Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

But this kind of case is not uncommon, and there is no extra expression on the other party's face.

"Have you ever seen or heard of He Hui borrowing usury? Or, have you seen her IOUs, transfer records, chat records and other things?"

"No, it's just my guess."

"Did that group of people tell you about He Hui borrowing money last night?"

"No, I ran away without saying a few words."

"Have you ever had a dispute? Do you have any bruises, knife wounds, etc. that need to be identified?"

"No, but they had knives, I saw them."

"Then did you see the facial features of one of them?"

"No, it's too dark."

"Then did they see you clearly?"

"I should have seen it. They turned on the flashlight. At the beginning, they shone the flashlight on my face."

The questioning police turned their heads away, and exchanged glances with the recording police. They both understood the difficulty of the knife-wielding incident. After all, the group of people neither damaged private property nor injured anyone, and could not find anyone they let go. Evidence of usury.

They took the transcript and asked Xu Rui to sign it, stood up and sent him out of the conference room together, "We will call for surveillance, and we will notify you as soon as there is any progress in the investigation of your mother He Hui's whereabouts. By the way, recently Don’t live in your own home, are there any relatives and friends who can live here?”

"Oh... yes."

"Okay, if there is any situation, please contact us at any time." The policeman walking next to him patted his back twice, lowered his head and sighed silently.

Lin Pai was waiting in the hall, and saw Xu Rui coming out of the meeting room in a daze.

Since the sports meeting, he seemed to have been confiscated all of a sudden, Lin Pai sometimes even wondered if the lively next table...was really Xu Rui.

"Do you want to go back to school in the afternoon? If you don't want to go back, Teacher Li and I will take another leave." Lin Pai held Xu Rui's back from behind and accompanied him to the police station.

"Go back, it's really troublesome to miss two classes."

"Well, it's fine."

They walked back to the school, it was still class time, there was no one on the road, and the school gate was closed, but Xu Rui had known the guard before, and the guard let them in without asking much.

Lin Pai was walking in neither the classroom nor the cafeteria. Xu Rui followed him distractedly, and when he came back to his senses, they had reached the path behind the laboratory building.

His first reaction was that the exercise meeting passed by here, and Lin Pai was going to jump in line from here, but he immediately realized that the exercise time had passed long ago, and it was almost noon now.

Just thinking about it, Lin Pai half pushed him past the familiar trash can, and arrived under a tree. The branches and leaves of this tree grew crookedly, almost blending with the wall of the laboratory building. Only then did Xu Rui realize that The back door of the laboratory building is hidden under the branches and leaves.

The two doors were chained together, but they were not actually locked. Lin Pai pulled the chain around a few times and opened the door easily.

Xu Rui followed him in, and found that this was behind the stairs, and the slanting stairs and the wall built a triangular space together.

"It's been half of the three years, and I don't know there is a door hidden here. How did you find it?"

Xu Rui's question was out of words, and Lin Pai didn't intend to answer. He reached out and passed through Xu Rui's armpit. The next second, Xu Rui felt the temperature from Lin Pai.

Xu Rui was stunned for a moment, it was obvious that Lin Pai's actions seemed to be asking for a hug, but now he is the one who really relies on him.

"Brother Rui, you'll be fine..."

As Lin Pai spoke, he hugged Xu Rui even tighter. Xu Rui hung his hands by his sides, buried his head in Lin Pai's neck, and leaned his entire weight on him again.

Time passed quietly in the silent embrace, and after a while, the skin on Lin Pai's shoulders and neck felt a little moist.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the back of Xu Rui's neck. His hair seemed to grow a little longer. After a while, Xu Rui wiped off the wetness with his cold fingers, and then raised his hand and hugged him back.

In the end, they failed to catch up with the last class in the morning, and even when the bell rang, they were still in this narrow corridor.

"Where do you live tonight? Don't go back home until those people are caught, it's not safe." Lin Pai stood against the wall, looking down at Xu Rui who was squatting by the wall.

Xu Rui bored playing with the cotton that fell out of the cuffs of his school uniform, and said sullenly, "I'll find a relative to live with."

"If it's inconvenient, you can stay at my place..."

Xu Rui looked up and smiled palely at Lin Pai, "It's okay, seven aunts and eight aunts, there is always a place to stay temporarily."

Now that Xu Rui said so, Lin Pai didn't hold back much. He bent down and took away the cotton that Xu Rui was playing with, and threw it into the air, "Stop smoking, winter is not over yet, and all the cotton will be smoked by then. gone."

"Then go to the canteen outside and buy some food. The school supermarket is too far away." Xu Rui stood up shaking his legs, and got out from the crooked branches and leaves together with Lin Pai. And went back around.

In the evening, Xu Rui stayed with him in the Internet cafe until nearly eleven o'clock. When the intersection parted, Xu Rui turned in a different direction. When Lin Pai was gone, he turned around and was still heading home Go in the direction of that street.

The street was quiet, this time he was very careful, and made sure from a distance that there were no lights inside or outside the house.

But he still went around to the back door, unscrewed the lock of the back door lightly, didn't even dare to turn on the light, and used his mobile phone to illuminate the light to go upstairs.

Xu Rui couldn't help but smile wryly, he has lived here for 17 years, and now he feels like a thief when he returns home...

He tiptoed to his room and threw the change of clothes and toiletries into his schoolbag.

"Damn..." Xu Rui squeezed out these words through his teeth. He didn't see the road clearly for a while, and his knees hit the corner of the bed, and he sat on the edge of the bed with his hands on his knees.

The indifferent moonlight slanted into the room from the balcony, adding a hazy halo to the coat rack by the door. Xu Rui took a big step and took a black hat from the coat rack. The peaked cap was put on his head.

The scratches on his face had healed long ago, and there were no scars left, but Lin Pai seemed to have forgotten his hat and kept it with Xu Rui.

He walked to the door of the room, glanced around by the moonlight, and left the room lightly like a thief.

That night, when Lin Pai returned home, he had to face the topic interrupted by Xu Rui again yesterday.

As soon as Grandma Lin Pai opened her mouth, Lin Pai started yawning continuously. He took out homework one after another from his schoolbag, and went into the room complaining about the excessive homework.

He came back very late every night, and would go out in a hurry the next morning. The old man couldn't find time to talk to him, and he couldn't do anything about it for a while.

On Sunday, Xu Rui poked Lin Pai's elbow, slid an exercise book from the side of the table, and pointed to a question in it with the cap of his pen.

Lin Pai read the questions once, turned the exercise booklet to the cover, repeated it twice, and asked confusedly, "Is there any homework for this?"

Xu Rui was dizzy writing the inscription, and gave him the same confused look in return.After a few seconds, he nodded dully, "I think there is, and it will be handed in tomorrow morning."

"I didn't bring this exercise book with me. I'll go back and get it now."

"You now..." The vibrating sound of the mobile phone came from the desktop to the hand, Xu Rui glanced at the caller ID, and received it in his ear, "Hello?"

Lin Pai stood up, bypassed Xu Rui and walked out of the front desk of the Internet cafe, intending to go back to get the exercise book first. He had just walked a few steps, and Xu Rui had already stood up in a hurry. Lin Pai heard him say, "Okay, I'll go right away."

Xu Rui hung up the phone, put his things on the table together, and explained, "The police station called, saying that there is a clue about He Hui, let me go and identify it."

Dong Wenwen added a table to the rest area. Lin Pai and Xu Rui are already crowded at the front desk. He usually sits here to study.

Seeing that they both stood up, he raised his head and said to them intimately, "If you have something to do, go back first, anyway, it's past ten o'clock, and there's no one here."

Xu Rui nodded and said to Lin Pai, "Then you don't have to come back, just teach me the topic tomorrow morning."

When they walked out of Xinsheng Internet Cafe, Lin Pai said hesitantly, "Or I'll go with you..."

"No, I'm not a three-year-old."

It was under such an opportunity that Lin Pai arrived home more than half an hour earlier than usual.Before he entered the room, he put his ears to the door, and the room was quiet without any noise.

Lin Pai breathed a sigh of relief. He had just opened the door and entered when the sound of the sewing machine suddenly appeared.

Just as the old man stepped on the sewing machine, he stopped when he saw Lin Pai standing at the door, "You know you're back today?"

"I forgot to bring an exercise book, the final exam is coming, and the review task is very heavy recently..."

As he spoke, he walked into his room. The exercise book was right in the middle of the desk. He took the exercise book and walked straight to the door, "My classmate is still waiting for me, so I'll go out first, grandma..."

"Stop!" The old man slapped the sewing machine.

Lin Pai stopped, but did not turn around.

"I've thought about it, if you don't want to call, forget it, I still have the address your father left a few years ago, isn't it Shi'an City?

I'll go buy a train ticket tomorrow to find him... I'll go this way, and I'll get there after a day and a night... If it's a train, I'll just buy a hard seat..."

Lin Pai turned around helplessly, watching the old man's tearful performance, even though he knew it was a bitter trick, he could only jump into it.

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