when the moon whispers

Chapter 17 Teenager - Puzzle
case one boy
seventeen puzzle
Jiang Weili didn't throw a punch, and the whole person was held there, struggling and embarrassing.He felt a little headache when he saw the stupid big man in front of him, he pointed his index finger threateningly at Shao Jie who was standing aside with such an innocent face, gritted his teeth and said "wait", and turned his head behind him The little player on the side bumped his shoulder, turned around and walked out quickly from the training floor.

Seeing this, the teenagers who rushed out to stretch the side frame hurriedly placed Shao Jie on the sofa in the training room. They were full of doubts but couldn't ask questions. They looked at each other like little chickens and were embarrassed for a long time. , In the end, the big man who stopped Jiang Weili just now waved his hands to tell everyone what to do, took a glass of water for Shao Jie, sat down next to him, and rubbed his hands thoughtfully.

Shao Jie had no intention of actively explaining the situation, took a sip of water slowly with a paper cup, and glanced casually around the training room.

The few players he had known before had either reached the age of retirement, or took advantage of the offseason to rush away on vacation, and the faces in the training room seemed insignificant to him.

Bottom lane Wen Xi (ID: Xixi) and support Cheng Zi (ID: Cola) are both kids who have just been promoted from the youth training. They have never met each other before. They have admired Shao Jie for a long time, but they are very familiar with each other and stay away from each other. Inside the gaming chair, he quietly cast his gaze over, not timidly. The two children met Shao Jie's gaze and shook their heads happily.

The jungler Jiang Heyu (ID: QWER) is a foreign aid, and his acquaintance with Shao Jie is limited to nodding acquaintances on and off the court. Probably because of the language barrier, the recognition index has doubled. Almost the moment he met his eyes, he He turned around and sat back in front of the computer, hanging on a single earphone, silently paying attention to the direction of the sofa.

Counting and counting, in the entire training room, Li Zechuan (ID: LoveHepbum), who was also on the road, could be regarded as an old acquaintance of Shao Jie, and it was rare for him to be on the same team.

Sitting in front of Shao Jie, this tall and tall guy from the Northeast kept shaking his legs. After a long silence, he suddenly cleared his throat, avoided the conflict first, and asked vaguely: "How are you talking with Lao Huo and the others?" ?”

Shao Jie raised his eyebrows, noncommittal: "I don't know yet, I just arrived here and Lao Huo was called to a meeting without saying a few words."

Li Zechuan froze for a moment, rubbed the top of his hair, glanced behind him, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Jie, I only heard Lao Huo mention it recently. Is the club really because of Jiang Weili?"

"Why did you suddenly remember to ask this?" Shao Jie pinched the rim of the cup and turned it unconsciously. After a pause of two seconds, he suddenly laughed without lifting his eyelids.

"Being teammates with him for three years, what do you think?"

Seeing his casual smile, Li Zechuan frowned almost numbly.

Three years ago, when Shao Jie suddenly left without saying goodbye, Li Zechuan, who had just mentioned the first team at that time, was puzzled and had a headache for a long time.

The day before, we got together to fry skewers with soda and imagined that the e-sports "Three Musketeers" would become famous, but it turned out that just one day later, Shao Jie seemed to have evaporated from the world, and even the official news of the transfer period was hidden. There was no news, and it was only after a season that he suddenly stood in the opponent's team with a calm expression, even changed positions, and the handshake after the game was formulaic like never before. friendship.

Li Zechuan was really dull and young at the time, he was angry and didn't predict the cause and effect at all, he thought he was open-minded and planned to shelve the new achievements of friendship-but unexpectedly, the jungler Tao who had been wearing a pair of pants with him Fang Ye reported an injury overnight without warning and temporarily left the field, and has since disappeared completely.

Even though he was careless, Li Zechuan realized belatedly that the reason might not be so simple as a coincidence, but no one in the club questioned it——Li Zechuan raised an objection in a feverish manner, and within two days Instead, he was put on the bench by the head coach at the time because he was in poor condition. In the end, Huo Ke, who had been the mascot of the club, lost his temper and slipped out Li Zechuan who was confused. Hold down his overly active and probing mind.

Three years in a blink of an eye.Three years that seemed to be uneventful.

Li Zechuan cursed in a low voice: "No...what are they going to do? When I asked about it before, they just said that HRG was offering high prices, and you just followed it. I really believed it at the time, and I always thought that you were forgetting the benefits. It's righteous..." Li Zechuan slapped his mouth as if he was spitting on himself, "But it turned out that the coach and Manager Xu didn't reach an agreement a while ago, and he left with a bunch of people, and Lao Huo and the others mentioned it again You and Tao Fang, the inner and outer meanings of these words are different again. I really... my head feels like paste——"

Shao Jie's movement of pinching the rim of the cup slowed down a bit, "It's been so long, why ask about this now?"

"Then I can't be a fool for three years in vain?" Li Zechuan slapped his thighs as he spoke, his movements froze, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Shao Jie: "Brother Jie, do you know Why did Tao Fang suddenly retire?"

"The official statement given by your club was an injury. You were on the same team as him at the time. Why did you ask me this question?"

Shao Jie stopped turning the edge of the cup abruptly, raised his drooping eyebrows, looked at Li Zechuan's expression, and said in silence for a moment: "It was already the end of the spring season when Tao Fang announced his retirement, and he will get the ranking and ranking immediately. Season points, according to his personality, it is absolutely impossible to give up halfway - besides, your results were not bad at that time. It was too sudden."

Li Zechuan hesitated for a moment, and a thought that he had guessed a long time ago popped up again without warning.

"Tao Fang said before...unless he loses his hands, he will never leave the arena."

Shao Jie looked at Li Zechuan and was silent for two seconds without denying it, "You don't need to think so much."

Li Zechuan was stunned for a while, and his eyes turned red in an instant—he hesitated for a while, scratching his head, wanting to ask Shao Jie how much he knew about the staff turnover in the club for a reason, but he knew clearly that he hadn't actually been able to propose it. In the position of questioning, just as he was trying to figure out the wording and wanted to chat a few more words, Shao Jie's cell phone rang first - Li Zechuan subconsciously glanced at the direction of the cell phone, and scanned the caller ID. It was a local number in Sheng'an. Save notes.

Shao Jie noticed Li Zechuan's caring gaze, didn't say anything, just stood up holding his phone, patted Li Zechuan on the shoulder before walking out of the training room, walked slowly into the stairwell, and was scolded at the moment he connected the phone A pass.

"Will answering the phone quickly exhaust you?!"

"... chatting." Shao Jie argued softly, "Is there something wrong?"

The person on the other end of the phone sighed unbearably and said straight to the point: "Jiang Weili has almost reached an agreement with the LM Club. After all, he has maintained a 'cooperative relationship' in private, although the content of the cooperation is unlikely to be brought to the table."

Shao Jie snorted softly, not surprised: "Didn't you say two days ago that he was reluctant to part with a few business contracts here?"

"It seems that there is a lot of buzz in the city these days. The big boss of DRG is more or less aware of the treacherous things that Jiang Weili is secretly doing. He probably doesn't want to cause any more trouble... and I heard that the big boss wants to help Xu Muyang's family." Favor, the initiative in team building is now in the hands of Manager Xu, and the matter of letting Jiang Weili go is basically finalized. Xu Muyang was originally hesitant to give up such a cash cow as Jiang Weili, but now Jiang Weili has been pursuing these business cooperation It’s just that I don’t want to suffer a loss, and I’m still messing around on the Internet... I understand Xu Muyang, she won’t let others lead her. But Jiang Weili can’t just pat his ass and leave, and he will probably bite her back. , causing some trouble for others—" The other end of the phone paused for two seconds, "Jiang Weili dislikes someone for no reason, so you don't need me to remind you, right?"

Shao Jie leaned against the fire door and did not answer. He looked at the direction of the conference room through the dirty and hazy glass, tilted his head and thought for a while: "It's not unreasonable now...Sister Zhao, please contact LM with Jiang Weili." Tell Manager Xu the news about the club. It’s too troublesome to drag it around. Manager Xu basically knows the investors behind LM... help her make a decision as soon as possible."

"...Okay, I'll figure it out." The other end of the phone answered, but didn't hang up in a hurry, until Shao Jie asked "Is there anything else?" He replied, and his outraged posture made Shao Jie laugh out loud.

"Your sister and I still have a good charm. If you call me 'Sister Zhao' like you call a neighborhood committee aunt, be careful that my old lady will rush over and kill you."

Shao Jie listened to the busy tone of the phone next to his ears, rubbed his smiling eyes, and was about to pack his phone and go out to continue chatting with Huo Ke, who was adjourning the meeting, about signing contracts.

At this moment, an extremely concise and unsigned text message suddenly jumped into his sight.

"Location, wallet."

Shao Jie held the phone in his hand and was stunned for a long time. Before he could finish typing, "Is it Officer Jiang? It doesn't matter, I can pick it up tomorrow." Another text message flew into his inbox like a supplementary explanation. in the box. "I'm Jiang Mo, don't be annoying. I'm on a business trip tomorrow. If I don't deliver it to you, I'll be really disappointed. Send me a seat and I'll wait for you."

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Based on the former friendship with the team and Shao Jie's reasonable demands on the player's salary, the contract negotiation progressed step by step, and there were only a handful of opinions on the terms that disagreed - Shao Jie was obedient and obedient like a lamb at the mercy of others, chatting While chatting, I almost wandered into space, and my eyes had already drifted from the contract page to my mobile phone. It was inconvenient to sneak out of the account in an open and aboveboard, so I made a "click" sound on the phone case.

Huo Ke stared dumbfoundedly at him fiddling with the puzzle sliders on the phone case, and chatted a little, trying to pull back Shao Jie's thoughts wandering out of the universe: "I haven't seen you love playing puzzles so much before." Rubik's Cube or something, the 500 yuan picture, you and Ze Chuan threw it there after less than 10 minutes of fighting... Now there is this thing on the phone case."

Shao Jie lowered his head slightly, and his eyes slipped out of focus, and his eyes fell on Huo Ke's fingers tapping on the table.He raised his eyelids and looked at Huo Ke, expressionless for a moment, then smiled lightly after a while, and explained briefly.

"Good for exercise and focus."

These words sounded fine, but Shao Jie's slightly delayed reaction was not as relaxed and joyful as his tone.

Huo Ke frowned, bent his knuckles and scraped twice on the brow bone, vaguely feeling that Shao Jie looked different from three years ago.But now it seems that it is not the time to ask, Huo Ke wanted to change the subject, but Xu Muyang swayed to the door of the meeting room to draw his attention away - Manager Xu walked around in front of the door and knocked hastily on the glass door of the meeting room , stuck his head in through the crack of the door, first nodded politely and apologetically to Shao Jie, then looked at Huo Ke and hooked his fingers, "Old Huo, come out again."

Shao Jie graciously accepted Xu Muyang's explanation that "the legal affairs found that there were other problems in the contract and needed to redraft a copy to avoid negotiation discrepancies", and very considerately expressed that he could wait for a while, and then watched Huo Ke, who had an unclear face, follow Xu Muyang out. Leaving the conference room——Xu Muyang propped the glass door of the conference room, handed Huo Ke the mobile phone with the WeChat page open, and carried him to the office area with a grim expression.

Shao Jie obediently sank himself into the chair, looked at the direction where Huo Ke disappeared and was quiet for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, looked at the time and hurried downstairs.

Sparse rain washed the moonlight clear and bright.

The courtyard at the south gate of the Cultural Industry Park is basically fully owned by the DRG Club, which is now considered a big business. Shao Jie walked on the asphalt road that had just fallen into light rain, holding a few dim yellow decorative street lights. There were never a few cars left. The car passed through the parking lot - Shao Jie ran a few steps and stood in his baggy pants at the south gate of the park. He held his cell phone and dialed a number.Within two seconds of being connected, Sheriff Black Cat lit up his singing voice not far away.

Shao Jie turned around abruptly, and turned his head in the direction of the ringing bell—Jiang Mo probably just bought it from a convenience store next to the base. The pocket is bulging; the right hand is holding a lunch box, probably because he is afraid of burning the wound that has not been healed after the stitches have been removed, and the posture of the raised orchid fingers looks extremely awkward; there is also a freshly opened ice cream in his mouth, which is also I don't know if it was because the ice cream was too cold, or because he was startled by the sudden ringing of the bell, Jiang Mo's whole body suddenly trembled, hissed and grunted with the ice cream in his mouth, and he froze on the spot helplessly and at a loss, cursing I can't move my hands.

Shao Jie burst out laughing, then quickly hung up the phone before Jiang Mo who was not far away noticed something and raised his eyes to look over, pursed his lower lip to suppress the overly bright smile, and respected Jiang Mo solemnly. With a crooked salute, he raised his leg and prepared to walk over.

Just at this time, a Buick suddenly turned from the road, probably wanting to enter the parking lot in the South District but was not familiar with the number of automatic gates here, a huge black box lay between Shao Jie and Jiang Mo inexplicably , didn't move for a long time.

Shao Jie kindly stepped forward and knocked on the window of the car, and even said and gestured to tell the gate that the automatic recognition sensor was not working well, and he could enter by reversing and driving a little further.But the driver didn't know what he was doing. He neither rolled down the window nor honked the horn. Through the glass with anti-spy film, Shao Jie couldn't see clearly that the big brother inside was thinking about something on his own. .

Shao Jie tilted his body slightly, looked into the car curiously, saw the big box was motionless, and planned to take a step to go around the rear of the car—but the window in front of him suddenly rolled down, revealing a pair of willows in the gap. Ye Si stared fixedly at Shao Jie for two seconds, then the gentleman nodded his thanks and quickly entered the park.

Most likely it was a family member who came to pick up someone from get off work on a temporary basis——Shao ​​Jie glanced at the taillights of the car, raised his eyebrows, and quickly ran to Jiang Mo to stand still.

Jiang Mo was so cold that his brain hurt from the ice cream, he took a bite and waited for a long time, his eyes subconsciously followed the black car that finally moved into the small yard of the parking lot, and asked in a hurry: "Didn't you just wait a while for the text message?" ? I thought I could have a meal first."

Seeing Jiang Mo in police uniform, Shao Jie was always a little embarrassed. When he answered, he clasped his hands and straightened his back: "...I'm afraid you are in a hurry, and you don't know when you will finish your work, so come out and take a look."

Jiang Mo nodded, turned to look at the brightly lit club building, and said pleasantly, "Is your workplace here? Are you busy so late?"

When Shao Jie heard the word "work unit", he reacted for a while, the corners of his mouth trembled, he blinked his eyes, and stuttered, coughing: "Not before, this is for an interview, the interview...after that, it is possible to work here for training , play a game or something. I work late here, it's busy time..."

Jiang Mo still didn't know much about Shao Jie's work so far, so he responded perfunctorily and didn't ask any more questions. He just put down the snack bag in his hand, took out his wallet and handed it over, and patted him heavily on the shoulder like relief and encouragement. After a while, it was more business-like, but it seemed quite friendly and approachable.

"I heard from Le Tianer that you have worked very hard. Look at this thin one, who looks like a stick..." Jiang Mo joked smoothly, looked up at Shao Jie, cleared his throat and continued to be serious, "Xiao Letian is the policeman who sent you to the ambulance before. He is your fan, and he wanted to join in the fun, but he will be on a business trip tomorrow, and he is busy with work... This wallet has been kept in the police car, I think Just a business card in it? Check it out."

"Well...no need... just a business card, and keep it with you when you get used to it." Shao Jie squeezed his wallet and nodded, he could hear Jiang Mo's polite reassurance, but he still touched his ears a little shyly.Seeing Jiang Mo, he suddenly thought of something and wanted to put the snack bag on the ground, so he took it over and helped to hold it, blinking his eyes in confusion: "What's wrong with Police Officer Jiang?"

"Xia Yan's hospitalization fee—" Jiang Mo settled the ice cream in twos and then shivered himself, and took a lot of effort to pull out a kraft paper envelope from his pocket, "The money team has figured out a way, and Xia Yan also secretly paid for the insurance by herself, and after communicating with her, she was basically reimbursed... It is rare for our leader to be generous and ask me to send you the money. You accept it, and there is another in the car. The honorary certificate of an outstanding citizen, I will get it for you later—”

"...Wait a minute, Officer Jiang, for this money I—"

When Shao Jie took the envelope, he didn't realize it. Seeing that Jiang Mo turned his head and was about to walk to the side of the road, it suddenly dawned on him. He grabbed her wrist and wanted to return the money, but he didn't pay attention for a while, With a little effort, he dropped the lunch box in Jiang Mo's hand - just heard a "crack", the lid of the unfastened lunch box flew up in the wind, the big chicken leg was killed on the spot, and the braised lion head rolled along the road to the mouth of the sewer well , was swooped out and bit by a long-planned stray dog... It even gave Jiang Mo a pitiful look, then grinned as if it had succeeded, swung its tail quickly, and quickly turned its head to escape.

Shao Jie was stunned for a moment, and the second half of the sentence was held in his throat.

"—No...can't accept..."

"..."

He watched as the chicken legs and meatballs that were about to reach his mouth were fed to the dog like this. If Shao Jie hadn't pulled Jiang Mo's arm, Police Officer Jiang would most likely have rushed out to fight the dog.

But with a police uniform on his body, Police Officer Jiang would never take this brat and beat him up just because of a lunch box.She was silent for a while and could only roll her eyes at the sky, let out a long sigh, turned her head, and stared straight at the "culprit" who killed the box lunch.

Shao Jie instinctively sensed the danger signal and didn't dare to let go, but he also felt that his life was in danger, and he was afraid that he would be beaten if he got too close.

He swallowed with difficulty, cleared his throat in embarrassment, his voice trembling a little.

"...Officer Jiang, why don't you wait for a while...I'll pay you a lion's head?"

(End of this chapter)