There was an old song in the Federation called twenty-seven glasses of wine.
The song went like this: The first glass of wine, the sun shone brightly, the ivy outside the window crawled into my eyes. The second glass of wine, the spring breeze rippled, the leaves gently brushed my eyebrows. The third glass of wine, the birds chirped, lightly pecking at my heart. The fourth glass of wine, the shadow on the windowsill, making me forget who I am. The fifth glass of wine, the youth was about to fly, passing through the layers of forest...
Eleven glasses of wine, the mountains were green, an old man was drunk on a rock. Twelve glasses of wine, peeking into the abyss, the cliff gave back to the years. Thirteen glasses of wine, the snail had horns, the world was so tired. Fourteen glasses of wine, the eyes were getting tired, the people around the fire were about to fall asleep...
Twenty-five glasses of wine, thinking of my father, the raindrops fell from the window. Twenty-six glasses of wine, the flies did not fly, the palpitating you and I hid under the leaves, watching the autumn rain fade away. Twenty-seven glasses of wine, wiping away a few tears, gently putting down the glasses.
This ancient song had always existed in the Federation Elementary School's public teaching materials. It was a poem that all citizens of the Federation had probably learned at one time or another. This poem used ordinary and simple language to describe a young man drinking alone in the rain. Looking at the scenery outside the window, his mind gradually flew into the mountains and rivers, experiencing the imagination of several lifetimes. In the end, his mind returned to his body, remembering his loved ones who had passed away, and tears fell from his eyes alone …
The original author of this simple and touching poem had long been untraceable. Moreover, in today's highly developed technological civilization, not many people would still remember this little poem in their hearts.
When Xu Le was in the Donglin District, he rarely had the opportunity to hear this song, except in the movie directed by the famous director Lin Longji, who cleverly used twenty-seven glasses of wine as the background music throughout the entire movie.
The most recent time that Xu Le heard twenty-seven glasses of wine was in the bar in Linhai. Shi Qinghai, who had an astonishing capacity for liquor, drank twenty-seven cups of strong liquor in a row in that quiet bar on that rainy night before finally getting drunk. He tapped the wine bottle with his chopsticks and sang the song in a soothing and emotional manner to the rhythm of the clanging.
His voice was not very pleasant, but it was somewhat hoarse from the torture of alcohol and tobacco. Together with the lyrics, it seemed to have experienced many vicissitudes of life, making people want to cry. At the end of the song, when he thought of his father, the flies did not fly, and put down the glasses... Shi Qinghai finally cried out loud, letting his tears and snot flow... onto Xu Le's lapel.
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Therefore, when he saw the text message, twenty-seven glasses of wine, Xu Le immediately knew that it was from Shi Qinghai. It had been almost a month since he had been able to contact Shi Qinghai, so Xu Le was a little anxious. However, because there was a big problem with his brain, and because Shi Qinghai had mysteriously disappeared for dozens of days while carrying out a secret government mission, Xu Le was not too worried.
At this time, he finally began to worry. Shi Qinghai was using a brand new number, and he was using twenty-seven glasses of wine as a substitute. In this world, except for himself and Shi Qinghai, there was probably no one who could understand who twenty-seven glasses of wine was referring to. What made Xu Le even more confused and nervous was that Mr. Shi had warned him to be careful of Zhang Xiaomeng... Why?
Zhang Xiaomeng had been secretly serving the anti-government Senator Macklin. On the last day of last year at the Iron Tower, she had seriously violated the rules and told Xu Le. After all, Mr. Shi was an official of the Federation Bureau of Investigation. Could it be that the government had found out about Zhang Xiaomeng, so he deliberately sent a text message to warn him? Xu Le thought to himself.
However, Macklin was now a Senator of the Federation, and in the news a few days ago, that old man had made a joint statement with the governor of Jingzhou. Even if the government knew that Zhang Xiaomeng was serving Senator Macklin, there shouldn't be any problems with Zhang Xiaomeng, right?
Xu Le lay on the hospital bed with his eyes slightly closed. After thinking for a long time, he gave up on the idea of calling back that unknown number. There was something fishy about this matter, so he had to be more careful. His finger pressed the number two on the phone, but he didn't press it. In the end, he pressed one.
"There's something I want to ask you for help with."
"What is it?" Tai Zhiyuan's voice on the other end of the phone was very calm.
"I have a friend called Shi Qinghai. He's the director of the fourth section of the Federation Bureau of Investigation's field office in Lin Hai... I haven't contacted him for many days. I don't know if he knows that I'm hospitalized."
"Continue."
"I know that your family has a good relationship with the government. Can I trouble you to help me find out if there's something wrong with him? If he's carrying out some secret mission from the government... please help me confirm it. At least I don't have to worry too much. "
Tai Zhiyuan's voice on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time. Xu Le, who was half leaning on the hospital bed, narrowed his eyes and felt a trace of a bad omen.
"I know that Shi Qinghai is your friend." Tai Zhiyuan held the phone and said calmly, "I found out about his news a few days ago. I wanted to tell you at that time, but your current condition is too bad, so I didn't say anything."
Xu Le's narrowed eyes flashed with a trace of doubt. He asked, "What happened to him?"
"The Federation Bureau of Investigation is currently looking for your friend," Tai Zhiyuan said, "Under these circumstances, you naturally have no way to contact him."
"He's an official of the Bureau of Investigation. How could he be wanted?" Xu Le's expression changed greatly as he asked in surprise.
"I don't know what the specific crime is, but I think it has something to do with intelligence."
Xu Le was silent on the other end of the phone for a long time. Then he earnestly asked, "I'm going to be discharged immediately. Can you help me buy the fastest ticket back to Lin Hai?"
Tai Zhiyuan on the other end of the phone frowned. He didn't expect that Xu Le, who was always calm, would actually make such a decision immediately after hearing this news. He disapproved and said in a deep voice, "What do you want to do? Don't forget that you're still seriously injured. One of your legs is still disabled! "
"My injury is almost healed. Although I can't move my legs, at least I can use crutches and sit in a wheelchair." Xu Le heard the concern in the other's angry voice, so he wasn't angry and explained.
Tai Zhiyuan said without hesitation, "Impossible. The General Hospital won't let you leave."
"That's why I need your help," Xu Le said, "Shi Qinghai is in trouble. I have to go back and see what's going on."
"I can help you find out what happened." Tai Zhiyuan didn't tell Xu Le the whole truth, because he knew Xu Le's character. If Xu Le knew that Shi Qinghai was being investigated by the Federation government because of him, Xu Le would be even more determined to go back.
"But you have to calm down. You're just a student. Even if you go back to Lin Hai immediately, what can you do?" Tai Zhiyuan frowned and tried to persuade him, "And don't forget that he's now a wanted criminal of the Federation!"
Xu Le on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time before he said, "I have to go back."
A wanted criminal of the Federation, in the hearts of ordinary citizens of the Federation, was definitely someone to be avoided like the plague. However, Xu Le himself was a wanted criminal who hid the most deeply, not on the list of wanted criminals. He believed that if he could go back to Lin Hai, Shi Qinghai, who was currently in a dangerous situation, would be able to easily find him, just like when he sent the message just now. And he … had the ability to help him.
Tai Zhiyuan on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time before he said, "The situation in Lin Hai is very complicated. You don't have to go back."
He was thinking for Xu Le's sake, but Xu Le, in such a tense situation, didn't think about anything at all. He directly replied, "I have to go back."
Tai Zhiyuan's voice rose in pitch in anger as he reprimanded, "Can't you calm down a little? Be more mature! "
Xu Le on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time. His voice didn't become louder, nor did it become angry. He just said calmly, "Shi Qinghai is my friend, and so are you. When a friend is in trouble, I can't be too calm or mature. If I was a little calmer and more mature in the gymnasium … you would already be dead. "
There were many concepts about friends, but in Xu Le's mind, when the other person was in a life or death situation, he would appear by the other person's side and help without thinking. This was what a true friend was.
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It had to be said that although Tai Zhiyuan had always deliberately made his conversation with Xu Le seem as natural as an ordinary citizen of the Federation, he was not an ordinary person after all. He was at the top of this society. Tai Zhiyuan's desire to control was naturally strong. Occasionally, his words and actions would reveal a bit of the attitude of a superior, which was what Xu Le wasn't used to.
When he found that Xu Le was out of his control, he had mixed feelings and couldn't help but sigh. He looked at the phone in his hand that had been hung up and laughed self-deprecatingly. He thought that it was precisely because this guy had saved him more than once that he had to stop him from doing anything unwise.
"Tell the hospital to tighten their control. Don't let Xu Le sneak back to Lin Hai." Tai Zhiyuan calmly said to Butler Jin beside him, "We've already started investigating Zhang Xiaomeng, and Shi Qinghai is already a fugitive … If Xu Le returns to Lin Hai at this time, it will only make everyone misunderstand. It won't do him any good."
"Should we use coercive measures?" Butler Jin asked from the side.
Tai Zhiyuan's delicate eyes flashed with a trace of mockery. "Fortunately, he's injured now. Otherwise, if he really wanted to leave the hospital, with our family's bodyguards, who could stop him?"
Butler Jin smiled slightly, understanding the young master's meaning. After the incident in the gymnasium, the Tai family's security personnel all knew that the young master had a student friend by his side. What shocked them the most was that during the assassination incident, this student's combat ability was even stronger than that of the special forces.
"Then we won't use coercive measures. Just have people follow him 24/7 and block him in the hospital with a meat wall."
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