying to kill each other. Jiang Qing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on her back.

I can’t go on like this. “Stop hitting me! If you keep hitting me, I’m going to call the police!”

The girl's voice suddenly rang out in the alley, the ending tone so sharp that it seemed to pierce the eardrums.

Lin Nanyue's eyes were bloodshot, densely covered with red blood vessels. For a moment, he really wanted to kill the other person.

At this moment, a familiar female voice with a hint of crying in his ear brought back his sanity which was about to collapse.

No, he couldn't do that now, wait a little longer.

"Are you still fighting?" The man also heard it. He looked at Lin Nanyan who was grabbing his collar and asked.

Lin Nanyue looked at him coldly and slowly let go of his hand.

Jiang Qing quickly ran forward, turned his body, and said incoherently: "How are you? Are you in pain? I won't follow you anymore. Let's go to the hospital first to see if you are seriously injured."

Looking at the blood oozing from one side of Lin Nanyue's cheek, she reached out to touch it but didn't dare to, and tears fell from her eyes in anxiety.

The man on the other side looked at the scene in front of him, lowered his eyes and flicked the collar of his shirt that was torn in the fight with his fingers. There was a hole there, revealing a small piece of his pale skin.

He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva without caring, and pressed his tongue against the wound on the inside of his cheek. It was a taste he had long been accustomed to.

Picking up his black package, the man took a last look at Jiang Qing who was hidden behind Lin Nanyue, then turned around and prepared to leave.

"etc."

The man paused and asked, "Anything else?"

Jiang Qing eagerly poked Lin Nanyue's back from behind. There was no need to confront him head-on. There was still time. Just investigate slowly and you will find out eventually.

Now she clearly realized that the man was a dangerous person. Instead of starting from here, it would be easier to go back to the past and face the man who had not yet become a murderer.

Lin Nanyan must know all this better than her, and she doesn't understand why he was so impulsive today.

The man's eyes met Lin Nanyan's briefly in mid-air. Lin Nanyan looked at him and asked, "Do you know Senior Jiang Qing?"

Hearing the familiar name, the man was stunned for a moment.

It had been a long time since anyone mentioned this person to him.

At this moment, he actually heard her name again from another man's mouth.

For this strange moment, he was very patient: "I know him."

The color drained from Jiang Qing's face. She walked out from behind Lin Nanyan and looked directly into the man's eyes. "You killed her."

The man looked at her and smiled.

This was the first smile he had shown since he was released from prison, without a trace of coldness or sharpness.

That smile was bright and pure, and one could see his inner joy at a glance.

He said, "Yes, I killed her."

Jiang Qing's eyes quickly filled with tears, which fell uncontrollably.

Her voice was shaking, angry and sad.

"You killed her, why?"

The man looked at the tears in the corners of her eyes, as if he found it miraculous. He muttered, "You're actually crying?"

"You are crying, crying for her."

The smile on the man's lips grew wider and wider, until it even stretched into an exaggerated arc.

Seeing this, Lin Nanyan quickly stuffed the girl back behind him to block the man's neurotic look.

The man's eyes met Lin Nanyan's face and he immediately retracted his smile.

The girl was hidden behind Lin Nanyue, not even a hair of hers could be seen. He frowned slightly.

He turned around and walked away without hesitation or pause.

This time, no one called out to him.

The sun in the sky shone brightly into the alley, so bright that it hurt people's eyes.

Jiang Qing's eyes were red and swollen. She leaned her head against Lin Nanyan's back and murmured, "He admitted it."

"It was him. He killed the senior."

Lin Nanyan's clothes on his back were soaked by the water, and the burning touch stuck to his skin, so hot that he didn't dare to look back.

"Um."

After a while, the clothes that had been wet for a long time were dried by the scorching sun, and then soaked and dried again, and it seemed to be repeated countless times.

"Jiang Jiang."

"Hmm?" Jiang Qing responded sullenly.

"My face hurts a little, could you get me a Band-Aid?"

"Ah? Oh." Jiang Qing frantically wiped the tears from her face and hurriedly ran to the bag she had thrown away. "Does it hurt? Wait a minute, I remember I brought a Band-Aid, let me look for it..."

But she had thrown the things into a mess, and she couldn't find it even when she squatted on the ground and searched.

"Turn left out of the alley. There's a pharmacy on the way here." Lin Nanyan looked at the girl and said softly, "Jiang Jiang, go buy it there."

"Okay, you wait for me here, I'll be back soon." Jiang Qing stood up immediately after hearing that, but before she finished her words, she had already run away.

She had to run faster and faster.

Lin Nanyan watched her back as she ran away, and the upward curve at the corner of his mouth gradually fell.

The long slanted shadow under the feet of the man facing the sun suddenly fell down out of thin air.

He leaned weakly against the wall, his clean black clothes instantly covered with thick dust.

The light came from one side, and Lin Nanyan's face was completely hidden in the shadows, easily concealing the blue veins that gradually climbed up his neck, the painful and suppressed breathing, and the pills scattered on the ground.

The white pill was spinning in circles in the sunlight, as if there was a small unknown world hidden inside.

It trembled and took a long time to calm down.

When Jiang Qing hurried back, Lin Nanyue was sitting on the steps in the shade. She closed the zipper of her bag with one hand, and the miscellaneous items that were originally scattered on the ground had disappeared.

Hearing the footsteps, Lin Nanyan raised his eyes and gave her a faint smile.

Perhaps the wound on his face was hurt, and he gasped in surprise.

"Hey, don't laugh, and don't move," Jiang Qing quickly ran towards him, tearing open the cotton swab package as she ran. "I asked the store clerk, and she said the wound shouldn't be pulled, or it will easily heal and then open again."

She sat next to Lin Nanyan and applied iodine to his face.

"Why don't we go to the hospital? You had a fight with him, and I don't know if you have any internal injuries. It's better to get checked out."

As she said this, she put down what she was holding and was about to stand up. Before she could straighten her back, the man grabbed her wrist and pulled her down.

"No need, they're just superficial injuries." Lin Nanyan said calmly, "Sit down first."

"real?"

Jiang Qing was half-believing and half-doubting. She was frightened by the way the two men fought just now. Every move seemed like they were fighting for their life. How could they be fine?

"I'm an old hand at fighting. How could I be so ignorant of the severity of the situation? I was just bluffing just now. It just looked scary." Lin Nanyue's eyes and eyebrows were full of pride in his own skills.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Qing finally felt relieved. It seemed that everything should be fine.

She applied iodine to Lin Nanyan's face again, and saw that his clean face suddenly became shaky. She looked at the yellow spot under his black eyelashes and felt like she saw a miserable yellow spotted dog.

Jiang Qing wanted to laugh, but held it back.

"It's done." She ran her fingertips over the Band-Aid on Lin Nanyan's cheek and flattened the four corners.

Lin Nanyan turned around and wanted to say something, but suddenly he met the girl's fair face, which had not yet moved away. The distance between them was very close, and he held his breath.

Jiang Qing blinked and stared at the enlarged face in front of her without moving.

After a long while, she exclaimed, "I suddenly realized that your eyelashes are so long."

Lin Nanyue suddenly came to his senses and turned around in embarrassment.

"Are you hurt?" the girl asked, about to lift up Lin Nanyan's shirt, "I'll help you apply medicine."

Lin Nanyan held her wrist tightly, not daring to be too gentle or too heavy.

He looked at her and said, "No harm done."

"It's not like you haven't seen it before, why are you shy?" Jiang Qing muttered softly, not forgetting to secretly exert force in her hands, "And you're still lying to me that you're not hurt? I saw where he hit you."

Lin Nanyan: "...I'll go find some medical staff later."

It sounded like he was determined to fight her to the end. After all, he was an injured person, so Jiang Qing couldn't force him. If he resisted, it would only make him more injured.

"Whatever you want." She pulled her hand back, and this time she managed to get it back smoothly.

But no matter what, the wound still needs to be treated in time.

Jiang Qing took Lin Nanyan to a small clinic and paid someone to give him medicine.

Listening to the footsteps walking away, I looked at the curtain being drawn in front of me.

Jiang Qing laughed speechlessly in anger. Was there any need to be so wary of her?

She doesn't want to watch it at all, okay?

She really didn't want to look at it at all.