Li Zhixian sat down next to the carton of Irish whiskey and leaned against the bookshelf with his legs crossed, showing no intention of getting up.
"It's either this or that, Dad asked.
Isn’t it true that there are only two states of good food and bad food?
Do people only have two moods: happy and unhappy?
Do I only have two choices: go or not go?
As soon as you open your mouth, ask others to answer multiple-choice questions with only two options, framing the matter within your extremely limited knowledge.
Lao Liang, you said during the day that my daddy smell is strong, and your daddy smell is not light either."
Do you still remember what happened during the day and afternoon? Are you so vindictive...
Liang De was at a loss for words when Li Zhixian spewed a strange breath of anger, and could only curl his neck and curse.
For some unknown reason, this salty fish suddenly became more motivated to fight, and his laning power has increased to at least three levels. He cannot compete with him.
I won’t argue with you today until your voice becomes hoarse after staying up late drinking...
He highlighted this memory in the carousel of life, preparing to retrieve it later.
"Anyway."
Li Zhixian began to summarize his speech:
"I may or may not go, I may not want to go now but I may want to go later, whether I go or not, I mean four words to you..."
"None of my business."
In order not to be confused by her "none of your business", Liang De quickly answered and stood up.
"Yes, everything you said is right. I will go out to buy a pack of cigarettes for at least three hours. I will send you a message before I come back."
Liang De used the remote control to open the automatic rolling shutter and walked out of the bookstore, but did not lock the door again.
After a while, Li Zhixian put his right hand into his sweater pocket, unlocked his phone, and quickly blind typed with his thumb to send a message to a frequently used contact he hadn't used for a long time:
"Everyone has left, and Zhao Yuhan has gone to sleep."
A moment later, Yu Peihuan fell lightly from the roof and walked into the bookstore carrying a briefcase.
She picked up the remote control that Liang De had placed in a conspicuous place, closed the door and locked it, turned around, smiled at Li Zhixian, and walked to the library area.
The lights in the bookstore lobby have been turned off, and the sound of nude high heels walking across the rosewood floor is like a string of flowers in the night.
Li Zhixian lowered her head, and not long after, a pair of elegant pointed stiletto heels came into her sight.
Yu Peihuan pulled over the swivel chair left by Liang De, sat down, took out half a bottle of Golden Happy Tequila from the briefcase, and gently placed it on the cardboard box between the two of them.
"This is the unfinished wine that day."
Li Zhixian raised his head and said:
"I can see you again and finish the wine, but the day is over.
You know, Zhao Yuhan wants to be a magical girl."
Yu Peihuan held the wine bottle upside down in his left hand and cut the bottle of tequila into two halves with his wave of his hand.
She took off the smooth-section half of the bottle and placed it on the carton, poured two-thirds of it from the half containing wine, and pushed the "wine glass" to Li Zhixian.
"Everyone has something they want to do but can't do."
"She could have."
Li Zhixian didn't look at the glass of wine at all, she looked into Yu Peihuan's eyes.
Yu Peihuan lowered his eyes, tasting the unique oak aftertaste of agave, and said:
"Compared to other victims in the incident, she was already very lucky."
"She's already very lucky... You said it so easily and condescendingly, as if you don't remember what happened that day.
Yu Peihuan, you drink less than me, why is your memory worse than mine, and why can you act as if nothing happened?"
Yu Peihuan's voice became extremely gentle, but it made people feel no warmth at all:
"Do you get drunk every day just to forget those things?
Zhixian, can you forget it?
If we forget, will the evil god disaster not happen again?
My memory is very good, I remember those things, and I know what I want to do, and you..."
When she said this, she suddenly realized that her tone had become inappropriate, so she stopped abruptly.
"Go on, what's wrong with me? How did I make Director Yu hate iron and turn it into steel?
Do you want the Xiangbei Bureau Magical Girl Troop to sign a petition again? I will remove my hat as a special advisor tonight.
Just keep talking, I'm listening."
"I didn't participate in the joint petition two years ago. By the time I found out, they had already linked up with most people. It was useless to oppose it at that time. I didn't say anything, but I remembered who they were."
Yu Peihuan took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and handed them to Li Zhixian. They were all orders from the Xiangbei City Evil Disaster Bureau.
"I spent more than a year. I basically demoted the people who petitioned for your dismissal and transferred them away. The remaining few have nothing to do. The Xiangbei Bureau Magical Girl Unit has been replaced by a new one.
Blood……"
"Aren't you afraid of being fired from your job for saying this?"
Li Zhixian pointed to the tail ring on Yu Peihuan's left hand.
Yu Peihuan raised his left hand, pinched the snowflake-shaped pink crystal on the tail ring, and said:
"I have tried all the Evil Disaster Bureau detection methods I know outside, but they can't detect the images and sounds in this bookstore."
"Oh, it turns out you were on the roof for five hours to test this."
Yu Peihuan took a big sip of tequila, and her tone was no longer as calm as before:
"I want to tell you today that things are different now than they were two years ago.
Huang Bureau usually doesn't care about anything. I am in charge of the daily work of the Bureau and the work of the Magical Girl Unit.
Zhixian, come back and help me.
You can handle the case as before, and there will never be any doubts again. I will help you deal with all the troubles.
Just like before, the two of us walked up together.
When we get to a high enough position, we can do things that we couldn't do before.
As long as you are with me, you can definitely do it."
Li Zhixian finally reached out and grasped the lower half of the wine bottle in front of her, her calm face reflected in the golden wine.
"The day they jointly petitioned for me to leave the Magical Girl Force, Lao Huang called me and told me not to worry about it. He could remove all these people from their posts and tell them to get out of Xiangbei.
I know that Lao Huang can do whatever he says, and there is nothing the General Administration can do to him.
I asked him not to do that and apply for early retirement on his own initiative. Do you know why?"
Li Zhixian stood up and placed the untouched drop of agave back in front of Yu Peihuan.
"Because on the day they signed the petition, my best friend didn't stand up to speak for me.
Until now, she has never apologized to me.
Maybe she knew it was useless to stand up at that time, maybe she had her own overall situation, and she wanted to make a decision before taking action.
But, Yu Peihuan, I don't care about that. You have no idea what I care about.
If it weren't for the coincidence, I would never see you again.
Throw away all the unfinished wine."
…
At four o'clock in the morning, the Xiangbei City Evil Disaster Bureau office building was still brightly lit.
The evil disaster bureau has a special nature. All departments have two sets of people working on day and night shifts, who are on duty 24 hours a day to ensure sufficient response capabilities at all times, so there are almost as many people on duty at night as there are during the day.
Liang De walked into the Evil Disaster Bureau building. This time he received an unprecedented welcome. A few dozen meters away from the door to the elevator, there were several girls who greeted him sweetly and fed him sweet snacks, as if
His appearance suddenly improved dozens of times.
Oh, woman.
Liang De took the elevator to the 15th floor, entered the archives department and greeted the officer on duty. After confirming that there was no information related to polluters in the ordinary files, he walked into the confidential file storage room with the highest authority given by Brother Huang Chuanchao.
As soon as he entered the door, he heard suppressed sobs coming from deep in the storage room.