23 Oncoming Heartbeat | Settlement of Accounts
Jiang Yu went back home these days.
At the dinner table and in the village committee group, a term always appears: bluestone statue.
There is always one person who appears, Lawyer Lin.
One rainy evening, around 5:30, the water pipes in Jiang Sanlu's house froze and the water was cut off. Jiang Yu went to Jiang Meiyi's house to take a shower.
Jiang Meiyi was always full of resentment towards Jiang Sanlu, pointing to the rainy days outside and saying, "Thinking you'd come back at any time, I asked your dad to help you dry your quilt on sunny days, but he just turned a deaf ear to me. Now look what's happened, it's been raining for so many days without a single ray of sunshine."
Jiang Yu put the towel on his shoulders and put on a loose sweatshirt, revealing his clean and handsome face. He said, "It's okay, auntie, there's no smell in the cupboard."
Jiang Meiyi went to the kitchen to fry some rice noodles for him. When she brought it out, steam rose slowly under the hot light bulb, and the aroma of oil and garlic filled the air.
She pushed the plate in front of Jiang Yu, put down her chopsticks, and sat down: "You know about the incident mentioned by the village committee, right?" Jiang Meiyi began to chat about family matters.
Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly and twirled his chopsticks in a circle between his fingers: "Bluestone statue? I know."
Jiang Meiyi lowered her voice, as if she was afraid someone might be listening: "Is there a crime behind this?"
"There's no evidence yet."
"Without evidence, can Lawyer Lin win the case?"
Jiang Yu, still halfway through a mouthful of rice noodles, puffed out his cheeks and suddenly stopped. His chopsticks dangling over the edge of his bowl, he looked up and said in a vague but serious voice, "Aunt, is the lawyer Lin you always mention the one I know?"
What Jiang Meiyi didn't know was: "Which one do you know?"
Jiang Yu was embarrassed to answer the question, and his ears turned red. He lowered his head and took a mouthful of noodles. The hot air hit his face, like a veil covering the name that was about to be uttered.
In Jiang Meiyi's mind, Jiang Yu was a very capable cadre, and it was not surprising that he had a few more connections in the legal circle, so she didn't waste her time on this issue.
She immediately announced the answer, saying, "We're talking about a little girl! Like you, young, promising, and pretty. But I honestly forgot her name."
"What was her name?" Jiang Meiyi tutted her lips, lost in thought. She thought, "That day, the little girl accidentally came into your room and kept looking at your photo silently without saying a word."
In an instant, Jiang Yu sensed that it was her who had been there.
On the other side, after Lin Weifeng sent the WeChat message, he put his phone in his pocket, put on his shoes, and went downstairs to knock on Song Ze's door.
She knocked on the door with such force that it seemed as if something terrible had happened.
Unfortunately, there was no response, and there was no one at Song Ze's home.
She walked out of the stairs, got a car and drove to the police station where Song Ze was on duty. She called him from time to time on WeChat, but she could not get in touch with Song Ze.
She opened the car window to get some fresh air. The air was filled with a cool and damp scent. Unlike the wind during the day, the wind at this moment was even more biting.
The sky was low, and gray clouds piled up together, like countless thick cotton balls, completely blocking the last ray of moonlight.
There were few pedestrians on the street, and occasionally there were a few people passing by hurriedly, with their heads down and their steps hurried.
But the police station was very busy tonight.
The two people who came out of the mediation room hid in a corner and fought, but were stopped by the police on duty with a roar.
Inside, a drunk couple showed each other the spots on their bodies and accused each other, and behind them was the sound of a child crying.
Lin Weifeng parked the car, nodded and greeted Uncle Xu who was registering for work. After seeing Song Ze's name on the shift roster, he sat alone in an empty seat in the hall and waited for Song Ze to come back.
There were many people waiting to be called, so she walked in and sat next to a girl.
The girl looked young and emotionally stable. She was the only person present who had no expression.
Her suitcase stood in the corner, looking dusty. Hanging on her backpack was her Jingjiang University campus card, with the name on it showing her as Tian Yusu.
Tian Yusu was reading a book calmly. After catching a glimpse of Lin Weifeng out of the corner of her eye, she put the book on her schoolbag and let it automatically turn to the title page.
"Sister, you're a lawyer, right?" Tian Yusu waited for her to sit down before speaking. "I've seen news about you." Lin Weifeng smiled and asked, "Are you studying at Jingjiang University?"
"Yes, Kenichi."
"What happened? Why are you coming to the police station so late?"
"I've run into a black intermediary. I'm here to report a case."
Tian Yusu's tone was too nonchalant, causing Lin Weifeng to smile. She asked, "Not living on campus?"
"Jingjiang University no longer provides accommodation for graduate students starting this year. How unlucky."
Lin Weifeng thought that the school should start in September. So, "Then in the past hundred days..." Lin Weifeng paused and changed the subject, "For more than three months, you have been living in the house of the black agent."
Tian Yusu puffed up her lips and said, "Yes, it's clearly an illegal partitioned room, and they're charging ridiculous amounts for utilities. Today is the day to pay the next quarter's rent, and they suddenly told me they're raising the rent. I'm not one to be bullied, I'm going to report them."
"Where are you from?"
Tian Yusu said: "I have no home."
Lin Weifeng was stunned for a moment. Since Sun Zhengxiao had said the same thing, she didn't think it was a lie or something crazy. She just asked, "Where are your family members? They've all come to report the case. Won't they be worried?"
Tian Yusu pointed her fingers up and down and said, "Heaven and Hell, east, west, south, north, the ends of the earth, it's all a mess, it has nothing to do with me."
Lin Weifeng chuckled and thought, forget it, she was probably just a girl from a broken family.
Tian Yusu thought of something and added, "I do have a brother who's like a family member and looks after me. When I was applying for postgraduate study, I was planning to give up and just work to support myself, but my brother said that girls should go to higher education if they can and gain as much experience as possible, and he would pay for the tuition."
Hearing this, Lin Weifeng had already made his own judgment and asked, "Yusu, what's your cell phone number?"
Tian Yusu reported a string of numbers, and Lin Weifeng pressed them one by one and dialed.
When the caller ID showed on Tian Yusu's phone, she said, "Write down this number and ask your brother to call me. My name is Lin Weifeng."
Tian Yusu was half confused and asked, "What's wrong, sister?"
"As your landlord, I have to know an emergency contact."
Tian Yusu was silent for three seconds, then suddenly exclaimed "Ah" in the hall, and then hugged Lin Weifeng's arm and rubbed it.
Lin Weifeng pointed at her suitcase and said, "Looking at you, you must have been kicked out by the black agent. I have an old house that's vacant. You can move in with just your luggage. Just give me half the money you paid to the black agent. Are you willing?"
"willing!"
"But you need an emergency contact to guarantee it."
Tian Yusu quickly opened a chat box and typed a few words on WeChat, muttering, "Sister, I've already told my brother. He's slow to reply, but he will definitely respond."
Lin Weifeng turned the key and agreed.
After a while, Song Ze brought a thief to take a statement. He saw Lin Weifeng at a glance, and his voice trembled when he scolded the thief, and he couldn't help but smile awkwardly.
Lin Weifeng gave him a rather unfriendly look and sat upright in his seat waiting for him to finish his work.
It was Tian Yusu's turn to take the statement, and Song Ze was replaced by another policeman.
"Lady in the golden down jacket, come out with me." Song Ze gestured to Lin Weifeng in a serious manner, pretending to be working seriously.
“…”
He is really something.
Lin Weifeng followed him into the yard of the police station, stopped, raised his index finger, and pointed at the tip of his nose rudely.
Just as she was about to burst into a curse, she was silenced suddenly.
She opened her eyes wide and looked at Song Zeping's peaceful expression.
In the end, it was Song Ze who spoke first.
He said in a steady tone: "Breeze, you don't understand."
The air was cold, and the two of them had calm eyes.
Hearing this, Lin Weifeng gently pushed Song Ze's shoulder and slapped him in the face without hesitation.
Calmly and rationally, he slapped him.
He didn't dodge, he even took a step forward and let her continue to fan him.
"I don't understand."
Lin Weifeng's tone was not very good, but in her heart she could more or less understand the compatibility between Sun Zhengxiao and Song Ze, so much so that she herself was also very conflicted.
Song Ze said in a low voice: "You don't understand, because you don't need it. You don't need to find a stable relationship and a place where you can completely rely on a fixed person."
"you need to?"
"She needs someone like this, and I need her."
The trunk of the locust tree above my head swayed in the wind, making a slight creaking sound.
Lin Weifeng gritted his teeth and slapped Song Ze again when the locust tree swayed again, without any explanation.
Lin Weifeng frowned: "Do you love her?"
"like."
"Where's the last one, the one who said seven years?"
"I have."
"Lost to a hundred days?"
Song Ze sneered, "Not worth mentioning."
Two or three people came to park nearby, and their conversation was forced to stop intermittently.
Lin Weifeng asked: "When did you get together?"
"The day I went to your house for dinner."
"On the same day?"
"When I sent her home, she asked if I wanted to visit her house."
"Just take a walk outside after eating. Why sit at home..." Lin Weifeng seemed to realize something and his momentum gradually weakened.
Song Ze smiled softly, "Yeah, where else can I sit when I'm home?"
“…”
Lin Weifeng gritted his teeth and remained silent.
After a moment of silence, she thought, "Sun Zhengxiao always has moments like this where she goes crazy, but she's not a casual person."
"I never thought she was a casual person. I just said that she just needed an abstract person, and I needed the concrete her."
Song Ze's tone became increasingly calm, as if he had been thinking clearly for a long time.
Lin Weifeng knew Sun Zhengxiao's temper very well and had already accepted this ending in his heart, but he still couldn't let it go.
"She may not know that although you look dissolute, you are actually a romantic man." Lin Weifeng said.
Song Ze said: "The next day, she really wanted to avoid me."
"So what's your attitude?"
"What kind of attitude can I have? Whether it's based on general psychology or criminal psychology, anyone who sleeps with a high-quality man like me and still isn't satisfied must have a huge hole in their heart and have been hurt a lot."
"……nerve."
Song Ze used a popular internet meme to explain: "She took the initiative for one day, and for the remaining ninety-nine days, I'll take the initiative."
"But do you understand her?" Lin Weifeng still had some doubts.
"You ask this because you think a hundred days is too short for me to understand her?"
Lin Weifeng: "Isn't it?"
Song Ze smiled and said, "Lin Weifeng, people are always changing. Even the most affirmative statement of 'understanding' will be overturned tomorrow. Besides, people have different magnetic fields and different ways of getting along with each other. She is a very unique person, and we must have a common understanding of her. Apart from that, the difference between you and me is..."
He paused for a moment, "I dare to love her based on my feelings."
like.
Song Ze spoke frankly and confidently.
Just one simple word released tremendous energy and dispelled many of Lin Weifeng's concerns.
In the end, Lin Weifeng still had to look up to him.
Song Ze's understanding is always timely. He can always see the shortcomings of others, and then use his kindness to cover, accept and melt them.
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