Shi Jin was sent to school by Chairman Wang, and with his considerate care, he was fortunate enough to have the principal personally handle the reporting procedures for him. He felt a little empty inside, listening to the official language between Chairman Wang and the principal, and his fingers unconsciously rubbed the traces of soy milk on his down jacket.
Where is Lian Jun now? Did he successfully leave City B? After leaving City B, which route will he take to go abroad? As long as he leaves City B, he should be basically safe. The authorities don't know that his legs have healed. As long as he moves around like a normal person, he should be able to easily fool the official search. As long as he moves around like a normal person...
"Shi Jin." Chairman Wang suddenly tilted his head and called him with a smile on his face.
Shi Jin came back to his senses and looked at him in confusion.
"It's getting late. Go to your dorm and pack your things. Study hard. I'll come to see you next time." Chairman Wang said to Shi Jin, looking very close to him. Shi
Jin frowned slightly, looked at the principal who looked over inquiringly, and didn't bother to guess why Chairman Wang treated him so intimately in front of the principal. He responded, got up and said goodbye, and left the principal's office.
"This child is very capable, but a little shy."
"Shi Jin has always had excellent grades since entering school. I think it's because of your good teaching."
"No, no..."
Click, the office door closed, locking the hypocritical conversation inside. Shi Jin pulled the corner of his mouth sarcastically, muttered: "Uncle?", shook his head, and walked out of the administrative building.
Finally able to be alone, Shi Jin suddenly didn't know what to do. It was only morning, Liu Yong and Luo Donghao usually returned to school in the afternoon. His mobile phone and tablet were all smashed, and he couldn't contact others, let alone play mahjong to kill time.
Go to eat?
But he wasn't hungry at all.
Go buy a mobile phone?
He was too lazy to leave the school again.
Shi Jin stopped, took a look at Lian Jun's progress bar that was stuck at 400, raised his hand and pulled the backpack strap, turned his feet and walked towards the dormitory building - he got up too early today, so he went back to the dormitory for a nap.
The dormitory was empty, and none of his roommates came. He threw his backpack and opened all the windows in the dormitory to get rid of the stale air that had accumulated during the winter break. Then he went to fetch a bucket of water, wiped the table, bed, and cabinets, and mopped the floor twice.
When he finished cleaning the dormitory, it was already a while before lunch time. Xiao Si whispered, "Jin Jin, go eat."
"I'm not hungry." Shi Jin wiped the sweat from his forehead, took out the bedding from the cabinet and put it on the balcony to dry, then took out a set of pajamas, and went directly to the public bathroom without thinking that the pajamas were a little damp after being left out for the winter break.
After taking a quick shower and putting on pajamas, Shi Jin returned to the dormitory, closed most of the windows, took back the bedding that had only been left out for a while and spread it on the bed, then threw himself on the bed, wrapped himself up, and closed his eyes.
"Jin Jin..." Xiao Si called worriedly.
"I'll sleep for a while." Shi Jin buried his head in the pillow and forced himself to relax. "When I wake up, Lian Jun should be safe."
Xiao Si calmed down and wanted to cry, but he held it back.
...
Shi Jin didn't know whether he was asleep or not. He seemed to be very awake. He could hear the roommates talking and tidying up things in the dormitory after returning to school. He also knew that Liu Yong and Luo Donghao came to see him. He seemed to sleep very deeply, so deeply that his dreams became sticky. What floated in front of his eyes were all images of monsters stretching, shrinking and twisting their bodies, which were ferocious and terrifying.
"Jinjin, wake up, the baby's progress bar has dropped, go and have a meal."
"Xiaojin."
"Xiaojin? Xiaojin!"
"Why is his face full of sweat, is he sick?"
"Let me see."
A pair of slightly cool hands came over, and the distorted dream dissipated instantly. Consciousness returned, and Shijin opened his eyes in an instant.
The light in the room was a little dim, and the lights were not on. It was very noisy around, as if there were many people surrounding the bed. In the gradually clear vision, the first thing he saw was Li Jiuzheng's worried face. Shijin blinked slowly, a little confused.
How could he see Li Jiuzheng, was he still dreaming?
"Are you awake? Xiaojin, can you talk?" Seeing that he was awake, Li Jiuzheng hurried to him and gently rubbed his forehead.
"Jinjin, baby's progress bar has dropped." Xiaosi reminded.
Dropped? What dropped? My head feels heavy... Wait, the progress bar!
Shi Jin quickly sat up and looked at the progress bar in his head.
20... No, that's not right, this is his own progress bar. What about the other one... 20? 20 too? No no no, he must have been dazzled, let's check again...
"It's 20, baby's progress bar has dropped to 20, he's safe." Xiaosi said in a firm tone, coaxing in a low voice, "After baby uses the last few injections of medicine and completely clears the toxins, his progress bar should be gone. Jinjin, you succeeded, you saved baby, don't worry, baby is fine."
20... It really is 20, Shi Jin stared at the number in a daze, and once again wondered if he was still dreaming.
Li Jiuzheng was startled by Shi Jin's sudden sitting up. When he came to his senses, he saw Shi Jin sitting there stupidly with his eyes completely out of focus. His heart tightened and he hurried over again. Rong Zhouzhong, who was standing behind him, couldn't help it. He squeezed forward and took a look at Shi Jin's appearance. He raised his hand and waved in front of him. Seeing that he didn't react at all, he got anxious and pulled Li Jiuzheng: "Why didn't Xiao Jin react at all? He's obviously awake. Is he out of his mind?"
"Third brother, don't talk nonsense." Fei Yujing, who was standing behind the two of them, warned.
Xiang Aoting, who was squeezed to the outermost circle by them, frowned deeply when he saw Shi Jin sitting on the bed with a distracted look. He stepped forward and pulled Rong Zhouzhong and Li Jiuzheng apart. He stood in front of Shi Jin, put his hands on the top of his head, bent down and looked into his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "The higher-ups have issued a document, stamping Lian Jun's death. We have also paid attention to what you asked me and Lao Er to pay attention to. He was not caught. It's okay. Wan Pu is fine. Xiao Jin, everything is fine. . "
Everything is fine... The palm on his head was warm, and Shi Jin finally felt a little bit of reality. He looked up at Xiang Aoting, then moved his gaze back, scanning Rong Zhouzhong who was trying to squeeze in again, Li Jiuzheng with a worried expression, and Fei Yujing with a frown at the end. His heart warmed up, and his nerves that had been tense for too long relaxed instantly. Finally, he took another look at the progress bar belonging to Lian Jun in his mind, and the tears that he had been holding back for a long time finally couldn't be held back and fell directly.
Lian Jun is safe, finally... finally.
"Old Four, what did you do? Why did you make Xiao Jin cry!" Rong Zhouzhong exploded, grabbed Xiang Aoting's clothes and pulled him back, trying to tear him apart.
Shi Jin, however, stretched out his arms to hug Xiang Aoting, buried his face in his waist, and cried silently with his shoulders shaking.
Rong Zhouzhong stopped pulling Xiang Aoting.
Li Jiuzheng took a step forward and stretched out his hand to touch Shi Jin, but hesitated and put his hand down halfway.
Fei Yujing let out a light breath and felt relieved - it was okay to cry, and it was better to vent emotions than to hold them in.
"It's okay." Xiang Aoting hugged Shi Jin back, patted his shoulders gently, and comforted him clumsily, "It's all over, it's okay, don't cry." Shi
Jin tightened his arms and felt again that it was great to be able to reconcile with this group of brothers. After everyone around him had dispersed, he was lucky to still have such a group of family members by his side.
The roommates who were squeezed out of the circle looked at Shi Jin in a daze. They scanned Fei Yujing and others one by one, and paused at Xiang Aoting and Rong Zhouzhong who had not covered his face. They were shocked and swallowed their saliva.
This group of people who suddenly came to the door were Shi Jin's brothers... Is this Rong Zhouzhong real? He can't just look like him... Oh my God, are they dreaming?
...
After crying, Shi Jin wiped his face with the quilt, got up, washed and changed clothes.
Rong Zhouzhong was very dissatisfied with Shi Jin's down jacket stained with soy milk. He opened his cabinet to change his clothes, but found that there were no other thick clothes in his cabinet except the uniform. His eyebrows frowned and he opened his mouth to complain about how Lian Jun took care of him. The words came to his throat, but he thought of the current situation and quickly closed his mouth.
Xiang Aoting took advantage of Shi Jin's time to wash up and helped him make his bed. He counted his daily necessities and wrote down the missing ones one by one, preparing to go and get them together later. Li Jiuzheng and Fei Yujing helped Shi Jin fold his pajamas, and one of them took out his mobile phone to book a restaurant, preparing to take Shi Jin out for dinner later.
When Shi Jin came back after washing up, the dormitory had been completely tidied up. Four brothers were crowded in his not very spacious dormitory. They were pushing and pulling each other. The scene was a little funny, but very heartwarming.
He took a deep breath and exhaled the last pent-up air in his chest. He showed a truly relaxed smile to his brothers and said, "I'm ready. Let's go out for dinner."
This should be a new beginning.
...
The storm outside was still going on, but it had nothing to do with Shi Jin. He bought a new mobile phone, changed his number, went to class on time every day, and occasionally dealt with Liu Yong and Luo Donghao's gossip about whether his third brother was Rong Zhouzhong, listened to Liu Yong muttering about what rumors were spreading outside that were either close to the truth or completely outrageous, and paid attention to major news at home and abroad every day. His life was monotonous and boring.
Unconsciously, a week passed and the weekend came. Shi Jin habitually picked up his backpack and was the first to leave the classroom. Reflexively, he walked towards the school gate. When he arrived at the school gate, he suddenly realized that he had nowhere to go. Those who would pick him up every week would no longer come. They were scattered all over the world, and he didn't know if he would have the chance to see them again in this life.
The hand holding the backpack slowly loosened. He looked at the school gate where parents kept driving approaching, and suddenly he felt that the world was vast and there was no home.
Since he came to this world, he had been taken care of by Lian Jun. Now that Lian Jun was gone, where could he go? Club? It lost its owner and should be under official control now. Resort villa? But it was just a temporary stop, and it must also be under official control. A foreign island? A villa on an island near Province G? Or even the orchard in Province Y where he first lived?
No, none of them were home.
No, there was another place, a place he had only been to once, and it hadn't been built yet—
"Xiao Jin." A shadow suddenly loomed in front of him.
He came back to his senses and looked up.
Fei Yujing stood in front of him, raised his hand to check his watch, and said, "We should just make it. Let's go home. I've asked the nanny to make some soup, and you should be able to drink it when you get home." Shi Jin
looked at him blankly and asked, "Second brother, why are you here?" Fei
Yujing put down his hand and replied, "Of course I came here specially to take you home for the weekend. You haven't been to my place in City B, right? I'll take you to get to know the gate today." As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed his arm, led him through the crowd and traffic at the school gate, walked to his car, opened the door, and stuffed him in.
The car door closed. Shi Jin watched Fei Yujing walk around the front of the car, open the door and sit in the driver's seat next to him. When Fei Yujing reached out to help him fasten his seat belt, he finally regained his complete thoughts and said, "Second brother, I want to go somewhere first."
Fei Yujing helped him fasten his seat belt and asked, "Where?"
"Wanpu Garden." Shi Jin answered, as if just saying the name, his heart slowly settled down.
Fei Yujing looked at him, sat back, fastened his seat belt, and started the car.
An hour later, the car stopped outside the Wanpu Garden villa area. The gate of the villa area was locked from the outside. Looking through the gap in the door, you can see that it still looks unfinished and very deserted, with no one inside.
"It seems that the construction has stopped, and the gates are locked." Fei Yujing said, looking sideways at Shi Jin, and asked, "Do you want to go in and take a look?" Shi Jin
retracted his gaze and shook his head: "No, let's go."
Fei Yujing called him: "Xiao Jin."
"I'm fine." Shi Jin smiled at him, his eyebrows and eyes relaxed, and he really didn't look very sad. "This is the message that Lian Jun left for me. When the construction starts again here, he will probably come back. I will wait, it's okay."
Fei Yujing frowned, but didn't say anything in the end, and started the car.
...
Fei Yujing is very busy and can't stay in City B all the time. Shi Jin is very clear about this, so he doesn't expect Fei Yujing to pick him up next weekend. When Fei Yujing sent him back to school, he really didn't say that he would pick him up next week.
Another boring week passed. After school on Friday, Shi Jin went straight back to the dormitory with his books.
Ten minutes later, Rong Zhouzhong called.
"Why haven't you come out yet? Did the teacher keep you late?" Shi
Jin was a little confused: "...Ah?"
"Ah what? Didn't my second brother tell you that I would pick you up for the weekend this week? If you can answer the phone, it means the class is over, come to the school gate, I'll be waiting for you." Rong Zhouzhong spoke very quickly, as if he was being chased by someone, and suddenly lowered his voice, "Hurry up, I'm from the class, the agent is coming to arrest someone." Shi
Jin: "..."
He slowly put down his phone, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, happily threw the book on the bed, turned around and ran towards the school gate.
...
Another week passed, and after school on Friday, Shi Jin had realized something, and said goodbye to Liu Yong and Luo Donghao in a good mood. Amid the teasing of the two people about whether they were in a hurry to see their boyfriends, he came to the school gate with his backpack. He saw Li Jiuzheng waiting at the gate. His smile widened and he shouted in that direction: "Fifth brother!"
Li Jiuzheng heard the voice and looked over. He smiled before he spoke and said, "Xiao Jin, I'm here to take you home."
...
Another weekend came, and the person who appeared at the school gate became Xiang Aoting. Shi Jin raised his
eyebrows and asked, "Fourth brother, you actually have a day off? Aren't all the troops in the country busy dealing with those things now?"
"There will always be a holiday if you squeeze it in." Xiang Aoting replied, stepped forward and pinched his shoulders, and praised with satisfaction, "Not bad, a little stronger." Shi
Jin smiled and hit him, saying, "I'm more than a little stronger, let's find a place to practice?"
"Okay." Xiang Aoting accepted the challenge.
...
Life gradually became stable. Although Lian Jun was gone, Shi Jin had four homes that he could return to at any time, and he could be free and live the life of an ordinary person who could go wherever he wanted with his friends.
Once he was no longer in the middle of it, and no longer paying special attention to it, the Meridian Gate, the snake's fangs, the thousand leaves, and the wolf spider suddenly became particularly distant things, so distant that it seemed as if he would never touch them again in his life.
Life became a normal life of going to and from class, eating and drinking. The biggest worry every day was why the teacher assigned so many homeworks, and when the canteen auntie would stop shaking her wrist when scooping vegetables.
Occasionally, Jin would hear some news about violent organizations from some very accidental channels, such as Liu Yong's casual gossip, the teacher's textbook explanation using violent organizations as an example, and the international and domestic news he read every day... The official media's reports on violent organizations were always vague, so he only vaguely knew that three of the five leaders of the large organizations on the run had died, one had been captured alive, and one was missing.
The impact of the firepower competition between the big organizations was too bad. After the authorities cleaned them up, they started a new round of investigations against all legal violent organizations. Then countless organizations were delisted, and another round of storms was set off.
While Liu Yong was excitedly gossiping about the country's sudden strong crackdown on violent organizations, Shi Jin buried his head in his textbooks and began to prepare for the upcoming midterm exams in advance. He is now just an ordinary police academy student, and the most important thing to worry about is obviously studying.
Lian Jun's birthday inevitably arrived. That day happened to be a weekend. Shi Jin greeted his brothers in advance and asked them not to pick him up, saying that he would go out with friends on the weekend. He did go out with his friends, but only for half a day. In the evening, he took a car to Wanpu Garden alone, stood outside the still locked gate and admired the dim moon for a while, said happy birthday to the air, and then turned and left.
The next day, Shi Jin found that Lian Jun's progress bar had dropped a few points, so he knew that Lian Jun must have injected this month's medicine yesterday and his body became healthier.
Spring is so short that it makes people feel uneasy. It seems that summer is here in just a blink of an eye.
Shi Jin went to Wanpu Garden again on the day when the final exams ended. It was still closed there, he smiled, and took a car to the Night Club.
The club was indeed closed, and weeds had even grown in front of the door. It was unknown how long it had been abandoned.
The driver was a kind and talkative man. Seeing Shi Jin staring at that place, he spoke in a loud voice, "I heard that the government has replanned this place, so all the shops here are closed and are going to be demolished. It seems that a children's playground is going to be built on this piece of land. The parents in the nearby communities are very happy because their children will have a place to play on holidays."
"That's great." Shi Jin looked at this building that once embraced darkness and the underworld. He imagined that a children's playground representing the future and hope might be built here in the future. He smiled sincerely and said, "When the children's playground is built, I must come and see it."
"Then remember to call me and I'll take you there." The driver did not forget to take the opportunity to solicit customers.
Finally, Shi Jin returned to the university town and came to the community where Li Jiuzheng lived. He took the elevator up, opened the door with the spare key, walked lightly to the door of the kitchen, looked at Li Jiuzheng who was frowning and simmering a pot of soup, and said with a smile: "Fifth brother, I'm back."
Li Jiuzheng was startled and almost overturned the pot. Shi Jin
laughed even more happily.
The summer vacation officially began. Shi Jin went to Rongcheng with Li Jiuzheng and lived in Li Jiuzheng's private hospital. I don't know when the hospital was renovated. The inside is all warm colors, and there is a garden outside. It can be said that except for the structural pattern, this place no longer looks like what Shi Jin had in his nightmare.
Everything was different now. Shi Jin walked around the garden with satisfaction, and looked up in the direction of Li Jiuzheng's office. He happened to meet Li Jiuzheng's line of sight standing by the window and looked over. He smiled and waved at him
. Li Jiuzheng didn't expect to be caught peeking. He was startled and quickly waved at Shi Jin, pursing his lips and smiling slightly.
After settling in the small suite behind the dean's office, Shi Jin rested for two days without doing anything, and then enrolled in a driving school nearby and started learning to drive. Seeing this, Li Jiuzheng silently flipped through the car magazines again. Shi Jin was so upset that he secretly hid all the magazines.
At the end of the summer vacation, Shi Jin successfully got his driver's license. Li Jiuzheng became unhappy and didn't want to let Shi Jin leave.
"I'll come to see you when I'm on vacation." Shi Jin coaxed him with a smile.
Li Jiuzheng frowned, looked at him, and suddenly said: "Compared to coming to see me, I hope you go to see big brother."
The smile on Shi Jin's face faded, and he looked at the progress bar in his mind with only 20 points left and Lian Jun's only 5 points left. He tightened his fingers and responded softly.
It's been so long, and it's really time for him to go see Shi Weichong. Shi Weichong has suffered too much, and he shouldn't continue to let the other party bear the cost because of his own reasons.
...
When school started again, Shi Jin was promoted to a junior, and finally said goodbye to his previous roommates, moved to a four-person dormitory with an independent bathroom, and lived with his classmates.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or someone deliberately arranged it, Liu Yong and Luo Donghao, whose student numbers were not close to Shi Jin, actually became roommates with Shi Jin. Liu Yong exclaimed how lucky he was, while Shi Jin thought of Xiang Aoting, Liu Zhenjun, and even Chairman Wang, and smiled as he echoed Liu Yong's words.
"Yeah, I'm really lucky."
...
On an ordinary afternoon, Shi Jin noticed that Lian Jun's progress bar began to flash, and the remaining 5 points on it began to gradually decrease - it was obvious that Lian Jun should be using his last medicine.
He sat up straight and called out, "Little Death."
"What?" Liu Yong, who was sitting next to him at the desk, turned his head and asked in confusion when he heard his voice.
Shi Jin came back to his senses and said it was nothing. He got up and left the dormitory, and sat down in a quiet corner outside.
At this time, the value of Lian Jun's progress bar had dropped to 3, and then soon, the number changed to 2, then jumped to 1, and finally returned to zero. The progress bar flashed violently a few times, and suddenly disappeared like smoke. It
really disappeared. No matter how Shi Jin looked at it, there was only one progress bar left in his mind.
"Jin Jin." Xiao Si suddenly called him.
He didn't say anything and was still a little unresponsive.
"Baby is free." Xiao Si's voice sounded a little strange, like he wanted to laugh, but also like he was crying, "Thank you, come in."
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