Chapter 9 sprout

This is a wholesale aquatic products market near the river, and a stench can be smelled from a distance.The work of wholesale aquatic products usually starts at 3 o'clock in the morning. At six o'clock, the trucks that deliver the goods leave one after another. At seven o'clock, the workers start to clean their stalls. The sewage flows turbulently along the sloped road, flows into the drainage ditch by the river, and flows into the river.At eight or nine o'clock, the gate of the market is pulled, the garbage truck drives away, and there is basically no one here.After breakfast, the migrant workers went back to sleep in their low-rent houses near the market. They didn't get up until six or seven in the afternoon, and began to prepare for work in the early morning of the next day.

So although it is daytime here, pedestrians are deserted. Su Qin has been here once before, and the last time she also came here to send money.Carefully avoiding the muddy sewage under her feet, she walked towards a small gray building behind the fish market. The building looks like a dilapidated building from the outside, with only half of the bricks on the exterior walls, but unexpectedly there are still people living inside.It is said that the developer took the money and ran away, and the contractor finished the house that was almost finished and rented it out at a very cheap price.Most of the people living there are migrant workers from other places.Only these migrant workers, who are used to the stench that comes from time to time, are unaware of the stench from the fish market.

Twelve thousand yuan. No matter how you piece together everything, humble yourself, and beg all your colleagues, you can only gather so much. The man turned his face when he saw it. "It's only such a small amount of money, and it's not even enough to pay interest! I said it would be 30,000!" "It's really gone, I borrowed this from someone!" She wailed unwillingly: "My colleague took out all the money for traveling during the Spring Festival!" "None of my business! What about the police? You must be a fish in water for taking you to such an expensive restaurant!"

"You really want me to tell him about you blackmailing me?" Su Qin gritted her teeth. Hearing this kind of threat, the man laughed, and put his hand into his clothes to scratch: "Tell him, it's better for him to come to me. I'll tell you all about you, and see if he arrests me or you. I The crime of extortion will be released after a few years of sentence at most, Xiaoqin, you, you are..." "Don't! Don't! Don't!" Su Qin screamed hysterically, with hair all over her body. "Keep your voice down!" The man pouted in disgust, sat on the rotten sofa full of debris, and opened an outdated newspaper: "Either I'll go find him, or you can go find it yourself, just look at it." Let's do it."

Su Qin looked at the man in front of him with a nonchalant expression, and strong hatred arose spontaneously.More than once, I wanted to kill him, and then commit suicide again.For the rest of his life, if he wanted to live with him endlessly, it would be better to die and be freed. "Why are you still standing there?" The man looked at Su Qin in surprise: "Do you want to stay here tonight?" Su Qin, who was hovering on the edge of darkness, woke up suddenly.She sized up the man with weird eyes, then slowly grabbed her bag, opened the door and walked out. The man put down the newspaper he was pretending to read, stood up, went to the table and picked up the money left by Su Qin, ran his thumb across the thick banknotes, and gave a low laugh.

He was indeed heavily in debt, but when he got the money, he had no intention of repaying the debt at all.10,000 yuan, you can turn over the money and win back all the money you lost some time ago.He was so lucky that he was allowed to find Su Qin again. This woman always had a way to get money, she was like a cash machine for human flesh. He scratched his itch, picked up a bottle of potion on the table, hummed and walked to the bathroom. Then he heard another knock at the door. At first he thought it was Su Qin who had broken back, but then he became alert. Could it be that the creditors of the underground money shop came to him?

He opened the door carefully and looked out.A tall, thin man stood outside the door.His skin was dark, his cheekbones were thin and prominent, and a piece of gauze was stuck on his face.He wore a very common side-parted hairstyle and was wearing a very common off-white windbreaker, but perhaps it was because of the sharp eyes that he gave people a feeling that the visitor was not kind. The man inside the door suddenly smiled: "Hey, just say Cao Cao and Cao Cao will be there." This is a typical low-rent house, there are no windows around, and the lights are turned on during the day.

The walls are so thin they could be smashed with a single punch. The house is not big, only about thirty or forty square meters, barely separated by one room and one living room.The house was as messy as a doghouse.Fast food boxes were thrown everywhere on the table and on the floor, and the room was filled with the smell of toilets and swishing food.Yuan Ye didn't understand how anyone could live in this kind of trash house.But the man didn't realize it, he was still smiling, and greeted Yuan Ye very friendly: "Sit down, just sit down." Yuan Ye said, "You recognize me?"

"Of course, you are the policeman who is taking care of Xiaoqin now. Xiaoqin is really blessed." From his tone, he looked like Su Qin's father. Yuan Ye sized him up.This person combed outdated, greasy middle parted hair, and had a baby face that could not tell the age, but judging from the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes and the old look when he smiled, he was about forty years old, and his facial features were still Even though he was correct, he actually had a bit of a charming smile.This kind of bastard Yuan Ye has seen too much.They are as resigned, irresponsible and fickle as stray dogs.Usually they look pitiful with their tails tucked and their whole body covered with skin sores, but as soon as they smell a fishy smell, they will immediately reveal their fierce true colors, with green eyes, drooling, and beating a piece of carrion to the point of bleeding.

If he hadn't seen Su Qin walking out of this room just now, he would never have believed that Su Qin had anything to do with such a man. Yuan Ye moved a stack of newspapers from the chair to one side, then sat down very carefully and folded his hands.It was a complete rubbish dump, sure to be infested with cockroaches at night, and he wasn't going to touch anything in the house. The man scratched his itch and sat down opposite Yuan Ye.Probably sensing Yuan Ye's sharp gaze, he smiled uncomfortably: "Rash, it's an old problem. Just soak it in the medicine from Xiaoqin's hospital. Hehe."

"Stop talking nonsense. Since you know that I am a policeman, you should also know the purpose of my coming to you today." "Hey, I really don't know." "Stop smiling with me." Yuan Ye said coldly, "I want to ask you a few questions, and you answer them honestly." The man flinches, but then laughs again. "Of course, of course, I am most in favor of police-civilian cooperation." "What's the relationship between you and Su Qin?" The man still smiled: "Brother policeman, you have come here and you don't know what I have to do with Su Qin?" "Are you Zhang Lei?" "hey-hey." No, it's impossible.According to the information, Su Qin's ex-husband, Zhang Lei, was a classmate of her medical school and a brain doctor. How could he be such a rascal. Yuan Ye took out the handcuffs and placed them on the low table in front of him. "Are you going to answer my questions here, or are you going to the Bureau?" "Catch me? Why did you catch me?" "Tell me, why are you looking for Su Qin?" "Oh, comrade policeman, this is my home, she came to look for me." "Why is she looking for you?" "Go and ask her." Yuan Ye slapped the table violently: "Be more honest!" After a pause, Yuan Ye asked again: "Are you blackmailing her?" "Why don't you ask me, why should I blackmail her?" "Why?" "I didn't blackmail her. Do you have evidence? The police have to be reasonable." "Did you hit Su Qin's wound? You can be sentenced to five years for the crime of intentional injury alone." "Yo, did she report it? She dare not report it." "What's the meaning?" "Oh, brother, why are you so fierce. You really want to know, let me tell you this, what is your relationship with Su Qin now, and what is my relationship with her. " He squeezed his left eye intimately at Yuan Ye, and made an obscene expression that the two of us cared for. A surge of anger pierced his chest from the top of his head.Yuan Ye lowered his voice and said harshly, "Stop winking at me!" "Brother, don't be angry. You don't ask me, and I don't want to mention it. Back then, she wanted to follow me life and death. Hehe, this bitch must have taken the initiative to find you, right? Alas, when she wanted to hook up with some man , It’s so coquettish! Brother, you must know, right?” "Shut up!" Yuan Ye stood up abruptly.Because the blood sugar was too low, he got up too hastily, his eyes darkened, and he subconsciously covered his chest, afraid of the pain at this moment. The gangster shrank back in fright, and suddenly asked: "Brother policeman, how did you find this place? Did Xiaoqin tell you, or did you find it yourself?" Yuan Ye remained silent. "You must have come by yourself." The man asked himself and answered, "Xiaoqin will not tell you. She is afraid that you will meet me." "why?" "Why?" The man seemed to be amused by Yuan Ye. He looked down at his slovenly body, looked around the house like a garbage dump, and said, "If you knew that she had cooked chickens before, you would still think of her as that jade-clean woman." Doctor Su?" After Lidong, the days become shorter and the sky darkens rapidly.In the dim sky, the street lights came on.The cars coming and going also turned on their headlights to greet the city at night. Yuan Ye walked through the night and crowds with a blank expression. The neon lights in the store were lit up, the lights were flickering, and some businesses posted Christmas tree decorations. Then he remembered that it was the end of the year, and Christmas would be in two days. up.The last Christmas of his life. Yuan Ye suddenly felt tired, so he casually sat down on the steps in front of a luxuriously decorated building, staring at the passers-by in front of him in a daze. The man's words just now kept echoing in his ears. "Brother, don't be fooled by her noble appearance. This woman is the best at pretending. She knows what kind of man likes what kind of woman, and that's her skill." "When she was studying medicine, she knew that the man's family was an official in the People's Hospital, so she pretended to be an innocent girl, and took the initiative to seduce the man and marry him. She wanted to stay In the city! After graduation, she was assigned to the People's Hospital in City S. Otherwise, based on her rural location in Jiuxi, she would have been sent back to the county health center to have her rings tied for rural women." "Then I met me, hehe, big brother, don't look at me, Ding Yi, who is down and out now. Back then, I was one of the first batch of elites to go to Shenzhen to develop. At that time, I still had some money in my family, so I wanted to invest in the Mainland. As a result, this woman So she decided that I was a big fish, and asked me to take her to Shenzhen, and then she focused on getting into my arms. Alas, her tricks are amazing, no man can stop her." "Don't look at her like this, she is more ruthless than me. At that time, her man knew that she was ambitious and wanted to leave, so he went to the airport to chase her, crying and begging her on his knees. I couldn't bear to see her, she He insisted on leaving without looking back. Her father was so mad at her because of this matter. He was really dead. He even published it in the newspaper, and his last words were that she was not allowed to go home for the funeral, saying that she did not have this daughter. " "Later in Shenzhen, my company went bankrupt, and she began to dislike me, and stayed away all night. Look at the scar on my face, which was left at that time. When I was in Shenzhen, this The woman knocked me unconscious with a desk lamp, stole all my money and ran away! I searched for her for a long time before I found her, and now I just want to get back the money she stole from me!" "Brother, you have to be on guard against her. Maybe when you go home, you will find that the whole house has been emptied by her, and there is nowhere to cry!" When the man said these words, a strange light shone in his cunning eyes, and he observed Yuan Ye's reaction while speaking.Although Yuan Ye tried his best to pretend to be indifferent, what this man said still stunned him, as if a person walking up the stairs had stepped on the empty space. It was the first time he understood what it means to care about chaos, and was caught off guard by this man's words.There was malicious pleasure in the man's eyes. "Why are you telling me this? What good does it do you?" Yuan Ye said. "Of course it's not good for me. I'm worried about you, brother. I'm worried that you will be fooled by that woman like me." Of course Yuan Ye didn't believe everything Ding Yi said.But the question is, which ones are true and which ones are false?The matter of leaving her husband and running away with this man, or the matter of her taking the man's money and running away?Either way, it is enough to make people question Su Qin's real character. Even if she asked Su Qin, would she tell herself the truth?Yuan Ye recalled all kinds of things when he first met Su Qin, and had to admit that she was a complicated woman who could not be seen clearly.Does she know how she feels about her?Why is she willing to allow him to get closer to him when he is dying?Is all her tenderness and vulnerability just a disguise?He suddenly remembered the suspicion that Chen Ziyu had mentioned to him. At that time, he attributed everything to Ziyu's ruthlessness and suspicion, but it turned out that he was unwilling to face this hurtful fact—a beautiful woman like her, Inexplicably appearing in my last life, is this really a coincidence? ——She really likes herself?Really sympathy?Or, something else? This kind of thought is like a cold hand reaching into Yuan Ye's heart and touching it, leaving a cold touch. Yuan Ye had an intuition that Ding Yi hadn't told the whole truth, and there was a cunning smugness in the man's eyes, which showed that he still had reservations.But at that time Yuan Ye didn't ask any more questions, but left in embarrassment.What is the truth?He used to be interested in finding out the secret behind this enigmatic woman, but at this moment, he asked himself, do he have enough courage to bear it?When he started to get serious about this woman. However, everything when they were together, the deep and forgetful kiss on the side of the riverside, the fragile voice saying that he likes himself, the interlaced eyes between Gu and Pan, and her gentle hug and comfort in the long nights of despair, Is all this just a fake?Yuan Ye didn't want to think that way, but he just couldn't help it - to Su Qin, was he just a man who was easy to use?Is it no different from Zhang Lei, Ding Yi and others? Although the collar has been turned up, the cold night wind still soaks into the bones through the thin windbreaker.There was a dull pain in the heart.This pain is different from the patient's chest pain at the time of the attack, but it is just as unbearable.At this moment, Yuan Ye was shocked to find that he had been deeply hurt. This is an underground casino in a remote location.From the outside, it looks like a small restaurant that is about to close down, and the business is empty.Sitting behind the dusty counter doing nothing, the boss and the clerks are actually under the crooked brother.They closed the first gate.Ding Yi walked in slowly and greeted them.The fat boss smiled and said half-jokingly: "Ding Erwa, why are you here again? You haven't paid off the loan last time, have you? Be careful that Tiger Zhou caught you and chopped off your fingers." Ding Yi didn't take it seriously: "I'm a guest this time, and I have plenty of money." "Where did you get the money? Did you rob the bank?" Ding Yi smiled as he walked in: "I dug a gold mine." Opening the thick black cloth curtain, a turbid breath rushed towards his face, but to Ding Yi, this was the most familiar and relaxing air for him.Inside are two large rooms connected together. The one outside has five tables of mahjong. A gangster Ding Yi recently recognized is sitting in it playing cards with numb hands and feet. Ding Yi greeted him, and he responded, He looked at the cards without looking up.Ding Yi just walked in. In the innermost room, there were about 20 or 30 people crowded in it, all of them pale.The lights are turned on here no matter day or night, and the windows for ventilation are closed tightly. The room is full of smoke, sweat, and body odor, but the people sitting around the gaming table one by one do not feel stuffy at all. .There are four slot machines near the entrance of the room, two of which are occupied by people, staring at the constantly rotating screen in a daze, and mechanically pressing the buttons with their fingers.Then there are dice opening size and betting ten. Seeing Ding Yi come in, a bald man in a leather jacket walked over and scolded in a Sichuan accent: "Ding Erwa! What are you fucking doing? Can you clear your debts? I can't stand this point." Damn it!" "Who wants your tent? Real money!" Ding Yi said as he squeezed towards the table over there, his eyes were completely attracted by the situation on the gaming table. Ding Yi held the 12,000 yuan that Su Qin had just given him in his hand, stared at the skillful gestures of the young man who dealt the cards, licked his lips, and took out 200 yuan to bet on the dealer. I don't know how long it took, the thick roll of banknotes that Su Qin gave has turned into a thin stack. Seeing that Ding Yi had almost lost, the bald man in a leather jacket gave a slight pout to the younger brother beside him.The younger brother understood, and immediately went out to make a phone call. Ding Yi's face was pale, cold sweat was flowing, and he kept licking his lower lip, which was already dry and cracked.He hesitated, and finally made up his mind, took out a few hundred yuan bills and bet them on Xian's side.When the cards came out, Ding Yi really lost again. The banker got 5 points, and he himself was a pair of ten. When the third card was dealt to him, he didn't dare to turn it over. , Immediately cursed in pain and threw it out. Just one or two more plays and the box will be almost empty of cards.Just when Ding Yi was hesitating whether to put the rest of the money in his hands and fight with his back, someone slapped him heavily on the shoulder. Ding Yi turned his head and saw a tall and thin man standing behind him with his hands on his shoulders.Ding Yi's gaze bypassed the tall and thin man, and when he saw the short, dark-faced man with a fleshy face behind him, he immediately trembled in fright: "Tiger... Brother Hu." Zhou Huhu's eyes were fixed on his hand: "Not bad, seems to have gotten rich?" Cold sweat kept breaking out from Ding Yi's forehead.The wicked need to be tortured by the wicked.He is not afraid of Yuan Ye, but he is only afraid of this week's tiger.No matter how fierce Yuan Ye is, he is also a policeman, and he has his own rules, but this week Tiger is an evil star, he can do anything. Seeing everyone staring blankly, the bald man next to him made a fake smile: "Brother Hu, look, I still have to do business..." "Okay! I'll save face for you." Zhou Huo said coldly, "Take him out and we'll talk about it." As soon as he went out, the strong cold air immediately made Ding Yi shiver.I don't know what time of the morning it was, the alley was so dark that even the street lamps were half off.Under the electric pole, several people surrounded Ding Yi. The tall and thin man came over just now, snatched the remaining money from Ding Yi, and handed it to Zhou Huhu.Zhou Huhu counted quickly: "Damn it! It's only over three thousand, not even enough to pay back the interest! You fucking have the money to gamble, but you don't have the money to pay the debt!" With a look from him, Ding Yi knew something was wrong, and was about to beg for mercy, when he was punched heavily in the temple, and before he could cry out, the fists and toes were already falling like raindrops. "Forgive me, spare me... Brother Hu, spare me..." Ding Yi hugged his head and rolled around on the ground: "I have money, and if I have money, I will pay it back..." When Zhou Huo heard the word money, he immediately signaled to stop: "Damn it, why should I trust you again?" "Really, I found a winner..." Zhou Huhu became impatient: "Didn't you fucking treat me as my son? You won't have a long memory if you don't give me a hand today!" Ding Yi was distraught, only felt that his hand had been pulled out immediately and pressed to the ground, and the knife light shone brightly in the darkness. "Don't! Don't! Brother Hu, I know I was wrong! I will pay back the money, I will!" Ding Yi cried, and said in a confused way: "Give me another three days... Really, I beg you! I will pay you back Can't it be doubled?" The hands were released.Ding Yi seemed to have retrieved his hand, sobbing while holding it. "Three days, I will give you another three days. If you don't pay back the money after three days, I will kill you if I find out where you live!" Zhou Huhu threw down a few harsh words, got into the car with his men and left. It took Ding Yi a long time to stand up shivering from the ground. A gust of morning wind blew by, and he felt his crotch was icy cold. Only then was he ashamed and annoyed to realize that he was so frightened that he lost control of himself just now. It's all his fault. When Cheng Lin got into Mr. Zhao's silver-gray Mercedes-Benz 500, only this thought ruthlessly rolled through her mind. When she called Chen Ziyu to tell Chen Ziyu that she would be working overtime tonight and might be home late, the response from the phone was extremely indifferent.She still had a glimmer of hope in her heart. As long as Chen Ziyu showed even a little tenderness, she might change her mind and not accept Mr. Zhao's implicit hint after dinner and follow him all the way to the hotel. The floor numbers in the elevator flickered, and Cheng Lin's heart was like a mess.Mr. Zhao's fat palms gently wrapped around her waist, and he whispered softly in her ear, "Lin, I'm so happy that you promised me." At that moment, Cheng Lin bit her lower lip and held her breath. . Once here, there is no turning back. It was all Chen Ziyu's fault, and she wanted him to regret it. As soon as he entered the room, the man couldn't wait to hug her, eagerly looking for her lips.In the past few months, he has approached her with incomparable patience, just for this moment.She smelled the faint smell of alcohol in his breath, and instinctively wanted to push him, but her hands touched his loose chest, and she was taken aback.Under the cover of the high-end suit, it turned out to be such a huge and fluffy body.She suddenly thought of Chen Ziyu.It's not the scenes of the cold war in the past, but his body, which is full of well-proportioned muscles without a single piece of excess fat, and has a graceful and flexible body like a leopard. When he hugs himself, he can feel the tenderness of his arms. Tough and powerful. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry Mr. Zhao!" She used all her strength to break free from that thick embrace, and what met her was Mr. Zhao's astonished gaze.She found herself lying on the bed in a very awkward position, and when she came here, there was no way to turn back.But…… "I, I want to take a bath..." After she ate and ate, Mr. Zhao's nervous eyes immediately relaxed. The little woman likes to be clean and shy, and she doesn't want to go back on her word. "Okay, okay, you wash first, I'll wait for you." She fled into the bathroom and locked the door behind her, her heart still beating wildly.She turned on the faucet of the bathtub, gushing water poured into the bathtub, and white steam rose up.She stood by the bathtub blankly.Her hair and skin became damp from the steam, which made her feel a bit confused.Why is she here?What is she doing here? She looked at the mirror on the wall.Expensive hotel mirrors with built-in heating wires will never steam up like mirrors at home.The mirror reflected the slender figure of a thirty-two-year-old woman.Because of long-term office work, lack of sunlight and exercise, her skin looks a little too pale, and her lower abdomen also shows a little fat, but other than that, her waist is still very slender, her chest is still plump and upright, and her hands and feet are still in good shape. Soft and slender like in his twenties.This may be due to the childless relationship.She smiled wryly.Thinking of the child, tears welled up from his eyes.She only wants to give birth to the child of the person she loves deeply, but why is she here now?Why did she come here with that man who had nothing to do with him outside?Why did she put herself in such a bleak and shameful situation?She cried and wrapped her arms around herself, that dry and lonely body.How long has it been since Chen Ziyu hugged herself? She stayed in the bathroom for too long, the man waited impatiently, and was about to knock on the door when it suddenly opened.She came out, fully dressed.The man who had already taken off his clothes looked at her blankly.But she didn't dare to look at the man's old naked body, bowed her head and said sorry, picked up her handbag on the sofa, and ran out as if escaping. When she came outside the hotel, the night air that suddenly surrounded her made her tremble, but she felt a sense of comfort physically and mentally, as if she had just escaped from a filthy trap.Her mood changed, the cloud hanging over her heart was dissipating, and some optimistic and positive things began to flow up.What her aunt had said to persuade her, she didn't take it seriously at the time, but now every sentence comes to mind.Maybe there is something wrong with him, maybe she is really pushing him too hard, maybe Chen Ziyu really loves her, maybe he is still looking forward to going home now.She wanted to go home, she wanted to see him, she missed his strong arms, she missed his arms. She missed those dark eyes that were half-smiling. Great, she did nothing wrong.She is going home.She wanted to have a good talk with Chen Ziyu. Before it's too late, they can start over. In the night, she kept walking along the road, raising her arms to the first taxi that was coming towards her. Cheng Lin came home, opened the door, and a strong smell of cigarettes came over her face.It's been a long time since their house smelled like smoke. She was taken aback. The room was dark, like no one was there.However, on the other side of the black shadow of the sofa, there was a small red bright spot, which lit up in the darkness for a while, and then dimmed again. "Ziyu?" No one answered her. She asked suspiciously, "Are you at home? Why don't you turn on the light?" The person lying on the sofa on his back does not speak. Cheng Lin turned on the light casually, and immediately under the light, there was a puff of light blue smoke filling the room, which made her cough twice.Normally, she would definitely be angry, but the strong attachment feeling along the way just now was still rippling in her heart, making her calm and accommodating.She went to the window and opened it to let the fresh air into the room. "Don't smoke so much, it's bad for your lungs." She turned around and said. Chen Ziyu stared at the chandelier on the ceiling and said blankly, "I just plan to get lung cancer." His tone was cold and stiff, like a basin of cold water pouring on Cheng Lin's warm heart.The warmth in my heart was extinguished, and the flame of ignorance came up faintly.Cheng Lin didn't speak anymore.She came over and picked up the ashtray on the small table next to the sofa, which was almost full.She suddenly noticed the thing next to the ashtray, her hands shook, and the ash fell all over the table.With trembling fingers, she picked up a matchbox on the side, which had the name of the hotel she just went to printed on it. Her body couldn't stop shaking. She turned around: "Ziyu, you, listen to me..." "Let's get a divorce." He said lightly.He didn't look at her all the time, just looked at the chandelier overhead, as if there was something more interesting to him than what he was talking about.