Nocturnal

Yu Qing and Xia Zhifei stared at each other for a moment, Yu Qing was defeated, "Forget it, I won't ask, let Brother Qu come and ask later. He didn't see anything, it makes no difference whether the transcript is written or not." It's not big... Later, you fill out a form for me and register the information."

Xia Zhifei quickly agreed, and hurriedly ran back behind the reef.From what they said, Qin Mochi could already confirm that there was a corpse there, which had died abnormally and had a certain identity.Qin Mochi felt that this was actually quite strange. How could Li Yedu, who just came to work from other places, know such a person?

Qin Mochi came back to his senses, the body had been loaded into the car by the police comrades, ready to take it back.Xia Zhifei and the young team leader walked last, muttering for a while.Li Yedu was walking towards him, with his head down and a little tired.Walnut probably recovered, and ran back and forth on the beach very happily.

Qin Mochi suddenly didn't want to ask any more questions.Who has no secrets?Besides, he and Li Yedu have known each other for a limited time, and their friendship is not enough to confide in each other.

"Can I go back?" Qin Mochi asked him.

Li Yedu nodded, "I've finished all the questions I should ask. Let's go."

Qin Mochi saw that Li Yedu had something on his mind, but he couldn't ask anything.

Xia Zhifei chased up from behind, squeezed the back of Qin Mochi's neck habitually, and said in a low voice, "I told the captain about you, but today is not a good time to talk."

Qin Mochi nodded to show that he understood.

"Let's make an appointment to have a good talk after a while," Xia Zhifei patted him on the shoulder, "Hurry up and go home, don't think about it, and have a good rest. Oh, by the way, don't tell my family about my affairs."

Qin Mochi was also full of doubts about his identity and occupation, but Xia Zhifei was on business, so he hurriedly left with his colleagues without talking too much.Walnut wandered around somewhere, and now he was lying beside their car, panting for breath.

Li Yedu asked him, "Can dogs get in the car?"

Qin Mochi nodded, "It's okay, come up. I live near here, you can take me home first, and then drive my car back. Otherwise, it will be troublesome to send it back and forth." Qin Mochi felt that the experience of this night There are more things to do than in the past few months. Worry and fear are all extremely exhausting things. He just wants to climb into his big bed at the moment, without thinking about anything, curled up in the warm blanket and have a good time. sleep.

Li Yedu put his hands on his shoulders, and sighed softly, "Actually, I didn't want to drag you into this kind of thing. But it was too coincidental, and Walnut was in a hurry..."

"It's okay," Qin Mochi interrupted him, this honest man was probably feeling guilty, "I'm not so scared now."

Li Yedu seemed to have smiled.

Qin Mochi looked at his expression carefully, and asked tentatively, "How do you know this person?"

Li Yedu silently took out the cigarette case from his pocket, and handed it to Qin Mochi. Seeing him shaking his head, he smoked a cigarette by himself, and turned his body slightly to block the wind when he lit the cigarette.The smell of dry tobacco filled the air, Qin Mochi took a deep breath, feeling relaxed for no reason.

"There's nothing you can't say," Li Yedu saw the uncertainty in Qin Mochi's eyes, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'm a disciple of the righteous school of Taoism, and my master knows the elders of the Sima family. Although There are not many contacts, but the younger generation has seen almost all of them."

Qin Mochi had a feeling of "as expected", no wonder he asked himself how much he knew about Taoism.

"The owner of the antique shop, you are called brother, and you have the same master as you?"

"Well," Li Yedu responded lightly, "He is my master's second apprentice. There is also a senior brother who is very old, and I haven't seen it much."

Qin Mochi thought to himself, the disciples are all "very old", how old should their master be?

Li Yedu opened the car door for him, "I'll see you off first. Where do you live?"

Qin Mochi pointed to the high-rise building not far away, "It's not far away, it's that building."

Li Yedu squinted his eyes and looked at the high-rise building that looked like a glass box in the night, and frowned slightly, as if he had just discovered something extraordinary, "Can you see this from the room you live in?"

Qin Mochi stretched out his hand and gestured, "It's facing No. [-] beach, and I can see it from here. Squint angle. What's the matter?"

Li Yedu didn't make a sound, opened the car door and put the walnut in. The walnut whined twice, poked his head from behind the chair, and rubbed Qin Mochi's arm coquettishly.

Qin Mochi pinched its furry ears and couldn't help laughing, "Just let it come home with me."

Li Yedu glanced at the shamelessly cute silly dog ​​with disgust, "I have to give it a bath first, it ran away somewhere today, it's covered in dirt, it's so dirty."

Walnut bared his teeth at him.

Qin Mochi rubbed the fur on its neck reassuringly, "I don't have anything for dogs at home... But there is a pet shop on the first floor of Xinghai Building, you can take it there to take a bath and buy something for it along the way."

Walnut licked his hand and wagged his tail cheerfully.

The more Qin Mochi thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea. Although he didn't see any bloody and terrifying scenes about what happened tonight, it still had a great impact on him.With walnuts around, I shouldn't feel scared when I'm at home.

Qin Mochi still had many doubts in his mind, but what happened today had too much impact on him, making him quite tired.Now he only wants to focus on some relaxing things, such as walnuts, such as the hot bath and supper after returning home. As for those things that he can't figure out for a while, let's wait until his mind is clear.

The pet shop was not yet closed, and the two young men on duty took walnuts into the inner room to take a bath.Qin Mochi watched the walnuts being scrubbed on the platform in the center of the bathtub through the glass window, and found it very interesting.Although he had raised dogs when he was young, he couldn't see at that time, and he didn't know what his walnuts looked like. Later, when he came to Xia's house, Xia Zhenghe didn't like cats and dogs, but only liked his cages of thrush starlings. Naturally, no one in the family has pets.So it was the first time he saw a pet taking a bath.Walnut probably lived a long time, and he was very calm when things happened. He was rubbed on his body, and there was no special reaction when he rubbed a pile of foam. Instead, he lay there and squinted his eyes comfortably.

Qin Mochi couldn't help laughing.After enjoying it for a while, I thought of asking Li Yedu about feeding walnuts, but when I turned around, I saw Li Yedu standing a few steps behind him, staring intently at the...back of his head.The four eyes met, his eyes jumped slightly, and then slowly calmed down.

It was a very strange look, seemingly calm, but it seemed to hide some deep and intense emotions that were about to come out.

Qin Mochi was slightly taken aback, as if something flashed through his mind very quickly.

Li Yedu looked away as if nothing had happened, "What's wrong?"

Qin Mochi smiled uncomfortably, "No...it's nothing."

Qin Mochi knew that he was dreaming again.

He walked forward in the dark in a dark corridor without a gleam of light, as if he had turned back into the ignorant blind man he was when he was young.However, he vaguely knew that this road had an end, which made him a little anxious, and his pace gradually accelerated involuntarily.

Someone approached from behind him, and the hot breath brushed against the broken hair by his ear, slightly itching.It was the voice of a strange and rough man, "Damn it, it's a loss. It's 200 yuan. Who would want such a thing?"

"Don't you know how to check it out?" Another man's voice scolded angrily, "If he's blind, are you blind too?"

"I didn't think too much about it. Didn't the brat fall asleep at the time... What do you think?"

"The body is too weak, the month is too young, I don't know if I can support it, and I am still blind... Forget it, throw it away."

"……All right."

Qin Mochi felt that these few lines of conversation sounded vaguely familiar, they seemed to be talking about him, but when and who said it, he had no memory at all.

Another woman's voice sighed faintly, "Let's call it Mochi. Mochi, Mochi..."

Qin Mochi still felt his eyes warm in his dream, and he would never forget this voice no matter what. It was the voice of his adoptive mother who had raised him for eight years.With a delicate and clear voice like a girl, every word seems to be gentle to the bone.

"Mochi? Mochi? Come, come to mother, there are fruits to eat."

"Mochi, touch it, this is a puppy. Give him a name."

"Mochi, be obedient from now on..."

"Be good..."

Qin Mochi opened his eyes in the dark night, the voices disappeared, but it seemed that they hadn't disappeared, they were still hovering in his mind, word by word, leaping away, the lingering sound lingering.

Qin Mochi found that he seemed to have forgotten a lot of things in the past ten years... It was not a normal forgetting, but a part of the memory in his mind was blocked by something, as if he had been hypnotized or had some kind of psychological suggestion .He only remembered that he used to live in the mountains, that he had an adoptive mother and a strange neighbor by his side, but he didn't remember anything else, especially some small details in daily life.This is obviously not normal.

But since some weird changes happened to him, for example, his pupils gradually turned into a rich deep purple color, and when facing the light, they would unconsciously shrink into the shape of a spindle, and it would also make all the eyes that appeared in the After the animals in his field of vision were frightened, he began to recall more and more about his life in the mountains when he was a child.

Qin Mochi could feel that something was slowly waking up in his body.

This feeling made him feel terrified. Unknown things are always scary. During the day, he can use various things to distract him from these things, or comfort himself and say that even Master Faming is as enlightened as he is. The eminent monk didn't say anything scary, which shows that the matter is not serious.But at night, the fear buried in his heart would quietly surface in his sleep, and what frightened him the most was that with the appearance of this fear, his memory of his childhood began to become clearer and clearer.

Qin Mochi sat up, picked up the water glass on the bedside table and took a sip of water.

The pumpkin-shaped floor lamp was quietly lit in the corner of the room, and the warm light gave the night a quiet atmosphere.Walnut lay sprawled on the carpet next to the bed stool, her tender belly rising and falling with her breath.

The restlessness in Qin Mochi's heart gradually calmed down. He thought of the little furry body in his arms in his memory, and wondered if his walnut was also lying on all fours like the one in front of him when he was asleep, showing a A silly and naive attitude?

Qin Mochi put down his water glass and lazily lay back under the quilt.

On the carpet, Walnut's paws trembled twice, his eyes slowly opened, he glanced at the slightly raised quilt on the bed, turned over and fell asleep again.

Outside the window, the fine snow particles were blown up by the night wind, splashed on the glass window with a bang, and then spread out silently, melting into the pitch-black night.

"It's snowing again."

Li Yedu was lying on the window sill, staring at the old garden lamp under the old plum tree in the small courtyard.The orange lights are shining in the night, and the swirling snowflakes pass through the vigorous branches of the old plum, and they are like cotton wool under the light.

A person behind said lazily: "What, even if it snows, it will be warmer than in the mountains, right?"

Li Yedu hummed, turned around and saw his second senior brother Na Kun was holding a teacup to his nose and gently sniffing the tea fragrance, his face was full of intoxication, he couldn't help laughing, "What's your expression? How can the tea bought back be so good? I don’t smell as good as the tea I drank in the mountains.”

Na Kun faked a smile, "Little brother is right. The tea trees planted by Master himself are naturally different. But tea leaves are very knowledgeable. Oh, you don't understand the details."

Li Yedu knew that his senior brother came from an extraordinary background, and his preferences were different from that of a grassroots like him who grew up in the mountains, and that Kun had been doing business for a long time, and he was used to "pretending" with everyone, and his words always It's a bit cloudy and misty, and I can't pick out two or three out of ten sentences to be true.

Li Yedu asked him, "When will Master come?"

Na Kun shook his head, and jokingly said: "You and I are mortals, how can you spy on the traces of the emperor? Just wait, he will come over naturally after finishing his work." After a pause, he muttered, "Xiao Yinyin is here What's the point of hiding in the city and hiding in the mountains? It doesn't conform to the central idea of ​​Taoism following nature at all."

Li Yedu smiled and said, "Perhaps living in the mountains means that Taoism follows nature to Master."

Na Kun pondered for a while, then shook his head, "Hey, close the window, come and drink tea."

Li Yedu closed the window, walked over slowly and sat down in front of him, picked up the teacup, smelled the tea, and took a sip.

Na Kun looked at him with a slight smile in his eyes, "I said, you have been here for a long time. Why, do you really want to be my buddy for the rest of your life?"

Li Yedu looked at him dissatisfied, "I also have work, and I haven't asked you for wages yet!"

"You still have the nerve to ask for wages?" Na Kun stared, "The box of things you lent me to send out years ago, isn't it worth your wages?"

Li Yedu snorted, "People will be greedy for your broken things? Are you too underestimating? Your broken bracelets and so on, there are not many people to pick them up on the street. Mochi can be said, it must be proportioned I paid for it for you. You think about it yourself, you don’t need to pay someone to fix it—in fact, no one buys it after it’s repaired. Don’t worry about it yourself, send out a pile of garbage, and wait for someone to send you money. You’re making a lot of money gone."

Na Kun has been in the antique business for many years, so he naturally knows the reason why broken utensils cannot be sold at a good price.Like a broken bracelet, no matter how good it is, it is absolutely impossible to sell it as an antique after restoration.What's more, those old items have been in his hands for a long time, and the price was extremely low when he received them, and some of them didn't even cost any money.If you want to take it for repair, it is really not worth it according to the current price.As for re-cutting, processing and selling, he was really not interested, nor did he have the energy.The more time passed, the more it became tasteless in his hands.After much deliberation, Na Kun found that it was the best way out to give favors to his junior brother.

Na Kun shook his head, "Your boy... turn your elbows outward."

Li Yedu retorted, "Mochi is not an outsider!"

Na Kun squinted at him, "Yo, yo, you're not an outsider now?"

Li Yedu snorted softly, "Brother, don't forget who was the person who lived with me in the mountains since childhood."

Na Kun was angry, "Didn't I just go down the mountain and travel for a few years? Why do you hold grudges so much?"

"How many years?" Li Yedu raised his eyebrows, "After those years, who cares about you being with you?"

"You heartless brat!" Na Kun scolded, "Don't forget who you eat and live in now."

"I've done work for you in vain."

"That's enough, that's enough," Na Kun hurriedly stopped him, "The more you say this, the less nutritious you are. I actually just want to ask how long you plan to stay in Linhai?"

Li Yedu thought for a while, "For the matter of Mochi, the master said he has a solution. I have to wait until this matter is over to see what the master has arranged."

Na Kun shook his head, "If you didn't stop me desperately, I really want to see that soft and cute little bun... That leopard is not in good health, but he is very good at raising children. You see, he was fat when he was young It's a small sample, tsk."

Li Yedu smiled, "Not yet."

Na Kun showed a skeptical expression, "Do you really think he can recognize my voice?"

"It's very possible," Li Yedu said half-truthfully, "I was young then, and my voice was different from now. But senior brother, you are different, right? Mochi's ears are sharp."

"If you don't see it, you won't see it," Na Kun said angrily, "Anyway, there is always time to see you." He said with a sly expression, "Anyway, I still have some things he is interested in here, old stuff or something."

"Then you complained just now that you were at a disadvantage."

Na Kun squeezed out a sinister smile, "Oh, you have to be considerate of the elderly, don't you make it so clear."

Li Yedu looked at him contemptuously, "Profitable businessman."

Na Kun smiled and said, "Oh, yes, Master really talked about the Mochi...does he have a solution?"

"That's what Master said." Li Yedu looked at him, "Why?"

Na Kun shook his head, "It's better to deal with it quickly. I don't think the old monk in Guang Temple can hold back... In the eyes of monsters, he is just a piece of delicious snack... I'm afraid there will be trouble in Linhai."

Li Yedu didn't make a sound, but there was a look of worry on his brows.

When will Master come over?