Volume 4: Beginning of Spring Chapter 17 Durian Candy
Jiang You loosened the hemp rope and walked to Duan Rui's body.
She is still alive.
Eyes opened unwillingly.
Following her line of sight, Jiang You saw the black bead that had fallen not far away. He walked over, picked up the bead, held it up, and shone it in the sun, then he walked back to Duan Rui and squatted down.
"My name is Jiang You."
Duan Rui stared at the beads in his hand .
Jiang You shook the beads at her and said, "If we can't live together, we can die together, right?"
Lin Yu saw Duan Rui's eyes move.
Then, he seemed to see a transparent figure slowly standing up from Duan Rui's body, turning into a gust of wind and blowing into the bead.
Lin Yu stood up with difficulty.
Jiang You turned around and pointed at the beads in his hand, "I'll take this?"
"You take it." Lin Yu said.
Jiang You threw the bead towards Jiang Mo, drawing a black arc in the air.
Jiang Mo stretched out his hand.
The bead fell into his palm.
Hold tight.
"I just feel sorry for this elephant," Jiang You walked to the elephant and touched its trunk a few times. "Can you handle the rest by yourself?"
Lin Yu took a look at Duan Rui's body and said, "Okay."
The voice is hoarse and unpleasant.
"Then I'm leaving."
Jiang You patted the elephant's face lightly and walked towards Jiang Mo.
Some voices and footsteps were heard from not far away.
Lin Yu watched Jiang You pick up the hemp rope and lead the baby elephant into the dense forest. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing .
The mahout trotted over, and when he saw Duan Rui's body, his expression suddenly became panicked. He spoke gibberish at the mahout and gestured with his hands, mixing some English with Thai.
More and more people gathered around.
Jiang You and Jiang Mo walked to the top of the mountain.
He took out his cell phone and found Tang Butian on WeChat.
Jiang You: Leader, I have something to report to you.
Then he briefly described Lin Yu's story, minus the part in which he was involved.
After typing, he put his phone in his pocket and took out a box of freshly bought mints from his bag. It had a pink box and pink candies. He poured two into his palm and put them into his mouth with a slap.
A chill rushed into my throat.
His phone vibrated and he took it out.
Tang Butian: Got it.
He sat down on the ground, then lay down, watching the half-bright and half-dark clouds floating in the sky.
Jiang Mo watched Jiang You slowly close his eyes, then he leaned back and lay on the elephant's back.
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Two Chinese tourists, a man and a woman, were riding an elephant in Thailand when the elephant lost control, resulting in the death of the woman and injury of the man.
After the news spread on social media for about half a day, suddenly all the news and discussions disappeared.
The seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
Lin Yu returned to the hotel carrying Duan Rui's ashes.
Pack your luggage, change your flight ticket, and check out.
The plane landed in Tangjiang City. When he got off the plane, entered the country and waited for his luggage, two men in dark down jackets walked up to him.
They showed him their police ID.
Lin Yu spoke to them in a low voice for a few words.
I got my luggage and left with them.
The tenth day of the Lunar New Year.
Tang Butian pushed open the door of the Special Operations Department’s office.
Su Wangshu, Wu Yulan and Zhu Wen, who were sitting together, stopped their discussion and looked at her.
Guan Nuo and Sun Yu stood up at the same time.
"Chief, Happy New Year," said Sun Yu.
"Happy New Year." Tang Butian walked in, went to her seat, and placed the wooden sword on the table.
Guan Nuo hesitated for a moment, then walked to her desk.
Tang Butian looked up at him.
"Are you healed?" Guan Nuo asked.
"alright."
"That's good."
Tang Butian ignored Guan Nuo. She turned around and glanced at Su Wangshu and the other two. "The small world disappeared?"
Su Wangshu stood up and said, "Yes."
Tang Butian looked at Su Wangshu and said, "No one reported this to me."
"You're injured," Guan Nuo interrupted, "We want you to recover in peace."
Sun Yu also came over.
Tang Butian asked, "When did you find out she was missing?"
Guan Nuo said, "On the second night of the New Year, around eight or nine o'clock."
"The little world I visited?" Sun Yu asked.
"Yes." Tang Butian pursed her lips.
"We can't calculate its current location," Guan Nuo added.
"It's hungry." Sun Yu said suddenly.
"What?" Tang Butian asked.
Sun Yu looked at Tang Butian blankly.
"You just said he was very hungry." Guan Nuo reminded Sun Yu.
"Oh, I, I..." Sun Yu seemed to be unable to remember what he had said. He said, "I may have thought of something else. It's almost noon. By the way, Chief, do you know when Jiang Ge will come?"
"I'm coming."
"I'm back home."
"Where did he go?" Guan Nuo asked.
"Didn't you see what he posted on WeChat Moments? He went to Thailand for fun..."
As he was talking, the office door was pushed open again.
Jiang You, who was tanned several times, appeared in front of them.
He was wearing a black down jacket, holding a cat bag in his left hand, a shopping bag in his right hand, and a shoulder bag hanging from his body.
"Happy New Year, Happy New Year." He muttered to himself and put the cat bag and shopping bag on the ground.
After opening the cat bag, Zhaocai jumped out all of a sudden.
It looked at the people in the office and then jumped to Sun Yu's feet.
Sun Yu squatted down and reached out to touch Zhao Cai's head.
"Meow."
"It has become the king of cats in the pet store." Jiang You took out a bag of dried mangoes, a bag of coconut candy, and two bags of seaweed from the shopping bag and placed them on the desks of Sun Yu and Guan Nuo.
"Really?" Sun Yu asked.
"Yes, you can see how much weight it has gained over the past year. We need to make it lose weight. The pet shop owner said that its weight has put a burden on its internal organs."
He walked to Tang Butian's table, took out a pink Bangkok bag from the shopping bag and placed it in front of Tang Butian, then placed a snack on her table in the same way, "Do you think I've lost weight?"
Tang Butian looked at him.
"I feel I've lost weight. China is still the best country. The fruits in Thailand are the most delicious." He took out the last bag of durian candy from the shopping bag, then folded the shopping bag and put it in his shoulder bag.
He walked up to Su Wangshu and the other two with a bag of candy, "I'm so sorry, I didn't know you were here, try this candy," he poured out all the candy on the table where they were sitting, "I didn't eat durian in China before, but you know what, the durian I bought in Thailand is all ripe and really sweet."
"I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Jiang You. What's your name?"
After Su Wangshu looked at Jiang You for a few seconds, he said, "Su Wangshu."
The other two also gave their names.
"Wu Yulan."
"Zhu Wen."
"I've heard a lot about you." Jiang You walked to his seat and sat down on his computer chair. "I think I need to rest for a few days. It may be because I live by the sea and have accumulated moisture. When I was in Thailand, the weather was hot so I didn't feel uncomfortable. But now that I'm back, my bones ache all over."
