Chapter 298 Believe Me
Zhou Yi looked up and said, "Dad, I know what you want to say. They're asking you to help them by selling them a batch of steel coils to help them with some of their resettlement expenses, right?"
Zhou Jianguo nodded.
"I'm telling you, you can't! You're not a savior, you can't control everyone. There are over 5,000 people in the entire Second Steel Group, can you manage them all? Don't be too sympathetic, solve the problem at hand first, okay?"
Zhou Jianguo was speechless and could only lower his head to eat.
Zhang Qiuxia said a few dissatisfied words to him, telling him not to show off. The idea of this matter was proposed by his son, and the problem was solved by the fourth son. He should not think of himself as a big shot.
Zhou Jianguo weakly defended himself, "I just asked casually, and I didn't agree to it."
It wasn't that Zhou Yi wanted to attack his father, but this was a very difficult matter. If it weren't for his uncle's help, he wouldn't be able to put his idea into practice.
Therefore, we must stop my father's obvious tendency to drift away.
"By the way, son, do you still remember Sister Niu whom your grandfather met when he was in the hospital?" Zhang Qiuxia suddenly asked.
Zhou Yi panicked and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know why I suddenly thought of her this morning, and my right eyelid kept twitching. Hey, have you found her missing son?"
Of course Zhou Yi couldn't tell his mother what happened. After all, it involved a murder case, not to mention that his mother was a loudmouth.
"Still looking." Zhou Yi said vaguely. "Oh, by the way, I have to go on a business trip tomorrow."
"On a business trip? Where are you going?"
"Anyuan, it may take several days. You should take care of yourselves when I'm not home, especially grandpa. If you feel unwell, go to the hospital immediately. Don't delay."
Grandpa waved his hand and said, "Just focus on your own things. Grandpa is in good health now."
"Anyuan? That's quite far away." Zhang Qiuxia said, "Hey, didn't Sister Niu's son go to Anyuan?"
Zhou Yi didn't respond and left after finishing his meal.
Before leaving, Zhang Qiuxia gave him all kinds of instructions, telling him not to forget to bring the necessary things, to wear more clothes, and to remember to report home when he arrived there.
After leaving Yigang dormitory, Zhou Yi went straight to Hongda. He wanted to find Lu Xiaoshuang.
This is the person he is most worried about now.
At this point, it was past the time when Hongda was open to the public, but Zhou Yi had a police ID. He showed it and said he was performing official duties, so the security guard let him in.
When he arrived outside the girls' dormitory, the aunt on duty was about to call out to him when she recognized him at a glance.
"Hey, police officer, are you here to look for your relatives again?" the aunt asked with a smile.
"Hello, Auntie."
"Lu Xiaoshuang from the 1996 Finance class, right? I'll call her for you." Auntie stood up enthusiastically and walked towards the radio station.
"Auntie..." Zhou Yi shouted.
"What's the matter, young man?"
"Please don't say the police are looking for her this time. Just say someone is looking for her at the door."
"Okay." Auntie agreed readily and started broadcasting.
In the dormitory, Lu Xiaoshuang had just finished washing clothes when she heard on the radio that someone was looking for her at the door. She immediately felt a little strange. Who would look for her at this time?
She put on a piece of clothing and hurried downstairs. It was not until she reached the front door that she saw the person standing under the light.
"Brother Zhou? Why are you here?" Lu Xiaoshuang asked in surprise.
"I was just passing by and came to see you."
Zhou Yi noticed that his aunt was eating sunflower seeds and watching the two of them with interest, so he asked, "When does your dormitory close?"
Before Lu Xiaoshuang could say anything, her aunt couldn't wait to reply, "The dormitory closes at 10 o'clock and the lights go out at 11 o'clock."
Zhou Yi looked at his watch and said to Lu Xiaoshuang, "Xiaoshuang, walk with me for a while. I have something to tell you."
"Oh, okay."
The two walked away side by side. Auntie looked at their receding figures and said to herself, "They don't look like relatives, but more like a couple."
Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang walked along a small path. Hongda was indeed crowded. Even at this time, there were still many students coming and going.
Zhou Yi didn't say anything, just walked forward. He wanted to find a place with fewer people to talk.
Lu Xiaoshuang didn't know what was going on, so she just followed him silently. She felt that Zhou Yi seemed to be worried about something tonight, so she didn't ask.
Before I knew it, there were fewer people around and fewer street lights.
Zhou Yi finally came to his senses, looked up, and asked, "Where are we going?"
He was completely unfamiliar with Hongda and just instinctively kept walking along the road.
Lu Xiaoshuang blushed and said, "Just ahead is the small garden."
However, Zhou Yi did not notice that Lu Xiaoshuang was blushing, nor did he know that the small garden was a paradise for couples to meet at night.
Zhou Yi looked ahead and thought, no, the light was too dim and it was not safe.
"Let's go over there." Zhou Yi pointed to the other side. There were a few not-so-tall buildings in that direction, the street lights were much brighter, and there were fewer people.
"Oh, okay, that's the direction of the graduate student apartment." Lu Xiaoshuang said and followed.
After walking for a few more minutes, there was no one around. There was a street lamp right above his head. Zhou Yi stopped and said, "Let's go here."
Lu Xiaoshuang couldn't help but become nervous.
"Xiao Shuang, I'm going on a business trip to Anyuan tomorrow."
"Anyuan? Out of the province, right?"
Zhou Yi nodded: "Well, it's about 500 to 600 kilometers away from Hongcheng. I guess it will take me a while."
Lu Xiaoshuang put her hands behind her back and said with a smile: "Then go ahead and don't worry about me."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but be stunned. He hadn't even uttered a word yet, but Lu Xiaoshuang had already given the answer.
How clever she is.
"Xiao Shuang..." Zhou Yi didn't know how to start for a moment.
Lu Xiaoshuang said, "I know that if you encounter any danger at school, you must seek help from the school immediately."
“Don’t go to remote places and don’t trust what others say.”
"Whenever you encounter danger, you must run as fast as you can and run to where there are many people."
Lu Xiaoshuang shook her head and said, "It's like a teacher teaching."
If it were any other time, Zhou Yi would have laughed.
But today he couldn't laugh. For some reason, he felt like there was a stone pressing on his heart.
There is always a sense of foreboding.
Although he is a criminal policeman, he must believe in logical analysis and science.
But he had to admit that intuition was sometimes really weird.
Just like what my mother suddenly said just now, her eyelids twitch when she thinks of Sister Niu, there is no explanation.
"Brother Zhou, I remember everything you said."
"Xiao Shuang, it's not just that. If I'm not back after May Day, starting from that day forward, you must not walk alone at night, and you must not leave school. You must go to class and the dormitory every day. Don't go to the tax bureau during your internship. Say you have something to do at school and come back a few days later. And then, starting from May 1st, call me every morning and evening to let me know you're safe."
Zhou Yi spoke very quickly. Lu Xiaoshuang was smiling at first, but as she listened, she felt something was wrong. Her smile slowly disappeared and her hands behind her back loosened.
"Zhou...Brother Zhou, what's going on?" She felt her heart beating violently in her chest.
In the night, the darkness around her approached her, and there seemed to be something in the darkness.
Zhou Yi suddenly grabbed Lu Xiaoshuang's shoulders with both hands. He looked at her firmly and said, "Don't ask why. Just trust me."
Zhou Yi knew that these words could not be explained, let alone explained.
If it were other things or other people, he would definitely not say it so directly. He would handle it in a more tactful way.
But for this one thing, for this person, he was willing to take this inexplicable risk.
Lu Xiaoshuang looked up at him, seeing the determination and passion in his eyes, she nodded slowly and forcefully: "I believe you!"
"When the wind and waves calm down, we will go to Yunxia Mountain to watch the sunrise."
"Okay, Brother Zhou, I'll wait for you to come back."
The darkness was endless, and the two people under the streetlights were like lighthouses on the coast.
…
Not far from where the two were, there were several buildings, one of which was pitch black.
In a window on the third floor of the building, behind the glass, a dark shadow watched the two people disappear in the circle of light of the street lamp.
Zhou Yi sent Lu Xiaoshuang back to the girls' dormitory, watched her disappear from his sight, and finally waved to him before preparing to leave.
The aunt in the duty room looked at him curiously, and suddenly saw him coming over, and she was a little panicked.
"Young man...comrade police officer, are you done talking?" the aunt asked with a smile.
"Auntie, thank you for your hard work."
“It’s not hard, it’s not hard.”
"You have to keep a close watch on this place. Don't let strangers in. The safety of these students depends on you."
Auntie nodded: "Don't worry, I'm very strict, strangers can't get in at all."
After saying goodbye to his aunt, Zhou Yi walked back the way he came. It was almost time to go back and pack up.
It might be that the dormitory was about to close, and I saw many students running back in a hurry on the road. There were boys who were sweating while holding basketballs, and there were also young couples holding hands.
After walking for a long time, I finally saw the magnificent and grand school gate standing in the night.
Just as Zhou Yi was about to leave the school gate, he met a girl wearing gold-rimmed glasses walking in from the small door of the school gate.
"Song Shasha?" Zhou Yi shouted.
Song Shasha looked in the direction of the sound and said in surprise, "Oh, Officer Zhou, why are you here?"
"Oh, I came to do something. Did you just get back?"
"Um."
Zhou Yi looked at his watch and said, "Then you should go back quickly, or you won't be able to catch up before the dormitory closes."
Song Shasha smiled and said, "There is no curfew in our graduate student apartment."
"I see. I thought it was the same as undergraduate students. It seems I am ignorant."
Song Shasha smiled gently, and the two said goodbye.
The two of them weren't very familiar with each other to begin with, and it was getting late.
Song Shasha walked back along the road and met a girl running hurriedly towards the girls' dormitory.
After turning a corner, the entrance to the graduate student apartment is right in front of you.
Song Shasha suddenly bumped into someone. Just as she was about to apologize, she saw who she had bumped into: "Teacher Xiao? Why are you here?"
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