things in April

Chapter 3

When the appointed time was approaching, Wei came to leave the bar, and Erin caught up with him in the dark corridor: "Wei."

She was different from usual. She was not teasing, angry, or annoyed. Her expression was solemn, with a hint of helplessness and depression. She said, "You can't do this anymore."

Women are natural persuaders, with young faces, and mature words like living a hundred years old: "Do you have no plans for the future? You should also save some money, marry a girl you like, buy a big house, and live a stable life. I want to see you well. After all, you're the only man I've ever loved in my life."

Erin is telling the truth. In the process of admiring Weilai, one day, she finds out that she actually likes women - there is no opportunity or foreshadowing, it can only be explained by her late awakening.

Wei Lai pondered for a moment: If you want to stop a certain topic, you must be sincere and sincere.

He replied: "I know that diligence, progress, and stability are universal values, but the world is so big, you have to allow someone to derail."

After speaking, he took a step back, bowed to Erin, and was polite, then turned and left.

It's not relatives, not friends, someone sincerely plans for you, so you should be grateful.

He had no plans, he just had to live with it, he would come back after all the money was gone, he was happy to get off the track, and he didn't want to disturb the men and women who were serious about life on the track.

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Exit the apartment building, walk straight along the street, and turn left at the end, the floor tiles are washed with water by the lights along the street, and a dilapidated Volkswagen is parked under the lamp post.

Elk stood by the car and looked forward to it. His eyes lit up when he saw him, and he almost rushed over: "David's coming! my Christmas tree!"

The Christmas tree is Wei Lai's nickname.

Wei Lai strode forward, grabbed his head with one hand when the elk got close, wiped him in a circle on the spot, then bypassed him and got into the co-pilot of the car.

The temperature in the car is moderate, which is suitable for the chairman to chat or take a nap.

The elk got in excitedly.

"Wei! You're back safely! God knows I've watched Wilderness Survival three times! One night I dreamed that you died, and I cried so hard - I swear, I didn't cry so much when Eve died. !"

Wei Lai was speechless. Eve was Elk's wife and gave birth to a son and a daughter for him. This is not the key. The key is: that Eve is not only still alive, but also in good health.

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Elk is Weilai's agent.

African-American, thirty-five years old, with the appearance of a rapper. A lot of words, boundless energy, fanatical love of China, and I think that the most delicious food in the world is Chinese dumplings because dumplings can have 10,000 flavors!

He has good language talent. In recent years, he has been studying Chinese very hard. Wei Lai usually has a rare opportunity to speak Chinese, but when he talks with Elk, Chinese and English can often be exchanged, and Elk is committed to learning the most authentic Chinese slang. Two sentences, no matter if you understand them correctly or not, always sound kind.

Once he asked Wei Lai, "Chinese people say that there is nothing more delicious than dumplings, and nothing more fun than a sister-in-law. I know that dumplings are delicious, but sister-in-law...why is it fun?"

Wei Lai was silent for a while, then replied, "You stinky rascal."

Another time, he asked Wei Lai, "You seem to despise 'brother-in-law loves auntie', but brother-in-law and auntie are a family, shouldn't they love each other?"

Wei Lai was silent for a while, then replied, "You stinky rascal."

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Elk's Chinese and comprehension ability thrives amid Wei Lai's scolding.

After not seeing him for four months, Elk's love for him is like the heavy snowfall in Lapland, and it doesn't mean to stop in a short time. Wei Lai is too lazy to listen to him, and his eyes fall on the cowhide envelope standing in front of the windshield: "Customer equipment?"

Elk is accustomed to putting customer information in kraft paper envelopes with winding closures.

Wei Lai reached for it, and the elk said, "No, no, no, this is it."

He took out another copy from under his seat and handed it over solemnly: "I chose it, especially for you."

The envelope looked the same. Wei Lai tried the thickness. It looked like a photo.

He didn't take it apart at first: " was it specially chosen for me?"

"I know you Chinese people, and when I see my fellow villagers, my eyes are full of tears."

Understood, this client should be Chinese, or at least Chinese.

Wei Lai untied the detour: "Then you don't know us very well. We also have a word called 'kill the familiar'. We are never soft-hearted when we cheat our own people."

He took out the photo.

The lights in the car were very dim, but I don't know if it was an illusion. The moment the photo was taken out, Wei Lai felt that his eyes seemed to light up.

He subconsciously exclaimed, "Beautiful."

In the photo is a 26- or 7-year-old Chinese woman, leaning on the stairs to smoke, with her hair reaching to her shoulders and slightly curled at the ends, with no expression, her eyes just touching the camera.

There is a world so deep in her eyes.

In the blank area of ​​the photo, I wrote two words with a marker: Cen Jin.

Elk leaned at him: "Be careful, the man just fell in love with a dimple at first, and then he took the whole girl back home."

Wei Lai stared at the photo: "I underestimate myself too much. First of all, she is not so pretty that it makes me dizzy; secondly, I have professional ethics, she is a customer when I take orders, and I do not develop with customers except for money. any relationship outside."

After a while, he said, "Your eyes are not soft, you should have experienced something."

He put Cen Jin's photo on the windshield.

The light of the street lamp came in from the outside, and the woman in the photo was immersed in the darkness, her face blurred. Wei Lai asked, "This...Miss Cen, how is she?"

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Elk is one of the most well-liked private bodyguard agents in the industry, with two trump cards, a Christmas tree, and a Cocoa tree.

The trump card can pick and choose customers and can set rules privately, no matter how outrageous the rules are - for example, the rule of Cocoa Tree is: never accept orders from customers with moles between the hairline and the navel.

. In total, the parents have moles. What are you doing?

Compared with the cocoa tree, Weilai has more peace of mind. There is only one thing: not to protect the scum.

The reason is sweating, bleeding, or even losing one's life to protect the scum, which is acting against the sky and does not conform to the Chinese habit of respecting the sky.

Everything in China is good, the elk nods like garlic: That is, that is.

Now Wei Lai asks Cen Jin "how is he?" that means he has the intention of taking orders.

Elk had already made a draft: "Wei, people are complicated... Do you want to listen to her good points first or her bad points?"

"not good."

"Then be patient, no matter what happens ahead, you will definitely take the order when you hear it at the end."

Wei Lai smiled.

Why absolutely? Love has no eternity, love has no eternity, and there is no absolute in the world.

Outside the car, it was as quiet as an empty city. For so long, no pedestrians passed by.

"Ms. Cen once had a fiancé. On the eve of the wedding, she was caught r***d in bed in a hotel. After the marriage fell through, her fiancé couldn't figure it out for a while and swallowed the medicine. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and was rescued by gastric lavage."

This is a private matter. Wei Lai didn't want to comment. Compared with Cen Jin, he even looked down on his fiancé: why would a man be without a wife, and such a woman should leave it early?

Elk said with excitement: "But, God is fair. Her fiancé met a new man in the hospital and got married the next year. When he took the oath, he said, thank God for not letting him die for the wrong person. Only then can we finally wait for true love.”

While talking, he handed over a photo, with obvious intentions: even if Cen Jin owes his conduct, God has already made up for the poor man.

In the photo, a tall, handsome and bookish Chinese man is embracing Xiaoniaoyiren's wife, full of love and eye-catching.

Wei Lai motioned for the elk to speak.

"Miss Cen... is also a murder suspect."

Speaking of this, he deliberately paused, trying to lure him to ask questions, but Wei Lai did not eat the bait and sat down like a mountain.

Elk had to continue: "Fortunately, the evidence is not sufficient, and the suspicion will be cleared soon."

"What case?"

"A wealthy French businessman died after being injected with the toxin. The safe was open at the scene. It is not clear how much property was lost. The police judged it to be murder. The reason why Miss Cen was involved was only that she was one of the visitors that night. One."

"It's just" three words have already taken a stand: Elk is trying to shake off the bad rumors about Cen Jin, even if it touches it a little, it will be "disastrous".

Wei Lai was more interested in the section "Injecting Toxins": "What poison?"

"I heard it's... tetrodotoxin."

Wei Lai was surprised.

Elk would be wrong: "I also think it's expensive. The international market price of pure tetrodotoxin is more than 200,000 US dollars per gram. Ordinary poison injection can still be fatal, so why bother?"

Wei said, "Because...it's poisonous."

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is more than 1,200 times more toxic than highly toxic cyanide, causing nerve paralysis, loss of tendon reflexes, and ultimately, respiratory muscle paralysis and death. What is even more terrifying is that TTX is blocked by the blood-brain barrier of the brain and cannot enter the brain. Although the poisoned person cannot speak or move, he always has a clear mind during the death process and clearly knows everything that has happened to him.

Always have a clear mind... How can this be, it's horrifying to think about.

Cen Jin should have other "bad", but in the eyes of the elk, they are all common human diseases and are not worth mentioning.

He couldn't wait to show Cen Jin's bright side.

"Ms. Cen used to be a member of the International Aid Organization for Africa. During the war between the Somali warlords, she helped the United Nations deploy relief food distribution for refugees. Later, she went to Karon, where a g******e that shocked the world happened in Karon soon after."

Wei Lai frowned, and he seemed to have heard of the Caron m******e.

Elk sneered: "You don't care what happens in Africa, whether it's war, famine, conflict, or m******e, you all think it's something from an alien planet."

Probably because he was black, the Elk was suddenly filled with righteous indignation when he said this.

Weilai is a little impressed. Karon is very small, with an area of ​​less than 20,000 square kilometers. It is one of the smallest countries in Africa but with the highest population density. It is divided into two major ethnic groups; Huka and Kava. There are frequent ethnic conflicts. Sparking a civil war.

"Is it the Caron m******e, which was characterized as a crime against humanity? That was 6 years ago, right? I remember that the United Nations later set a special anniversary."

The elk gritted his teeth: "That's it, the United Nations has done nothing, the Western countries are collectively blind, the media has downplayed it as a tribal conflict, and the whole world has abandoned Karon. In two months, the Kawas killed more than 200,000 people. Only a few international relief organizations risk the rescue of refugees, like the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders..."

Wei Lai's heart moved: "Miss Cen... Didn't you withdraw at that time?"

Elk nodded: "She stayed, set up a humanitarian sanctuary in a small school with a few volunteers, fought the Huka mob for more than a month, and finally sheltered the lives of 175 Kawas. Leaving Caron, she was awarded the National Friendship Medal by the President."

Wei Lai sat up straight and put away the slack.

He has protected all kinds of people, industry leaders, industry elites, "heroic figures", and "indomitable fighters", but they are all praised and praised. This is the first time for Cen Jin's background.

"Does she need protection?"

"Two days ago, she received a... dead hand."