Give a bellflower to the drowning ghost

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The vehicle is driving quietly on the asphalt road.

Wang Ze broke the silence, he asked: "Xiao Chen, tell me, how did you fall this time?"

The bodyguard sitting in the driver's seat said respectfully: "Master, when you were robbed by unemployed refugees at the foot of the mountain, I found that key when I was helping you get back your belongings."

Wang Ze crossed his hands in front of his chest: "That's just a key."

The bodyguard said: "You don't take such low-security keys with you casually, so it may only be a facility where you can't change the lock, such as a locker. At the beginning, young master, you made a big fuss in this city. Li bought the relics, but left empty-handed, so naturally he hid the things here."

Wang Ze laughed out of breath: "Thank you for your hard work, just like a detective, never letting go of any clues."

The bodyguard said: "Madam is just worried about you."

Wang Ze said, "You sold me just to please her."

The bodyguard paused for a while: "I'm sorry, master."

Wang Ze leaned on the seat: "I thought you weren't a nosy person, so I called you over..." He thought for a while, and then added, "Probably because I am a person who thinks he has good eyesight. Bar."

96

The ranger didn't expect Wang Ze to have a little friendship with this bodyguard. He saw Wang Ze holding his hands on his chest and knew that he was sad.

Wang Ze asked suddenly: "You talk a lot less."

"Because I don't know how to deal with the situation, as I said, I only work with trees," the ranger said.

Wang Ze smiled bitterly: "It's okay, I don't know either."

"Then, I want to say," the forest ranger said slowly, "maybe it's not that you have poor eyesight, it's just that this brother surnamed Chen is greedy for fame and fortune very covertly."

Bodyguard Chen drove the car quietly.

Wang Ze rubbed his eyes: "This is the worst comfort I've ever heard."

The ranger said, "Thank you."

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Their car detoured onto the highway and quickly reached their destination.

The ranger followed Wang Ze out of the car. It was a house built on a hillside. The short distance from the house number to the door was connected by an escalator in a luxurious way, and the garden was well maintained. There is not even a single fallen leaf in it, and it is so exquisite that it does not seem that someone has lived here for a long time.The rangers immediately realized it was just one of the properties, or the people who lived there thought it wasn't home.

Bodyguard Chen said: "Madam is waiting for you inside, she has another appointment in three hours."

Wang Ze said: "It's useless for you to please me now, I will let my mother who loves me the most transfer you to Siberia."

Bodyguard Chen bent down: "Madam also knows that after this incident, you will find me an eyesore, young master, so I will go to the neighboring city tomorrow."

Wang Ze stopped in his tracks: "Then I can only wish you a smooth career."

Bodyguard Chen said, "Thank you, young master."

Wang Ze stopped looking at Bodyguard Chen, and said to himself, "More than two hours... It's really torture."

98

Wang Ze and the ranger stood in front of the main entrance of the house.

Wang Ze said suddenly: "I regret it a bit."

The ranger said, "Where?"

Wang Ze subconsciously lowered his head and stared at the keyhole: "I should have asked you to wait in the car, or I should have sent you back to the hotel. To be honest, I don't know the limit of what my mother can do. This time she can rely on A suspicious key will check all the lockers in the city once, and it may be possible next time..."

The ranger grabbed his hand.

He said, "It's all right, if—"

The door opened.

The hostess of this house walked out of the door with a smile.She wore exquisite suits, and even in the house she wore high-heeled shoes with extremely pointed heels. The years hardly left many marks on her body.

She didn't seem to see the action of the ranger grabbing her son, but smiled gently: "Since you're here, let's come in and talk."

The ranger felt that Wang Ze immediately pulled his hand away.

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Rangers have only a rough idea of ​​what a "mother" is.It is a required item on the resume when entering a higher school, and it is also a common topic in elementary school essays. When the teacher's gaze falls on him, he will panic and add a sentence "you can also write about dad".

In the general media, "mothers" are usually great and selfless. They will sacrifice everything for their children, endure their husband's vices and mistakes, and age silently over time.

But obviously, Wang Ze's mother does not fit this old concept at all.

The shoe rack in the hallway is made of huanghuali material, and there are several pairs of slippers neatly placed on the bottom floor, but none of them changed their shoes, as if the three of them couldn't wait to leave.

Wang Ze's mother led them to the living room. There were three cups of hot tea on the coffee table, which seemed to be the only source of heat in the room.She said, "Sit down first."

Wang Ze's appearance is not similar to hers, only the shape of the nose is slightly similar.Wang Ze's facial features are round and immature, while Mrs. Wang has an aura of controlling the life and death of others even if she is casual.

Mrs. Wang held up a cup of tea: "My son has been taken care of by you."

The ranger didn't know how to answer the greeting. His social skills were only slightly higher than those of popular literature, and Wang Ze, the only one who could ease the atmosphere, fell silent as if swallowed by a sofa after sitting down. .

But Mrs. Wang turned a blind eye to the rudeness of the two young men in front of her: "His father and I are very busy with work, and the family often has no time to get together. But I didn't expect him to go through the formalities of suspending school without saying a word. Fortunately, you took him in for a while and gave him an environment to relax."

Mrs. Wang showed a proper smile, like the smile that all kind elders would show to younger generations: "Our family owes you a big favor, if there is anything that can help, please feel free to say it, you don't need to be polite to auntie , whether it’s in life... or in work.”

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Wang Ze paid the forest rangers, so it can be regarded as a relationship between the tenant and the landlord.But for the forest ranger, it was Wang Ze who helped him and avoided the trouble that the police would bring.

But he found that he couldn't say no to Mrs. Wang.

Because the woman in front of him gave him a strong sense of disobedience.

Every time she mentioned the concept of family, it seemed like she was telling a ridiculous lie.

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"Mother, I have something to say to you alone." Wang Ze interrupted the conversation. He still maintained a posture of sitting upright, but his fists on his knees were visibly clenched.

Mrs. Wang smiled: "Son, don't interrupt, it's very impolite to the guests."

Wang Ze leaned forward and lowered his head unconsciously: "Please give me some time."

Wang Ze managed to get the ranger out of his mother's nose and lead him up the stairs leading to the second floor.

The ranger accidentally turned around on the stairs and saw that Mrs. Wang was still sitting on the brand new sofa, lifting the teacup with her well-maintained fingers, and watched the two of them with a smile.

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