madman

"Xiao Man is not a beggar, he is not disabled, he is not..." The little boy surnamed Li anxiously argued, his face flushed.

"But he's dumb..." the landlady's words stopped the boy.

"Let us adults look for it again, maybe he just went to find someone else," Zhou Xun said and looked at the children around him, "Don't go, you child, just stay here honestly. "

The proprietress was not happy at first, she sat behind the counter again, and didn't intend to get up again, "I still need to look after the store, I don't have time to find him."

Zhou Xun frowned unhappily when he saw the proprietress's appearance, "Who are you, Xiaoman, it's illegal to employ child labor."

"If you don't know the situation, don't open your mouth and keep talking about breaking the law to scare me. I won't accept your tricks," the proprietress's voice suddenly sharpened, "I'm just a distant relative of him. He's a little mute. He’s not smart, and he can’t read a few words, so if I can take him in, give him a place to live, and give him food, it’s the best of humanity.”

Zhou Xun sighed after hearing this, and went out to find someone by himself, and the little boy followed him.

"Go back, I'll look for it."

"I'm with you, no matter what."

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"Xiao Man, where are you, Xiao Man?" The little boy kept calling Xiao Man's name along the way, "Respond to what you hear."

After he finished speaking, he became quiet again. Xiaoman is a little mute, how should he respond to them.

There is not even a street lamp in the dilapidated low buildings waiting to be demolished, and the narrow alleys lead in all directions, and every turn leads to another direction.

Zhou Xun asked the child beside him, "Xiaoman told me that you had a fight with him and you disappeared, so he just asked me to go look for you with him."

"Are you the one wearing his slippers?" The child didn't answer, but asked first, "Those are the slippers in his room, he didn't give them to me, why should I wear them for you?"

Zhou Xun looked down at the child's feet, half smaller than his own, "I'll wear it for you, does it fit?"

"I can keep it if it doesn't fit, and wear it when I fit..."

"The shoes on your feet and the clothes on your body are all famous brands... at least they cost tens of thousands of dollars. Why do you care so much about these five-yuan slippers? Besides, are you really Xiaoman's friend? "

The little boy was seen to be a bit guilty because of his outfit. After all, he sneaked out from home, and what he told Xiaoman was that he was an orphan and homeless. Hearing Zhou Xun's question, he raised his eyebrow To hide his guilty conscience, "Can't you be Xiaoman's friend if you wear a famous brand?"

"It's spoiled at first glance. What if Xiaoman really gave you the slippers? Would you know how to wear them?" Zhou Xun paused for a moment, then said again: "This is not the case with friends. Friends are not just blindly possessive."

"I want you to take care of it..." The child didn't want to listen to Zhou Xun's preaching, so he walked forward a few steps. Zhou Xun was afraid that he would disappear, so he raised his legs and caught up with him, "Now you can find someone with peace of mind, you are right. Is this movie familiar?"

"I'm not familiar, I've only been here for two days..." the child said honestly.

As soon as the words fell, they vaguely heard a sound in the alley on the right, only a low whimper, which was mostly blocked by the sound of rain.

Zhou Xun followed the sound and entered the narrow alley on the right. He wanted to see what was going on first, but the child beside him had already rushed out. He was in no hurry, so he could only chase after him.

The people in the alley heard the noise, turned around and ran to the depths of the alley, Zhou Xun saw three figures, the slowest one was carrying a person on his back, Zhou Xun knew it was Xiaoman, he threw the umbrella and walked along the black Ying struggled to catch up.

"Stop, don't run, put the child down." Zhou Xun shouted while chasing him.

"Xiaoman..." The little boy's voice was high-pitched and echoed from the abandoned building.

Seeing that those people had already run to another exit, Zhou Xun had already seen the black van at the exit.

It would be too late if he pursued hard, Zhou Xun looked around, there was a lot of rubbish piled up on the base of the wall, and there were bamboo poles piled together, he picked up the bamboo pole on the ground and threw it at the last person with the end of the bamboo pole. Hit the man in the waist.

Because of the pain, the person who was carrying the child straightened his waist forward inertially, the hands on his shoulders loosened, and Xiao Man fell directly, but luckily another child caught him.

The person in the van has already started to urge: "Hurry up, you guys are actually messing with people, didn't you tell them not to be seen?"

The few people running in front could not see it, and urged the fallen people to get up quickly, and Zhou Xun had already run to his side, maybe because his bamboo pole was stabbed hard, the people lying on the ground were covered in rain and mud, Howling.

Seeing that someone had fallen behind, the rest of the people did not run away. Two more people got out of the car, turned back together, and surrounded the three of them.

Zhou Xun looked at Xiaoman first, but fortunately he was fine and not injured. He helped the two children up from the rain, "You follow me..."

But in the current situation, he was alone with two and a half older children, and he would definitely not be able to beat them five adults. Half of them were lying on the ground, and there were four and a half. Now they can only look for opportunities to escape.

"I didn't intend to provoke you at first. We did our job. It has nothing to do with you. Let this child watch, and now you see it again. It can only be considered unlucky for you." The man in the middle waved his hand, and the others rushed forward. Hu, only entangled two.

"You two run quickly..." Zhou Xun rushed behind and shouted, but there was no way to escape, and the two children were also surrounded by two other people.

"Xiaoman, run quickly..." The child surnamed Li rushed up to block the two people who blocked them. Although he had practiced taekwondo for two years, he was too small to deal with two tall and fat adults. It wasn't easy, and after a few fights, he couldn't stop him. In the end, he threw himself on a person and bit the person's wrist.

"Fuck your mother, let me fucking let go." The bitten person yelled, and another person kicked over. Xiaoman had already been pushed a few steps away, and he could have escaped while taking advantage of the confusion, but he It still fell on the child.

That kick finally landed on Xiao Man's stomach, Xiao Man grunted a few times in pain, but still firmly protected the person under him.

In the chaos, many people rushed in from the alley, "Don't move, the police..."

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When Zhou Xun finally led the two children back from the police station, the sky was already slightly bright, and the three of them were all wet. Those people were indeed abductees, a special fraud organization, which specially picked beggars and disabled people on the street. , some were fooled by them and voluntarily went with them, some were snatched by them directly, when Xiaoman was looking for someone, he happened to pass by, and saw them arguing with a blind old man, and later found out that he was dumb, so he was chosen by them .

Fortunately, the night was safe and sound. After returning to the hotel, Zhou Xun wanted to see Xiaoman's kicked stomach, but before his hand touched the hem of Xiaoman's clothes, Xiaoman was dragged away by the little boy next to him.

After Zhou Xun returned to the room, he first found a bottle of medicine for bruises from the suitcase and sent it to the next door. It was also picked up by a little boy surnamed Li. A thank you was finally caught in the re-closed door.

Zhou Xun smiled helplessly, and went back to the room, but when he picked up the phone on the bed, his heart trembled, the phone had only one charge left, and there were more than 100 missed calls on the screen, most of which were from Lin Zhile Some of them were called by Zhao Ran.

Just as Zhou Xun wanted to call Lin Zhile back, he received another call from him and quickly pressed the answer button.

"Brother Xun, where have you been? Why haven't you answered my phone...I called you all night...I called Zhao Ran and asked him to contact you, but he couldn't get through..." Lin Zhile He said several words in one breath.

Zhou Xun twitched when he heard Lin Zhile's hoarse voice, "I'm fine, something happened at night,"

Zhou Xun told Lin Zhile what happened, "Don't worry, I'm already in the hotel..."

"How dangerous it is, how dangerous it is for you to go out alone...I'm not here, something happened to you, what should I do?" Lin Zhile became more and more frightened as he thought about it, "Brother Xun, why don't you take this job?" Come back."

Zhou Xun choked his throat and swallowed. He really wanted to say that I would go back right away, but everyone came and agreed to Zhao Ran, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "It's okay, this time it's just a coincidence. Besides, I promised Zhao Ran, it’s not good to go back halfway, he has to find someone again, he has to set off this afternoon, and I can go back soon, at most a month.”

Lin Zhile was silent on the phone for a few seconds, and then said: "You haven't slept all night, hurry up and take a shower and sleep, the most afraid of fatigue driving on the way out of the car, you must pay attention to safety..."

"Okay, I'll take a shower and sleep..."

After Zhou Xun hung up the phone, he called Zhao Ran. Zhao Ran was already planning to come over early, and he was relieved after hearing his call.

Zhou Xun slept until two o'clock in the afternoon. He wanted to go to the next door to see how Xiaoman was doing, but there was no one in the room, and the proprietress also said that he didn't know where he went to play, and that he should be with another little boy. out.

Zhao Ran arrived at [-] o'clock in the afternoon. There were three large trucks in total, all of which were mechanical and electrical supplies, and all of them were long trailers.

Zhao Ran had a car with his girlfriend, and the other two were Burmese who could speak Chinese. They had a car by themselves, and Zhou Xun wanted to drive the last one. It turned out that the driver got out of the car and gave the key to After leaving Zhou Xun, he left.

There is another car, which is also two people. Zhao Ran introduced that one of them is Boss Wu, and this batch of goods belongs to him. He went to Myanmar this time to see stones, rough jadeite, and Boss Wu himself has another one. Jade Emerald Line.

Zhou Xun greeted them one by one. Boss Wu asked the driver to take out a box of good cigarettes to give them a few cigarettes. When he arrived at Zhou Xun's place, he waved his hand, "Thank you, Boss Wu, I don't smoke."

Although he was away from home, Zhou Xun felt that as long as he took the cigarette, Lin Zhile would be able to stare at him with clairvoyant eyes, and when he called Lin Zhile, he could smell it along the phone line. The smell of cigarettes on his body, and then chattered non-stop in his ear.

Thinking of this week, Xun couldn't help but smile, "Smoking is not allowed at home."

Boss Wu laughed dryly and ordered for himself, "It's good not to smoke, it's good not to smoke."

After that, Zhou Xun got into the car arranged for him. He was the only one in the car, and another person who changed shifts with him was waiting for him in Yunshi before entering Myanmar.

Before they set off, they refueled at the gas station. Zhao Ran suddenly stopped Zhou Xun, "Boss Wu's car broke down just now, and his car was repaired by the driver. He asked me to tell you. He will tell you first." It happens that your car is free, and there are two people in the car, so it is not easy to get sleepy on the road."

"He's a big boss, why doesn't he take a plane, and insists on running long distances with him?" Zhou Xun asked, he didn't really want to share a car with that boss Wu, he always felt that he was smiling, and he didn't like to be with such a person deal with.

Zhao Ran was also a little puzzled, "Who knows what their big boss thinks, this is also the first time for me to buy from him, he probably thinks we are not familiar and doesn't trust us."

Zhou Xun did not refuse, "Okay, but I can say it first, and let that boss Wu have a mental preparation. This big truck is not as comfortable as an airplane or a car. Their big boss, if I am not used to it, I will not." Trick, I'm the driver anyway, I don't bring any other waiters."