moonlight lure

Behind him, the other students were noisy and laughing. He was silently contemplating a conversation with her. The sound of his heartbeat was muffled by the rain. His palms were silently nervous and sweating. Just when he turned around and opened his lips, her classmate suddenly called her away. .

Thinking of this scene in his memory, Ji Yanchen lowered his head and laughed at himself.

He missed it for a moment, and then nine years.

It was the turn of spring and summer, and he could no longer see her often after that day.

She seemed to be away from school half the time, and looked visibly gloomy and haggard whenever she appeared. One time when he went to the office, he overheard from the teacher's chat that her mother was hospitalized.

That was also the first time he learned that she was from a single-parent family.

On Mother's Day, the school held a wishing wall activity. After it was over, he searched alone for a long time and saw her card. The handwriting was very delicate but the pen was powerful: I hope summer will come soon.

He didn't understand the meaning of this sentence. It wasn't until much later that he heard that her mother's condition was already very critical at that time. The rejection reaction after the operation was very severe and she was tortured in the hospital bed. The doctor conservatively estimated that it would take at least two months. It will gradually improve later.

She looked forward to that summer coming soon, but in the end her mother left that summer. She also left Huping that summer, had no contact with anyone, had no news at all, and seemed to have never appeared.

***
When Song Shiwei woke up the next day, she stared at the ceiling in a daze for a long time, then vaguely remembered that Ji Yanchen had been here last night.

She lifted the blanket and sat up. There was a row of things on the coffee table in front of her, including water glasses, hangover pills, sandwiches from the convenience store, and a bottle of milk.

She lowered her face, rubbed her head vigorously, picked up the phone and slid it away.

The red reminder on the call icon was eye-catching. She clicked on it and found two missed calls, one from Ji Yanchen and one from Ming Xu, less than 5 minutes apart.

Song Shiwei stared at the screen with lowered eyes for a long time, her mind going blank.

She speculated that Ji Yanchen's call might be to ask her to get up and open the door. As for Ming Xu's call, she had no memory at all.

She looked at the time and dialed it back for him.

The phone was picked up quickly, and a familiar warm voice came through the receiver: "Shi Wei, are you awake?"

Song Shiwei hummed, then realized that her voice was a little hoarse when she spoke: "I saw your friend circle, you resigned?"

He replied: "Yes, there is a better opportunity."

She picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of water. She was thinking about how to ask her suspicions when the other party asked her first: "Are you free tonight?"

She subconsciously asked, "What's the matter?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, then he chuckled and said, "I've moved to a new house and changed my career. I invited a few friends to have dinner with me tonight. You've all seen them. Do you have time to come over?"

Song Shiwei held her phone in silence for a moment: "What time is it and where is it?"

Since it is to celebrate his departure to the new company, there is a high probability that his friends from the new company will be there, and Zhang Ming will most likely come as well.

And although the incident of appearing at her ex-boyfriend's dinner was a bit embarrassing, maybe it was because she and Ming Xu had been together for so long that when they separated, they were so dull that there was no love or hatred, and this kind of relationship was downplayed. Despite the embarrassment, she could still accept appearing at the dinner with him at the same time.

After hanging up the phone, Mingxu sent the time and location.

Song Shiwei glanced at it, put down her phone and went into the bathroom to wash up.

When the sound of water flow sounded, the phone on the table vibrated and lit up.

Ji Yanchen: [Are you still working overtime today? let's have dinner tonight? ]
[-]pm, Shangri-La Hotel.

Song Shiwei walked into the box under the guidance of the waiter. The first person who saw her was very enthusiastic: "Hey, Prosecutor Song! Long time no see!"

She smiled and politely replied: "Long time no see."

She looked around with her peripheral vision, and all those who came today were Mingxu's friends from college and their girlfriends. There were about ten men and women.

The person in front of me is called Chen Yue, a second-year junior student of Ming Xu. His family is rich, but his grades are not good. He has always been poor and received a lot of care from Ming Xu during his undergraduate years.

He asked: "I heard that Brother Ming said you were transferred back to Chengdu?"

She nodded: "Yes." The other party smiled brightly: "Congratulations, the place where you worked was too far away before, and it was difficult to see you. Please keep in touch in the future!"

Song Shiwei smiled but did not answer, her eyes turned to Ming Xu who was walking towards him, she took out the gift from her bag and handed it over, saying politely: "Congratulations."

"Thank you."

He took the gift and lowered his voice, "They all know that we are separated, so you don't have to feel embarrassed."

Song Shiwei hummed softly.

The two of them walked to the corner, and Ming Xu said in a warm voice: "How have you been lately?"

"same as usual."

"Is work still so busy?"

"Not bad." Song Shiwei turned the topic to him, "What is your new job?"

He answered concisely and concisely: "R&D is mainly clinical research for the launch of new drugs."

She nodded: "When will you join the job?"

"next week."

"Don't you want to rest for a while?"

He said half-jokingly: "What's the point of taking a break? We still need to make money to pay off the mortgage."

Song Shiwei gently pulled her lips, thinking about the past between the two of them, she couldn't help but feel a little emotional: "When you just graduated, you hesitated in pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, but in the end you came out."

Lu Chenxu smiled lightly: "There are more opportunities outside."

"really."

Song Shiwei was silent for a few seconds, thinking of what he said about moving house, she raised her eyes and looked at him, "Has your house been decorated?"

"Well, we've been pretending for half a year. We'll move in this weekend." The person next to him paused for a moment and invited politely, "You and Yao Jiajia come over and sit down when you have time. I'll cook."

She laughed silently: "There is a chance."

The dinner officially started, but Zhang Ming didn't arrive.

During the dinner, Song Shiwei listened to others chatting and pieced together the fragmented information. Hongjing recently had a new project in Hong Kong, which was very valuable. Mingxu resigned because of this opportunity. The company also attaches great importance to this business and specially bought a new land next to the pharmaceutical factory and plans to expand.

Before coming, she carefully read the information given by Ji Yanchen. Jingsheng now has two pharmaceutical factories, one in the northern suburbs and one in the western suburbs.

If Jingsheng is really suspected of drug manufacturing, where will the drug manufacturing den be hidden? At one of these two pharmaceutical plants? Or is it somewhere else?

She turned around and asked Ming Xu: "Where do you work? In a pharmaceutical factory or in the city?"

He replied: "Go to both ends, you will stay longer in the city."

"For projects in Hong Kong, will there be more business trips?"

"It should be fine."

"then you……"

After several rounds of testing and finding nothing, Song Shiwei lowered her eyes and picked up a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, taking a small bite absentmindedly.

Before she came, she also expected that there was a high probability that she would not be able to get any useful information today. It was just that the matter was clear, and she wanted to do her best to verify it as soon as possible, instead of finally learning from others what he had committed.

If things were really going in the worst direction, she still wanted to hold him back.