deceitful words and deeds

"Okay, let's not just stand here and talk inside." Mu Xingqi stood up, his body stiffened suddenly, and Di Xie hurriedly stepped forward to help him. He supported his aching waist and muttered, "I'm getting older, An old bone is useless!"

"Where is it, your body is still strong." Di Chie comforted.

Mu Xingqi shook his head and said, "If you had followed me back then, I would have listened to it for decades if it sounded so good."

Qin Xiaoshu followed behind them, his shiny leather shoes tapping the ground lightly.The crisp and clear voice hit Di Xie's eardrum one after another, and tapped lightly on his taut strings.

It was Huang Aying, the nanny of the wooden house who opened the door for Di Xie, and she came over with a pinch: "Mr. Mu, the needle is about to be injected."

Mu Yingqi took the initiative to explain to Di Chie: "It's not a big problem, it's just that sometimes I feel bad all over the body, and it hurts here and there all the time. It's okay to get two needles to recuperate. You two talk first, and eat with me later. potluck."

Di Jie stood up and helped him: "Then I will trouble Senior Mu."

Mu Xingqi and Huang Aying entered the back room, leaving only Di Xie and Qin Xiaoshu sitting in the lobby, each looking in different directions, the atmosphere was strangely awkward.

"Mr. Qin." Di Chie spoke first, before Qin Xiaoshu took the initiative to answer the words.

"You want to ask about that feather necklace, right?" Qin Xiaoshu's eyes fixed on the side of Di Zhi's face, Di Zhi turned his head to look at it, then smiled suddenly, and said, "Yes. I'm the one who asked in the shop today .”

"I've already given you an answer, I won't sell it." Qin Xiaoshu's posture was relaxed, his eyes were indifferent, and he couldn't detect any emotion.

Di Xie's smile faded: "Conditions."

"No conditions. Do you think that if you find Mr. Mu here, you will get a different reply?" There was a bit of mockery in his eyes.

Di Chi lowered his eyelids: "What's the use of it, Mr. Qin?"

Qin Xiaoshu didn't say a word, just looked at him, Di Jie was holding the teacup, rubbing his index finger on the edge of the teacup: "That feather necklace means a lot to me, if possible, I would like to ask Boss Qin to give up, as long as it's not too much It doesn't matter how much money you ask for."

Those slender hands with well-defined joints caught Qin Xiaoshu's attention. This person seemed to be too thin.The three bone lines on the back of the hand are clear and deep, the blood vessels are distributed in the white flesh, and even the whole skin has a cold color, only a little bit of light red blood in the joints.

"What are the excessive demands?" Qin Xiaoshu's voice was very low, and his upper body tended to move closer to Di Xie, so he didn't have to worry about being heard by people other than the two.

The moving fingers stopped, and Di Que raised his head, smiling suddenly.

Qin Xiaoshu stared at him for a moment, put away all the neglect on his face, sat up straight, and said seriously: "I can give it to you."

"Conditions." Di Xie repeated.

"No conditions." Qin Xiaoshu also repeated seriously.

Di Xie was a little elusive about his attitude, and asked doubtfully, "Didn't you just say..."

"So I'm not looking out for Mr. Mu's face." Qin Xiaoshu stood up, his suit still straight, "Come to the store in two days, I'll wait for you."

Di Xie was surprised and said, "Mr. Qin isn't staying for dinner?"

"You know." Qin Xiaoshu turned his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up in an imperceptible arc, almost like an illusion.

Yes, he knew, Di Jie watched Qin Xiaoshu's leaving back, he didn't need to eat at all.

Di Xie walked around in a small area in the lobby, and when it became deserted, Di Xie's impression was even deeper.This is an unpopular house with only two active people, one is very old and the other is a woman in her forties. In summer, the house is cool and windless, lifeless.

Mr. Mu has a successful career and a wealthy family. He has taken in several apprentices, but he has never been married and has no children.What is the relationship between that person and Mr. Mu?

"Have you settled the deal?" Mu Xingqi came out with a smug smile on his face, "I just said, Xiao Qin is not a very talkative person, but it's okay if I go out!"

Di Xi nodded with a smile: "Thank you, Senior Mu, junior."

After staying for dinner, Di Xie said to visit another day, and left the wooden house.

When I returned to a low-rent apartment in the east of the city, the landlord’s door was wide open. Seeing Di Xie coming up the stairs, the landlady’s wife put down the remote control in her hand and greeted her casually: “Mr. Di, you haven’t finished your work yet. ?”

Di Chi replied: "Not yet, I will let you know when I determine the time to leave."

"Ah, I didn't ask when you left." The landlady's smile was deliberately exaggerated, "I'm asking if you live comfortably?"

Di Xie looked at her for a few seconds: "Well, it's enough to have a place to live."

"It's fine if you live in a good place. You should go up and rest early. I think you leave early and return late. Go quickly." The landlady said a few words politely, and returned to her sofa, but her eyes peeped out of the corners of her eyes from time to time.

Di Jie went up to the fifth floor, walked to the red-painted room 505, tapped three times: "Excuse me." Then he took out the key, opened the door and walked in.

The wooden floor of the orphanage was originally installed in this old house. It is nearly 80 years old. The old things from many years ago creaked and creaked when stepped on.Some places are bent too much when stepping on it, and I am always worried that it will break in the next second and fall into the dark bottomless pit.

The sound of footsteps was deliberately lightened, and the soles of the rubber shoes exerted pressure little by little, and the moaning of the wooden boards became slender, as if they were dying.The person walked from the door to the back, then turned [-] degrees, took a few steps, then turned left using his heels as a fulcrum, and walked from the back to the door.

The teacher in the orphanage routinely checks on the children's sleeping conditions, and after the lights are turned off, she makes sure that everyone stays in their beds.

The lights were turned off inside and outside the house, and the tightly closed eyelids could not cast a little light. The beam of light that swept inside the room suddenly fell on the eyelids, so the darkness turned into scarlet, as if you could see the blood flowing in the thin eyelids.

"Alright, you're still moving."

You can also close your eyelids more tightly, raise your arms, and cover your face with the blanket covering your body.

He didn't dare to move, he held his breath, and waited for the sound of the door lock being clicked, then he slowly opened it a crack, and a vague figure of a woman was reflected on the glass window, gradually drifting away with the sound of footsteps.

Everyone fell asleep, and there was a small snoring around him, and it seemed that someone else had a stuffy nose, and the sound of breathing was not smooth enough that Ling Yexing felt a little hypoxic.He was lying on his side on the bed, his hands and feet curled up around his torso, not daring to stretch out.

Gradually the surrounding sounds stopped, the annoying little snoring became a luxury, and Ye Xing began to tremble—it was coming.

The beautiful red leather shoes stopped in front of the iron frame bed, with their toes lightly tapping the ground: "Shall we play hide and seek?"

Ye Xing closed his eyelids tightly, reached out and covered himself with a blanket, his mouth was tightly squeezed, and his breathing was rapid and flustered.In the cool midsummer night, he covered himself in sweat.

Something pulled his "protective cover" in the dark, the top of his head seemed to be a little bit exposed, Ye Xing immediately buried his head in his two arms, his hands were tightly clasped in the blanket, his arms were so sore.

The next moment, a cold little hand grabbed Yexing's arm: "I caught you, now you are a ghost."

The blanket was completely lifted by an invisible force, and Ye Xing was shocked and jumped out of bed and ran outside, too late to put on his shoes.The surrounding beds were empty, without a single figure, and he was terrified, he just wanted to escape from this place.

The corridor was extremely long in Ye Xing's eyes, and the sound of running barefoot on the ground kept echoing, mixed with faint gasps.

"Who's still running outside? It's time to sleep!"

The woman's angry roar came from somewhere, and he stopped.The sweat on his body soaked through the small vest, and the sweat droplets that slid down the browbones were slightly itchy and tingling, Ye Xing raised his hand to wipe it off, but saw three bruises on his arm under the faint moonlight.

The sound of high-heeled shoes hitting the ground came from the stairs, and Ye Xing immediately started to run. Another figure in a skirt almost overlapped with him, and then moved a little distance away, and then separated into two figures.

The sound of the leather shoes behind him stopped, Ye Xing slowed down and turned his head.

The little girl in the red dress was squatting on the ground, looking at him with a pale and blank face, the whites of her eyes could hardly be seen with her astonishingly large pupils.

The sound of high heels was getting closer and closer, and the anxiety in Ye Xing's heart reached its peak. He ran back a few steps, and made an inexplicable "Yah Yah" sound from his mouth because of his anxiety.He stretched out his hand, nervously dancing his fingers wildly.

The little girl stretched out her hand to hold him, and she was able to pull her up with almost no effort. The red skirt was like a butterfly, leaving an afterimage when she left the place.

During the running process, the little girl gradually became the guide. She took Ye Xing and hid in a cubicle embedded in the wall, and closed the rusty iron door.

In the narrow space, there was only the panting sound of one person, who hugged his knees and buried his head in the ring formed by his arms as if escaping.It was a little bit reluctant to accommodate two six or seven-year-old children in the cubicle. He could only hug himself into a ball with all his strength and not touch the other.

"It's safe here, no one will find us."

The little girl's voice was as soft as a gust of wind, and goose bumps appeared on her exposed arms and calves from the cold.

As soon as she finished speaking, the rusty iron door began to shake violently, as if someone was pulling and shaking it angrily outside.There were several loud noises mixed with the violent shaking, as if someone had smashed the door with a hard object.

Ye Xing clings to the wall behind him, he has nothing to rely on, no support, the only thing that supports him from falling down is the cold and hard cement.

After an unknown amount of time, the violent shaking stopped, Ye Xing was too stiff to move, and it took a long time to gradually slow down.After his body relaxed, severe pain came up, and something hurt his back.

Ye Xing reached out to touch the back, the wall was uneven, his immature fingertips touched the dents one by one, and the rough wall made his fingers red.

He didn't dare to touch it any more, he withdrew his hand, and hugged himself into a ball again.Under the cold gaze of the little girl, Ye Xing fell into a deep sleep.

The iron door was roughly opened by someone, and the strong light came in. The eyeballs rolled under the eyelids because of the strong light, and the stinging pain when opening was almost foreseeable.A shadow covered him, and a pair of hands hugged Ye Xing out of the small cubicle.

"I just said that someone was running outside and asked you to come out and take a look, but you refused!"

Dean Zhou Guixiang's sharp voice woke her up. He lay on her shoulder and rubbed his eyes.Yao Wenxiu defended herself: "I'm already asleep, and you're still awake, so can't you come and see?"

Ye Xing didn't wake up in a daze, and was carried back to the dormitory.At this time, all the children, big and small, were woken up by the wake-up bell. Zhou Guixiang clapped his hands and said, "Hurry up and change your clothes, and go have breakfast."

She pressed the palm of Ye Xing lightly on the top of Ye Xing's head, and then walked out.Ye Xing sat in a daze for a while, then silently picked up his clothes and began to change.

Zhou Guixiang walked outside the door, saw Yao Wenxiu looking outside, couldn't help scolding: "Don't hurry up and prepare? There will be college students coming to social practice today, what are you standing here looking at!"

Yao Wenxiu looked away: "Isn't that door sealed?"

She was talking about the little fireplace that she found to work in the morning.

"Stop talking too much..."

Zhou Guixiang resisted such a topic, but Yao Wenxiu continued curiously: "Ever since I discovered that little girl who was trapped inside playing hide-and-seek for more than a month, such a place must have been sealed."

Zhou Guixiang, who has worked in the orphanage for nearly 30 years, moved her mouth and showed a trace of sadness in her eyes.Soon she calmed down and said sternly: "I don't know who opened it, let me know that I must scold him!"

Yao Wenxiu wanted to say something more, but was interrupted: "There is still an hour and a half before nine o'clock, you should go and check to make sure, and you need to prepare more lunch at noon, hurry up."

The author says:

Stretch out the little hand begging for starfish