Maybe he thought I had lied. I wanted to call and explain to him again, but after pressing the number, I put the phone back down.
Monk said, “Captain, you should have made that clear to him, he must not have taken it seriously. He’s been properly cuckolded and maybe he doesn’t even know it.”
I shook my head, “No need for that, I’ve said I don’t care about him.”
“You’re fooling yourself, Captain, we’ve been comrades for four years, don’t I know you well enough? You have a knife’s mouth and a bean curd’s heart.”
I stopped the car and gripped the steering wheel, banging it on the steering wheel with a very resigned hand.
“Captain, what are you obsessing about?”
“I’m wondering if I really let that snake face get me right, I grew up without a father and found a guy to be my father. Han Kun got my parents killed and I ……”
“Did he kill them?” Meng Meng asked.
“How can I put it, he was one of the pushers, he knew someone was going to kill my parents when he was a friend of my parents and didn’t warn them.”
My heart clenched when I said that.
Monk asked, “But he helped you too.”
“I ……”
“Captain, don’t blame me for hanging on to the book, there’s a saying about repaying a grudge with virtue, what is it? To repay a grudge with straightness, to repay a virtue with virtue. He has been kind to you, so you repay him once. When the time comes for you to take revenge, then seek revenge from him, one size does not fit all, no one is let down.”
Things are not as simple as he makes them out to be, the reasoning is, but doesn’t one still get tangled up when all the reasoning makes sense?
But Meng Meng did give me a reason to help Han Kun, and he was right, if I didn’t help him today, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
I tossed my phone to Meng Meng and said, “Send him a text message and tell him what you just saw.”
“Me?”
“Nonsense, I’m too lazy to care about him.”
Monk laughed, “All right, soon enough, you’re too lazy to care about him, so I’m a stranger who has to mind my own business.”
Meng Meng typed fast and quickly sent out the text message, he had just put his phone down when it dinged.
“Writing back so soon, it’s not back to scold me is it.”
“Read.”
“Got it, thanks for the reminder, and thank Zhang Chao for me too. Captain, he told me to thank you too …… Holy sh*t, how did he know the text message wasn’t from me?”
“Oh, you know what it means to anticipate things first.”
“How can a god anticipate things and not know that his woman is cheating on him?”
“Yeah, how could he not know.” I muttered to myself.
Monk immediately woke up, “It’s a play? He’s acting with that woman?”
“It’s possible, Han Kun did it. Look, he’s a lawyer, he looks like nothing, but even Liu Rong is afraid of him, there’s not a single person in the whole Tong city who isn’t afraid of him, just to know how powerful his methods are. There are his eyes everywhere, his woman betrayed him, how could he not know, huh, I’m such a fool, come on, making a fool of myself.”
I snatched the phone up, pulled open the storage drawer on the dash of the car and threw it in.
When I got home, I called Shaggy Wai first and asked him to cover for me for a while today when he got the call to answer the police.
“Who did you mess with again?” Xia Gehuai asked, “Zhang Chao, you can’t fool around or I’ll destroy you on behalf of the moon even if I’m your friend.”
“Come on you, I went and beat up Liu Rong ……”
“Ouch, so when you do something big like that, don’t you wear a mask?”
I laughed out loud, “Is that what you’re supposed to say to a cop? I wore a mask, but there was a particularly sharp-eyed one who recognized me.”
Xia Gehuai was laughing at the other end of the phone, “You special forces still have this kind of thing going on in the gutter? I’ll take care of it for you, but it may not be possible. The one surnamed Qi is now asking for his reinstatement. He’s only been temporarily suspended, and it was his wife at home who found someone to suspend him, so this internal family conflict won’t last long. If Qi is reinstated, I won’t be able to cover for you.”
“Don’t worry, Qi won’t be reinstated.”
As I said this, I saw Cai Xiaobing hurriedly walking towards me from the courtyard, and I hung up the phone after a few hurried words with Xia Gehuai.
“Well?” I asked Cai Xiaobing.
“Captain, why bother putting yourself in charge of the room for two hours now.”
I said, “You didn’t go in and explore, did you?”
“I wouldn’t dare. We’ve seen this He Bi before, he likes to test us. If I go in there, he might still be inside, but he’ll be able to spot our trick. By the way, what exactly do we do at Jiang Yang’s place? I’ll take the fox with me.”
“Fox is in the hospital looking after Arashi and can’t get away. You take the night off, you won’t be needed.”
“Huh?” Cai Xiaobing scratched his head, “Captain, does Nim think I’m stupid? I didn’t do well on my first few missions.”
This kid was now the opposite of what he used to be, now when he was in a hurry, he spoke a mouthful of vernacular.
“You’re not stupid, are you? What are you doing here in Tom City?”
“Because of the mission.”
I said, “Who’s talking about that, I mean why did you give up your position as Snow Leopard captain and ask to be transferred to Ning Province?”
“This, this, I ……” He scratched the back of his head nervously, and I knew that he was here for Lin Yue’er.
“You silly boy, leave some time for you to get the girl done. If you can’t, you’ll follow the fox back to Kunlun Mountain, if you can, you’ll stay. There’s not much time left for you, you know?”
Embarra*sed and excited, Cai Xiaobing’s face turned red and he saluted me, “Got it, promise to finish the job!” He remembered another thing and said, “Captain, I almost forgot, someone came to see you today.”
“Today? I don’t have time to see it, is it Yu?”
“Two, one surnamed Yu and one surnamed Li. Captain, you’re a big shot today, people are coming to see you one after another.”
“Surname Li?” I thought for a moment, I was afraid it was Li Ge.
This grandson was really annoying too, there was no end to it.
“Where is everyone? They’re all gone, right?”
“No way, they’re all sitting in the living room.” Cai Xiaobing said nervously, “Nim just can’t see them anymore.”
“You’re just speaking in the vernacular, and you’re speaking in Mandarin, don’t change it. And, in fact, it’s fine for you to speak vernacular, Lin Yue’er doesn’t dislike you.”
Cai Xiaobing asked, puzzled, “Is that so? I didn’t explain it to him, it was something he needed to understand himself.
I thought it was Li Ge who had come to see me, but to my surprise it was Li Liang and Li Ge who had come to see me, and of course, Yu Feng had come too. The three of them were sitting in the living room politely drinking tea, with some gifts they had brought on the table, and Li Ge’s head was hanging down to his crotch, looking listless.
Li Liang saw me first, and as soon as he saw me coming, he stood up and shook my hand.
“Little Zhang, you’re back.”
Usually no one calls me Xiao Zhang nowadays, the name is nonchalant enough, but Mayor Li was different, he called me Xiao Zhang, precisely because it was polite.
I asked Mayor Zhang to sit down, Lin Yue’er came up at this time with tea to serve tea, I was wondering how it was she who came, she gave Li Ge a sidelong glance, I understood at once, there was no aunt in our house, Chu Xiaoxiao must not want to come out to serve tea for Li Ge.
