Chapter 69:
He walked out of the inpatient building numbly, called a taxi numbly, pushed open the door numbly, and finally sat down on the sofa numbly and poured himself a glass of wine.
This was the day Kenn's article was published, and Shen Fangyu drank the rest of the wine alone at home.
Jiang Xu stared at the bright red and clear liquid for a long time, but in the end, he still didn't take a sip.
His mentality cannot collapse, at least not now.
No matter how anxious or worried he was right now, it was useless, he couldn't contact Shen Fangyu at all, he couldn't mess up by himself.
He had to think about smiling.
The human spirit often easily induces pain in the body, and the lumbosacral pain during pregnancy that has been haunting him like Siamese twins is very clear in his emotions that are on the verge of collapse.
Jiang Xu knew that he had to fall asleep quickly before the pain got worse, otherwise, after the pain intensified further, the worsening pain would fall into a vicious circle together with his bad mood.
But sleepiness is always more difficult to have sometimes.
His hands and feet were cold, as if he was walking in the wet winter in single clothes, even his bones were soaked.
The dull thoughts stagnated for a long time, and Jiang Xu suddenly remembered that when Shen Fangyu coaxed him to sleep on the high-speed rail, the scent on his body played a big role.
He sprayed Shen Fangyu's perfume on the bed, trying to ease his mood a little
But the smell of the perfume is wrong.
I don't know what went wrong, it's obviously very similar, but it's not right.
That subtle difference is difficult to detect, but once discovered, it is difficult to ignore the gap.
The night shrouded Jiang Xu, and his eyelashes like crow feathers cast a shadow under his eyes.
After a while, he walked straight to the living room as if he suddenly remembered something, and looked at the soft sofa.
Ever since they kissed that day, Shen Fangyu has been sleeping on the sofa. He left in a hurry, and the quilt on the sofa was still confiscated.
If it was Jiang Xu before, he would not let himself do this, but today's Jiang Xu only hesitated for half a minute, then lifted Shen Fangyu's quilt to wrap himself up.
And as soon as he closed his eyes, he smelled the smell he wanted.
The pale-faced Jiang Xu curled up and bit his teeth marks on his bent knuckles. The pain that accompanied him seemed to hit a layer of barrier and was blocked from the familiar breath.
He suddenly felt that his nose was sore, and his bones and blood vessels seemed to be corroded.
It's like a traveler who has been walking in the desert for a long time and saw a crescent spring.
Under the comfort of the spring water, his heart gradually calmed down. The tiredness caused by overly complicated thoughts and crazy emotional consumption finally swallowed his waking mind. As the external consciousness weakened after falling into a dream, the tormenting pain Finally faded.
But Jiang Xu still frowned tightly, stuck in a grotesque dream.
Near an abandoned workshop, multiple police cars surround an old car covered in mud and dust.
The doors of the old cars were all open, and there was no one in the car. After the EOD personnel confirmed the situation, the police officer with live ammunition signaled to a car parked in the distance.
Shen Fangyu and the red-haired driver got out of the car, and the burly police officer with a cigar in his mouth nodded at Shen Fangyu, "It's unbelievable that you actually found this car. When you called me, I thought you were I want to say...you have to give up."
"I'm curious how you did it," he said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "Did you really use children's mobile phones?"
"Yes," Shen Fangyu glanced at him, "Stupid way."
"Stupid methods are also methods," the police officer smiled, "Tell me?"
"Drive in one direction until the relative distance is no longer significantly smaller, then change to a direction perpendicular to it."
"Sounds boring," said the officer.
Shen Fangyu was noncommittal.
"Your English is very good," the police officer asked, "Are you from country M?"
"No, I'm from country Z." Shen Fangyu didn't want to deal with this foreign police officer anymore, "Can I check my things in the car now?"
"Of course," he looked at Shen Fangyu's back in the car for confirmation, and said with emotion, "You are a patient and smart Z country, you should consider immigrating to M country."
Shen Fangyu poked his head out of the car, and mocked without any emotion, "And then enjoy the life with a gun on your head?"
Seeing the conversation go to this point, the police officer shrugged and didn't make another sound.
It was the red-haired driver who said to Shen Fangyu, "I'm sorry." He could have reminded Shen Fangyu aloud at that time, but at that time the robber held a gun to the back of his head, and he was too scared to speak.
"It's not your fault." Shen Fangyu said.
The red-haired uncle paused for a while, and then said: "And... thank you."
Although his car was a piece of scrap metal in the eyes of the police officers, worthless and not even worth recovering, but for an ordinary person like him, it was quite a fortune.
He knew that if the young man in front of him hadn't given him the courage to chase the car back, and he had been making suggestions along the way without giving up at all, he would never have dared to chase the car. Even if he did, there was a high probability that he would not be able to catch it. .
Shen Fangyu didn't say no thanks this time. He paused and asked cheekily, "Then can you lend me some money to buy a plane ticket? I'll pay you back with interest when I return home."
He did not have a foreign bank card, and all the money was cash brought over after he had exchanged it in China.
It was probably too heavy and afraid of having a locator. After the robbers took the money out of the wallet, they threw the wallet back into the car. Although Shen Fangyu got back the lost ID by accident, he has no money and no mobile phone now. , and was afraid that it would take too long to toss and transfer money, Jiang Xu should be worried if he went back late.
The red-haired uncle was stunned by his straightforwardness, he was stunned for a while, then he nodded, "Okay."
"Then..." Shen Fangyu pleaded aggressively, "Can you lend me your wife's mobile phone to make a call?"
"ah?"
All the tension and fatigue subsided, and Shen Fangyu finally let the fragility in his heart overflow.
He recalled the scene of the red-haired driver returning home and hugging his wife with tears in his eyes, and then explained softly: "I also want to call the person who wanted to hug the most after escaping from death."
When the sun rose, Jiang Xu was falling into an extremely painful dream. Seeing that Shen Fangyu's body was about to be pushed into the crematorium, a sudden bell rang in his ear.
Jiang Xu suddenly broke away from the dream, only to find that his phone rang.
The moment he saw the phone number was from abroad, his heart skipped a beat, and his hands trembled when he picked up the phone.
The person on the other side seemed a little surprised by the speed at which he answered the phone, "You also answer so quickly foreign calls from strangers, aren't you afraid it's a scam?"
When he heard Shen Fangyu's voice, Jiang Xu's tear that had been held back all night suddenly fell down.
"Shen Fangyu, you can do it, you are better than other policemen." He wiped his face fiercely, choosing to use stern words to cover up his fragility at that moment, "You dare to chase the car of a robber with a gun, you If you are tired of life and you come to me, I will give you a few injections of anesthesia to ensure that you will die without any pain."
"How did you know…"
Originally, he just wanted to hear Jiang Xu's voice after the catastrophe, but he never expected that what he did had already spread throughout the department.
"Didn't I tell Zhang Cheng not to tell the department?"
The emotions that had been suppressed all night suddenly exploded, and now Shen Fangyu's safety was finally confirmed. Jiang Xu was so angry that he covered his head and face, "If it wasn't for Zhang Cheng, I wouldn't even know you were dead?"
His voice was shaky and his chest heaved violently.
This was the first time Shen Fangyu heard him lose his composure.
He took a deep breath slowly, maintained his superficial calm, and comforted him: "Jiang Xu, it's not as serious as you think."
The man in the wasteland stood in the night, half of his shirt was ripped out of his trousers, and it was draped over his body in a mess.
Shen Fangyu's suit jacket and trousers were snatched by the robbers. Now he is wearing the driver's old trousers, which the driver's wife found out from home. They don't fit very well, and they are loosely worn on the body. With the dusty leather shoes, they look extraordinarily abjection.
But Jiang Xu couldn't see him, so he could lightly whitewash the peace through the phone, except for the trembling at the end, there was almost no clue.
"The driver has GPS positioning data, we are not running blindly, and these people are just trying to grab some money, they will not actually shoot, and we immediately called the local police after chasing the car, and we did not rush Go up to confirm, after the police went to see the situation, they said that the robbers abandoned the car and ran away, and there was no one in the car, don’t worry, it’s really all right.”
"Shen Fangyu..." Jiang Xu frowned, and the brow bone radiated explosive pain along the eye sockets, "Tell me, why are you chasing the car? Is there anything in the car that is worth risking your life to chase? "
The driver was willing to chase the car because the car belonged to him, but what about Shen Fangyu?
He is not someone who would put himself in such a dangerous situation for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He couldn't figure out why Shen Fangyu would do this.
"I…"
"Don't tell me that you want to learn from Lei Feng to be a good person and do good deeds."
Jiang Xu said everything Shen Fangyu wanted to prevaricate. He sighed in a low voice and remained silent for a long time. He asked, "Let me tell you, can you guarantee that you won't be angry?"
"If you don't tell me, I will be angry."
The night wind blew through the man's hair, Shen Fangyu paused for a moment, and glanced down at the folder in his hand.
"material."
He told Jiang Xu: "At the meeting...the notes and materials on male pregnancy were obtained."
The short answer slowly spread into Jiang Xu's ears from the other side of the ocean through countless electromagnetic waves.
Jiang Xu, who was still aggressive just now, fell into a long, long silence as if he had been cast with a holding spell.
He never thought that Shen Fangyu would answer this way.
The sun outside the window slowly rose, and the soft orange light shone through the light white tulle into the living room and fell on Jiang Xu's face.
His heart was beating fast.
very strange.
There was a time difference between day and night, and it was night at Shen Fangyu's side, but he felt that the sunlight in front of him was shining from Shen Fangyu.
Those lights illuminated his heart very brightly, illuminated those cowardices and scruples without hiding, and disappeared.
He knew that now he should lose his temper just like Huang Bin did not long ago, and tell Shen Fangyu seriously that there is no need to put himself in such a dangerous situation because of him.
But he couldn't express his temper.
Because he realized that if he changed places today, he would choose to chase that car just like Shen Fangyu.
It turns out that there is a difference between truly loving someone and just having a good impression.
When the heartbeat accumulates step by step and breaks through the threshold to become love at this moment, Jiang Xu suddenly finds that he no longer thinks about whether passive "trying" is reasonable and feasible.
Instead, he wants to give all his love to the other person, to fill the gap called reality.
When there is not enough love, a little setback and danger can knock down a relationship.
And when the love is deep, Jiang Xu thinks, except death, nothing can separate two people who really love each other.
He is not an active person, but no one can remain passive in true love.
Jiang Xu seemed to understand why Shen Fangyu was so obsessed with this relationship.
Love makes people cowardly, but also makes people brave.
If you like someone, you may have concerns, but when your love is stacked enough to overcome your concerns, you will have the desire to have someone.
He wanted to be with Shen Fangyu for a long time, as a lover.
For this, he is willing to take all risks.
Just like when he decided to stay with Xiaoxiao.
No longer worry about gains and losses, and no longer worry.
Not long after hanging up the phone, Shen Fangyu sent him his flight number.
Jiang Xu looked down at the news, and called the hotel near the airport.
"Do you have a pick-up service?" Jiang Xu asked.
"Yes sir, 24 hours is available."
"Book a meeting room for me," he said, "Please pick up a man with a bright yellow suitcase at the airport around 9:30 in the evening. I'll send you the flight number later."
Jiang Xudao: "When you see him, tell him... Jiang Xu is looking for him."
"Okay sir," the lady at the front desk wrote down the characteristic information, and asked again: "What is the purpose of the conference room you reserved, do you need us to arrange it for you?"
Jiang Xu opened the white window screen, and let the warm sunlight fall wantonly on his heart, making his face crimson.
Then he said to the person on the phone: "Confession."