122 The safest place (1/2)

Although the weather in the south is much warmer in winter, it's still cool to stand on the roadside in the early morning.

Dorra's clothes are thin. I watch her shrivel and take off my coat and put it on her. When I hold her hand, I catch the girl's slight frown. I take her palm and look at it. It is covered with blood.

”What's wrong?”

”Just now... When climbing the wall, my hand was scratched.” She frowns with pain.

Look at the wound on her hand, it seems that it's not a light scratch! I take her to find a leeward place to stand, and look around, but I can not find a 24-hour convenience store. Now I can't even buy her a bottle of water to wash her hands.

I'm a little annoyed, but she has quieted down and leans beside me. Originally, she seldom spoke tonight, but now she whispers to me, ”Chen Yang, that woman, you knew her? Have you had any feuds with her before?”

I think about it and just nod. I don't want to go into details with her about those dirty things in past.

”Then... Does she want you to be her business partner?” The girl asks timidly.

I take a deep breath, stand in front of her, stare at her eyes, and slowly say, ”Those people, those things, are like ghosts, your eyes have seen, your ears have heard. I just want to tell you one thing that you can't be too deprived of your conscience! I am not a good person. There are some things I would like to do, but there are also some things I never touch, some money can be earned, some money dirty hands!” After a pause, I say lightly, ”I don't expect you to understand this now, but when you have something to do in the future, you must think it over. There will always be a day to understand it.”

She hangs her little face for a moment with silent. Suddenly she sighs: ” I feel I myself like a great hindrance.”

”What did you say?” I'm stunned.

”I feel I like a hindrance.” She says slowly, word by word, ”When we go out, I need you to take care of everything. Without you, I don't know what to do. I know that looking after me must be very tired for you. If I hadn't bothered you, you would have gone very far and already safe.”

When she's saying these words, instead of tears, she's looking at me and speaking slowly in a seemingly calm tone. In the early morning light, her eyes are brighter than the cold stars in the sky!

”Don't say that.” I shake my head.

At this moment, the sounds of cars come from the street, and then the lights flashing. Two TV interview vans are driving quickly past. They are from the direction in which we escaped, follow them are some police cars.

Looking at those crowded police cars, it seems that the police's raid tonight has yielded a lot.

And it seems to be a very large-scale, organized and well-planned raid and siege operation. There are even media to follow the scene shooting.

Dorra leans on me, and I move a little quietly, using my back to keep her out of the wind.

Nearly an hour later, there's another car driving here. It's a medium-sized van with the words ”Clean Vegetable Supply”. The headlights are on and flashing. I hesitate for a moment and whisper to Dorra, ”You just wait here. If I call you later, you can come out! If you see anything wrong,” I point to an alley behind me: ”You just run! As far away as possible!”

The van is driving all the way, then turns a corner at the end of the street and turns back.

I'm sure this is the man who's coming to pick us up. Then I take a few steps along the building before I come to the roadside, reach for the van to stop.

The van stops, then the window falls, and a huge head comes out of it. Listen to the voice. It's the one who has been in contact with me in the phone for the past two days. Originally, the voice in the phone was deep, but now hears in a low and muffled.

This is a fat man with a round head. He should have a square face, but stunned by the fat. He sits on the van and looks at me: ”Chen Yang?”

”It's me.” I put one hand in my trousers pocket and holding a knife there.

He looks around me, his eyes finally fall on my trouser pocket, and a funny smile appears on his face: ”You're too careful! Don't believe me still?”

I shake my head. ”Now I have two lives in my hands. I have to be careful.”

The fat man has eyes that do not match his broad face. His eyes are very small, but very godly! When he blinks, it flashes sharp from time to time.

I noticed that he's also looking at me with great interest.

I shout at Dorra's hiding place, and the girl comes running quickly and throw herself into my arms. The fat man is squinting at me for a moment, then pointing to the door and says, ”Come into the van.”

There's a strange smell in the van, like the vegetable flavor in the vegetable market. There are some rotten vegetable leaves in the corner of the ground.

Fat man let us sit down, and then start the van, and from the front hands back a bottle of water. He says lightly: ”Wash the girl's hands. Her hands are bright and tender, how can make so much blood?”

Until now, my heart has finally really settled down. Although there're still some vigilance, but I have relaxed a lot. Dorra's face is also a little more color. I wash the wound on her hand and open the bag. Although the bag was cut and lost a lot of things, but there are anti-inflammatory drugs, I add them on her hands.

The fat man in front of me looks in the mirror and sees that I've done this. Then he hands me a cigarette with his back hand. He says lightly, ”Little brother, smoke a cigarette and take a breath. You don't look very well either.”

This guy talks slowly. Seems he's harmless and generous and hard to be alert. But I know the more such people are, the more I need to be careful!

After hesitate for a moment, I light the cigarette he gives me and smoke. I can't help being surprised.

The smoke smells very strong and unspeakable, but I immediately recognize that it is not an ordinary cigarette, but the special supply from the army! This cigarette is not available on the market.