It's late at night, and I've experienced too many things this day, from loss to hope, to despair, and now I'm starting to have a little hope again.
The ups and downs of mentality and the huge gap made Lu Sheng and Xiao Zhu feel that today was particularly long, just like the parties involved in those cases, who had gone through a long and torturous ten years.
Yan Ju said while looking at the file in his hand, "It seems that we have to take a look at Bai Longqiang's case file from ten years ago to understand what exactly happened."
Meng Kenan shook his head helplessly and said, "It's a pity that the case is not in Huangzhou, but in Meizhou. We still have to find Director Zhuang."
"It's not very convenient now, so everyone should go home first," Yan Ju said, looking at Lu Sheng and Xiao Zhu, "Especially you two, you have been driving for a day and went to the rehabilitation center to work for a while in the evening.
, Don’t worry, I will get the dossier."
Lu Sheng had a particularly unfavorable premonition about the case file, but he didn't say anything. He simply agreed to Yan Ju, got up and walked out. Xiao Zhu said goodbye to Yan Ju and Meng Kenan, and followed Lu
Sheng left the office.
Xiao Zhu drove to Handan Road. He didn't want to endure the hunger anymore, so he took Lu Sheng to the noodle shop again.
Buses will pass by on Handan Road from time to time. Lu Sheng will now pay special attention to the buses passing by on Handan Road. He is always looking forward to a miracle. Maybe Xiaoqing is on a certain bus. That is also possible.
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Even though Xiaoqing had been away for many years, Lu Sheng was almost paranoid in fantasizing like this, and he didn't feel there was anything strange about this idea.
At night, outside, the breeze caresses those who have not yet returned home comfortably.
The two masters and apprentices walked into the noodle shop one after another. Business was very good in the noodle shop at night. They stood at the door and looked for a long time, but they could not find any empty seats.
After the noodle shop owner noticed them, he hurried over and greeted warmly, "You two, there are no free seats now. Why don't we share a table with the table over there."
Lu Sheng looked in the direction of the noodle shop owner's finger, and he burst out laughing.
I saw the thin parking toll collector in the distance, sitting there alone, covering his face with one hand, looking back in their direction.
"Okay, let's share the table," Xiao Zhu responded to the boss, "Bring us two bowls of fish ball noodles."
Lu Sheng had already walked up to the thin man and sat down next to him, as if he was seeing an old friend. "I told you that when I parked my car just now, I searched for you for a long time but couldn't find you. It turns out your kid is here."
The thin man looked stunned, but after a moment, he pretended to be familiar and said, "Come here for a bowl of noodles, I'm about to get off work."
While talking, Xiao Zhu also walked over and looked at the thin man in front of him. He felt familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for the moment.
Lu Sheng always had a smile on his face. As soon as he saw the thin man, he felt that his mood had improved unconsciously.
But being stared at by Lu Sheng, the thin man suddenly felt a little embarrassed, like a big girl, his shy eyes deliberately avoided, and his other hand had nowhere to put. Finally he saw the box of garlic on the dining table and stretched out his hand.
Go mess around with it.
After a while, the noodle shop owner brought over three bowls of fish ball noodles. When Lu Sheng saw the thin man's noodles, he said to him, "Brother, what you eat is also fish ball noodles."
Fish ball noodles are the signature of this noodle shop. Xiao Zhu looked at Lu Sheng strangely. He didn't know why Lu Sheng and the stranger in front of him had so much to talk about.
The thin man took away the hand covering his face and saw that it was already swollen. It seemed that he had a tooth problem, otherwise the thin man would not choose to come here to eat noodles.
As soon as the thin man took a mouthful of noodles, a disgusting fishy smell took over his mouth. He wanted to vomit but felt it was rude, wanted to swallow it but it was really unpalatable, so he finally made the difficult choice to swallow it.
"Why is there such a strong fishy smell?"
"Have it?"
Xiao Zhu glanced at the thin man, lowered his head and took a sip of the soup in his bowl, "It's okay, it's not fishy."
Hearing their conversation, Lu Sheng had noodles on his chopsticks, but stopped not far from his mouth. He heard the familiar conversation and was suddenly pulled back to those weird feelings.
Xiao Zhu thought for a while and then said, "Do you have any inflammation in your teeth, or is there bleeding in your mouth?"
The thin man looked at the noodles in front of him and took a bite. He thought it would be a pity not to finish it all, it would be a waste, so he held his nose and drank all the soup in the bowl, and then wolfed down the noodles in a few mouthfuls, like that
, I almost didn’t chew the noodles in my mouth.
The expression on the thin man's face was very painful, and coupled with his already swollen and very high face, it looked severely distorted and deformed.
He stood up and left his seat. As soon as he walked out a few steps, he immediately thought of the two people behind him, so he quickly turned around, made a fist with his left hand inside and his right hand outside, bowed and said:
"See you later, brothers."
After saying that, the thin man left gracefully.
The thin man wanted to salute, but he made a big mistake with Xiao Zhu. Xiao Zhu didn't care about him, he just laughed happily, looking at the skinny man's expression and movements, it was very funny and interesting.
Because generally when a man salutes, he makes a fist with his right hand and wraps his right hand with his left hand that represents friendship. This is a salute.
The thin man's etiquette is just the opposite. Only when performing funeral rites, would the thin man do what he just did.
The thin man had already left. Xiao Zhu muttered quietly as if he was joking, but the more he talked, the more he felt something was wrong, "Who do you think is dead among these two of us?"
Lu Sheng didn't hear Xiao Zhu's whisper clearly, but he kept repeating what Xiao Zhu just said to the thin man, "My mouth is bleeding."
Just such a sentence made Lu Sheng wake up from a dream, and the problem that had been confusing for a long time finally found a reasonable explanation.
"When I ate fish ball noodles with you before, I knew why I always felt a fishy smell. It wasn't fishy at all, but the smell of blood."
Xiao Zhu looked confused when he listened to Lu Sheng's words. He didn't say anything but just thought to himself, "Master has never told me this at all. What is he talking about? It's weird!"
"If you have blood in your mouth, of course you will feel a fishy smell. How come fishy and bloody smells are the same, haha..."
Xiao Zhu didn't take Lu Sheng's words too seriously. He was still thinking about what happened just now.
Now Xiao Zhu's smile has long disappeared, and he can't feel happy, and the more he thinks about it, the more unlucky he feels. It's okay if he doesn't understand, but Xiao Zhu understands the etiquette involved, "He actually used the ritual that was given to the dead to face us.
"
Lu Sheng finally solved another confusion, and was naturally very happy, but Xiao Zhu didn't respond, so he didn't say anything more.
After eating the noodles, the two of them returned home with their own concerns, but they were happy and angry, and their moods were completely different.