Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 107 Black and White

Li Chongyan went to Jiuquan, and Fu Yangxia saw him off below.The daily affairs of the time bureau have been handed over to the staff, and it is still in the middle of the year, there are few people, and there are no major events on weekdays.Li Chongyan paid special attention to Xinghe. Experts said that Xinghe's protective barriers have been updated once.

When I went to deliver it, there was only Fu Yangxia and a few ordinary assistants. The snow had stopped and it was suitable for flying.Fu Yangxia stood beside her car and shook hands with Li Chongyan to see him off. He would appear on almost every important occasion, rain or shine.

After brushing off the remaining snow flakes on Fu Yangxia's military cap, Li Chongyan patted his old friend on the shoulder and said, "It's hard for you these days to take care of these trivial matters, and I will contact you over there in Jiuquan."

"Small things, didn't we come together back then, followed for a lifetime, the black way followed the white way, that's enough." Fu Yangxia didn't seem to care much, and said it lightly, lighter than air.

Li Chongyan laughed. He looked at the dark sky, just like the years they experienced, except that the death and blood disappeared with the wind.When the black/dao follows the white way, no one's hands are clean, and no one can get away with it.

"What's going on in Yancheng Prison? I heard it's not peaceful recently, and there are always people making trouble in the prison."

"Compared to the escape, this trouble is nothing. I didn't see the warden as expected. It is said that he hasn't appeared in the office for a long time. Tang Ji hasn't been caught yet, but this is not something we should worry about. "

Fu Yangxia stomped on the snow under his feet with a smile, and said: "The warden doesn't show up often, it's normal, but I don't think you'd like to see him, it's better to keep out of sight, everyone is at ease."

"Old Fu, it's still open to you. You were not like this before. After all these years, who made you look like this?" Li Chongyan narrowed his eyes, and he smiled warmly.

Fu Yangxia smiled, shrugged, and said indifferently, "Maybe it's Duke Zhou?"

They were amused by the joke, and Li Chongyan's voice was rustling and a bit weathered.Fu Yangxia turned his eyes to look elsewhere, his eyes flickered, as if he was avoiding something.

The assistant came forward and whispered, reminding Li Chongyan to pay attention to the time.The old commander raised his wrist and looked at the platinum watch. The second hand was moving. He smiled and waved to Fu Yangxia briefly, then turned and walked towards the plane: "Let's go, contact again."

"Contact again." Fu Yangxia replied as usual, he restrained his usual indecent appearance, wearing a military uniform and a coat and cloak outside, which was a symbol of iron and blood.

When the plane disappeared from sight, Fu Yangxia lit a cigarette and leaned on the hood of the car to smoke slowly. No one came to urge him, so he asked the colonel who came with the car to step aside and looked up at the sky through the smoke , A snowflake suddenly fell slowly.

"If it's not Zhou Gong, it's also a dead person." Fu Yangxia said in a low voice, he said it to himself, and no one else cared.

"Go back." Fu Yangxia threw the extinguished cigarette butt into the trash can, walked to the car door, and suddenly paused, "Go to No. 217, Mingxi Road, Suian Street."

In Wangjiang Villa, Gu Qichuan stood in front of the birdcage and filled the dishes with water.Xiaoba also celebrates the New Year, and cries in the cage all day long, and his black feathers become more and more glossy. Gu Qichuan likes it very much. In his spare time, he sits under the birdcage and reads newspapers, "Global Economy" and "World Military".

The dish was full of water, it overflowed, and some dripped on the carpet. Gu Qichuan was startled, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, and put the water ladle on the wooden table next to the blue and white porcelain jar.He rubbed between his brows, feeling restless these days.

Just squatting down to wipe off the water stains on the carpet, the nanny lady's shoes appeared in the corner of my vision: "Sir, let me wipe it, you sit and rest."

The nanny took a handkerchief to dry up the water stains, Gu Qichuan stood up with his knees on his hands, coughed a few times, and sat back in the chair covered with blankets, with a few magazines scattered in his hand, which were a little rolled up.He suddenly saw the goldfish in the water tank and counted them, but one was missing.

"Why is there one goldfish missing? When did it disappear?" Gu Qichuan asked lightly. He put the customary rug on his knees to keep him warm.

The nanny stood up, looked at the fish tank, showed embarrassment, and said: "Yesterday, one died. I was afraid that it would be bad for my husband, so I disposed of it. The water was replaced with new ones, and the rest of the fish were all healthy. "

Gu Qichuan suddenly remembered that these were the fish and birds that Gu Zhou entrusted him to take care of, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad. He didn't speak, watching the goldfish swimming freely in the tank.Seeing that his complexion was not good, the nanny hurriedly said cautiously: "Sir, do you want to buy another similar one to make up for it?"

"No need," Gu Qichuan raised his hand to stop her, and waved her to go to work first, "I will explain to him when Gu Zhou comes back, don't worry about the rest. You go to work first, I will ask the driver to take you off after cleaning Go home, you don't have to work full time today."

"Okay, sir, happy new year. You have an important guest who called this morning and is on his way. Don't forget, sir."

Gu Qichuan looked at the call record, nodded and said he understood.

The nanny helped Gu Qichuan turn up the heat, and was about to leave after thanking the host, when Gu Qichuan suddenly stopped her: "How is your son Xiaoshang this year? Did you go home during the Chinese New Year? As far as I remember, he is only six years younger than my son. "

"Sir, Shang Pu went to Tibet this year, but he didn't come home. He said that he was doing scientific research and would not come back for a long time." said the nanny. She was a kind-hearted middle-aged woman with a big smile. mild.

Gu Qichuan nodded when he heard the words, and said: "The children don't go home during the Chinese New Year, and they are bored all day long. It's too cold in winter, and I'm a little worried that I won't be able to make it through."

The nanny looked at this huge villa, with three or four floors and more than ten rooms, but only Gu Qichuan lived here.In the past, I could still see Young Master Guzhou coming and going, but now it became more and more deserted. It's not that no one visited, but they were all dismissed.

Suddenly a bell rang in the hall, it was the doorbell of the garden gate of the villa.Gu Qichuan put down the magazine to look at the corner of the carved door exposed through the French windows, a silver and black Gust was parked in front of the door, although he couldn't see the people in the car clearly, Gu Qichuan's calm gaze moved.

He is very familiar with this car. This is the special seat for the head of the Fu family to travel. The body is not ostentatious, just like the owner of the car, it is a sharp knife hidden in a sheath.

"Sir, do you want to decline?" the nanny asked, she knew that Gu Qichuan hadn't seen anyone during this time.Outside the garden, the villa's bodyguards went up to question the people in the car, but the rear window was lowered halfway, making it impossible to see the people inside.

Gu Qichuan waved his hand. He broke the rules this time, picked up the phone next to him, and said into the microphone: "This is the Patriarch of the Fu family, and he is my friend."

The carved door opened, Gust turned into the stone path behind the door, and the nanny caught a glimpse of a soldier sitting in the back seat.She knew that Gu Qichuan had great scholars in his conversations and jokes, and he had no casual contacts. His friends were either rich or noble, and all he came into contact with were important military and political figures.

Gu Qichuan put on his clothes and went to the door to meet Fu Yangxia who got off the car. They shook hands warmly and then hugged.Gu Qichuan rarely showed a smile, and raised his hand to ask Fu Yangxia to come in. Gust drove into the garage and parked, and it started to snow.

"Old Gu, are your legs better?" Fu Yangxia asked, he took off his coat and sat down, bringing in the cold air all over his body.

Gu Qichuan sat down opposite him, pulled the blanket to cover his legs, patted his knees, and said, "It's still the same, it hurts in winter, and I have to cover it like this often, I can't stand the cold."

The nanny brought warm tea, Gu Qichuan knew Fu Yangxia's preference, and asked the nanny to serve Sichuan scented tea.Fu Yangxia was very happy. He had a special love for scented tea. At this time, he had developed the habit when he went to the countryside. Tea was not expensive, but it had the taste of youth.

"I got injured ten years ago, and it hasn't healed yet. Just like you, my back hurts when I get cold, like a needle prick. I can't do anything even if the doctor came to see me." Fu Yangxia shook his head, He rubbed his waist.

Gu Qichuan smiled and spread out the military magazine in front of him, and pushed the fruit plate in front of Fu Yangxia: "It's not healed, it has never been healed, the injury is too serious, it can't be healed."

Fu Yangxia saw the photo on the showcase, a woman smiling at the camera, and a branch of plum blossoms slanted out beside her.This is the wife of the Gu family who has been dead for ten years—Ms. Bai Yu, whom Fu Yangxia knew.

He understood what Gu Qichuan meant.

Xiaoxiao said nothing, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Gu Qichuan pushing the fruit in front of him, and his sleeve climbed up, revealing the tattoo on his arm, which was a red-tailed carp.

"You still have this tattoo. I haven't seen it for many years. I miss it." Fu Yangxia slowly peeled an orange, "The Red Tail Fish King."

Gu Qichuan withdrew his hand, and his sleeve slid down to cover the tattoo again. In the fish tank beside him, a red-tailed goldfish floated with its tail flicking.He looked at his hands, moved them away, and said, "Let's not go dark now, so we don't need to mention these nicknames anymore."

After Fu Yangxia peeled the oranges, he put them on a glass plate beside him, and a cold fragrance of oranges filled the hall: "Speaking of being gangsters/gangsters for those years, it was not bad, but now that the gangsters have washed their hands, they feel uncomfortable. .”

"These four fingers of mine were also chopped off by the Prince of Zhenjiang." Gu Qichuan said as he took off the gloves he had been wearing for many years, "Because of this, no girl would talk to me, and the Gu family was also ashamed of it."

Gu Qichuan showed his hands, and there was no abnormality in those hands.When he peeled off a layer of skin on his hand, he revealed the reinstalled mechanical fingers inside, which looked very uncoordinated.

Just because of these metal objects, his hands were extremely cold.

"The prince of Zhenjiang is more serious. I have been with his brothers, and none of them has any shortcomings. We went to the funeral on the day the prince left. At that time, we were all the heads of the family. Time is so fast and the world is amazing."

"I followed the Yulong sect, so I recognized the prince of Zhenjiang as my master. Which sect are you from? I kind of forgot."

"Under Huba's sect, the master is Mr. Hu San." Fu Yangxia said, he didn't eat the oranges, so he broke them into pieces and put them on the fruit plate.

Gu Qichuan was stunned.

"This piece of leather was given by the Xu family, and in that generation there was a geek who peeled human skin." Gu Qichuan fiddled with the skin on his hand, and put it on again, "It's not human skin, but it's also very durable."

Fu Yangxia knew who Gu Qichuan was talking about. They were all strange people of their generation. They traveled all over the rivers and lakes in the early years, traveled north and south with their masters, and greeted and sent them to whom they had never seen before.Those who peel skins, those who tame falcons, those who specialize in touching Yuhan, those who dive into the water to find gold veins, are lively and lively, of all kinds.

Gu Qichuan saw that Fu Yang Xiaguang was peeling the oranges and stacking them neatly on the plate. He didn't eat them, as if he was just enjoying the fun of the puzzle.The fresh scent of oranges soon filled the hall, and the tea cooled down a bit, so Gu Qichuan asked someone to replace it with a pot.

"Why don't you eat oranges? Don't be polite when you come to my house. It was picked in the winter moon, and you can't buy it in the market. It's very sweet." Gu Qichuan said, looking at the teacup in front of Fu Yangxia, a flower Ups and downs in tea.

Fu Yangxia smiled, wiped off the crumbs on his hands, and said, "I don't like oranges, but I have a friend who likes them very much, and I always remember it."

Before Gu Qichuan had time to ask who it was, the nanny suddenly came over with a phone and spoke to Gu Qichuan in a low voice.Fu Yangxia sat quietly in a chair drinking tea, he couldn't hear what was being exchanged on the other side, only the sound of snow falling outside the window.

"Old Fu, a guest is coming. What a coincidence. If you don't come, you won't come. If you want to come, come together." Gu Qichuan put the magazine aside with a smile, lifted the blanket and stood up. Fu Yangxia walked over to help he.

Gu Qichuan waved his hand to signal the nanny not to follow. He and Fu Yangxia turned out of the hall together. Fu Yangxia asked, "Which guest is it? Our friend?"

"Of course, of course it's our friend." Gu Qichuan put on his coat, the temperature outside was low, and there were ice cones under the eaves, "You will miss her very much."

As soon as the words fell, a car stopped outside the carved door. The driver showed his ID, and the rear window was lowered halfway. The bodyguard only let it go after questioning.The car was sent by Gu Qichuan's family, with a layer of snow on the hood, it drove through the neem tree in the garden and stopped in front of the door.

Gu Qichuan let out a happy laugh, and stepped forward, ready to welcome the guests who braved the wind and snow all the way to visit: "It's Mrs. Bai. I just called this morning, and I'll be here soon."

Fu Yangxia's face suddenly changed, he stood still and stayed behind Gu Qichuan.Snow fell in front of the door, and a thin layer of ice formed in the pond. Looking at the black car in front of him and the door slowly opening, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

Bai Zhu first removed her calf wearing Louboutin red-soled shoes, and then exposed her whole body.In my impression, Mrs. Bai often wears a black coat and leather shoes, but today she is slightly different.

The nanny put a windbreaker on Bai Zhu to keep out the cold, blocking the well-fitting white suit she was wearing.Bai Zhu greeted Gu Qichuan with her windbreaker on. She smiled brightly, and a small badge was sewn into the small black cap on her head.

Fu Yangxia silently watched Bai Zhu's movements, seeing that she was as calm and elegant as ever, she has been beautiful since she was young, and she has never been a beauty over time.

Don't open your eyes, Fu Yangxia took a deep breath of the cold air, the corners of his eyes suddenly became moist, but soon returned to normal.

Bai Zhu got closer, and when she saw Fu Yangxia standing behind Gu Qichuan, a trace of shock flashed across her face, which turned to anger, and finally became flat.She shook hands with Fu Yangxia politely, and walked into the hall with a smile beside him.

"Ms. Bai is really a rare and distinguished guest. I came here suddenly today. What's the matter?" Gu Qichuan asked Bai Zhu to sit down and served tea.

Fu Yangxia sat in the chair next to Bai Zhu, the two were not far apart, Bai Zhu said: "It's nothing serious, I just want to celebrate the New Year, let's take a walk around. By the way, I'm here to tell you that I saw Gu Zhou , he's fine, don't worry."

"Is there still no way to come back?" Gu Qichuan asked.

Bai Zhu shook his head and drank tea with lowered eyes: "It's really not possible, some things are urgent, and he can't leave even if he wants to."

She lied.

Fu Yangxia cut off the end of the cigar, lit the lighter with a snap, and smoked silently.Faint smoke drifted under the lamp, like a wounded carp, flicking its tail and disappearing into the ripples of the pond.

Ever since Bai Zhu arrived, Fu Yangxia hadn't said anything. He had been smoking and fiddling with a Rubik's cube that Gu Qichuan put on the table. The Rubik's cube was made of metal and six sides were black. Viewed from different angles, each side is white.

"Thank you for helping me take care of my sister's tomb all these years, third master, I owe you this." Bai Zhu said, Gu Qichuan and Yulongmen ranked third, so Bai Zhu used to call him third master.

"It's all a family, thank you for what you say." Gu Qichuan waved his hands and lightly walked over, leaning on the chair and sitting in a different position to make his knees more comfortable.

Fu Yangxia caught a glimpse of Bai Yuan's photo.

"Where's elder brother?" Bai Zhu suddenly turned to the Patriarch of the Fu family, "I say hello to you on behalf of my father, and he asked me about you a while ago. How is elder brother doing, better or worse than before?"

Fu Yangxia shook off the ashes from the cigar, leaned on the back of the chair with his legs folded and said, "Thanks to Mr. Hu San, it's neither good nor bad. What's there to mention about the past? Mrs. Bai."

Bai Zhu smiled a bit coldly, this is her usual demeanor, Bai Zhu was always indifferent to everyone: "Brother drove a long car back then, searched for the dragon's veins, and killed the Dragon King, what a scene, why didn't people mention it? Sinister, there's always something good to remember."

Fu Yangxia pressed the cigar into the ashtray and crushed it to pieces.He didn't look into Bai Zhu's eyes, turned the Rubik's Cube twice, and put it on the coffee table: "Madam Bai, Third Master, the world is not black and white. The military department has something else to do, I'll go first, I can see you all." very happy."

He left in a hurry, put on his coat and walked out the door. The driver hurriedly drove Gust out, and Fu Yangxia stood in front of the gate waiting for the snow to fall clean.He clenched his fists angrily, and then everything turned into a heavy sigh.

Gu Qichuan watched the car drive away and asked, "What did he mean?"

Bai Zhu clasped his fingers, crossed his legs and said, "Probably he's talking about us, or maybe Ji Songlin too. Big brother will always be big brother, we are all brought out by him, without the Fu family, there would be no us. "

"Be careful in the future, don't always argue with him. I know you have always been at odds. I have been wondering why for so many years. What is the reason for your disagreement?"

Bai Zhu looked at the dead tree outside the window and smiled, stopped laughing for a while, suddenly got a little annoyed, and said, "Because of Ji Songlin. I am also shocked that the Fu family and Ji family can have that kind of relationship, but I'm not afraid of it." No comment. What has the Fu family done? You know better than me."

Gu Qichuan poured a glass of wine for Bai Zhu, Xiao Ba yelled at this moment, Gu Qichuan twirled the ring on his hand and said, "Then do you know that your son is so close to the young master of the Fu family now?"

"What's the best way?"

"It's so good that I'm going to remind him to be careful with the people of the Fu family."

"Oh, it seems that we really need to do something." Bai Zhu put down his wine glass and put it with Fu Yangxia's unfinished scented tea, the tea was still steaming, "Young people don't have to suffer from the sufferings experienced by the seniors."

Do those meaningless bloodshed and sacrifices have to be experienced by the younger generations again?

Gust galloped quickly on the highway, Fu Yangxia sat in the back, leaning over the window to look at the scene outside, there was snow everywhere, snow in all directions, the whole world was fading.

He covered his forehead, his temples throbbed violently, even though he closed his eyes, someone's face was still lingering in his mind, as faint as a galaxy.Sometimes flashing Bai Zhu's indifferent expression, sometimes flashing the carp tattoo on Gu Qichuan's arm, he felt like he was going crazy.

Sure enough, I shouldn't go to Gu's family. There is no need for ordinary walking between them.

After returning home, Fu Yangxia took some sedative medicine and lay down to rest.In the dark, he dreamed of the battlefield and blood, and his comrades who saved him.But then he pushed his comrade off the cliff, and then grabbed his heels with both hands. Looking back, he saw a rotten humanoid monster grinning at him.

Nightmarish nightmares, waterfalls of bodies and blood, never ending.

Suddenly sitting up from the dream, the sound of rapid breathing echoed in the darkness, there was no light, and the room was as silent as death.Fu Yangxia clutched the quilt tightly, the veins on the back of his wrinkled hands were bulging, he gasped heavily while holding his forehead, said something indistinctly, turned over and got out of bed, stumbled out of the spacious bedroom, put on his Go down to the basement in a pajamas.

He took out a photo from the back of the old diary's jacket, and he relaxed a little when he saw it.Fu Yangxia slumped down on the chair, arched his back, and covered his eyes like an asthmatic out of breath.

The dim light in the basement made Fu Yangxia's tall and straight body somewhat hunched. Only then did he deeply realize that he was old, indeed very old.

There is nothing in the deep basement, only a black echo.Fu Yangxia cried alone, repeating three words over and over again, and it took him a long time to understand that he had been saying "I'm sorry".

He Luan and Chen Wei were called by the officer, saying that someone from above wanted to contact them.When Chen Wei said who the hell provoked the military, the officer shook his head and said that it was someone from the Time Bureau, the order from Baika, and the highest authority.

Ji Yao talked to He Luan again.

There were three people sitting in the conference room, and Shanhua was walking in from the outside, holding two cups of coffee, one of which was given to Lin Cheng.Ji Yao turned on the projector, and He Luan's face appeared on the screen. Chen Wei stood beside him, and Fu Zhong called out to Chen Gou.

"Fuck, why is Lin Liu here?" Chen Wei put on the earphones, propped himself in front of the camera and said, "Are you trying to get money behind your back? I'll break your leg."

"I'll kill you uncle, I'm an expert in profiling."

"Oh, yo, it's amazing."

Ji Yao interrupted their meaningless conversation and signaled the audience to be quiet. He transferred the channel to He Luan and asked, "How is the investigation site? Did you find anything?"

He Luan turned on the computer next to him and replied: "The process is going well, all the fossils have been excavated, except for a small problem in the seventh excavation pit. At that time, we met King Jiang blocking the way, and an eminent monk came to rescue us. Go ahead, it's now complete."

"Oh, King Jiang has come out. It's really hard. The fossils have been cleared. Is there anything abnormal? Have the experts in the same room determined what kind of creature it is?"

"The species has not yet been identified. Most of the fossils are still in the soil layer and have to be slowly removed. I have already repaired part of it and are doing restoration work. It may take a while to complete it all."

He Luan put photos on the projector, most of which were excavation pits, and the photos were marked with a pen.He enlarged the pictures and explained them one by one.When they were placed in Pit No. [-], the four people sitting in the meeting room frowned.

"This pit is the strangest. We always encounter all kinds of strange things when digging. We originally detected that there would be a skull underneath, but when we dug it completely, the skull disappeared, and it became a headless corpse. .”

"And the day I met King Jiang, it happened to be the time when the skull was going to be dug, and the king happened to block the way." Chen Wei added, and the tape recorder next to him made a ticking sound, "After one night, the skull was gone. And fly."

Ji Yao knocked on the table, thought for a while, and asked, "Can you describe the scene that day King Jiang blocked the road in detail?"

"Why did Chief Ji ask this?" He Luan said, he was always careful and rigorous.

"Because we also found a corpse similar to yours, also without a head." Ji Yao asked Fu Zhong to release the video, and briefly explained the reason. Coupled with Lin Cheng's model rendering, He Luan realized that something was wrong.

Complementing each other, He Luan explained the situation at that time in detail. When he said that when he woke up the next day and found that the house was ten years old, Ji Yao pressed the recording button and asked him: "You said the house suddenly became old?" After ten years, it’s like time-traveling?”

"Yes, Chief Ji." He Luan nodded, "Both Chen Wei and I can testify. But I found that only the floor where we lived has changed, and the rest of the place is still the same as usual, and the age of the people is the same. change, so...it’s not considered time-traveling.”

Fu Zhong recorded this incident, put it together with the "Bolevit" incident and the fuel tank massacre, and marked it in red.

About 10 minutes later, Ji Yao ended the call. He told He Luan to pay attention to and record the specific manifestations of various strange things, and the coordinate instrument would contact them from time to time.After closing the channel, there was no sound in the meeting room, only the sound of Fu Zhong typing on the keyboard.

Shanhua propped her elbows and said: "In the narration just now, they claimed to see a huge black shadow flying across the sky, and then there seemed to be some monsters hidden in the river, as well as a strange damp mist. Do you think this is a problem? ?”

"The dark shadows in the sky may be birds, just like our giant eagle here." Fu Zhong said, and he turned the computer to the opposite side. "We have never encountered anything in the river, so let's not talk about it. Regarding this fog, I have something to say." To say."