This time instantly alerted Gu Xizhou. This was the day Zhizhi's parents died, but he didn't know the reason for their death because Zhizhi never mentioned it. After asking twice, Gu Xizhou didn't dare to ask again.
After breakfast, as Zhizhi was walking out, Gu Xizhou saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy walking out of the neighborhood entrance. He was carrying a suitcase with one hand and shouted to the person behind him, "You still remember that I'm your son? Yesterday I was at the hospital receiving an IV drip, and the doctor asked me why my family didn't come! The doctor even helped me pay the bill. What were you and my mom busy with? Are they more important or am I more important? "
"Forget it, I don't want to argue with you. Think carefully before you speak!"
The boy was tall, at a full 1.8 meters, and wore a white T-shirt with a huge logo printed on it. He was dressed like a student.
His hands were clean, and his joints were distinct. His fingers were slender and fair, and his black hair was slightly red under the sun. The light shone on his body, and his eyelashes formed a fan-shaped shadow on his face. His black eyelashes were slightly curled.
However, his face was full of anger. He dragged the suitcase with one hand and vented his dissatisfaction at the staircase. He ignored the person chasing after him and dragged the suitcase away.
This was the first time Gu Xizhou had seen Zhizhi so irritable. He was like a rebellious child. He obviously had an argument with his parents and ran away from home.
As soon as the eighteen year old Gu Zhizhi left, Gu Qing chased after him. Seeing Gu Zhizhi's back, he helplessly kicked a rock aside, clearly a little disheartened.
At this time, Gu Qing's face was more wrinkled than the last time Gu Xizhou had seen him. However, it still couldn't hide his handsome appearance, and his body was straight.
Gu Zhizhi stood to the side and stared at Gu Qing, a little lost in thought.
"Ha," Gu Qing felt a little strange when he saw the young and handsome man looking at him. There seemed to be a lot of emotions in the man's eyes that he couldn't understand. He scratched his head and pointed to the young man who was leaving in the distance and explained, "That's my son. He quarreled with me. I was too busy yesterday.
"He can't even walk, but his mother and I really don't have time. There's a case we're still investigating …"
Gu Zhizhi was silent. After a while, he realized that it was awkward for no one to respond to Gu Qing's words. His voice was slightly choked as he said in a low voice, "He will understand you in the future."
Gu Zhizhi's father, Gu Qing, smiled helplessly and shrugged. "I hope so. But in the end, it's still my fault. Sigh …"
Upon hearing Gu Qing's words, Gu Xizhou felt a sharp pain in his heart. Then, Gu Zhizhi lowered his voice and repeated, "He will."
Gu Qing nodded to Zhizhi and said, "Why do I feel like I've seen you somewhere before?"
Gu Zhizhi looked at Gu Qing. "Maybe."
Gu Qing was silent for a while before he replied, "Mm." Then he waved at Gu Zhizhi. "I'm going back."
After Gu Qing left for a long time, Gu Zhizhi's voice was slightly choked.
"Okay."
Gu Xizhou knew that Gu Zhizhi was replying to Gu Qing's "I'm going back." In the next second, Zhizhi seemed to have disappeared. Gu Xizhou looked at his empty hands and frowned slightly. When he left the neighborhood, he saw an unexpected person.
The young man was carrying a suitcase. His eyes were slightly curved, and the corners of his lips were raised. He pointed at Gu Xizhou with his other hand and said in surprise, "Uncle, it's you!"
Gu Xizhou was stunned. At this moment, the young Zhizhi did not give him a chance to speak. He continued to talk to himself. "That's not right. You don't seem to have changed at all. Also, why do I feel that you look quite similar to me?
"We really do look alike!"
The 18-year-old Zhizhi said to himself.
The two of them stood on the side of the street. Gu Xizhou gently rubbed his forehead. After a short moment of silence, the sirens outside were piercing. Gu Xizhou said gloomily, "You still remember me."
"Yes!" The 18-year-old Zhizhi nodded with certainty. "You saved me in the first year of junior high! Later, I even met you in school. But … "
Gu Xizhou frowned slightly. "But what?"
"But my parents, Wang Shu, and Tong Jia all said that there was such a person. But they don't know what he looks like. It's like I'm the only one who remembers who you are.
"So Uncle, are you a ghost? A ghost that only I can see! "the 18-year-old Zhizhi said with a hint of innocence.
Gu Xizhou glanced at him and said, "University students are superstitious?"
"I didn't believe it before." Zhizhi's eyes reflected a faint light. "But today, I believe it. You haven't changed at all in six years."
"Ha."
There was a low chuckle. Zhizhi looked up at Gu Xizhou. The two of them were speechless for a moment. After a while, Gu Xizhou said, "Police officers are very busy."
"How busy?" the young man standing next to him asked with one hand in his pocket.
Gu Xizhou thought for a moment and said, "Cases come one after another. There's one here and one there. But if we take it slow, it'll eventually be done. Being a police officer is actually very tiring. I feel like quitting every day."
"Then why don't you quit?" the young man asked with raised eyebrows.
Gu Xizhou looked at Gu Zhizhi and replied in a low voice, "Because of someone."
"Oh, someone you like!"
Gu Xizhou spat. "Nonsense. We're 'good brothers'. Why would I like him!"
The young man Zhizhi didn't forget to make fun of Gu Xizhou. "Hmph, it's all because of your words! Brothers are brothers. Why do you have to say 'someone'? What if you're gay?! "
"Get lost!" Gu Xizhou had a headache when faced with such a glib 18-year-old Zhizhi.
"Thank you. I know you want to talk to me about my dad." The young man smiled and looked down at Gu Xizhou. Suddenly, he asked, "Uncle, are you really not a ghost?"
Gu Xizhou threw a look at him to let him understand. Why did Zhizhi start to suspect that he was a ghost like Si Yu?
"No!"
"Don't go back to school in a fit of pique!" Gu Xizhou said in a low voice after chatting with Gu Zhizhi for a while.
Gu Zhizhi nodded obediently. "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Seeing that Gu Zhizhi really went home obediently, Gu Xizhou was a little surprised. Didn't they say that children in the rebellious stage were the hardest to persuade? How come Zhizhi was so obedient?
Gu Xizhou scratched his head. At home, Gu Qing opened the door and saw Zhizhi dragging a box back. His eyes flashed with surprise. Obviously, he didn't expect his son, who had argued so fiercely with him, to come home.
"What's wrong?" Gu Qing clenched his fist and coughed lightly. He wanted to put on the airs of a parent. "Did you forget to take something?"
At this time, Zhou Xinyue rushed out and knocked Gu Qing aside. She glared at him coldly. "How can you say that? Son, you're not angry anymore, right? Yesterday, it was all about work. You see … the families of the deceased were crying so sadly. Your dad and I really did work overtime and forgot. Don't be angry.
"Do you still have a fever? Do you want to go to the hospital? "
Hearing Zhou Xinyue's concern, Gu Zhizhi looked disdainfully at his father, who was forced to put on airs by his mother. He shook his head and said softly, "I was fine yesterday. Mom, don't worry."
Young Zhizhi went home and recalled the man he had just met. He didn't even ask for his name …
But he knew that the man's appearance was definitely not an accident. The day he met the man, his classmate, Tong Jia, tried to commit suicide. He remembered very clearly. Later, he asked Uncle Wang about the process of the case. It was said that a policeman named Fang Ran appeared, but strangely, no one remembered what he looked like. But he didn't know why, but he felt that this Fang Ran was the person who talked to him today. Maybe he wasn't a human but a ghost.
The young man thought so. At 11 o 'clock in the evening, Gu Zhizhi calmly lay down on the bed and went to sleep.
The next day.
"Xiao Zhou, there's a milk bottle at home. Heat it up and eat it. Your dad and I are going to work!"
"Okay." Young Zhizhi answered without turning his head. At this time, he had already put on his clothes. He stood by the window and looked downstairs. As expected, he saw a familiar person standing at the gate of the community.
The moment his parents appeared, the young man with sharp facial features quickly followed them.
Young Zhizhi subconsciously rushed out of the house and followed them.
Outside, Gu Qing slightly raised his eyebrows. "Why do I feel that someone is following us?"
"You're thinking too much." Zhou Xinyue giggled. The two held hands, just like the first time they met in Gu Xizhou. Their relationship was still so good.
The two were walking on the road when they suddenly saw a child who was about ten years old running on the bicycle path. He was following a bicycle all the way forward. Only his skinny hands were left. He was searching for something in the purse of a young girl on the bicycle.
Zhou Xinyue and Gu Qing looked at each other. The two of them had a tacit understanding. Gu Qing went up and grabbed the child. At the same time, he stopped the girl. A child was stealing bags early in the morning!
The girl looked at her bag and made sure that nothing was missing. She thanked Gu Qing and Zhou Xinyue repeatedly. Gu Qing turned to the child and said, "Who told you to steal things?"
The child opened his mouth and mumbled. Not only Gu Qing, but also the people around him couldn't understand a single word.
Looking at his appearance, the child's eye sockets were very deep. His facial features were very deep. He should be a child from a remote area. He spoke the local language. Ning Qing and the others couldn't understand a single word.
Gu Qing and Zhou Xinyue went to work and brought the child back to the police station at the same time.
Gu Xizhou didn't know why he followed Gu Qing and his wife. He knew that the two of them had an accident today. However, they just caught a child from a remote area. This child looked to be only ten years old. It was impossible for him to hurt Gu Qing and his wife.
Gu Xizhou slightly frowned. He couldn't understand why Zhizhi's parents died today. Perhaps curiosity drove him to do so. Gu Xizhou couldn't help but follow the two of them. He followed them all the way to the police station. Gu Xizhou found a restaurant and ordered breakfast. Then he sat at the door and waited.
What he didn't notice was that there was another person following him in the distance.
About half an hour later, Gu Qing, Zhou Xinyue, and two young male policemen came out of the police station with the child. When the three of them came out, they were still talking to the child. However, the child kept shaking his head. Because of the language barrier and the fact that he didn't know Chinese, the two sides couldn't communicate at all.
"These immoral people only know how to kidnap these children to steal and beg!" Gu Qing scolded. Unable to communicate with the child, Gu Qing said to one of his colleagues, "Later, let's drive a little further away. The person who controls this child will definitely drive after us and take the child back."
"Don't worry, Chief Gu. We know what to do!"
Obviously, they were very familiar with this process. Gu Xizhou saw the four of them leave with the child and immediately took a taxi to follow.
There was another person who did the same thing as him.
After Gu Xizhou followed, the car quickly drove to the suburbs. Gu Qing and the others followed their previous agreement. After leaving the child here, they drove away. It looked like they were leaving, but in fact, they were looking for a place to wait for the person controlling the child to appear.
After waiting for a while, a silver-gray van appeared in their field of vision. When the van saw the child, it stopped by the side of the road. The person sitting in the front passenger seat rolled down the window and waved at the child who was stealing. The child immediately ran over.
"Chief Gu, should we arrest them now?" a colleague asked in a low voice.
"No, continue to follow. They must have a criminal stronghold. If we arrest them now, the other children won't be able to find them," Gu Qing said in a low voice.
The driver heard Gu Xizhou's request and drove around nearby. The driver looked at Gu Xizhou suspiciously from the rearview mirror and said in a deep voice, "Hey, brother, you followed the car out of the police station. You didn't do anything bad, did you?"
"No." Gu Xizhou pursed his lips. "Just follow me."
"Look, the watch is already 100 yuan …" The driver's voice was slightly hesitant. Obviously, he was a little suspicious of Gu Xizhou.
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou took out his wallet and took out three 100 yuan notes. He handed them to the driver and said, "Keep an eye on them. Don't lose them!"
"Okay!" After taking the money, the driver seemed to be in high spirits. He patted his chest, obviously saying, "Hold on to me."
Gu Xizhou let out a long sigh of relief. In the blink of an eye, he had jumped to 2010 after eating noodles. At this time, he was using the new version of RMB. The money in his bag could be used. Otherwise, he would not be able to afford the taxi fare with the two 50 yuan notes that Li Yaomu gave him. Besides, he had spent the 100 yuan and only had an old version of one yuan left in his trouser pocket.
Following Gu Qing's car, the car drove all the way to the north gate of Ningqing. There were many houses built by containers nearby. In 2019, such container houses were very rare, but in 2010, there were still many such houses in the suburbs of Ningqing.
The silver van drove into a small road. Gu Qing and the others estimated that they were not far away. If they continued to follow in the car, it would be easier to lose them. Moreover, it would be too obvious. Therefore, the four of them discussed and stopped the car by the side of the road. The four of them got out of the car at the same time to follow.
"This road is full of mud. My car has to be washed …" The driver scratched his cheek and said to Gu Xizhou with a troubled expression.
The taxi was very conspicuous. Gu Xizhou thought about it and opened the door to get out of the car and let the driver leave.
As soon as he got out of the car, he heard an argument behind him. "Hey, kid, why didn't you pay for the ride? Why did you take a taxi if you don't have money? "
Gu Xizhou inadvertently glanced and saw the young version of Gu Zhizhi. He was slightly stunned. He hurriedly took two steps forward and took out 200 yuan to give to the driver. "I'll pay for him."
The driver took the money, cursed a few words, and told Gu Xizhou to take care of Zhizhi. Then, he waved the steering wheel and left.
After the two taxi drivers left, Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and looked at the young Zhizhi. He said in a deep voice, "Why are you following me?"
"Then why are you following my parents?" The young Zhizhi raised his chin and asked.
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