Pretending to be cute

an hour ago.

Mingjue, one of the most popular bars in C City.

Due to the activities tonight, there are so many people, there are almost no empty seats on the dance floor, men and women, whether they recognize each other or not, stick together tightly, releasing the pressure to the fullest in the deafening music.

A well-dressed man was carrying a bottle of wine and walked towards the woman sitting in front of the bar: "Beauty, drink alone? Do you want to go together?"

Staying in Ming Jue for so long, it was the first time to see such a back view that appealed to him, and prayed in his heart that it would not be a back view killer, the man approached a little, wanting to see the woman's front face.

"This is my guest." A glass of freshly mixed Singapore Sling was placed next to the woman's arm, and a faint fruity fragrance wafted through the bubbles. The pineapple slices on the cup blocked the man's sight.

"Okay, since I'm your guest, I won't bother you anymore." The man glanced at Ling Sheng who was cleaning up the ice, a little regret flashed in his eyes, he turned and left without hesitation.

The old customers who have been here for a long time all know the existence of the bartender Ling Sheng.Although beauty is beautiful, it is a rose with thorns. It looks gentle and gentle, and it will surely hit someone's heart.The wine she mixes is also the same as her own, with a very special taste, which makes people love or hate it.

"Don't frown, instead of worrying about it, think about where Lingling will be. And this glass of wine, you probably won't drink it anymore?" Ling Sheng tapped the glass with the back of his finger, and there was a crisp echo. .

"No drink, I have to drive later, so I can't touch alcohol." Li Mi pushed back the wine glass, glanced at the unresponsive phone, frowning.

From the moment she got the call, she was anxious.Gu Lingyu's tone was very bad, and she only said to ask her to go to Xiao Ling. As for whether Xiao Ling was in a bad mood or not feeling well, she didn't mention it at all.When I called again, it was already turned off.

Mu Qing's phone calls were not answered, and Xiao Ling himself called a full fifty times and sent almost a hundred text messages, but all of them disappeared without any news.

Li Mi was worried to death, but there was nothing she could do - she had no idea where Xiao Ling had gone, and the text message she received in the afternoon was just to ask Li Mi to eat by herself, without waiting for her, and didn't say anything else.

It can be said that there is no clue.

"Ling Sheng, I have to find Ah Ling. She may have been bullied, or she may have had a conflict with Gu Lingyu or something. By the way, there is also LD. She works in LD, and she may have a falling out with her colleagues. Let me think about it. besides……"

Ling Sheng took out a small ice cube and threw it into Li Mi's hands: "Calm down, since Gu Lingyu chose to notify you, it means that Lingling's matter is not serious yet, but you need to solve it. She won't tell you Where is Lingling going, apart from the possibility of trying to punish you maliciously, it is also possible that Lingling didn't tell her."

"I understand what you mean, but what do you want to solve? I didn't quarrel with Ah Ling." Maybe it was to calm himself down, Li Mi didn't throw away the small ice cubes, his voice was trembling, and he sounded a little aggrieved .

"Really not? Or do you think there is not?" Ling Sheng handed Li Mi a piece of paper, and asked two seemingly identical but subtly different questions.

The former is really not there, and the latter is Li Mi's subjective feeling that there is not.The reason for asking this is because Li Mi's EQ is the lowest among people Ling Sheng knows.

none of them.

Li Mi took the paper, wiped off the water in his hands, thought about it seriously, and counted with his fingers: "At dinner last night, she didn't like ginger, onion and garlic, so I made trouble with her on purpose, and I put a green onion in for her, and she ate it." I just realized that she bit my face angrily, but she wasn’t really angry? And the day before yesterday, when she couldn’t sleep at night, I read “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” to her, and changed the ending halfway through, and she said she was angry , I have to kiss you to sleep, I kissed, is this not angry? Well, and..."

Ling Sheng held his forehead, and hurriedly stopped him: "It's alright, alright, I beg you not to show off."

Li Mi groaned, feeling apologetic: "I'm sorry, I forgot that you don't have such a lovely sister anymore, the only child is so miserable."

Ling Sheng: "..."

She doesn't want to eat dog food, thank you.

"According to your temper, it would be difficult for Lingling to quarrel with you. How about this, think about where she might go, let's go find it, and notify the senior sister and them by the way, and ask them to help." Ling Sheng took off the bartender clothes, took his own coat, and asked the manager for a leave of absence.

"Row."

The two left the bar one after the other.

Along the way, Li Mi was thinking, where would Xiao Ling go?She can only understand the child raised by one hand, as long as she says one thing, Xiao Ling will not say another thing, like a bun that is kneaded by others, she is always obedient and caring, why did she want to disappear?

Didn't it just disappear, but something unexpected happened?Li Mi suddenly thought that in the daily news reports, there are always countless accidents happening.Natural disasters, or man-made disasters, a person who was still smiling at one moment may pass away forever in the next moment.

Tragic scenes such as car accidents and fires were automatically played in a loop in his mind, Li Mi was so frightened that his face turned pale.Before Ling Sheng could ask a question, Li Mi slapped himself violently, muttering: "Children's words are free, children's words are free, imagination doesn't count."

Ling Sheng: "..."

She felt that Boss Li might go crazy if he couldn't find any more children.

The two have quite a few friends, but most of them are nodding acquaintances. The ones who really dare to trouble are Fu Qiuyue and Fu Qiugui, as well as Yuan Chen and Feng Yin.Ling Sheng originally wanted to contact them for help, but was stopped by Li Mi.

"I think, I may know where Ah Ling has gone."

Ling Sheng asked, "Where?"

Li Mi didn't answer.

Half an hour later, a car stopped at the gate of a mansion.Ling Sheng got out of the car, looked at the completely unfamiliar house, and asked curiously: "When did you buy such a large site? It looks a bit old, but it's still clean and the location is good."

Li Mi closed the car door: "This is Ah Ling's home."

"Huh? Since when did Lingling have this home... Hey, is this the old Xiao family's house back then?"

Li Mi hummed.

Ling Sheng pondered over the meaning, wowed exaggeratedly, and said with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Li, it's just to make the children happy. It was my fault that I hurt your EQ with them before. You are obviously very good at it. Tell me, the kid was so happy to see the old house, did he hug you and kiss you hard?"

Li Mi was surprised: "What's the trick? I didn't tell Ah Ling about it."

"Didn't say? Oh... don't tell me, you want to have a surprise?"

Li Mi didn't answer, but glanced around the house, Yu Qing was obviously a very responsible person, the door was clean, not even a fallen leaf, and the door was locked.Of course, this also indirectly shows that Xiao Ling probably did not come back here.

Guessing like this in my heart, I still unconsciously walked into the courtyard.Li Mi recalled the first time they met, Xiaonaituanzi shed tears silently, not even daring to make a sound, until she was hugged into her arms, and then burst into tears.

The child didn't have many places to go. When he was bullied or uncomfortable, he would go to a place where he felt safer... and cry.From Li Mi's point of view, this Xiao family's old house is of course the most secure place, and it is also the most important place to Xiao Ling.

Perhaps, the child locked the door behind his back and quietly nestled on the bed sobbing?

Thinking of this, Li Mi couldn't wait to open the door, just about to step in, but as if remembering something, he grabbed Ling Sheng who was about to enter the door after her: "Wait a minute."

Ling Sheng had question marks all over his face.

Li Mi took out two balls of plastic shoe covers from the shoe cabinet, handed one ball to Ling Sheng, and split the other ball into two, and put them on the shoes respectively.

Ling Sheng: "...why are you so fussy?" She complained, but she still put on the shoe covers before stepping on the floor, and before taking two steps, she was pulled back by Li Mi again.

"what happened again?"

As if he didn't hear his friend's impatience, Li Mi pointed to the soft sofa in the living room: "This is Ah Ling's home, everything is arranged as it was ten years ago, don't move around, sit on the sofa wait for me."

The ruthless dog food was slapped on the face forcefully, Ling Sheng almost collapsed: "Please, I'm not that kind of person, I don't care about your arrangement, I just follow you, why do you have to keep me here Sitting on the sofa? Have you hidden something shady on it?"

"No hiding, but no way."

Li Mi was as serious and earnest as a meeting in the conference room: "If Ah Ling was crying on the bed and you saw it, how embarrassing would it be? You may not understand that a child of Ah Ling's age has strong self-esteem and good face. , if you see her crying, you must feel ashamed."

Ling Sheng was speechless: "Xiao Ling wouldn't do that."

Probably only this one in front of me in the whole world thinks that little friend is a harmless little sheep that will fly away when the wind blows, and will cry when bullied.

Li Mi showed a deep expression on his face, took out his mobile phone and sent Ling Sheng a website address, and walked upstairs: "That's why I said, you may not understand. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you will understand after a little more study. Smart and intelligent, you can master it quickly. Well, you just wait for me here, and don't ask anything when you see A Ling."

Ling Sheng rolled his eyes, didn't want to talk anymore, sat on the sofa, and Li Mi left.After replying to several text messages at work, she glanced at the suspicious website sent by Li Mi again—with a little luck, she opened this website.

[For children who have just grown up, parents' education policy needs to be changed, especially the following points, more attention should be paid! 】

The bold headline made Ling Sheng very desperate.

She knows it!

Five minutes later, Li Mi went downstairs depressed.

Ling Sheng looked back, and sure enough, the crying kid that someone said did not appear.She laughed secretly in her heart, and stretched her waist: "Mr. Li, where should we find the next place?"

Seeing Ling Sheng's unsurprised expression, Li Mi tensed his jaw into a line: "You... guessed that I would make this trip in vain?"

Ling Sheng shrugged: "I'm not 80.00% sure, at most [-]% sure."

"80.00%?"

"Yes, 80.00%. Are you curious, why do I have such a high degree of confidence that I can guess in advance? Actually, the reason is very simple. Let me ask you first, why do you think Xiao Ling will be here?"

Li Mi replied naturally: "This is the old house of the Xiao family, the most important place for Ah Ling. If she doesn't come here, where will she go? And Gu Lingyu's tone is probably in a bad mood, so naturally..."

Ling Sheng shook his head, the premise was wrong.

"This is not the most important place for Xiao Ling."

Guessing Xiao Ling's thoughts wrong was already very frustrating, but now that Ling Sheng understood Xiao Ling's thoughts, Li Mi was even more unwilling.Although both Xiao Ling and Ling Sheng had explained to her that they had no romantic relationship, Li Mi was just unhappy.

It seemed that everyone knew Xiao Ling better than her.

Thinking of this, Li Mi felt very uncomfortable: "I know Ah Ling very well. This is the place where she lived with her parents and brother. This is the most important place for her."

Otherwise, why would she do everything possible to keep the Xiao family's old house.

Hearing this, Ling Sheng sighed deeply from the bottom of his heart, not only to his friend, but also to Xiao Ling.She thought that she was probably born to assist, or the kind who worked hard repeatedly.

"Li Mi, would you like to make a bet with me?"

Although Li Mi did not understand why the previous topic jumped to this topic, he still asked, "What are you betting on?"

Ling Sheng seemed to be sure that he would win, and smiled confidently: "Just bet...Xiao Ling will wait for you at home, not this family, but the one of your two. How about it, do you dare to bet with me? "

With a bang, the long-prepared raindrops fell with the thunder and lightning, and soon turned into a torrential rain, and all the previous sultry heat was washed away.

Li Mi was silent, she seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing.