Yu Ping frowned.
Tao Su’an held the little milk cat and looked closely at the note in his hand. He lowered his eyes and said calmly: “My lamb…”
His voice reached Zong Nan’s ears through the receiver.
Lamb?
Zong Nan looked at Tao Su’an in the rain. The boy was as soft as a flower in the greenhouse. He looked so soft and fragile. It seemed that if the storm in City A was stronger, it would beat the flower into pieces.
Such a child seems to be suitable for someone to find a fertile and beautiful garden to support. Let him be an innocent and pure elf in his own private domain.The lamb stays in the sheepfold, and the sheepfold is the murderer’s private property. Everything in the private property is the murderer’s personal belongings.
He regarded Tao Su’an as a lamb, and Tao Su’an in his eyes was a weak and captive person waiting to be slaughtered, without any ability to resist him.
Zong Nan felt disgusted by such arrogance. He took a deep breath and said, “Old Liu, call up this surveillance.”
The cat whimpered and crawled into Tao Su’an’s arms with its head. It was extremely frightened, and its weak meows contained fear and uneasiness.
Tao Su’an quietly withdrew his eyes from the note. He subconsciously felt very unhappy about this sentence. Who is a lamb? He is not a lamb.
But he didn’t show his displeasure. Instead, he acted instinctively, showing the same fear as the cat in his arms. Both Yu Ping and Zong Nan, who was watching them through binoculars in the car, saw him shrinking slightly.
But the boy didn’t say anything. He silently stepped back, gently touched the cat’s head, and then gave it a comforting kiss.
The milk cat was soothed by him, and gradually stopped shivering, its whimpers became lower, and it called out “meow meow meow” twice. It stretched out its pink little tongue and licked Tao Su’an’s cheek.
The two of them were like little cuties who kept each other warm and comforted each other, which made people’s hearts melt.
Yu Ping put away the note and the cardboard box, and was at a loss as to how to comfort him. Suddenly the leader’s deep voice came from his earphones,”Sin can never triumph over justice.”
Yu Ping quickly learned, “Sin can never triumph over justice.” He paused, “Do you know how to raise a cat?”
Weird, Yu Ping muttered in his heart, why did he suddenly get involved with the cat? Shouldn’t the lead say a few more words of encouragement?
Tao Su’an’s hand had been holding the cat’s hind legs worriedly. Hearing this, he shook his head, “Its leg seems to be injured and it can’t be straightened. Brother, can you see its wound?”
Yu Ping took a closer look. He had never raised a cat before and speculated: “The leg is probably broken. It looks a little bad from this angle.”
After he finished speaking, he thought too much for a moment. The murderer gave Tao Su’an a milk cat with a broken leg. Does it mean that if Tao Su’an disobeys, he will also break Tao Su’an’s leg?
Yu Ping’s expression gradually became serious. Tao Su’an lowered his head and carefully touched the cat’s back, not daring to touch its injured leg. His sadness was palpable. The milk cat was petted so much that it snored, purred and rubbed its ears against Su An’s palm.
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Zong Nan: “…” He rubbed his eyebrows.
After Yu Ping finished speaking, he had a grimace on his face, wishing he could turn back time and go back to before he said the last sentence.
However, there is no medicine of regret in the world, nor is there a time reversal device, Yu Ping watched Tao Su’an’s eyes brighten abruptly, and excitedly and adoringly hugged Yu Ping for a moment.
The faint fragrance of the boy’s clothes came from the sun. His slender body was only half a head shorter than Yu Ping. Yu Ping was hugged stiffly, and Old Liu in the car almost spit, and then lowered his voice excitedly, “Yu Ping, why don’t you take him back quickly?! The murderer might be watching you.The little comrade has cooperated with you so much, what are you waiting for!”
Yu Ping had a jolt and hurriedly hugged back to him, “What do I call this? Compared to the great ones, I’m not ranked.”
Su An smiled and then said anxiously: “Brother, should we go to the hospital now?”
Yu Ping nodded and quickly took him into the car.
A car followed, but Zong Nan hadn’t moved yet. He couldn’t tell what he felt, but he felt a little uncomfortable. When Old Liu urged him to drive, Zong Nan slowly loosened his clenched fists and stepped on the accelerator to follow, then Old Liu joked: “Lead, if you are the one doing this task, the little student will be hugging you.”
Zong Nan frowned, and the discomfort turned into a deeper level of stuffiness. He took out a mint candy from the glove box and threw it into his mouth. A refreshing cold feeling went straight to his brain.
“The surveillance was removed from the street just now, and the store staff around it are also going to check.” Zong Nan put away his displeasure, his thin lips were cold, and he gave the order simply and neatly, “Cleaning staff, fingerprints on the cartons…all, check it over.”
Old Liu nodded, “Understood.”
Yu Ping took Tao Su’an and sent the milk cat to the pet hospital. The final check result was that one of its hind legs was broken. They put the milk cat in the hospital to recuperate, and Yu Ping sent Tao Su’an home.
Tao Su’an opened the door and said, “Brother, will you come in and take a rest?”
Yu Ping’s mouth was dry from running, and just as he was about to say ‘good’, he heard the leader say in a deep voice: “Come back, you still have tasks to complete.”
The displeasure in the leader’s tone of voice made Yu Ping shudder, “No, Su An, I still have something to do, so I’m leaving first. Close the door and windows tightly, and pay attention to safety.”
Tao Su’an nodded lightly, “I understand.” Smiling like a flower, he said, “Goodbye, brother.”
Outside the surveillance video, Zong Nan looked at Tao Su’an’s smile and took a sip of water. His brain consciously began to compare the difference between the “goodbye, brother” that Tao Su’an said to him and this sentence. It turned out that no matter whether it was the curvature of the lips or the emotion contained in them, ten words of “goodbye, brother” to him were not as good as what he said to Yu Ping.
He came to a conclusion, and the next moment he felt funny. Such behavior like that of a primary school student would actually appear on him?
But he couldn’t laugh. Zong Nan just raised the corners of his mouth and looked up to see who this smiling man was in the rearview mirror.
Tao Su’an closed the door, he turned on the TV and played some soft music, then took a shower with his clothes in hand.
Ten minutes later, he walked out with dripping brown curly hair. His curly hair reaches the shoulders, and when wet, it looks like elastic silk.
He put a blue towel on his shoulders to soak up the water. He used the shower head to busily water the flowers and plants in the house and on the balcony, then he loosened the soil, and applied a thin layer of fertilizer to some of the pots. When Tao Su’an did these things, he used all his seriousness and goodwill, and his intention of “you grow up healthily and quickly” was not mixed with a trace of falsehood.
In such a dry and muddy world, he lived happily in his own little world. Zong Nan sometimes wondered why he was so happy, but when he thought about it, what reason did he need to be carefree and happy?
After watering the flowers and cutting the grass, Tao Su’an sat on the sofa and stared blankly for a while. The towel had absorbed the water stains on his hair. Tao Su’an lowered his eyes, then turned his head slightly and looked at the balcony outside the living room.
Instinct pulled him again, and Tao Su’an walked to the balcony with a pure expression, looking down at the garden in the dark night.
He knew that the murderer was watching him, and Tao Su’an thought, ‘maybe I can do something to attract the murderer more’, to deepen the murderer’s desire for him, and to stop the murderer from being calm and speeding up the process.
He also knew that the more he unintentionally revealed his beauty and vulnerability, the more the murderer wanted to have him as his own.
When he was thinking about these things, his expression was still beautiful and clean, without a trace of evil thoughts, as if he was thinking, “This potted flower should be watered less,” and he made this decision in an ordinary way.
Tao Su’an took off his shoes and walked to the edge of the balcony. He leaned on the black iron railing and looked up at the night sky.
The slightly fishy sea breeze blew his curly hair, and the smell of moist shampoo mixed with the fragrance of flowers. A few strands of hair dried and scattered messily from behind his ears in front of his ears.
Tao Su’an was carefully admiring the night scene. The lights behind him were bright. He was like an angel born in the darkness and under the light.
In fact, no one can see stars at night in City A. The city’s light pollution makes the night sky seem like a gray filter, but fortunately, there was still a faint moon to appreciate. Tao Su’an looked at the moon, and his eyes reflected the bright light that seemed to be painted on them and embellished his soul.
A bell in the room suddenly rang, like a beeping alarm. Tao Su’an returned to the room in confusion and took out a headset with red light dots from the cabinet.
It was a communication headset left by the police in case of an emergency.
Tao Su’an put it on his ear and said softly: “Who is it?”
The male voice in the earphones said sternly, “Now put on your shoes, put on your coat, and come to the balcony again.”
His voice is very distinctive. In the past, when talking to Tao Su’an, he would treat Tao Su’an like a child with a smile. His deep voice has the most mesmerizing sound a teenage girl can imagine. But this time, his tone was crisp and serious.
Tao Su’an had never seen someone like him before. How could he gently remind him to wear shoes and a coat, but also use a command tone that was so overbearing that it could not be vetoed?
He seemed worried about him, but he didn’t use the same loving and accommodating tone as those who tried to get close to Tao Su’an. Those people were afraid that speaking too loudly to Tao Su’an would frighten the angel and disturb his bright smile. They wished that Tao Su’an could become a puppet or fool who only knew how to smile, instead of being like Zong Nan, who spoke in a slightly angry and stern tone. Just to get him to wear shoes and clothes, he didn’t even consider the fact that he would do something good, and still used such a criticizing tone of voice.
Like a good person.
Tao Su’an tilted his head and said curiously: “Brother, I’m not cold, ah.”
Zong Nan couldn’t help but say, “Put it on.”
Tao Su’an squatted in front of the cabinet for a while, then went back to the bedroom to find a coat and put it on, and then put on the sandals that were taken off in front of the balcony. He carefully walked to the edge of the balcony and looked downstairs several times in the darkness.
The earphones rang again, and the man’s tone was much better this time, with a faint smile, “Who are you looking for?”
Tao Su’an whispered: “I’m looking for you.”
Zong Nan: “Huh?”
Tao Su’an said: “Brother, don’t you sleep at night?”
“You reminded me,” Zong Nan said, “Now it’s time for you to sleep.”
It was only past ten o’clock, Tao Su’an was silent for a while and said softly: “But I don’t want to sleep yet.”
Zong Nan said: “The child should go to bed.”
Tao Su’an looked at the apartment opposite with a few lights on. He stood there and thought for a while, or maybe he didn’t think about anything, but simply stayed in a daze for a while, then he turned off the balcony light and walked slowly to the bedroom.
Zong Nan said: “Good night.” Then he hung up the communication.
Tao Su’an was in the room without turning on the lights, hugging the quilt and thinking, this person is really strange.
Such straightforward kindness and arbitrary control were new and unfamiliar to Tao Su’an. He slowly closed his eyes and thought, is this person treating him well to gain something? But if it is to obtain something, why is it so forced?
They helped him to catch the murderer, but ordering him like this would prevent him from blowing the cold wind or walking barefoot, which would not help in catching the murderer.
Tao Su’an became curious about Zong Nan.
Will this person be a pure and truly good person?
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Tao Su’an: This man is different and has attracted my attention.
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Thanks for the chapter, I like this new world