Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Mystery

Feng Ran stayed for another day. He learned that Chen Zhi was delayed by something and would be back tomorrow, so he quietly took the time to go back to his hometown. He renovated the Internet cafe, threw away what should be thrown away, and paid the fees that should be paid. After a busy day, he received a call from Chen Zhi in the evening.

"Where is it?"

"Outside."

"I know it's outside. I asked where it is specifically."

"Chen Zhi, we don't do this. I have no obligation to report to you."

"You are not here? Going home?" Chen Zhi said, "I have something to discuss with you, it's urgent."

Feng Ran glanced at the rag in his hand. The ticket to go back today was gone. No matter how urgent it was, he had to wait until tomorrow.

"What can't be said on the phone."

"A contract about equity transfer." "

It's quite intimidating." Feng Ran put the rag in the basin and threw it more than ten times. After wiping the house five or six times, the water that came out was finally not black and dirty.

"Well, see you tomorrow. I'll be waiting for you in this room." Chen Zhi yawned, "Good night."

"Good night."

He took the earliest bus and it was still dark when he returned. As soon as Chen Zhi opened the door, he looked at him and smiled.

Feng Ran slept for four hours that night and had just taken a nap in the car. He was listless and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"Look at what you've been busy for."

"I'm free." Feng Ran took off his shoes and threw himself on the bed, taking up most of the time. Shen Zhi sat down beside him. He closed his eyes and whispered, "My whole body hurts. Read your stuff to me quickly." Shen

Zhi was about to speak when Feng Ran's phone at the bedside vibrated.

He wanted to answer it, but was blocked.

His hand froze in the air for two seconds, and slowly dropped down with some reluctance. Feng Ran closed his eyes again and hummed lazily. There was no way to guess the identity of the person on the other side.

"Brother, where are you? I'll go find you." Xiaofu said slyly, "I didn't tell Brother Liu, he thought I was going out to find a job, you can tell me where you are."

"I have something to do today." Feng Ran tried to shirk.

"Please," Xiaofu said, "I'll send you an address later and treat you to a meal."

Chen Zhi said, "What do you want?" Feng Ran

put down his phone and looked at him, "Your thing."

"Brother, bring your family with you," Xiaofu said as soon as he heard it, "I promise to treat you well. As long as you come, everything else is easy." At

this point, Feng Ran had to agree.

"Actually, you don't have to find me." The ceramic cup is intricately made, and the coffee milk is steaming white steam, which hits the face with a rich fragrance. Take a sip, the hotness burns the mouth, and the bitterness comes immediately, like torture. Shen Zhi likes these, and he can't accept it. He

looked back and saw Shen Zhi at the table behind him, holding a coffee cup in one hand and a book in the other, leisurely and contented, not even looking at him.

"Brother, you are the most capable and courageous one in our group. Although everyone was against you because of your father, you did do something. Although they don't say it, everyone admires you in their hearts, including Liu Mang. I really want to learn from you. I want to live a decent life." Xiaofu's eyes were sincere and innocent.

Feng Ran wanted to laugh, but he felt it was impolite. In the end, he looked at him with a half-smile.

Xiaofu said sincerely: "I can learn anything, really. I've thought it through. It doesn't matter if I have to work hard."

"I don't live a decent life. I've been living off giggles for so many years. Do you understand what living off giggles is? It's very hard." As he spoke, a chuckle came from behind him. He felt uncomfortable and lowered his voice, "Anyway, basically I met a good boss. I can't say anything if I rely on myself."

Xiaofu shook his head repeatedly: "You are lying to me, I don't believe it. You may look down on me and don't believe what I say, but my current situation... I can just afford to eat. And," he seemed to think of something and lowered his head, "I also want to reduce the pressure on my parents. After all, they are family, and I used to spend a lot of money on them."

Feng Ran stopped teasing him and asked, "Tell me the truth, what can you do?"

"Anything is fine." Seeing Feng Ran wanted to help, Xiaofu sat up straight, "Really, anything is fine."

Feng Ran said: "Have you been to Jiang City?"

"No, I went there once."

Feng Ran didn't know if introducing him to the car dealer would become a trouble or a helper. Faced with a dilemma, he subconsciously turned around and found that Chen Zhi's seat was empty.

"When did this guy leave?"

"He's been gone for more than ten minutes. I thought you knew." Xiaofu approached and whispered, "Brother, is he really your lover?"

"In the past, right." Feng Ran was ambiguous.

Chen Zhi left without saying a word, still holding his phone. He always felt that something bad was going to happen.

He used Xiaofu's phone to dial his and Shen Zhi's numbers, but no one answered after several calls. He could no longer take care of Xiaofu, so he went to the shops at the door to ask around, and finally found out from a convenience store thirty meters away that Shen Zhi had just come to buy a fruit knife.

Feng Ran panicked, but had no clue. He went back to the hotel and sat down to think. Shen Zhi was unfamiliar with the place, and it was impossible for him to go there rashly unless someone agreed on the place.

It couldn't be work or family matters, otherwise why would he leave his phone behind.

The more he thought about it, the more he sweated. There was only one possibility left, Liu Mang.

"Have you found him?" Xiaofu asked.

"No, call Liu Mang."

"Oh." Xiaofu looked through the address book, "Don't panic, I'll see what's going on."

How could he not panic? He couldn't imagine how he would explain to his family if something happened to Shen Zhi.

But unfortunately, the clues were interrupted. No one answered Liu Mang's phone.

Xiaofu was puzzled: "No way, it's such a coincidence that they met in just ten minutes?"

"It's been three and a half hours."

"If they had a conflict, then after such a long time, they should have decided the winner..."

Feng Ran didn't respond with a gloomy face. He deduced various possibilities several times, and the endings were nothing more than those. Shen Zhi was young, but Liu Mang had rich practical experience, and now he was even more of a desperate criminal. Shen Zhi only had a fruit knife, which was really underestimated.

Xiaofu found many of Liu Mang's strongholds based on his memory. They searched the streets and alleys until it was getting dark, but they found nothing. Finally, both of them were exhausted. Xiaofu suggested eating something. Although Feng Ran had no appetite, he was exhausted. Xiaofu advised him to replenish his energy and nodded mechanically.

Suddenly, his cell phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number.

He picked it up and agreed to a few words. Suddenly, he looked at Feng Ran: "Brother, it was the coffee shop that called just now. They said someone from the First Hospital of the City is looking for you."

He rushed to the inpatient department and found the ward. When he pushed the door, the setting sun was so bright that he couldn't open his eyes. On the bed lay a person wrapped in gauze and unrecognizable.

There was another person sitting by the bed, with his head down and against the light, holding a knife in his hand, busy all the time.

... Peeling apples.

A whole piece of peel hung long on the blade. There were a few peeled apples on the windowsill, and the skin had oxidized and turned yellow.

He raised his head. The other two were stunned at the door for a while.

"Everyone is here. Want an apple?"

Feng Ran walked forward quickly. Chen Zhi was unharmed, looking at him with a smile in his eyes.

Xiao Fu rushed to the bedside, dumbfounded: "What's going on? What happened? Is this Brother Mang? How did he become like this?"

"I was hit by a car. I haven't woken up yet. But it's okay."

"Been hit by a car?... Where's your phone? Why can't I get through?" Feng Ran asked.

Chen Zhi looked at Xiao Fu: "Go pay the bills. The treatment fee is 6,000 yuan, and the hospitalization fee is 1,200 yuan."

Xiao Fu blinked twice slowly, as if immersed in a dream. Being urged, he left in a daze.

"I fell into the water. Fortunately, there was a receipt from the coffee shop with the store's phone number on it. I called you and you all left. Fortunately, the store said they could contact the buyer." He answered.

"Don't you think you should explain what happened this afternoon and evening?"

"You're angry." Chen Zhi stood up.

"What do you think?" Feng Ran saw that the two buttons on the top of his collar were missing, the thread ends were broken, and there were spots of blood on the inside.

Shen Zhi straightened his collar and said, "He did fight, but it's nothing."

"What do you mean?"

"He sent you a message asking for money."

"Where's my phone?" Shen

Zhi handed it to him, and it really didn't turn on. Xiaofu came in with a stack of bills in his hand and said, "Brother, what should we do now?"

Feng Ran grabbed the phone, his head aching badly: "I don't know, Xiaofu, can you go back and wait for my news? I want to deal with something first."

As soon as Xiaofu left, Shen Zhi hugged him gently, whispered in his ear, and said, "It's all over, Feng Ran. I'm here to help you with the things you can't finish, you just need to be well." Shen

Zhi's body temperature and words quickly penetrated into his brain like a tranquilizer. Feng Ran calmed his mind, pulled another stool and sat down, looking down at Liu Mang on the bed.

Shen Zhi suddenly disappeared, and his mood was like a pulled string, which became tighter and tighter as time passed, so that when he saw him again, when he saw him standing in front of him intact, he couldn't get rid of his emotions.

"They are just skin injuries, maybe a slight concussion. It's nothing serious. He was yelling and making a fuss just now, and the people next door complained. The nurse gave him an injection and he fell asleep."

Feng Ran had mixed feelings. The man in front of him looked less and less like the Shen Zhi he had known for more than a year.

At least he never knew that Shen Zhi had such skills.

He had only seen one person in his life who could fight with others without getting hurt and control the accuracy to avoid vital points.

Shen Zhi...how did he do it?

"Eat some fruit." Shen Zhi handed him a freshly peeled fruit.

Feng Ran was silent, clenched his fists, and didn't take it.

"Try it. A patient who had surgery just gave it to me. It means peace and safety. I ate one and it was not bad."

Feng Ran finally exploded. "What are you eating! Do you know how worried I was about you the whole afternoon? You want to leave and help me deal with it, okay, why didn't you tell me? Why did you act alone rashly?"

"If I told you, would you let me go?"

"This is not something you should worry about. I don't want to involve you. Do you understand? This is my business, a historical issue left over from my family. I don't want to extend it to anyone else and create new problems."

"I know I was wrong first, but nothing will happen in the future. He will never bother you again." Shen Zhi said firmly.

"Why? He can't have lost his memory and forgotten who I am, right? This matter can't be over. He just got out of prison and has a long life ahead of him."

"I have my own way." Shen Zhi buried his head in peeling the fruit. His technique was skillful. The apple skin peeled off in circles. The flawless white flesh exuded a fragrance and was brought to Feng Ran's eyes. "Want one?"

Feng Ran was worried and finished it in three bites. He remembered that he didn't eat much today, so he solved a few on the windowsill by the way. When throwing the core, he suddenly frowned and said, "No."

"What's wrong?"

Feng Ran just shook his head, unable to say a word. He staggered a few steps while holding his forehead, and was pulled by Shen Zhi at the right time.

He looked at him worriedly: "Feng Ran, you are too tired. It's all my fault that you are so troubled, I really feel bad. Get some sleep, baby."

Those eyes as quiet as a deep pool have an irresistible power, and the sleepiness is as thick as glue, which firmly blocks his five senses, and everything is pulled away, until he fell unconscious into Shen Zhi's arms.

Shen Zhi made a phone call, put the remaining apples on the head of Liu Mang's bed, carried Feng Ran on his back, and left the hospital gate at the last moment when dusk disappeared.