when the moon whispers

Chapter 113 Girl-Looking Back

case three girls
33Looking back
"Officer Jiang, why do you want to be a police officer?"

Shao Jie's mosquito-like sigh was almost silent.He didn't expect Jiang Mo, who was often too lazy to respond, to say a few words to him in such a sleepy and exhausted situation. He didn't think this was a good opportunity to have a long conversation and get to know each other deeply while he was in danger. He muttered to himself. After saying this, he pursed his lips and stopped humming. He raised his head with eyes open and looked at the infusion dripping pot quietly. He blinked unconsciously following the rhythm of the dripping medicine.

The emergency bed area was rarely covered with silence. Even the running instruments to dissipate heat and the low-pitched beats indicating stable vital signs were so peaceful and distant that they could not be heard clearly.

He looked at Jiang Mo who was breathing steadily, thinking that she had completely sunk into the slightly heavy quilt after washing with disinfectant, and fell asleep quietly in sadness.

However, Officer Jiang, who was half sideways with his back to Shao Jie, suddenly couldn't let him continue to speculate and sighed.

She turned her head awkwardly, closed her eyes for a moment, then opened her round, bright eyes and glanced at Shao Jie with all her strength and crookedness. Seeing his face filled with bitterness and hatred, she always felt that this child seemed to have a crush on the police. The professional group had the painful illusion that they were surrounded by mountains of swords and seas of fire day and night, and everything they looked around was solemn and tragic. After pondering for a moment, they couldn't help but put themselves in the position of "a close friend" and tried to put this The topic of responsibility and identity was relaxed, and he asked with a smile: "Well... then why do you want to be a professional e-sports player?"

Shao Jie suddenly bumped into Jiang Mo, who was twisting his neck and trying to look over at him. He laughed in amazement and picked up this man who obviously couldn't fall asleep for a while, and put pillows and quilts on him.

"In the beginning, I either wanted to play professionally, or I didn't like studying in junior high school, and I was a bit rebellious, so I started hanging out in Internet cafes and playing games." Shao Jie slowly revealed how he resisted looking back when he was young. Looking directly at the past memory, he squeezed his palms that were frozen by the glue tube and the medicine, rubbed them twice to bring out the heat, then gently held the infusion tube in his palms, and said in a very soft voice: "My parents and I , I can’t get along a bit—it’s not that I can’t get along, it’s just...how should I put it? It feels like there is a time difference between my life and theirs. At first, it was just because their respective jobs couldn’t get along, and then it became..."

Jiang Mo suddenly put on a joking expression.She didn't expect that the random topic she broached would lead to such a heartbreaking reply. The superficial smile on her face suddenly dropped. She frowned and remained silent for a long time before answering in a hoarse voice. : "Director Shao is in the emergency room, and who is your mother?"

"Teacher Wu is the head teacher of a key high school in the city. He is either a senior in high school or in an experimental class. He is very busy dealing with the hope of the future of the motherland every day." Shao Jie seemed to be facing the cruelty and calmness of the passage of time inadvertently for the first time, and also It may be that the people around him conveyed some calm and stable emotions to him, but now it seems that when he talks about his crazy and rebellious student days, he no longer cares about getting biased in the past. "Since I can remember, they I often miss all kinds of big and small things related to me... From the parent-child sports meeting in kindergarten that requires parents to participate, to the parent-teacher conference after school, and then they don't remember my birthday. Even at school at that time - — Han Lu and I went through the discharge procedures for the broken bones by ourselves. They were so busy that I had to work hard to live in a place where they couldn't care for me, but I ended up growing up completely beyond their imagination... …By the time I wanted to restrain him again, there was no chance to intervene. After a few unpleasant incidents, they didn’t want to waste time on me anymore.”

Jiang Mo suddenly remembered that when she first discovered the identity of Shao Jie and Shao Weian as father and son, the obvious and almost concrete suppression and repression lingered around Shao Jie for a long time.She looked steadily at Shao Jie's still calm eyes at this moment, as if she suddenly understood why Shao Jie was accustomed to her indifferent responses from time to time. She pinched her palms in annoyance, barely maintaining a relaxed expression. He asked in a tone of voice: "Then...going to an Internet cafe and playing games is considered a demonstration?"

"A bit childish, right?" Shao Jie nodded briefly without hesitation and laughed angrily: "This was already the most rebellious thing I could do at that time... But going out to play all day long It’s not like I have to ask my parents for money all the time. The owner of the Internet cafe I met at that time tricked me into playing a game, but it turned out that I didn’t get it right, so my idea of ​​‘a good thing leads to a negative’ can be put to some use...”

Jiang Mo couldn't say he could completely empathize with his feelings, but his heart was touched. He couldn't quite laugh. He paused for a moment and then asked, "Do your parents support your playing in professional games?"

"It's not about whether they support it or not, they don't care at all." Shao Jie shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "Actually, although I have been in clubs since high school, I still participated in the college entrance examination. At that time, the competition There are quite a few. If I take the time to review hard and look at the scores, I would be in the middle or upper half of the two books? But I didn’t read it. I wanted to take advantage of my age to play games first, and then retake the e-sports related major after retirement to continue studying... This matter When they found out, they didn't agree at all. They thought my decision was unrealistic, so they didn't contact each other for a long time. I just stayed at the club - the club hadn't moved to the opposite side of your neighborhood at that time." "Is this a cold war? - "No need, the potion isn't that cold right now." Jiang Mo glanced at Shao Jie's movements of rubbing his palms to cover the hose from time to time. He stretched out his hand to pat the wound soothingly, but his arm pulled the injured area on his back, so he had to be honest and calm. Sitting upright irritably, frowning and saying, "... until when?"

"It started when I transferred to other cities. Director Shao hoped that I would stay there and not come back and embarrass myself in front of my relatives and friends until..." Shao Jie was actually not able to give a clear definition to this "cold war" time period. In fact, the time they did not interfere with each other was far longer than these three years, but he raised his eyebrows slightly and did not mind giving Officer Jiang a reassurance that was not reassuring: "Until this time I return to Sheng'an."

Jiang Mo knew very well that behind this calm narration there might be turbulence that had been suppressed for a long time, but she still couldn't help but want to help Shao Jie explain it over and over again: "There is no way parents want their children to stay far away..."

Shao Jie secretly raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Mo's knitted eyebrows. He raised the corners of his mouth for a moment, and then quickly pursed his lips into a straight line: "Yeah, I don't understand either. But they didn't say anything after I came back. Didn't I stay home? Stay for a few days and then move to the club.”

Jiang Mo stared at Shao Jie's drooped head for a while, recalling with complicated emotions the accidental collision in a convenience store not long after they first met, and asked hesitantly: "...is your return to Sheng'an related to that Jiang Weili? ?”

"Well, it's revenge." Shao Jie started talking seriously. Seeing Officer Jiang's eyes that almost seemed to believe him, he laughed awkwardly: "——I'm joking. It's just that I just signed back to my current club."

This is really a bit blunt.

Jiang Mo did not comment, raised an eyebrow almost invisible, and looked quietly into Shao Jie's eyes.

It was unrealistic to lie in front of this comrade, a criminal police officer who had made little achievements in his career. Shao Jie was extremely convinced that it would be difficult to deal with this casually mentioned topic. He was silent for a few seconds and then suddenly raised his head, facing Jiang Mo's eyes fiercely. He looked back: "...the Liu Shui I met in the hotel that day. Three years ago, he and Jiang Weili almost killed me in an alley that no one knew about."

When Jiang Mo heard this, he immediately straightened his back eagerly, touching his numb flesh with pain, and asked with a grin on his face, "Have you called the police?"

"I reported it, and it was true that I survived after being rescued by the police, but..." Shao Jie looked at Jiang Mo with a bit of regret, but he didn't show any emotion in thinking about the extra past events despite his reminder. It was appropriate to stop and pouted: "I'm not that impulsive, and I don't have the courage to 'kill enemies with my hands'. If I really wanted to be tough, I wouldn't have left home and ran away from home three years ago. When I come back, I definitely want to play the game. If I have the chance... I just want to take advantage of the retribution of such a person who doesn’t know the heights of the world and extend my hand to help."

(End of this chapter)