He doesn't care if he lives or dies

It is true that He Yu was not willing to meet Xie Qingcheng.

It was as if he was determined to disappear completely from Xie Qingcheng's side, and any news he got was just like a stone dropped into the ocean.

Xie Qingcheng also went to the hospital, but He Yu was not accustomed to the noise of the public hospital and soon switched to a private one, which Xie Qingcheng could not even enter.

And the next few days were chaotic for Xie Qingcheng.

Xie Xue , Chen Man ...... concerned about his old neighborhood, colleagues, leaders, there are all sorts of people looking for him, asking him what happened that night, why he was hung up by a □□ organization on the radio tower. On top of that, he has to be summoned by the police from time to time, and go to the police station to cooperate with the completion of the investigation, and go through the procedures.

He knew the internet had been in a frenzy over this, but it surprisingly couldn't affect him much as he had little time to sit down and glance at the social media platform.

Xie Xue stopped talking and called him on the phone for a long time in tears. She asked him where he was, and to come to him, but he refused, without telling her exactly where he was.

Fortunately, Xie Xue had never seen the photos of her parents' death scene, and Xie Qingcheng had never described the exact cause of her parents' death to her in order to protect her from falling into the same long despair as herself.

Xie Qingcheng wanted her to know as little as possible.

Chen Man is here too.

Chen Man, unlike Xie Xue, was fully informed. That is why he came the earliest, when Xie Qingcheng was still undergoing the first round of investigation.

He is not subordinate to Zheng Jingfeng and their bureau, is on leave to rush over, he entered the door on the embrace of Xie Qingcheng, so impatient people, actually a long time before the bored out of a sentence.

"Brother, are you trying to scare me to death."

Xie Qingcheng saw the light greenish stubble on his jaw, it seemed that this kid did not have the heart to properly primp himself in the past two days, he sighed and patted Chen Man's back.

When the investigation was finally over, Chen Man came to take Xie Qingcheng home.

On this day, Xie Xue was also supposed to come, but she was very uncomfortable due to the continuous mental stress, so Xie Qingcheng asked her to take a leave to go back to Strange Rain Lane to have a good rest, and Auntie Lai would take care of her.

He went back to the HMS faculty dormitory with Chen Man.

Higher education staff dormitory is divided into levels, such as Xie Qingcheng live than Xie Xue spacious, of course, does not deny that Xie Xue house is a mess of clutter, and Xie Qingcheng's single dormitory can be said to be the level of the four walls of the family cold.

"Brother, rest and take a nap while I make you something to eat."

Chen Man went into the kitchen.

He had been to Xie Qingcheng's dormitory more than once and knew his way around.

Xie Qingcheng was lying exhausted on the sofa when the range hood sounded.

Out of nowhere he thought the scene looked familiar, then remembered that the day he had a fever from his mango allergy, He Yu had been here too, busy in the kitchen following a recipe.

Xie Qingcheng opened his cell phone's address book, scratched through the piles of unread messages, and finally found He Yu's name.

The chat still stopped at the same messages where he had asked him how he was doing.

He Yu still didn't reply to him.

Xie Qingcheng thought about it, found his number from his address book, and called him once again.

Unsurprisingly, the phone rang a few times and then hung up.

Xie Qingcheng softly sighed, he even women will not coax, let alone to coax a negative teenager, and that teenager is now not only angry, but also heart hurt, heart cold.

Not knowing what to do, he raised a hand to his forehead and after a long time, he wearily put down his phone and turned to the bathroom.

Chen Man was setting the dishes at the living room table when he came out of the shower in his bathrobe.

"Brother, do you want ......" Halfway through his sentence, Chen Man looked up and stopped.

He saw Xie Qingcheng in a snow-white bathrobe, leaning lazily against the window pane, lighting a fire with a cigarette.

Xie Qingcheng's hair was still dripping, but he didn't bother to wipe it off, the water droplets flowed down his neck, full and crystalline, as if hiding some unspeakable desire, slowly rubbing into the shadow of the bathrobe's collar.

Xie Qingcheng was in a bad mood and didn't pay attention to his image, he took a drag on his cigarette and coughed gently, turning his head to look at Chen Man : "What did you just want to say?"

"Oh, I... I said..." Chen Man reddened, but unfortunately Xie Qingcheng's mental state was too poor and the light in the room was not good, so he did not see it clearly.

"I said do you want to dip it in vinegar, I laid down some dumplings."

Xie Qingcheng absentmindedly, "...... are fine."

Chen Man then darted back into the kitchen, nearly tripping over the patch panel on the floor as he turned back.

Xie Qingcheng, on the other hand, smoked his cigarette by the window, and after some thought, sent another message to He Yu:

"The archives are still with you, thank you."

The soot rustled and fluttered, falling into the wind, like gentle water sprites, floating in the water.

Xie Qingcheng watched quietly for a while and added:

"I didn't think this through, I'm sorry."

He knew that what He Yu wanted to hear might not be those two sentences.

He Yu's heart was broken by the words he said on the video.

But Xie Qingcheng didn't know how to explain that. He didn't want to, much less could, explain it.

"Brother, the dumplings are cooked, come and eat."

Xie Qingcheng turned off his cell phone screen and walked over to the dining table.

Chen Man cooked dumplings that Auntie Lai had packed and delivered earlier, with a thin skin and a large filling of spring bamboo shoots and pork stuffed with fresh soup jelly.

Chen Man made dried fish, and the soup was served separately so that it would cool down faster. Xie Qingcheng was also tired and hungry and ate about thirty of them in one sitting.

It was then that Chen Man softly said, "Brother Xie, don't you ever do anything like that again."

"Do you remember what you advised me to do when my brother left?"

"You told me that the past can't be changed even if it's sad. If one still intends to continue living. Sooner or later, you have to pick yourself up again."

"......"

"You also told me about my aunts and uncles, and I was too young to turn my back on anything, and I asked you why you didn't just keep pursuing it. You and I said that answers are important, but there are times when one can't get stuck in a quagmire and get out just for an answer."

"You'd love to know the real cause of your aunt and uncle's deaths, and you want to know who set them up ...... but you can't properly support a functioning family if you throw all of your energy into it alone. You still have your sister and ......"

Xie Qingcheng said, "Xie Xue has grown up."

"......"

"This is something that ten years ago, I would have held back from interrogating the truth. Because the price of getting the truth might be something I couldn't afford."

"But now that Xie Xue is an adult, I have no wife and children to support. I've been selfish for nineteen years, and now that it's finally time to have nothing to hold on to, the clues to my father's and mother's killers are there, and I can't turn a blind eye to them anymore."

Chen Man was rarely loud in front of Xie Qingcheng, but he couldn't help himself when he heard this.

"What do you mean, brother? It means that it doesn't matter if you die now, does it? You just have to raise your sister and see that we're all independent, so you think that if you die, it's not something unacceptable for us, is it? --Xie, how can you ...... you say that?"

His voice was shaking.

"How can you think that?"

"......"

Chen Man suddenly felt that Xie Qingcheng was too scary, he could consider the life and death of all the relatives around him in a plan, but he wouldn't take his own life into account at all.

When Xie Qingcheng weighs whether or not he can die, it's not "do I want to live" but "if I die now, will the people I care for be able to survive on their own?"

He is even self-destructive in the face of great threats.

"You live ...... you live for others? As long as you've got other people in order, you don't think your own death is anything important, do you?!"

Xie Qingcheng sighed and took a cigarette out, "That's not what I meant-"

"You're not allowed to smoke it."

Chen Man suddenly stood up, pressed his hand, Tie Qing face took away his cigarettes, together with the lighter, together with the cigarette case. Then he threw them directly into the trash can in front of him.

Xie Qingcheng did not get up; he sat down in his chair, and after a long time he said, "Chen Man, I did not feel that my life did not matter."

"And what do you mean by that?"

"It doesn't mean much, but everything is prioritized. Raising Xie Xue used to be the most important thing in my mind, ahead of the pursuit of truth. Now that it's done, and I have nothing to worry about. The pursuit of truth becomes important at this point."

Chen Man said with red eyes, "But your life is important too."

"......"

"More important than the truth, in my opinion."

Xie Qingcheng said, "You're a cop."

Chen Man said, "But I'm still Chen Man."

"......"

No one spoke again in the room for a long time, only the sound of the clock ticking on the wall.

In the end, it was Xie Qingcheng who couldn't bear to see Chen Man in this state, he sighed, misplaced the topic and said, "Sit down. Eat something with me."

"......"

"Stop it and sit down."

At this point, Xie Qingcheng has already given in.

Although Chen Man was very reluctant, Xie Qingcheng's aura was so strong that he was never able to defy it for too long.

After holding on stiffly for a few seconds, he could only sit down slowly under Xie Qingcheng's stare and picked up his chopsticks again, while tears fell into the soup.

.

Inside a villa in the city.

"What? You're saying He Yu is a Blood Compass?" Lv Zhishu looked at the person in front of him in shock, and it took him a while to digest it, "Mr. Duan, you can't be joking ......"

Boss Duan flipped through the newspaper in front of him, "Mr. Lu should be happy to have such a son."

Lv Zhishu The thick short fingers smeared with red nails scratched her hair, her eyes were loaded with shock, and she mumbled for a while before saying to the man in front of her, "He ...... He, as the No. 4 patient case, has long been judged by the organization to be a crippled product with little or no ability. All these years I have also taken care of him as an ordinary patient, never thinking that he has the ability to have a mutation of his condition, and you ...... guys don't think he has any research value either ......"

Boss Duan smiled, "Then obviously, it's human to make mistakes."

"......"

"Patients escaped from Cheng Kang Ward, and the investigation later came out that the people who returned to the fire at that time, one of them being He Yu and the other Xie Qingcheng, went in, and then the patients were rescued at an unnatural rate in large numbers. Although the reason they told the police was that some of the doors were unlocked and just snapped from the outside - but that reasoning convinces the police fine, it doesn't convince you or me."

Boss Duan took a sip of the tightly steeped Pu'er tea and leisurely said to Lv Zhishu, "But don't worry, Mr. Lu, since He Yu is your son, he's also our man."

Lv Zhishu eyes wandered and shook his head, "No, with his character, I am afraid he will not ......"

"All hearts are made of flesh, blood is thicker than water, and even if he is not now, sooner or later he will be on our side. Which son would disobey his mother?" Boss Duan smiled skinlessly.

Lv Zhishu : "......"

The old Pu'er tasted sweet and mellow, and Boss Duan took another sip.

Lv Zhishu said, "Mr. Duan, I really can't pack my bags with you on this matter. If he really has a blood compulsion, he has never mentioned this matter with us ......"

Mr. Duan laughed out loud.

"Mr. Lu, for this reason, aren't you too biased? Even I know that you and your family's Lao He don't accompany Elder Duke much at all, so of course his heart is far away from you. But through this matter of the Canton Tower, I see that he may not be that cold - the Dr. Xie that you guys hired for him before only accompanied him for a little while longer and respected him a little bit more, and he was able to do this for Surname Xie."

Lv Zhishu, on the other hand, was a bit indignant about this.

"If that shot had actually hit him in the vitals, it ......"

"Don't you still have He Li? He Li is the most important thing to you, right?"

"......"

Boss Duan playfully scrutinized Lv Zhishu's face, which was like a puddle of unmixed milkshake, red and green.

"In the future, you and Lao He's compassion remember to share a bit of it with your eldest son, He Li is a normal child and knows you like it. But now that He Yu has a blood compulsion, if he can follow us with his heart and soul, that would be the best thing, saving a lot of trouble from having to force people to do something." Boss Duan used the tea dispenser to pour himself some more red soup, and said gently, "This is something that Mr. Lu should take his time to do, three feet of ice is not cold in a day, little by little give him more attention, and sooner or later, he'll understand your previous indifference towards him. There is no rush for this moment."

He poured some tea for Lv Zhishu this time as well, raising his hand in a gesture.

"The Pu'er that Xiao Shen brought from Yunnan this time is really good, Mr. Lu try it."

"......"

Seeing Lv Zhishu stiffen, Mr. Duan's eyes sharpened a bit more, ''You, ah, have always been a very smart person. That's why your family's Lao He was able to be fooled by you for so many years - your acting skills aren't any worse than those small stars raised under Mr. Huang's hand. But acting is all about getting into the act and getting out of it. Mr. Lu, do you understand what I mean?"

Lv Zhishu seemed to be stung by his words and was a bit unsteady.

Mr. Duan smiled, ''We've both been partners for how long. I even know you better than your family's Lao He. As long as you're cooperative enough, I'll keep those things in Mr. Lu's past hidden from He Jiwei for you, so don't worry. Sit down."

He pushed the teacup a little closer to Lv Zhishu.

"Try some, isn't tea your favorite?"

Lv Zhishu finally slowly took a seat on the couch in front of him, his hacked and somewhat chilled fingers touching the rim of his glass to adjust to the temperature before he brought it up and took a sip.

The tea is swallowed and the tannins are raw.

Lv Zhishu forced a smile, "It's good."

Mr. Duan saw her uncertain appearance and said lightly, "Lu always go well to do it is, Huairou is a thing that needs a long time, you do not have to be too stressed, your son is also only nineteen years old. Mental Ai Bola Mutism is only more powerful the further back you go, let him slowly grind first, and then showdown with him when the days are long. I believe that at that time, he will be willing to become one of us."

Lv Zhishu : "So ...... how are you going to hone him?"

"Watch." Mr. Duan is quite relaxed, as if he is playing a very interesting game, "Take one step, see one step, he is supposed to be our unexpected surprise, I would think that there is no need to make too many plans for him. Moreover, he should have been hurt by that Dr. Xie of his for a while, the young man has suffered some blows, he should be left to make his own good adjustments, just let him be for now."

He said, leaning over to put on some more water, ready to proceed over the tea.

"We also have a lot of things to do, this video killing, the rats that should be deterred have been deterred, Cheng Kang and Huda's tail, have to be watched to collect clean. We've given the dogs a bone, we have to keep an eye on them to finish chewing it, and now that we've led them to scapegoating the dead sheep outside the country, we don't want the dogs chasing after and sniffing them again."

After Mr. Duan finished, Shi Shi cooked himself some hot tea, "Be nicer to He Yu, but remember to be natural, if He Jiwei finds out something is wrong, it's always you who will suffer."

Lv Zhishu looked at his own face fat bloated out of shape reflection in the tealight, after a long time, murmured, "...... Good. I know."