The scapegoat

Author: Mu Zixin

The scapegoat

night.

Li Zhongwu sat at the desk in the west wing of the first floor, lowering his head and writing a new story outline. This is what he does every night recently.

He wanted to write down the outline of the stories while he still remembered them, so that one day he would forget them.

Living alone in this new era, he feels that everything is strange, so he wants to bring more of the things he is familiar with, such as movies, TV series, kung fu, etc., into this era, so that this era can be more familiar to him.

thing.

The difference between tonight and the previous days is that tonight there is a rotating record player on his desk. A vinyl record is placed on the record player, slowly rotating, and playing a song that he is very familiar with.

song.

"It's like a drizzle falling in my heart. It feels so mysterious. I can't help but raise my head and look at you. But you don't show any trace. Although you are speechless and speechless, it is unforgettable. Those are your eyes, bright and beautiful...

"

"Your Eyes" by Tsai Chin.

Of course Li Zhongwu is very familiar with this song, having heard it countless times before.

Later, he entered the main god space, and all the people and things in China in the 21st century suddenly left him, making him miss him more and more.

It wasn't until he entered the movie world of "One Man's Martial Arts" that he came into contact with many things in the modern context.

In that movie world, he couldn't help but look for opportunities to buy a lot of vinyl records and a record player.

The purpose is to still have the opportunity to listen to some familiar songs in the future.

However, even if he buys these things, most of the time, he still has no chance to listen.

Especially when you return to some movie worlds with ancient backgrounds.

But now, he has the opportunity to listen to these songs again.

He had been staying at the Yingdu Shengshi Inn before. In order to prevent others from hearing these songs and causing any trouble, he never took out the record player and records stored in his portable space.

Now he has his own house, and he finally took it out tonight.

The volume of the record player is not turned up loud enough so that the neighbors won't hear it.

But the sound quality of the vinyl record played through the record player was very good, and coupled with Tsai Chin's singing voice that intoxicated countless music enthusiasts, on such a night, listening to it alone felt like drinking fine wine.

He is also in pretty good shape for writing the story outline tonight.

The rustling sound of the pencil tip scratching on the paper, mixed with the sound of music, made his heart very quiet.

But on this quiet night, in the north of Tianfu City, a round-up operation was underway.

Participating in the round-up operation were city guards, city patrol horses, and a group of patrolmen.

Among them, the people responsible for this round-up operation were several gold-collar patrol officers.

On the roof of a small building on the street, five gold-collared police officers stood side by side, standing on the edge of the roof, each holding a telescope.

Behind them stood a famous silver-collar patrol officer.

Standing side by side with them were a deputy commander of the City Guards and a deputy director of the City Patrol Department.

Of these two people, one is responsible for commanding the city guards and the other is responsible for commanding the city patrol horses.

Among the five gold-collared patrol officers, the oldest one is a tall old man with gray hair.

His name is Tong Tianzhi, and he is the most senior gold-collar patrol officer in the patrol room. He has extensive experience in arresting fugitives.

At this time, Tong Tianzhi looked at the southeast direction under the night for a moment with the telescope in his hand, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "Send the order! The patrol horse immediately came to knock on the door, trying to deceive the murderer in the name of mediating neighborhood disputes!"

"Yes! Commander Tong!"

The deputy commander of the city guard immediately accepted the order, took out his cell phone and conveyed Tong Tianzhi's order.

Tong Tianzhi continued to give the order: "Send the order! All city guards immediately surround the courtyard where the murderer lives, and be sure not to leave any blind spots!"

"Yes! Commander Tong!"

The deputy director of the City Patrol Department also accepted the order.

Although his official position and that of the deputy commander of the City Guards were no lower than Tong Tianzhi, for tonight's roundup, Tong Tianzhi was ordered to be the commander-in-chief, and the others must obey orders.

Tong Tianzhi's next order was immediately issued: "I am ordering all the patrols below to closely monitor the yard where the target lives. Once the target appears, I must keep a close eye on him. If the patrol in any direction lets the target go, all the patrols in that direction will be dismissed!"

"

"yes!"

"yes!"

"yes!"

"yes!"

The other four gold collar patrol officers bowed their heads and accepted the order.

Immediately, they all took out their mobile phones and sent orders.

Who are they rounding up?

In a courtyard to the southeast, seven or eight outdoor lights under the eaves are all on tonight.

In the open space in the middle of the yard, there is an Eight Immortals table, and three men and three women are drinking wine and admiring the moon.

Two of the men and two women were middle-aged, roughly in their forties by visual inspection. Judging from where the four of them were sitting, they should be two middle-aged couples.

There was another man and a woman, both in their early twenties by visual inspection.

At this time, the long-faced middle-aged man picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "Come! Brother Huang, Mrs. Huang, brothers, I want to toast you one more drink. What do you mean by bringing your son to my place today? Brother, I already understand, my

I can tell you my attitude right now, as long as my daughter and your son are in love, I will never stand in the way of this marriage! Do you think this is okay? Haha."

Hearing this, the couple sitting side by side looked at each other and smiled, but the young man and woman next to him blushed.

Although his face was red, the young man couldn't help but quietly glance at the girl opposite.

The girl opposite also glanced at him shyly, and when their eyes met, they both looked away embarrassedly.

"Okay, brother Shi! Thank you for your statement, Mrs. Shi! We, husband and wife, will toast you husband and wife again, please!"

The middle-aged man surnamed Huang and his wife beside him both raised their wine glasses and greeted the couple surnamed Shi across from them.

The four of them had a drink together, put down their wine glasses, and picked up their chopsticks to pick up the food. The middle-aged man named Huang said with emotion: "Brother Shi, we have been friends for decades. Over the years, do you know what I admire most about you?"

"Oh? What do you admire me for?"

The middle-aged man named Shi stopped his chopsticks curiously and looked up.

The other people at the table were also curious and looked at him one after another.

The middle-aged man surnamed Huang smiled and said: "It's your perseverance! We brothers studied together in the past. My master and I majored in swordsmanship, and you and my uncle majored in flying knives. After we left the masters, I went back to inherit the family.

Gradually, the swordsmanship you learned back then has long been wasted. As for you, you have not only started a transportation company from scratch in these years, but I heard that you have never let go of your knife-throwing skills. You must have already mastered it.

Alright?"

The middle-aged man named Shi laughed when he heard this.

At this moment, the courtyard door was suddenly knocked.

A banging sound on the door attracted the attention of six people in the courtyard.

"Open the door!! The city patrol department is here to mediate neighborhood disputes for you!"

As soon as the knock on the door fell, a man's rich voice came from outside the courtyard door.

But the meaning behind this sentence stunned the six people in the yard.

"Mediating neighborhood disputes?"

The three members of the Huang family looked at the three members of the Shi family in surprise.

The three members of the family named Shi all frowned and looked confused.

The young girl couldn't help but ask softly: "Dad, Mom, has our family had any disputes with our neighbors recently?"

The woman frowned and thought for a while, then asked her husband hesitantly, "No, right? I haven't had any conflicts with my neighbors recently. Have you had any trouble with any of your neighbors?"

The man surnamed Shi looked at his wife in confusion and wondered: "No! Okay, what's wrong with my neighbor? Isn't it true that you had a conflict with any neighbor?"

The woman shook her head.

The man surnamed Shi still looked at his wife suspiciously, but he still got up and walked towards the courtyard gate, "I'm going to see what's going on."

"Bang bang..."

The courtyard door was knocked again, and a manly man shouted from outside: "Open the door! Open the door quickly! We are from the city inspection department. A neighbor has complained about your home, and we are here to help you mediate the dispute!"

"It's coming, it's coming! Don't rush me! Why rush me?"

The man surnamed Shi responded impatiently, but also subconsciously quickened his pace.
To be continued...