let me look at you

Chapter 18

If you're over there... over there... In short, Xiaobei, no matter how you decide in the end, I'm the one who's wrong in this matter.

When Han Shu returned to his residence, he went downstairs to the doorman and saw Zhu Xiaobei who was carrying a badminton racket and chatting with the doorman. He remembered that he had an appointment with Xiaobei once a week.He looked at the time annoyed, luckily there were still 3 minutes before the agreed time, Zhu Xiaobei came early, but he was carrying the new curtains he had just purchased and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Zhu Xiaobei chatted with the uncle guard who was over fifty years old, and he was reminded to notice Han Shu passing by.She hooked the racket and jumped to Han Shu's side in three steps and two steps, picked up his wrist and looked at the time, and said with a smile, "Damn, do the elites keep the time so accurate?"

They agreed to play together, and the venue has been booked in advance.Han Shu is an energetic person who loves to move. If he hasn't stretched his muscles for a period of time, he will feel bored. This time, he saw Zhu Xiaobei's sports equipment and felt a little tired.But he didn't want to spoil Zhu Xiaobei's interest. After all, he had something to say first, so he said, "Give me another 5 minutes, and I'll go up and change my clothes. You go up and sit for a while, or continue chatting. I'll be fine in a few minutes."

Zhu Xiaobei followed him a few steps noncommittally, and when he saw no one around, he joked, "Seeing that your eyebrows are tied in a knot, and you haven't seen each other for a week, you might be promoted from dad to grandpa again." Bar?"

Han Shu exaggeratedly smirked twice: "It's very funny."

"To tell you the truth, I'm used to seeing your pompous look, but I'm not used to this expression."

Han Shu rubbed his face with both hands, made a face-changing expression, and faced her with a standard six-teeth smile: "Are you always satisfied with this?"

After he finished speaking, he continued to walk across the green belt to the elevator, and Zhu Xiaobei followed: "That's about the same. By the way, Han Shu..."

When he said this, for some reason, Han Shu who was walking forward suddenly stopped as if he remembered something, and Zhu Xiaobei, who couldn't stop, almost bumped into him with his chest on his back.

"I have something to tell you."

"Xiao Bei, I have something I want to tell you."

The two of them blurted out almost the same sentence almost at the same time, and they both froze for a moment after they finished speaking.

"You talk first." Han Shu put an end to his urgent desire to have a good talk with Zhu Xiaobei, and followed the principle of women first.

Zhu Xiaobei propped up her waist and smiled: "We have a tacit understanding at this time. Really let me talk first? Okay." She straightened her waist pretending to be very serious, "That Han Shu, I have passed two months. I may leave City G in the next day, and I need to go back to Xinjiang to deal with some things."

Even at this time, Han Shu's professional sensitivity made him notice the unique words in Zhu Xiaobei's words. Regarding Xinjiang, she used "hui" instead of "go", as if that was her hometown , but she is obviously a girl born and raised in Shenyang, and Xinjiang is just a place where she studied for a short time.

Han Shu chose not to point this out, he shrugged: "When are we leaving? Is there anything important?"

"A little personal matter is important to me."

"That's okay. Do you need me to book a ticket for you? When are you leaving? I'll take you to the airport?"

"What to give, I don't lack arms or legs, who wouldn't go to the airport?" Zhu Xiaobei said carelessly.

"Go for a few days, or I will pick you up when you come back?"

"No, I'm not sure when I'll be back, the school has a long vacation."

"Oh." Han Shu paused for a moment, he was indeed a bit puzzled, "Is something wrong? Can I help?"

"Probably not." Zhu Xiaobei said with a smile, she scratched her head, "Han Shu, we have known each other for a long time, right?"

"Ah."

"You guy, although you are poor and elegant and smug, you are still quite cute."

"Please don't praise me, I feel bad."

"Don't interrupt, I'm just praising you as a passer-by. I just want to say... You have tried it too. There are some places and some people, although they are not interesting, but there is an indescribable... How should I put it, magic power ?”

Han Shu glanced at Zhu Xiaobei, but didn't speak. Zhu Xiaobei felt dizzy when he heard what he said, but somehow, she felt that Han Shu should understand.

Indeed, Han Shu heard something faintly from Zhu Xiaobei's words, he stood quietly at the same spot without making a sound, the words he originally planned to say seemed to lose their necessity.

"It's your turn, Han Shu." Zhu Xiaobei imitated him and made a gesture of "all ears and all ears".After waiting for a while, Han Shu didn't hear anything.

"Mute? I thought you were going to tell me about your new curtains."

Zhu Xiaobei is bold, but not rough-hearted, Han Shu knows it.He picked up the things in his hand and glanced at them. The so-called secret is probably only the person concerned thinks it is hidden.

He simply asked directly: "Xiaobei, you and her...how did you know each other?" He decided that if Zhu Xiaobei asked who "she" was, he would pretend that he hadn't said anything, and just skipped over. this topic.

Zhu Xiaobei tilted her head, at first Han Shu thought she was puzzled by this nonsensical question, but it turned out that she was remembering.

"I thought you would ask me this question earlier. You men in the south are just not as straightforward. Are you asking me and Xie Ju Nian? I met Ju Nian on the train last year. She never G City was going to Lanzhou, and I had to transfer from Lanzhou Station back to Urumqi. It took 36 hours, almost two days and two nights, and she was sitting opposite me. Coincidentally, that time when I returned to Xinjiang, my butt was still hot, and I had to rush back after completing the formalities. I didn't expect to meet her again when I was waiting for the train at Lanzhou Station. She returned. My ticket was not in the same car, so I changed seats with someone else and sat face to face with her again. Don't tell me, she is interesting."

"Lanzhou?" Han Shu struggled to think about his poor memories about Xie Ju Nian, none of which was related to this place, and according to what he learned from the files, neither Ju Nian's parents were from the north.He didn't know why she, a girl, had to go all the way to Saibei alone.

Zhu Xiaobei seemed to guess that he had this doubt, and said, "I'm going on a trip. Why, you can't travel alone? Look at your vulgar way of thinking... Don't think that the four seasons are like spring here, and the northwest desert is bare. In fact, there are many places worth visiting over there.”

Now that he had come to this point, Han Shu didn't want to hide it anymore, and asked, "Did she talk to you about anything on the train?"

"Actually, what you want to ask is whether she has asked about you, right?" Zhu Xiaobei didn't turn around at all when he spoke, which made Han Shu quite embarrassed, although that was indeed his intention.

It was only then that Han Shu realized that the two of them were standing next to a trash can in the green belt, a place that spoiled the view, and this sudden conversation was originally abrupt.He and Zhu Xiaobei are a pair of legitimate lovers, but when they talk about each other's privacy, it's like watching fire from the other side. This kind of feeling is very weird when you think about it a little deeper. They didn't seem to feel it before. Unanimous carelessness, or is everyone deliberately ignoring it?Maybe Zhu Xiaobei saw something in the fabric shop for the first time, some things were so obvious, but she didn't ask.In the same way, Han Shu didn't ask why Zhu Xiaobei, his girlfriend, rushed to Xinjiang without even a return date?
Zhu Xiaobei glanced at what Han Shu was carrying in his hand: "The new curtains look really good. Customers like you are the ones I like the most in the store. Han Shu, if you want to know something, why don't you ask her yourself , I swear if I knew that my relationship with her would be so bloody, I would gossip more thoroughly."

Han Shu tried to explore the meaning of Zhu Xiaobei's words, but the magnanimity in her eyes was clear: "Han Shu, do you think Feiming is your child? I played two games with this girl, she is young It's a good fight, and I won't be able to beat her in a few years."

It turned out that she even knew Xie Feiming.Han Shu shook his head: "I don't know, probably not... But I suddenly felt that it didn't seem to be the child's problem. I went to see Xie Ju Nian today, yes, I admit that I feel ashamed, in a word, she said she forgives me Yes, everything is written off. But, it shouldn’t be like this, Xiao Bei, I didn’t expect that she would press the stop button just as I started to prepare.” He then laughed at himself, “I don’t know how to stop, soon A few days ago, I lied to my child's teachers, and they all thought I was really the child's father."

"I said that you usually look quite normal, why are you so chubby at critical moments... Okay, I understand. You say, or me?" Zhu Xiaobei used her habitual we brothers Who and who patted Han Shu on the shoulder.

"Say? Say what?"

"Don't play dumb with me, you don't look like a crap talker."

Han Shu pondered for a moment, grabbed Zhu Xiaobei's hand resting on his shoulder and said, "It's better to wait until you come back from there. If you are over there...over there...in short, Xiaobei, no matter what happens in the end I decided that I was the one who was wrong in this matter."

Zhu Xiaobei didn't take it seriously: "Whoever is right and who is wrong, I can't avoid my old lady's big beating. In her opinion, it is shameful to dump a man, and it is even more shameful to be dumped by a man... You go up and change clothes for me, and say yes You have to play with me for three hours, and while you are not in good shape, my aunt will not believe that I can't beat you!"

The game between Zhu Xiaobei and Han Shu actually only lasted 10 minutes. During this period, Han Shu's phone rang several times, but no one heard it when he put it in his backpack.He didn't return a call until halftime, and then walked towards Zhu Xiaobei with an indescribably weird expression on his face.

"What...what's the matter, your great-great-grandson was born?"

Han Shu shook his head and wiped the sweat off his face with a towel: "It's a business call from the courtyard."

"Isn't today the weekend?"

"I just received the notification that the case of the Construction Bureau I was in charge of... When the person went to the bathroom, he pried open the transom window of the bathroom, jumped from the sixth floor, and died on the spot. It was just half an hour ago."

"No way? It's the one you said will close the case soon?" Zhu Xiaobei was also taken aback. Although she had never met the corrupt section chief, it was still shocking to lose a life like this. stupid.

It was about professional secrets, Han Shu didn't say too much, he nodded hastily, explained a few words to Zhu Xiaobei, and rushed to the unit without thinking about changing his clothes.He once thought that his last case in Chengnan District was as simple as Cai Jian said, that it was as easy as cutting cabbage, that everything was settled, and that the case could be closed without much effort. of the new.This time Han Shu was wrong. Whether it was career or relationship, the things he thought were simple were actually far more complicated than he imagined.

(End of this chapter)