The people who left their homes returned one by one, and the community became more and more lively. Everyone often got together to talk about their lives after separation.
Gua Liu's experience was the most boring. He was in charge of logistics in the Exile, and the retreat was not dangerous. After leaving, he chose a place with beautiful scenery to live in seclusion. He fished and planted flowers every day and paid attention to the domestic situation. As soon as his spies said that someone was living in Wanpu Garden, he rushed back without stopping.
Gua San and Gua Wu's experiences were more thrilling. The way they evacuated was very risky. They were more or less injured when they left, and they had to lie in bed for a while before they recovered. After they recovered, they randomly chose a city to settle down and tried various jobs. In the end, they found that they could not adapt to the life of ordinary people among a group of strangers, or they simply did not want to adapt. They were still worried about the country, so they simply went on adventures to travel around to try to distract themselves.
Unlike Gua Liu, they maintained a close contact with the grassroots personnel of the Extermination. When they left, they really left. They did not have any spies in the country, so because of various considerations, they did not know the time was ripe until they saw Wanpu's recruitment advertisement. They realized that Lian Jun was paving the way for their normal return to the country, and hurried back.
Gua 8 and Gua 10 retreated a little before Gua 3. They retreated dangerously, but they also fled in style. One of them went to a fishing boat and became a fisherman, and the other went to a rural area in Country M and became a wandering singer. One of them practiced killing fish, and the other gradually accumulated a little fame by singing. He was almost scouted by a scout to become a singer. They each experienced a wonderful life, and then after seeing the advertisement of Wanpu, they returned home.
Gua 7 and Gua 11 were the last batch to retreat. After retreating, they just found a city to settle down. Coincidentally, one of them evacuated with Gua 1, and the other evacuated with Gua 2. They were the last people to meet Gua 1 and Gua 2.
Shi Jin was moved when he heard this, and asked hurriedly: "Did they say where they were going when they evacuated? Or which direction did they go?"
Gua Qi was Gua Yi's apprentice, and he had a good relationship with Gua Yi, but even so, he still didn't get much information from Gua Yi. He shook his head and replied: "No, my master and I agreed to leave the evacuation area at different times, so I didn't know where the other party went. I went in the DZ direction at that time and didn't meet my master."
Gua Shiyi also replied: "We also evacuated separately, and Gua Er didn't tell me anything." Shi Jin
became angry when he heard this, and his eyebrows fell. Later, seeing that everyone was a little sad, he quickly cheered up and talked about something else to change the topic.
...
In the beginning, everyone firmly believed that Gua Yi, Gua Er and Gua Jiu would come back sooner or later, but when summer ended and autumn came, and then autumn gradually ended, and the first snow of winter fell, everyone suddenly became uncertain.
With the abilities of Gua Yi and Gua Er, and Gua Jiu's own conditions, it would be easy for them to get along well in the society of ordinary people. Perhaps after getting used to the life of ordinary people, they no longer want to have anything to do with the past.
On Shi Jin's birthday, Wanpu Garden became more lively than ever. This day happened to be Saturday, and everyone could celebrate to their heart's content. All five brothers of the Shi family made time to come and celebrate Shi Jin's birthday. Gua Liu even gathered everyone in the community a day in advance and prepared a birthday party for Shi Jin.
To be honest, Shi Jin was very happy, but after being happy, he felt a little empty inside.
His birthday had passed, and the New Year was coming. Another year was about to end, but they still had no news from Gua Yi and others.
When would they come back? Would they... come back?
"Chairman Wang called me and said that the higher-ups required that this year's New Year must be a clean New Year." Lian Jun appeared behind him without him noticing.
Shi Jin came back to his senses, turned his head to look at him, and asked in confusion: "Clean New Year? What does that mean?"
Lian Jun stood side by side with him in front of the French window, looking at the lively scene in the backyard, and replied: "It means that the higher-ups' tolerance for medium-sized organizations has reached its limit, and they want to take ruthless action. I gave Zhang Zhuoyuan some things, and he secretly laid a network for half a year, and there will be a big move soon. After this time, violent organizations should withdraw from the historical stage. If Gua Yi and his men have not shown up because they are concerned that the domestic environment is not clean yet, then after this time, they should come back." Shi Jin
was stunned, and hope was rekindled in his heart. He asked to confirm: "Really? Are you sure?"
Lian Jun did not answer, but raised his hand and touched his head, saying: "Happy birthday, be happier."
…
After the birthday party, Shi Jin washed up and lay down on the bed, inexplicably suffering from insomnia. Lian Jun had already fallen asleep. He nestled in his arms with his eyes closed, but he was not sleepy at all. Various thoughts were turning uncontrollably in his mind.
Gua Yi and Gua Er might not come back because of some concerns. Once the concerns are resolved, they should come back. What about Gua Jiu? Will he come back? He clearly said that he would come back to fish with him -
yes, fishing! That fishing forum!
He paused, as if he had grasped the last hope. He gently got up, picked up his mobile phone from the bedside table, opened the browser, and entered the forum address based on his memory.
The page jumped slowly, and he held his breath unconsciously, and then watched a flashy illegal pornographic advertisement page pop up.
He almost choked on the breath he was holding, and hurriedly coughed quietly to catch his breath. He scrolled through the advertisement page and found that he had foolishly entered the wrong URL. He exited the page with a gloomy face and re-entered the URL in the search box.
The page started jumping again, and this time Shi Jin didn't have time to hold his breath, and a blank web page jumped out, and then the sound of fireworks sounded, bang bang bang, beautiful fireworks rose from the bottom of the page and exploded the entire screen.
Shi Jin was dumbfounded and quickly turned off the sound of his phone. He looked back at Lian Jun and found that he was still asleep and was not woken up. He breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to look at the screen of his phone full of fireworks. His heartbeat slowly quickened.
This firework... He was sure that he had not entered the wrong URL this time! It was Gua Jiu! It must be him! He was using this to contact him!
He couldn't help but scroll through the webpage again, wanting to see if there was any other useful information on it besides the fireworks.
As if guessing that he would scroll through the page, the fireworks slowly disappeared, and several colorful flashing fonts with ancient painting styles appeared in the middle of the screen, slowly forming a sentence of Happy Birthday.
It was indeed Gua Jiu! Shi
Jin was surprised, and then angry.
This guy has time to do all this messy stuff, and even remembers his birthday, so why doesn't he come back! Isn't it difficult to buy a ticket back home, or call back!
Just when he was so angry that he wanted to stare a hole in the screen of his mobile phone, another line of words appeared on the page: I am learning to fish, and I will go home when I catch something. Say hello to Jun Shao and everyone for me, Jiu.
Then the screen disappeared and turned into a cross indicating invalid access.
Shi Jin: “…”
He actually went to learn how to fish! Is fishing more important than going home! Can’t you contact everyone before you go fishing?
Shi Jinchu was furious and couldn’t help but enter the URL again, searching and logging in repeatedly. The result was invalid, invalid, invalid... Damn it! His hair was about to explode with anger, and when he was about to try again, an arm was wrapped around his waist, and then a hand reached out in front of him and took away his mobile phone.
“Go to sleep.” Lian Jun rubbed his ear with his chin soothingly, put the phone aside, and hugged him back to bed.
Shi Jin passively lay down, looking at Lian Jun's very clear eyes in the darkness. He felt a little guilty and calmed down a little. He said, "Did I wake you up? By the way, just now I..."
"I know." Lian Jun kissed his lips, held him in his arms, stroked his back soothingly, not letting him see his dark eyes, and said, "It's okay, go to sleep, they will be back soon, very soon."
"But..."
"Go to sleep."
Shi Jin always felt that his tone was a little heavy, as if he was angry. He raised his head to look at him, but failed. He hesitated for a moment, silently swallowed what he wanted to say, and closed his eyes obediently.
Shi Jin fell asleep quickly. Lian Jun stroked his back in the darkness of the room, but he was no longer sleepy at all. He was full of storms and troubles - fishing? Very good, these are really some "obedient" subordinates.
...
When Shi Jin went home for another week's holiday, he found that the community was empty. Except for Gua Liu, the rest of the Guas were gone.
"Where are they?" he asked in confusion.
Lian Jun was sitting behind the desk flipping through documents and replied, "They went for training. They will officially start work after the new year, and they have to familiarize themselves with what they need to do in their respective positions in advance."
Shi Jin became more and more confused: "Hasn't this part been trained? Why are they going again?" Previously, in order to let Gua San and others adapt to the work in Wanpu more quickly after the new year, Lian Jun specially spent a lot of money to enroll them in several famous management classes. Gua San and others were also very competitive and studied very seriously. They finished the course half a month ago.
"It's a review class. It's not long, only half a month, and you'll be back soon." Lian Jun explained, put down the file, stood up, and changed the subject, asking, "Are you tired of reviewing for the final exam this year?"
Shi Jin's attention was diverted. He instinctively looked in the direction of Mr. Feng's residence and frowned. He is already a senior and will go for an internship next year. Why is Mr. Feng still so strict with him?
...
In a farmer's house in the distant R country, Gua Er, with a full beard, squatted in the corner of the room. After listening to the call from the informant, his expression became very strange, with a hint of fear.
"What's wrong?" Gua Jiu, who was sitting in front of a row of computers, asked when he saw this.
Gua Er looked at him, couldn't help but took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff, and said: "Gua Jiu, did you do something? The domestic spies told me that Zhang Zhuoyuan suddenly had a few helpers who seemed to be from a mysterious national force. These people only sat in the rear, one person in one area, helping Zhang Zhuoyuan to carry out a cleanup of medium-sized organizations. Each method is very ruthless, and they know the secret lines of each organization very well..."
Gua Jiu's expression froze when he heard this, and he retracted his gaze with guilt, poked the keyboard, and said: "Is that so... That's good."
"Old Nine." Gua Er called him in a low voice.
"I just sent a birthday card to Shi Jin... I didn't expect him to really see that, I thought he had forgotten it..." Gua Jiu couldn't help but tell the truth, and his voice became smaller and smaller.
Gua Er had a look on his face that said "as expected", pointed at him, raised his hand and held his forehead: "I was wondering where the official had so many experienced hands, you... we are done, Young Master Jun is so smart, he must have guessed what we are doing."
The door was suddenly opened, and Gua Yi, dressed like a farmer, poked his head in and said, "Qi Yun has shown up, get ready to deliver the message."
Gua Er and Gua Jiu were both refreshed when they heard this, Gua Er hurriedly stood up and walked behind Gua Jiu, while Gua Jiu touched the computer and began to frantically type on the keyboard, adjusting the surveillance and locking the location, and at the same time began to attack Zhang Zhuoyuan's email.
A quarter of an hour later, the location information was successfully sent to Zhang Zhuoyuan.
Gua Jiu stopped. Gua Er was still looking at the screen and said, "Mr. Jun may know."
Gua Yi frowned and immediately understood something. He looked at Gua Jiu and called, "Gua Jiu."
Gua Jiu lowered his head guiltily.
Gua Yi looked at the back of his head and frowned. In the end, he didn't have the heart to say anything to him. He just said, "It seems that we have to take the initiative to contact Mr. Jun. At least, we can't let Mr. Jun drag Gua San and the others into this again. Fortunately, Qi Yun's location has been locked. The rest is Zhang Zhuoyuan's job. I hope he doesn't catch anyone empty-handed this time and waste the opportunity we gave him."
"Too late." Gua Er waved his phone and said leisurely, "Mr. Jun has sent Gua San and the others to Zhang Zhuoyuan to help clean up."
Gua Yi: "..."
"Jun Shao must have known that we are trying to catch Qi Yun." Gua Er sighed, and seemed to have aged ten years in an instant, "Get ready to be punished."
In fact, before the official retreat, Gua Yi and Gua Er had already made up their minds not to stop until all dangerous factors were eliminated. They seemed to have evacuated and fled, but in fact they soon gathered together again, and even found Gua Jiu, who was good at information collection, and brought him into the group.
They paid close attention to the situation in the country, and when they found that Meng Qing and Yuan Peng had died one by one, but Qi Yun's whereabouts were unknown, they immediately set out to track Qi Yun's location. Qi Yun is a cunning and stubborn person. As long as he is alive, he is a hidden danger. Lian Jun and everyone have already cleared their names. They don't want everyone to be dragged into the dark world because of Qi Yun again in the future, so they want to secretly get rid of him.
They could have returned to Lian Jun a long time ago, but Zhang Zhuoyuan was too useless! Around the Chinese New Year last year, they had actually locked on to Qi Yun's whereabouts and found that he was hiding in a small city in Country H. After getting the news, they were afraid that if they took action, they would ruin the new identity that Lian Jun had helped them to clear with great difficulty, so they beat around the bush and passed the news to Zhang Zhuoyuan in the name of a subordinate who betrayed Qi Yun.
Who knew that Zhang Zhuoyuan, a waste, actually let Qi Yun run away! So they had to start all over again. Qi Yun was also cunning. When he found someone chasing him, he became extra careful. It took them almost a whole year to catch Qi Yun again.
Of course, they also saw Wanpu's recruitment advertisement. They also wanted to go back, but the arrow has been shot and there is no turning back. One of the reasons why medium-sized organizations in the country are so difficult to eliminate is because Qi Yun is secretly doing trouble. Qi Yun knows that once the medium-sized organizations are gone, there will really be no place for violent organizations to gain a foothold in the country, so he has been struggling desperately. In order to prevent Qi Yun from continuing to do trouble, and to recuperate and use those difficult medium-sized organizations to cause trouble for Lian Jun and everyone, they made up their minds that they must kill Qi Yun before going back!
As a result, now that the matter was about to be done, they could pretend to live in seclusion for more than a year and return to Lian Jun to enjoy everyone's care. However, Gua Jiu's birthday card sent them to hell.
Now, let alone care, it would be good if they were not sent to the frontier.
"Jun Shao is so reasonable, he will definitely be able to sympathize and understand us..." Gua Jiu tried to mitigate his guilt.
Gua Er raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and slapped him on the head, saying, "Sinner, shut up!"
Gua Jiu was angry but dared not say anything, so he lowered his head and shut up.
Gua Yi frowned and said, "Let's focus on dealing with Qi Yun first. We must not let him get away this time. As for Master Jun... I will be responsible for explaining it after we get back. It was me who started it. I dragged you guys into this."
"No, good brothers, let's shoulder it together." Gua Er waved his hands and looked at the house where Qi Yun lived in the surveillance. He cracked his palms with a bad look, "This is the last fat fish. Catch it as soon as possible so that everyone can have a happy new year without worries."
...
While Shi Jin was busy preparing for the final exam, Zhang Zhuoyuan began the final round of the cleanup of medium-sized organizations. News of violent organization fights appeared frequently again, and public opinion expanded rapidly. Even Shi Jin's final exam paper had questions about violent organizations.
On the day when the exam was over, Lian Jun went to the school to pick up Shi Jin.
In the car, Lian Jun suddenly said, "Qi Yun was arrested." Shi Jin
was stunned for a moment before he remembered who Qi Yun was. He said, "Ah," and said, "He was arrested now?" He thought Qi Yun was already dead.
"Yeah." Lian Jun responded and grabbed his hand, "Qi Yun is a very sensible person. He will avoid people he can't fight. He cherishes his life and understands the principle that as long as he lives, he has a future... In fact, he has no way out. After the domestic organization is cleared, he will never have a chance to return to the country, nor will he have a chance to hurt us."
Shi Jin wondered why Lian Jun suddenly mentioned this, but he didn't ask sensibly and accompanied him quietly.
Lian Jun suddenly turned his head to look at him, smiled, and said, "Now he is gone." Gone in the hands of a few idiots. How could he have such stupid subordinates? Just because of the little hidden dangers in Qi Yun that could be almost ignored, he took the risk of re-entering the dark world, sacrificing his hard-earned stable life, and finally protecting everyone again.
And now, those idiots should be ready to go home. Shi Jin
looked at his smile and was full of mist - huh? What happened to Lian Jun today?
...
When another heavy snow fell, Gua San and others who went out for "training" all came back. Shi Jin went to the door to meet them, watched them get off the taxi one by one, and said with a sullen face: "Isn't the training only half a month? Why did you come back so late? Did you sneak out to play?"
Gua San and others were tired after almost a month. They didn't expect Shi Jin to be waiting at the gate to welcome them home. After being stunned, they looked at the snowflakes on Shi Jin's body and guessed that he must have come to the door to wait as soon as he received a call from everyone saying that they would come back. They were moved in their hearts, but they all smiled and replied: "No, we went to buy gifts for you and Jun Shao."
"Stop talking nice things. You came back late without saying hello in advance. I will remember you." Shi Jin still had a sullen face, but when he saw that they looked tired, his expression eased and he said, "It's cold outside. Let's go home. Uncle Liu made soup for you." Then he turned around and opened the door.
Gua San and others followed him quickly, talking and teasing him while looking at the gradually opening gate of the community. The fatigue on their faces gradually disappeared, and they were extremely satisfied.
It was great that there was someone to greet them when they returned home, and there was hot soup waiting at home. This was probably the happiness of ordinary people -
"Hey! Take the three of us with you!"
A familiar voice suddenly came from across the street, destroying the silent and warm atmosphere at this time.
Everyone stopped sighing in their hearts, and Gua San's hands even trembled, accidentally dropping the luggage in his hands to the ground. Shi Jin,
who was about to step into the door, suddenly stopped, his mouth slightly opened, and after a few seconds, he turned sideways and looked stiffly in the direction of the sound.
Across the street, Gua Er was standing there in a wrinkled black coat, with messy hair, looking like a refugee. Seeing Shi Jin looking at him, he quickly put on a brilliant smile, raised his hand and greeted him warmly: "Xiao Jinjin, long time no see! Please have pity on us three lost children, take us home to celebrate the New Year." Shi
Jin stared at him, slowly pursed his lips, turned to face him, took a deep breath, pushed away the frozen Gua San and others, stopped at the outermost circle, looked at Gua Er, and also at the two people beside him who were also exhausted.
Guajiu, who was standing on Guaer's right, was so angry at Guaer's words "a lost kid" that he tried hard not to raise his hand to hit him. He looked at Shi Jin who had pushed Guasan and others aside and stood up. He wanted to smile at him, but because he was too nervous, he frowned and said, "Shi Jin, I'm back to fish with you."
Guayi, who was standing on Guaer's other side, was much more decisive. He raised his hand and pressed Guaer's head, then scanned all the people who had turned around to look at him, and finally set his sights on Shi Jin who was in the front, and said, "Young Master Shi, we're back."
"...You bastards!" Before Shi Jin could react, Guasan suddenly exploded. He kicked his suitcase away, rolled up his sleeves and rushed towards Guaer.
Guawu and others also came back to their senses, their expressions all became fierce, and they rushed towards the three people across the street together. Shi Jin finally came to his senses and opened his mouth to stop him, but hesitated for a moment and then shut up again, standing on this side of the road and watching the show quietly.
A group of people ran towards the "little lamb" on the other side of the road like wolves, with murderous eyes, as if they saw the murderer of their father.
"Fuck... what are you doing!" Gua Er was startled and tried to dodge, but he failed. Gua San grabbed his shoulder with a grappling hand and pressed him to the ground. He cried out, "Stop! We are all brothers. Let's talk it out!"
"I have nothing to say to someone like you who takes the initiative!" Gua San raised his fist in anger, but felt that his subordinate was thinner than before, so he tightened his fist and couldn't swing it down. He slapped his head in anger and cursed, "What kind of hero are you? It must be your bad idea. You are so cunning!"
"I'm innocent! It's not me!" Gua Er quickly retorted.
"Master, you didn't even do what you taught me! You liar!" Gua Qi also cried out, and together with Gua Shi and Gua Ba, they pressed Gua Yi to the ground in a "treasonous" way.
Gua Yi let them "surround and beat" him, and the serious and tense expression on his face slowly relaxed, and he replied: "I did something wrong this time, it's all my fault."
Gua Qi's eyes suddenly turned red, and he grabbed his collar and scolded: "You are too cunning, you big liar!"
On the other side, Gua Jiu was also caught by Gua Wu. The two looked at each other silently, then raised their fists and bumped each other tacitly, and then gave each other a hug after a long separation.
A group of people were making a commotion. Shi Jin stood on the side of the road and watched. The corners of his mouth curled up a little. Then he lowered his head and took a deep breath. He pressed his red eyes. Seeing that some passers-by were frightened by the "group beating" of several people, he suppressed his emotions and shouted in a loud voice: "Stop making a commotion and go home to drink soup!"
Everyone stopped their actions and looked at him together. Then Gua San bent down and pulled Gua Er up from the ground. Gua Qi also pulled his master up from the ground. Gua Wu let go of Gua Jiu. Everyone patted the snow off their bodies, looked at each other's dirty appearance, laughed at each other mercilessly, then secretly hid their red eyes, and walked towards Shi Jin together with a smile.
Snow began to fall again without knowing when. Shi Jin
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