I just want to lie down and collect money in Yokohama

In the haze, in a scene that seemed to be filled with white mist, Cheng Hailiang felt as if he had returned to a familiar and nostalgic place.

That was the home where he lived with his parents more than ten years ago.

The spacious two-story villa has a living room decorated with Western-style sofas, which is different from traditional tatami mats at that time.The backyard connected by floor-to-ceiling windows has an iron barbecue pit. Liang remembers that his parents would invite colleagues and friends who are also policemen to come over when they are on vacation. While watching the lake view in the distance in the backyard, they gathered around the grill .

Because there are relatively few female detectives, the guests who come to the house are generally men.There are seniors who are older than his father, but they always bring him toys and gifts every time they come, and there are also young policemen who are inevitably shy and restrained when they come here as new juniors, and in the end they even stumble when talking to him who is only five or six years old.

Liang walked towards the oven in the backyard, and the oven shrouded in white mist followed him as he approached.What surprised him was that the oven, which had not been used for more than ten years, did not show the rusty spots brought by the age after the white mist dissipated.

It looked quite new, not like the scrap iron that Ryo rarely went back to see after graduating from high school.Although the oven in front of him looked like it had been used, it was not at all scrapped.

The corner of Ryo's mouth ticked upwards—although he didn't know why, but this appearance made him want to eat barbecue.

He remembered a newcomer uncle at that time, the grilled meat was so delicious that when he was caught and preached by his serious mother, he couldn't help but snatched a few more pieces.

Turning around, Liang looked back into the house through the floor-to-ceiling windows from the perspective of the backyard of the house.

The state of the house is not like what he saw two years ago, covered with dust and broken boards, completely uninhabitable, but like when his parents were still living, neatly tidied up by them .

It's really the same as it was ten years ago.

He generally sighed and walked back from the backyard through the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at some photos of his family of three on the cabinet in the living room.

Starting from the photo of him just born at the age of Cheng Hailiang, one by one, either alone or with a family, recorded his growth from a baby to a primary school child.

Except for the time when I have no memory at all, every one of the remaining pictures has a cheerful and mischievous smile, so that those dark blue eyes are only from the baby period.At other times, I laughed so hard that my eyes narrowed and I couldn't see at all.

"Mr. Liang, it's finally the day you've been looking forward to going out."

The familiar female voice that filled him with nostalgia made Liang suddenly turn his head and look behind him at the master bedroom where the voice came from.After that, an intellectual woman with short hair opened the door and walked straight towards Ryo.

"Ma, mom?!" Surprised by the woman's appearance, Ryo took a step back, screamed in surprise, and then reached out to grab the hand of his mother who looked only in her early 30s.

"Why haven't you woke up yet? Didn't you tell me to get up at eight o'clock last night?" The woman whom Liang called her mother passed by Liang directly, came to the door of the room behind him and knocked.

Such a thorough reaction of being ignored made Ryo's outstretched hand freeze.

"Don't be too strict with Xiao Liang, he is still a child." A male voice with a smile sounded behind him, this time he could guess that it was his father without turning his head.

Sure enough, this is in a dream.

After seeing the man also passing by him and ignoring him, Ryo felt to herself.

Then he looked at his father who was smiling gently, patted his mother on the back and pushed the door out. Cheng Hailiang, who was only six years old, picked him up and let him sit on his shoulder.

"Xiao Liang didn't sleep in, she was just angry with her mother, right?" He flipped the child in his arms, and smiled, "Because two months ago, my mother promised to prepare for Liang's birthday celebration, but she suddenly worked overtime .”

"En!" The child in his arms pouted and nodded vigorously.

"But there's nothing you can do if you have a temporary job," Mrs. Cheng Hai sighed, and went up to touch Xiao Liang's hair. "Mom, as a policeman, needs to protect a lot of people."

...So it was a memory of that time.

Suddenly, memories of childhood were awakened in his mind, and 20-year-old Cheng Hailiang showed nostalgic eyes.Then mom would say...

"As compensation for missing the birthday party, my mother promised Xiaoliang's long-standing wish." The serious and strong woman relaxed a little, and Mrs. Cheng Hai said, "We will adopt a kitten for Xiaoliang when we come back from the playground today." How about it?"

"Yeah!" The child raised his hands and cheered, so excited that he hit Mr. Cheng Hai's head with his hands.

"Then prepare some muffins, and we're ready to go." Mr. Cheng Hai, who was knocked back a bit, quickly stabilized his son in his arms and looked at his wife, "After breakfast, go to the playground and the door will just open .”

Cheng Hailiang was even more sure that he was dreaming because he couldn't smell the muffins at all.

After that, as the white mist got heavier and thicker, when the coolness came to his senses, he found that the scene had changed, and he came to the only playground he had visited once in his childhood.

He frowned when he saw himself laughing and laughing as a child, holding his parents' hand and running to the pirate ship.

He didn't want to watch it anymore, he wanted to wake up.

Lowering his head silently, Ryo closed his eyes and counted down in the cheerful atmosphere of the playground, after about ten minutes.

"bump--"

A loud bang made him open his eyes reflexively, looking at the ceiling of the old room and panting.The damp smell brought by the old tatami mat under his body made him sure that he had woken up.

The sound just now should be the sound made by the new neighbor who moved in next door when he went out to work and closed the door.The apartment room is old and has poor sound insulation. During the time Liang stayed here, he could deduce who came from the next door and what they were doing.

So when he heard that sound, Ryo knew that it was time for the neighbor's master to go out to work in the early morning.

It inexplicably coincides with the gunshots in the memory of the dream, when Cheng Hai and his wife fought against the robbers in the playground.

Liang, who was still immersed in a dream, slowly sat up, wiped the sweat from his head and looked towards the window.Still in hiding, he couldn't even open the window to see out. He just wanted to judge the approximate time of the day through the light level outside the window when he looked out of the window.

In fact, nearly three months have passed since this kind of life, and the time has turned from midsummer to late autumn, and the weather has turned cold.And... the winter in Yokohama seems to be extraordinarily cold this year, and the autumn season even gave him the illusion of winter.

It seems that the year my parents passed away, the winter was extremely cold.

Today's inexplicable childhood dream was the last time Cheng Hailiang went out to play with his parents.At the end of that trip to the playground, Cheng Hai and his wife met their plainclothes colleagues and learned that the playground had received a bomb threat.

After that, the birthday party, which was delayed for two months, became the last birthday party they prepared for Ryo.After that, he was adopted by Takei, a descendant of his parents at the time, and the current Chief of the First Investigation Division, and entered a boarding school until he graduated from high school.

After graduating, he rejected Mr. Takei's suggestion to apply for the police academy, and instead became an informant for the police station to search for intelligence among the people.

14 years have passed before he knew it, and fortunately his own memory is good enough, otherwise it would be too sad to forget his parents' faces.

I got up and turned on the chandelier on the ceiling, wrapped in a quilt and moved to the sink, listening to the slight coughing sound from the next door.

That's the guy who lives in the same house as the neighbor who just left for work.

Ryo suspected that it was a sick and weak lady who eloped with a poor boy and ran away from a rich home.

It's been almost half a month since the neighbor lived in. Although Liang has never seen Mr. Work who leaves early and returns late, he can still see the "lady" next door go out from the peephole at the door of the apartment from time to time in the evening, and then half an hour later. Left and right will come back with two convenience store lunches.

It was a tall lady with short hair who was wearing a floral kimono. Every time she went out, she would wear a flower hairpin of a different style on her head.

Judging by the temperament and the fabric of the flower-e kimono, no matter how you look at it, you look like a young lady from a scholarly family.

So Cheng Hailiang arbitrarily set that kind of identity for the two neighbors.

Let Liang notice the two people next door because he is too boring, and the instant noodles are really bad.On the third day, he could hardly eat anymore, and after staring at the bag of flour that Mr. Chun had prepared for him for half an hour, he was attacked by hunger and went back to cook instant noodles.

Before moving in, he had sworn that he had no problem hiding and could wait, but he didn't expect him to think highly of himself.Being trapped in the house without seeing the light of day, unable to do anything, unable to see the prospect and the future, such days are really, very painful.

And he lives with instant noodles every day, and he feels that the bento at the neighbor's convenience store looks delicious.

Obviously it's fifty steps laughing at a hundred steps.But a hundred steps envy fifty steps!

After washing the plastic, I sat back on the tatami and waited for the boiling water to boil, and cooked another instant noodle.

After taking two bites, he pushed the noodles away again, showing an expression of disgust that was about to spit out.

So boring, so sad...

Lie face down on the low tea table, listening to the coughing next door has stopped, probably that 'lady' fell back to sleep after being woken up by her lover going out.

After staying there for a while, Cheng Hailiang finally couldn't bear it anymore, took out his mobile phone, started using various software to locate it overseas, and then dialed a number saved in it.