I created an extraordinary era

Chapter 23 Different Paths

"Long time no see, Lao Fu. You're still the same after a few years."

"It's really you, kid. You've changed so much in just two years. I almost couldn't recognize you. You look like a pretty boy. Did you go abroad for plastic surgery?"

"Go to hell, do you know how to talk? No wonder you're still not married at 30."

"Oh, do you have a girlfriend?"

"..."

As they had business to attend to at the moment, the two of them just had a brief chat.

The person who was talking in front of him was none other than his junior high school classmate Fu Hongkang, who was two years older than Xia Yuan and still unmarried at the age of thirty.

Unlike someone else, Xia Yuan can't find a girlfriend, but that person has been dating his girlfriend for 7 years. If they weren't both busy with work, they would have been married a long time ago.

The only pity is that he has never been promoted in the six years since graduation, which has a lot to do with his straightforwardness in speaking.

But judging by his appearance, he probably doesn't care whether he gets promoted or not. His passion is the main thing anyway.

After all the Jiangcheng police arrived at the scene, Captain Zhang and everyone else carefully recounted what had happened, of course not mentioning the part that Xia Yuan had just explained.

"Xia Yuan, you're really brave. You almost lost your life today."

"Didn't you ask me about the wanted warrant a while ago? Why did you come back to my hometown to fish in the middle of nowhere? It's so dangerous."

After understanding what happened, Fu Hongkang finally understood why he saw Xia Yuan here.

In fact, he wanted to ask just now, but he didn't ask actively because of official business.

"Hey, I've never seen anything like this in my life. I didn't know I could run into a murderer in a place like this. Besides, there's been no news for so long, I almost forgot about it."

A person who has been in a stable environment for almost thirty years will probably not care too much about the fact that there has been no news for a long time.

You wouldn't stay home just because you saw online that there are criminals in a certain city, right?
You still have to live your life the way you should, just be a little more careful.

All I can say is that it was unexpected, but also reasonable, that this person was hiding in this place.

Jiangcheng is such a big place, it can only be said that this fugitive was unlucky to be met by Xia Yuan. As for whose bad luck it is, it is hard to say.

I have to say that the speed of the Jiangcheng Police Station is really incomparable to the police in small places. It’s not that Captain Zhang and his men are not good enough, but the hardware is indeed much worse.

In less than an hour, the Jiangcheng police had finished all the work at the scene, including collecting traces and searching for the body.

It was finally confirmed that this person was the wanted criminal, and his experience was consistent with his confession, but the Jiangcheng police had already known this.

As for Xia Yuan, he will have to go back with the police to take a statement later, and he will have nothing to do with the rest. After all, he is a wanted criminal who has already been identified.

The subsequent confirmation of new victims had nothing to do with him anymore. This is the advantage of having acquaintances, otherwise it would have been a waste of time.

But after this incident, I probably didn't have time to continue fishing today, so I took the half-dead fish and followed the police car back to the police station in town.

"No, Xia Yuan, why did you quit your job and come back to town to fish? What were you thinking?"

"Alas, I really can't afford to do that anymore. I just want to retire in the countryside. I don't have any other plans for my life."

"You're two years younger than me and you're already starting to prepare for retirement. You still have a lot of life ahead of you. Are you planning to keep going like this?"

"Well, that's it for now. I'm quite satisfied with my current life. See, my skin is much better now."

"..."

Everyone has their own choices. Fu Hongkang didn't say anything more. Some things just need to be mentioned briefly. He is just honest, but that doesn't mean he is stupid.

The two did not continue this topic and instead talked about some lighter things.

"By the way, you finally caught this fugitive. There will be a 20 yuan reward. You've made a small fortune."

"Ah, you're really rich, can you give it to me?"

He had indeed seen the reward on the wanted poster and hadn't held out much hope, but he hadn't expected it to actually come true. "Nonsense, you caught the guy, so of course you'll get the reward. Don't worry, no one's going to keep the money."

Hearing these words of affirmation, Xia Yuan showed an excited smile on his face. 20 yuan is not a small amount of money for him now.

Even if I catch fish and sell them every day, it will take at least a few months to earn 20 yuan. If I can get this money, I won’t have to worry about food in the short term.

"Brother, if you can get the bounty, you can eat at any restaurant in town."

"???"

"Are you sure you're talking about the town and not Jiangcheng?"

A row of question marks appeared above Fu Hongkang's head.

"Yes, that's right, in town."

"Haha. That's totally unnecessary. You should keep the money for your retirement!"

While they were chatting and laughing, the police car arrived at the police station.

Xia Yuan followed a few people out of the car, and then went to a room to take notes. Since the matter was relatively clear, it didn't take long.

After that, I went to find Captain Zhang again. After all, he had said before that he would help sell fish in the police station.

Captain Zhang did not lie. He let his colleagues in the police station buy a few of his fish each. Many of them were dead, and most of them were bought by him.

The remaining fish were divided among the two police officers with him. Even Officer Li did not disagree and readily paid for the three fish.

Xia Yuan did not cheat these people, but sold them the fish at the price the fishmongers paid for it, which was much cheaper than the market price.
Only after all the fish were processed did he leave the police station satisfied.

Since Fu Hongkang still had work to do, he just said goodbye when he left and made an appointment to have dinner together in the evening.

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon when I got home. Because I had used my mental power to invade the fugitive's consciousness not long ago, I was not in a very good mood, so I just took a nap.

……

Six p.m.

A ringing sound woke Xia Yuan from his sleep. It was Fu Hongkang calling.

After hanging up the phone and taking a quick shower, I immediately felt refreshed and no longer felt dizzy.

He just put on a coat and headed out to the street.

Although it wasn't cold, to outsiders he was at least wearing some clothes, so he didn't look so different from the others. There were still many young people like him in winter.

By the time we arrived at the barbecue stall, Fu Hongkang had already ordered the food.

Since he had to drive back to Jiangcheng in the evening, the two of them did not drink.

They didn't talk about work-related matters with each other, but just talked about interesting things in the past, and the atmosphere became more and more harmonious.

In just one meal, I got back the feeling I once had.

When he finally left, he was told that he would be notified in advance of the time to receive the award.

Looking at the scene of his former classmates driving away, Xia Yuan smiled.

Fu Hongkang did not show any intention of distancing himself from Xia Yuan just because he was in such a bad state. This precious friendship between classmates and the cheerful atmosphere would become less and less as he became stronger.

He has taken a completely different path from others.

As time goes by, decades later, these former classmates may have passed away one by one.

And he can live for at least another hundred years, which means he is in his prime.

(End of this chapter)