I don't have ulterior motives

Chapter 42

"Does Jin Yunsheng know?" Jin Bei asked.

"...I don't know. This is the confession of the person who was arrested that night. Seeing that his boss was arrested, the person poured out everything, hoping to get a lighter punishment."

"It doesn't make any difference whether you know it or not, does it?"

"...Well. Lu Zhouxing has already been avenged."

"There is one more person, police officer." Jin Bei said indifferently, his tone could not hear any resentment or anger, but it carried the chill of deep winter.

When the sunset turned golden orange, Liao Fangyuan patted Jin Bei on the shoulder and left.

Only Jin Bei and Shu Lin'an were still standing in front of the tomb.Jin Bei scratched the name on the tombstone with his fingertips, and squatted down slowly.

Jin Yunsheng has been taking risks for others all his life.Before he took risks for Ke Tanmeng, then he took risks for the police, and then he died in the last adventure.

Someone in this life took a risk for him, and then that person died.

Jin Bei put the bouquet of white chrysanthemums that he had been holding in his hand in front of his grave, and looked at the man's tombstone.The tombstone is plainly like his whole life.

The shadow of the setting sun in front of the tombstone enveloped him, as well as the person sleeping under the dust.

Jin Bei raised his head, and the golden-red sunset was crumbling behind the monument.He remembered Jin Yunsheng teaching him to swing a sword in the past.During the break, the two sat on the steps outside the back door of the martial arts hall, which faced the setting sun.

Jin Yunsheng lit a cigarette, and the smoke curled up.The world is cruel, he said to himself, and you have to work really hard to hold on to the sliver of hope.

At that time he thought his uncle was really cool.

Of course he didn't understand what his uncle was talking about then, and now he does.But his damn cool uncle, in the end, has little hope of catching him.

The setting sun that day shone on the steps, Jin Bei looked at the light climbing up his ankles, and remembered what he said.

It doesn't matter, he thought, that slim hope, help him catch it himself.

Thinking of this, Jin Bei stood up, took two steps back, and left the shadow in front of the tomb.

When he got up, he noticed the small white flowers beside the grave.It is a flower called Endless Summer. When it blooms, several small flowers are clustered into a small umbrella with pure white petals and a light pink heart. It can bloom through the whole summer and autumn.And now it's late autumn.

"So many endless summers are still open." Shu Linan said softly.

"It's already winter." Jin Bei lowered his head.

"It will end."

Jin Bei raised his head slowly.He looked at Shu Lin'an, the light-haired boy was standing in the setting sun, the side of his face was stained with the twilight of the setting sun, his tone was firm and gentle.

Jin Bei smiled slightly: "Let's go."

night.Sitting on the sofa, Jin Bei turned over the last page of the photo album.It was one of Jin Yunsheng's few relics, and it contained all the photos of him and his brother from childhood to adulthood.Not much in total, just enough to fill a photo album.The cover of the photo album is in the style of posters from the last century, with ocean waves and sunsets printed on it, and a few corners of the plastic film on the cover are missing. It can be seen that the whole photo album is still being carefully protected.

Probably after his brother died, Jin Yunsheng took it from him.

Jin Bei put the photo album on the coffee table and leaned against the back of the sofa.Shu Lin'an came over and sat beside him.

His hair smelled freshly washed.Jin Bei turned his head, looked at Shu Linan's pretty side face, and wrapped his arms around Shu Linan's waist.

Shu Linan turned his head, he took Jin Bei's hand and put something in his palm.

Jin Bei bowed his head, it was a small silver ring with a very thin circle, shining softly under the lamp.

He had seen the ring before, in Casanova, the time he had cleared it for him.

"This is..." he asked hesitantly.

"The ring my mother gave me. It's not the matching ring with Shu Pingyuan. It was given to her by her grandmother when she was a girl. Maybe it's a family heirloom or something?" Shu Lin'an said.He looked into Jin Bei's eyes: "For you."

Jin Bei held the ring and kissed Shu Lin'an's face.

The other party was quiet in his arms for a while, then suddenly said: "When my mother fell into the water, I was by the side."

Jin Bei was stunned for a moment, and hugged the person in his arms tightly.

"Do you remember the night of my birthday? The place I took you that day, in front of the Diaoyutai, is where she fell into the water. I was sitting on the rock next to it."

"Remember..." Jin Bei recalled that day's sunset on the green hills, and Shu Lin'an's bodies were mixed with the humidity of the lake and the faint woody fragrance.

He suddenly remembered his joke that day, and Shu Lin'an replied that he had seen others fall.

"When she fell into the water, I knew it. She even called for help from the shore. But the place was so remote that no one could hear her. She shouted for a while, waving her arms on the surface of the water, and her head came out of the water from time to time. But the sound died away quickly. Yes. I watched the bubbles on the surface of the water disappear, sat for a while, got up and walked to the table, and sat there until someone came and asked where my mother was.

"I shook my head at them. They saw the footprints and they salvaged for a long time and found her body under the water.

"I was... thinking of the drowning man as a phantom...? No, I know she isn't. I might, I might be thinking, and that would be the end of it. As long as she sinks, all hallucinations will end, and then Nor would there be a dark room, no cupboard, no cry, no cry..."

Shu Lin'an trembled unconsciously as he spoke.

"But I was wrong. Nothing ends. Nothing."

Jin Bei stroked Shu Lin'an's back, letting him rest on his shoulder.He felt the other party's shallow breath, brushing against his neck like a thread.

"Why do I always watch the people around me die. Am I—"

"It's not your fault." He said, kissing Shu Linan's lips.

He leaves slowly.Shu Lin'an shook his head: "But I don't want to..."

"It's okay." Jin Bei slapped the opponent's cheek.

Shu Lin'an looked at him, and said in a deep voice, "Shen Le... maybe I can lure him out—"

"No." Jin Bei's heart skipped a beat, and he interrupted the other party's words instantly.

Shu Lin'an laughed, "I haven't said anything yet."

"No." Jin Bei said stubbornly with a serious face.

Shu Linan caressed the side of his face, as if to appease him.He finally opened his mouth and covered Jin Bei's mouth that was trying to speak: "Shen Le didn't directly give the evidence to the police at the beginning, but chose to frame him with an incomprehensible method, because he felt that Shu Pingyuan might have something to do with him."

"I don't know if Shu Pingyuan is there, but Shen Le's doubts have not been dispelled. I will know when he wants to kill me.

"I can tell him that I do have evidence of drug trafficking by the Tri-Ring Group, which Shu Pingyuan and Ke Tanmeng have collected over the years. I can give the evidence to him and ask him to give me a huge amount of compensation and stop Interfere in my life. I did not give the evidence to the police, because I know that he has much more power than me in the police station, and what I handed over may be lost. And the police station can not give me any real benefits, only A vengeance and a nominally just trial.

"But we need benefits more than a fair trial. He agrees with this. Shu Pingyuan's son should choose so."

Shu Linan spoke smoothly, as if it was true.

Jin Bei lowered his eyes and said, "Do you know what I'm thinking right now?"

"Huh? I'm not allowed to go?"

Jin Bei shook his head: "I was thinking, if you lied to me, I might never find out."

Shu Lin'an smiled: "No. You can. You know me."

"And," he went on, "I can't bear to lie to you so completely."

Jin Beixin said that this is still for me to discover my flaws and satisfy my self-esteem?

"If that's really the case...would you choose this way?" Jin Bei looked at him and asked seriously.

Shu Linan was startled for a moment, and thought for a moment.

Jin Bei lowered his head.

"No." Shu Lin'an said.

Jin Bei put his chin on his shoulder and didn't speak for a long time.

"I still can't..." Jin Bei's voice came muffled from his shoulder.

Shu Lin comforted the other party's hair, and said after a while: "Actually, there is nothing... It's as if you are standing on the edge of a cliff, and there is a flower on the cliff, which can cure the poison that has been deeply penetrated. Maybe it's just that you looked down and saw the flower. At that moment, you jumped out without thinking about anything. You didn’t think that you would die on the ground if you jumped out, you just thought that you could pick the flower by jumping out.”

Jin Bei fell silent.He asked slowly: "Even if it is possible to die on the ground?"

Shu Lin'an didn't answer.

"Not necessarily." He said after a while, "Didn't you still catch me?"

"...you trust me so much?"

"Of course. I only trust you."

Looking at Shu Lin'an's smile, Jin Bei thought helplessly, this guy really killed him.He knew he couldn't deny his trust, his delivery, his expectations of himself.The curvature of the corners of his lips has not changed since the beginning, and it always looks like a dream.

He remembered meeting him for the first time, in the hallway of the school.The large area of ​​sunlight on the floor was cut into a shadow by the boy's slightly thin figure.He remembered that in front of the window on the opposite side of the stairs, he stood with his back to the window, the light coming from behind hid most of his expression, and only had time to see the corner of his lips slightly raised.

He still remembered that he drank the slightly sweet green plum wine and leaned forward to stick it to his lips.He still remembers that he said you are the end of winter, tears streaming down his collar.

At last he remembered the end of that harp, and the glance he glanced at it intentionally or inadvertently.

"You remember that during the art festival, the Demon King ended up going to the Valley of the Sky, right?"

Shu Linan was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why he suddenly mentioned this, and nodded slightly.

Jin Bei clasped his waist and moved forward, while Shu Lin'an fell on his back on the sofa.

Jin Bei held his wrist, bowed his head and whispered in his ear, "I want to complete your piano sound."

Shu Linan closed his eyes, tears welling from the corners of his eyes.

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