I don't have ulterior motives

Chapter 21

In the middle of the night, when Jin Bei woke up, he stretched out his hand to the right, and the quilt and bed sheets were cool.

He opened his eyes, turned and turned to the door.The door was closed tightly, and there was a gleam of light from the gap, which should be the bathroom on the opposite side.

How long does it take to go to the bathroom?Yu Wen is gone.Jin Bei lowered his head and thought.

"The voice is so low, is there someone nearby, young master?"

Shu Lin'an was annoyed that the other party called him that. "Do you have to call?"

"You have a nice voice, I want to hear it." Shi Zhonggu said.

Shu Lin'an laughed: "Really, but I don't want to hear your voice."

"That can't be helped, who asked you to ask me."

"...Send me the information about that incident four years ago first." After Shu Linan finished speaking, he planned to hang up the phone.

"No problem. Don't worry—" the other party stopped him, "Seriously, why do you care about Huang Xiaotian's life? Doesn't his death trigger the other party's further actions?"

Shu Lin'an took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said in a steady tone: "You mean, the death of that girl in the afternoon was also a further action of the other party's being provoked?"

There was a slight smile on the phone: "I don't know about that. If I knew the other party's plan so clearly, why would you check?"

"That's right." Shu Linan hung up the phone.

When he returned to the bedroom, Jin Bei had already turned his face back, facing the ceiling on his back.Shu Linan groped in the dark and walked carefully to the bedside.

Jin Bei seemed to be sleeping peacefully, but his heart was turbulent, and he only hoped that Shu Lin'an would pass by quickly.But the other party just stood by the bed and didn't move for a long time.

Jin Beixin said that he wants me to get up and make room for you?

Suddenly he felt the person in front of him crouch down and approach him, breathing on his neck.He tried his best to suppress the urge to open his eyes, and only moved slightly.

He felt that Shu Lin'an left immediately, walked around to the end of the bed, and lay down beside him.

He heard a barely audible sigh from beside the pillow.

The next morning Shu Linan woke up and found that he had caught a cold.

He must have opened the bathroom window yesterday, wanting to blow some air to cool off.he thought angrily.

During breakfast, Jin Bei heard Shu Lin'an's voice and felt something was wrong, so he immediately made a bowl of sugared ginger tea and forced him to drink it.

"Can you take medicine?" Shu Lin'an looked up at Jin Bei with a pleading expression.He would rather take very bitter medicine than drink this kind of weird taste.

"What kind of medicine do you take for a cold?" Jin Bei folded his arms and looked at him, "Drink something to repel the cold and wear thicker clothes. Oh, that's right." Jin Bei entered the room as he said, "Here You get a scarf."

He came out with a black knitted scarf, and saw that the bowl in front of Shu Linan hadn't moved yet, and he was looking up at him with wide eyes. "What are you looking at me for? Drink it quickly."

"I think you must look handsome wearing this scarf."

Jin Bei laughed: "Of course. Don't try to change the subject, you have to drink this bowl of food even though I am handsome. Do you want me to feed you?"

Shu Lin'an looked at the bowl and thought, it's not impossible.

"With your mouth?" He raised his eyebrows and said.

Jin Bei pulled a chair and sat down beside him: "Well... no spoon."

Shu Lin'an looked at him with curiosity and anticipation, and saw Jin Bei pick up the bowl and pinch his nose.

???

It didn't develop like this!Going in a strange direction!

Shu Lin'an grabbed the other party's wrist: "I drink, I drink!"

Jin Bei put down the bowl and looked at him with a smile.

Shu Lin'an picked up the bowl with a full face of grievance, and muttered: "I have never been drugged by others since I was a child."

"Didn't your parents force you when you were young?"

Shu Lin'an thought for a while, his parents didn't care about his illness at all, and the family doctor was responsible for it, and the others didn't dare to give him medicine at all.

He shook his head honestly.

"Oh... then do you want to experience it?" Jin Bei asked.

"..." He obediently began to drink.

Seeing the face of the other party frowning reluctantly and gulping down ginger tea, Jin Bei couldn't help feeling very cute, and wanted to pinch his face.

Seeing that Shu Linan was almost finished drinking, he coughed and said, "I won't go to school today, I have something to do."

Shu Lin'an's hands trembled, and the last few drops of dark red tea juice flowed down the corners of his lips, and Jin Bei swiftly wiped them away.Shu Linan put down the bowl and looked at him with uneasy eyes.

"I'm going to find my uncle." Jin Bei explained.

"I won't go to school anymore, I have a cold." Shu Lin'an said.

"You'll be fine after drinking the ginger tea. Remember to close the window next to you at school." Jin Bei said while wrapping the scarf around him.

"It's not fair," Shu Linan tugged at the scarf, but Jin Bei grabbed his hand and pushed him onto the chair.

"Why can you just not go?"

"I've learned it once."

"You didn't go often before."

"Are you like me? You're so nice."

Shu Linan was choked for a moment, and glanced at him: "This seems to make a little sense."

Jin Bei rubbed the other person's head: "Hurry up and go to class, I'll take you to school."

"It's not a child, what to give..."

"My pleasure."

"..."

In this way, Shu Lin'an was escorted to the school by the other party.

Jin Bei looked at the back of Shu Lin'an as he walked into the campus, his eyes became deeper and deeper as he walked towards the depths of the boulevard.

It will probably rain today, the sky is very cloudy, and there is no light beam of dust fluttering under the shade of the forest. The figure walks through the dark golden tree shadows.

There are so many people, but he can only see him.

Jin Bei crushed a fallen leaf next to his feet, and the leaf made a crisp sound.With his hands in his pockets, he turned and left.

Liao Fangyuan opened the door of the meeting room and said, "Hurry up, you can't meet the suspect according to the regulations."

"Got it. Just count me half a cop, non-staff."

The door closed behind him, and Jin Bei looked at the people in the opposite glass window.Wearing an orange waistcoat over an expensive-looking overcoat, the man looked young despite being in his late twenties.

Jin Bei walked to the glass window and sat down. The person opposite him was pale, but in good spirits. He looked at Jin Bei with interest through the glasses, hiding his sharpness under it.

"My surname is Jin, and I'm Shu Lin'an's classmate." Jin Bei said.

Shu Pingyuan's eyes changed slightly, he narrowed his eyes, and sat up straight: "Jin?"

Jin Bei didn't answer.

Shu Pingyuan looked at him for a while, raised one corner of his mouth, and smiled: "I see. You used to work in the city that never sleeps."

Jin Bei was noncommittal.

"Jin Yunsheng's nephew..."

Jin Bei's eyes froze.

"So that's it." Shu Pingyuan said again, with a bit of sarcasm in his voice: "You and my son have a good relationship."

"Does Lin'an know what you did?"

"Lin'an? It's so intimate."

"Does he know?" Jin Bei stared at Shu Pingyuan.

Shu Pingyuan raised his eyebrows: "Lin'an mentioned you."

Jin Bei's heart tightened suddenly: "How did you mention it?"

"It's just that I didn't expect it to be you. Interesting, he didn't tell me your name."

Jin Bei frowned.

Shu Pingyuan leaned back, leaned on the back of the chair, and closed his eyes for a moment: "What should I say, will the child stay when he grows up?"

"What are you talking about?" Jin Bei leaned forward.

"Lin'an... I don't know if you can still call it that after you understand certain things."

"What's the matter?" Jin Bei really wanted to smash the glass with his fist and grab the man opposite him by the collar.

Shu Pingyuan stared at him and smiled: "It's nothing. You asked me if he knew what I did? Of course he knew. Not only did he know, many results were discussed with him."

Glass, can you hit it?

Shu Pingyuan spoke smoothly, as if he really wanted to tell him: "Don't you want to know the truth about Zheng Cheng's case? Do you know how Wang Lianjun died? How did Huang Xiaotian die?"

Jin Beixin said, do you think you are the host of today's talk?

"I killed the first two, and the last one... I thought about it too, but my old friend helped me." He paused, "Or it's not a help? The person who killed him, You know it too."

"I know?"

Shu Pingyuan smiled without saying a word.

"Of course, I can also choose a more troublesome method," he continued, "but silencing is the easiest way, isn't it? Finding the simplest method is the first thing I want Lin'an to learn. But that child, even if he knows the most Simple method, but always want to make trouble for myself." Shu Pingyuan shook his head regretfully.

Jin Bei suppressed the urge to punch: "He doesn't want you to do this, does he?"

Shu Pingyuan smiled and said: "But, of course, I will make the final choice."

Jin Bei thought of the day when he asked Shu Linan, did you participate in what he did, and Shu Linan said that he didn't need me to participate.

Shu Pingyuan looked at Jin Bei with searching eyes.He sighed: "Lin'an had a chance to control you."

"What?" Jin Bei stared at him with wide eyes, trying to see something from that calm face.

"On October 31st, when you went to Dongli Mountain Villa, my people had already set up an ambush, but Lin'an said that there was something wrong with the plan, and you found out. The medicine given to you didn't work, so you can go back safely. I have always wanted to know, How did you find out."

Jin Bei recalled Shu Lin'an's eyes by the lake, with the scenery of the lake and the mountains and the setting sun in his eyes.He remembered that day when he stopped him from pouring wine, opened his mouth suddenly when he raised his glass, and finally knocked his wine glass to the ground.

"Now I know." Shu Ping stared at him from a distance, and smiled slowly, with a penetrating arc.

"He's still like this. If you don't push him to the point where there is no way out, he will always be soft-hearted." Shu Pingyuan's tone had a strong meaning of hating iron but not steel, as if a father was worried about his child who always didn't finish his homework. .

Jin Bei felt a chill rise in his heart.With no way out, is Shu Pingyuan treating his son like a tool, or maybe, should be more harsh?

Jin Bei thought of Shu Lin'an saying again, how could he be considerate of others if he didn't even consider himself.

Over the years, how many times has he had no way out.

Jin Bei took a deep breath.His handsome boy, who is as good-looking as a star, sits in front of him, and sometimes he turns around to talk to him, and his smile is spotless and bottomless.

For so many years, he walked on the narrow wooden bridge, and what he saw was the abyss.

Jin Bei frowned deeply.He wanted to pull him back to the ground, to keep him safe next to him, to roll on the grass with him in his arms.I want to see the scent of grass leaves and green grass on his hair.

The author has something to say:

Shu Lin'an: With your mouth?

Jin Bei: Yes.

Shu Lin'an: No, no, I have a cold and it will be contagious.

Jin Bei: ...