can't go wild

With hope in mind, Chu Xiuxiu ran to the cram school again.

Her foundation is so poor that she can't miss a class. She bites the bullet and listens to the bible every day, and when she returns home at night, her head is hanging from the beam and her buttocks are pierced. Her bile is almost boiled dry.If it weren't for this body when it was young, it would have been bald.

She is suffering.

At this moment, standing on the bus platform under the sun and waiting for the bus, and seeing Aino and Xing Zhou sitting there drinking iced coffee in the book cafe across the road, I felt even more bitter.

Just now she put on her nephew and asked Aino if she could think of a way to get her out of the college entrance examination.She has inquired about it, some schools have special recruits, she can still serve as a soldier, or if she can't get her into the police department as an errand runner, all she wants is a reason that can be fooled on the surface, Let her not have to struggle in the sea of ​​learning.

It's almost a year until the college entrance examination!

Aino ruthlessly rejected her.

Heh, man.

Chu Xiuxiu stared at the other side, while Aino sat in her original seat, slowly stirring the coffee with a small silver spoon, without even looking at her.

Xing Zhou went to fetch a few books from the book list, which were the last ones that Chu Xiuxiu borrowed before falling into the sea.They are "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Lonely Planet", "The Little Prince" and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

Aino is holding the last book, which is almost [-]% new, and few people should have read it.I think so, the title is definitely not attractive among a lot of comics and best-selling books.

Why did Chu Xiuxiu borrow this book?Aino opened the book and glanced briefly, then looked at the other books, thinking of Aoba.

Pen pal Aoba said he was going to travel far, but he didn't say where the destination was, so Chu Xiuxiu borrowed a lot of books about travel?She wrote it in a letter, but she couldn't find the place after searching the map.

Maybe add these books, in which she wanted to see the outside world and guess where that pen pal would end up.

Of course, all this is Aino's conjecture.

It's a pity that the boss is not here today, and there is only one waiter yawning and playing with his mobile phone at the cash register.Aino called for a refill, and asked him by the way: "Do you know that girl just now?"

The waiter was a little surprised, "Don't you know each other? Didn't you just..."

Aino: "Tourist. I accidentally rubbed against her skirt on the road just now, so I invited her to drink a cup of milk tea to apologize. I'm afraid I might be touched, so I asked."

"Oh, that's it." The waiter then laughed, "Don't worry, that's a student from the Hanhai No. [-] High School next door. We are regular customers here. They often come to drink milk tea, and they are by no means for touching porcelain."

Aino: "Regular customers, you are here, the business should be very good, right?"

Waiter: "It's very good. The students like to come to us. Even though it's summer vacation, there are still people coming from time to time. But there are not many customers in the morning, and there will be more in the afternoon."

Aino shook the book in his hand and said, "Your store also has a complete range of books. The boss seems to have put a lot of thought into it."

The waiter smiled, "That's true. Our boss usually loves photography and reading books. He bought them one by one. Some are original overseas, and some are from second-hand markets. If you I like it, there is still one on the second floor, you can see it.”

Aino: "I just saw the swimming medals on the entrance wall?"

Waiter: "That belongs to our boss too. There is a city swimming competition in the past few days. Today our boss is going to watch the competition."

Aino did not expect such unexpected joy, and exchanged a glance with Xing Zhou.Xing Zhou continued to ask: "Didn't your boss have medals, so he won't participate?"

"Isn't that because of cramping a while ago..." After speaking, the waiter quickly stopped, cleared his throat, and said, "Hey, the boss wants to save face, so he won't participate anyway. Do you two want to order something? "

Xing Zhou waved his hand and sent him away.

Aino said: "This boss is indeed a bit suspicious."

Xing Zhou pressed the headset: "Cassia?"

"Here we come." Jueming responded immediately, "I'm looking into it. There are too many clues coming at me, and I'm a little flustered. Tsk, Takuma's daughter, now she is suffering from the torment of the college entrance examination like an ordinary person, really. Sigh. Fortunately, her father is a priest, otherwise, if she became a high school student without knowing a few characters, she would be caught blind."

In familiar pixie style, gloat.

Aino asked, "Do you believe what she said?"

I didn't turn on the headset just now, but all the information about Chu Xiuxiu has been sent to Cassia in real time through the customer service elf, let him check it first.Jueming said: "She and your uncle are in the same group, and she dared to reveal her identity on her own initiative. What she said should be [-]% true. Don't be afraid of our investigation. Anyway, she won't be from Chu Lian's side, as long as she is not from Chu Lian On the side, it’s all easy to talk about.”

Aino pondered, not commenting on his words.

Jue Ming returned to the subject and said, "I checked the website called 'A Small House', and the website structure is average, probably at the level of a computer science student. And it looks quite old-fashioned, very similar to Many years ago, the feeling of flooding the forum with students as the main users. I took a rough look, and there was no illegal content. It was just a mutual help forum. Everyone talked about their difficulties, and then encouraged each other and gave ideas , chatting nonsense for a while, it looks quite positive. However, in the past six months, there have been few users who have spoken, there are only a few, and the level of the site will be closed soon.”

The website must be registered to browse, Aino directly logged in with Chu Xiuxiu's account, and saw that she only interacted with one account from the beginning to the end.

This account is a new one, called "Adventure Meeting a Beautiful Man", and the registration time is April 2022, 4.There is no doubt that this is Aino's cheap uncle Song Yuan.

Leaving aside why Song Yuan chose such a ridiculous name as "Beautiful Encounter", this point in time is enough to attract people's attention.In April of this year, a lot happened.

Chu Lian woke up, Xiangqi died, and many things happened in that cold April.

Chu Xiuxiu's account is called "Auntie Cixiang", which is as powerless as "A Beautiful Man in an Adventure".There were not many conversations between the two, but they were all in cipher text with irregular numbers, so it was impossible to tell what they were talking about.

Moreover, the contact between the two was broken many days ago. At this time, the other party is not online, and there is no response to the message.

Aino narrowed his eyes, "Song Yuan took the initiative to send Chu Xiuxiu to us at this time, there must be other intentions. But Chu Xiuxiu said that Song Yuan didn't have anything else to tell her, and the information must be hidden elsewhere——Cassia, stolen His number."

Cassia Ming said cheerfully, "Okay."

"Check the website by yourself." Xing Zhou tapped on the table with his fingers, and said in a deep voice, "No matter what you find, only me, Aino and you know."

Jueming immediately understood what he was worried about, and said, "Understood."

Xing Zhou: "But you can properly disclose some information, just say—the matter of Yuan has a clue."

Cassia: "Don't worry, I'm a professional in holiday information. I'm also looking for the owner of the book cafe, but there's too little information about him about Aoba's matter. It's really hard to look up with just a pseudonym."

The mystery of the real Chu Xiuxiu's falling into the sea has to be found out as soon as possible, which is related to whether the current "Chu Xiuxiu" has killed anyone.Aino heard the sound and asked directly, "Are you going to split up?"

Xing Zhou: "Okay."

The two separated, Aino went back to the small fishing village, and Xing Zhou went to meet the book cafe owner at the swimming competition.

A quarter of an hour later, Aino stood at the entrance of the small fishing village.Yesterday he and Xing Zhou walked up the stone steps, and at the end of the stone steps, there was a red mailbox.

Postboxes in China are all green, and it is rare to see one painted red, so Aino has a deep impression of it.I thought it was just a decoration, but when there was such a thing as letters, Aino asked the local people to inquire, and said that this post box could indeed send letters.There is a souvenir shop on the commercial street, which sells postcards.If a customer buys a postcard, the store can stamp it with a special stamp and send it out from this mailbox.

Aino went to the store to take another look.

The shopkeeper still remembers him, the boy holding flowers yesterday.Seeing that Xiangye was picking out postcards, he enthusiastically stepped forward to introduce them, "Do you want to send postcards? Our postcards are all specially made and look good. You can send them to friends or elders. Look, put the back under the light, It has the luster of mother-of-pearl, isn't it beautiful?"

"Yeah." Aino responded casually, and asked, "I have a friend whose birthday is the day after tomorrow, can we make it in time?"

Boss: "The postman here usually comes to pick up the package around four o'clock in the afternoon. Is your friend far away? If it is far away, you may not be able to catch up on the road."

Aino: "Jingzhou."

Boss: "Jingzhou, that's not necessarily the case."

After listening to him chatting a little more, Aino bought a postcard and said he wanted to deliver it himself.The postman's clue reminded him that he didn't know where that Qingye was now, but he could confirm his identity by checking Chu Xiuxiu's previous delivery information from the post office and knowing the previous address of that Qingye.

It was too troublesome to make insinuations, so Aino found the police officer A Ping and asked him to ask directly.

A Ping rode a small e-donkey and came swiftly. Hearing Xiangye's words, he immediately patted his chest and said, "Put it on me."

Twenty minutes later, he came out of the post office and said: "There are indeed records. Chu Xiuxiu has sent letters many times and received them many times. The address is the same, No. 10 Huaihai Road, Minghu University Town. The last letter sent was At the beginning of April, no letter was sent or received since then."

Xiangye immediately sent this address to Jueming to check, but Ah Ping seemed to have thought of something again, and hurriedly went to the trunk of the small eDonkey to take out a file bag and said, "This is about the two things about Chu Xiuxiu. The details of the matter, but because there is no finalized case, that's all, I brought them all."

It was an appointment yesterday, and Aping brought them here.

Aino took it out to take a look, and then asked: "The bus stop where Chu Xiuxiu was when he reported the crime, there is a book cafe opposite it, do you have any impression?"

A Ping: "Yes, when I went to the police that day, the book cafe was still open. But because it was a bit late and the students had gone home, it seemed that there were no customers inside. After I went back, I adjusted the surveillance. Nothing suspicious."

Aino: "Where's the boss? Is he there?"

A Ping scratched his head, thought hard, and finally shook his head, "I really don't remember this. What's the matter, is there any problem with that boss?"

"Just ask." Aino said, and asked Aping to take him to the fishing boat on the pretext of "helping find the lost item".

Chu Xiuxiu fell into the sea on her own fishing boat, although three months had passed, but just to be on the safe side, Aino still went to that boat to have a look.

When they arrived at their destination, Cassia's reply also came.

"Minghu University Town is in Ningcheng. Ningcheng is also a big city, and the University Town is the boss. No. 99 Huaihai Road is a courier collection point, and it's not very formal. I called and asked, and the people over there I have no impression of the letter. There are so many people and so many couriers coming and going at the courier collection point every day. If you really want to check one by one, you will have to check it out."

"What university is there?"

"A lot."

"Ask the postman over there."

"okay."

Turning his gaze back to his eyes, Aino stood beside the fishing boat, looking at the calm sea, and couldn't help but weaving in his mind the scene of the night when Chu Xiuxiu fell into the sea.

Beaches with bonfires, loud crowds, and carnival nights.Why does a girl in the blooming season stay away from the crowd and go to the sea by boat?

Who is that mysterious man who appeared at the scene of falling into the sea?