winter past

In fact, earlier in the night, when Zhao You drove Xiaoman to Huangguozi Village, Xiaoman fell asleep for a while on the way, and for some reason, he fell asleep in a daze, and when he woke up, he himself was a little confused. Surprised, I thought it might be because Zhao You’s car was driving too steadily, or maybe it was because he was so tired that he didn’t even have the strength to dream, and he couldn’t feel anything when he fell asleep, more like a coma or loss of consciousness .This time he fell asleep, still no dream, no dream of the sea, no dream of a boat full of ghosts, no dream of an anchor at the bottom of the water, no dream of being soaked in sea water for ten years, no swelling, no being caught by the ocean Biological encroachment, there is no unrecognizable Lin Midong.He slept soundly.

Xiao Man and Zhao You got out of the car, and the Jinxiu Street Police Station was right in front of them. Xiao Man lit a cigarette under a lamppost.

The last time I remembered that I slept so soundly last time seemed to be a matter of my previous life. In this life, it seemed that he was born unable to sleep, and he couldn’t learn how. Whenever he felt a little sleepy, he closed his eyes and went to a boundless sea , began to drift endlessly.But when he opened his eyes, he returned to reality, and he could only let his fatigue control him. He was very tired, his spirit and consciousness—to a larger extent, his soul, which was under attack, unwilling to bear any more pain, It is a whimsical attempt to separate from the body, but how can it be so easy to separate the human soul from the body?There is always a slender thread holding them back.The body is reluctant to part with the richness and variety of the soul, and the soul is greedy for the warmth of the body.But the soul still wanted to fly away and kept fighting, but couldn't escape completely, so it had to float in the air.His soul has thus become a kite put into the sky by his body, drifting with the wind, unable to fall into reality.It looked as if he had realized his boyhood dream - he became a kite.But in fact, what became the kite was only his spirit, which could not be coordinated with the body and soul. He was just an empty body, looking up on the ground to his soul that loathes this body all the time and despises the past that this body has experienced.At the same time, he is the soul floating in the air, unable to get relief, and can only look down at the disgusting body on the ground.

When he was in Hongfeng Hospital, his patients told him that he would sleepwalk at night, cry and laugh when he was sleepwalking, and became very crazy.That sea was a middle ground between sobriety and madness, where the bottom of the sea held all his secrets, invisible at first glance from the surface.So there, he can get a moment's respite, but there, he cannot return to reality, and there, he cannot become "normal".He is always a patient.

Thinking of this, Xiao Man suddenly came to his senses. He shared with Zhao You a secret that he had not told anyone so far, and Zhao You naturally entered the sea area where the secret was buried. He rowed his boat and approached him. It is possible to leave the boat full of ghosts, he can sit in his boat, leave the anchor, even leave the sea.He suddenly felt very safe, whether he was floating on the sea, floating in the air, or looking up at something foolishly on the ground, there was someone accompanying him, and he had known this person for less than ten days. Knowing his past, not knowing his family background, even his preferences, he is not sure, he once thought that he does not smoke or drink, but he can smoke and drink.He knows nothing about him.But when he looked at him, he felt that he was transparent, and felt that he knew him enough and enough.As cunning as he is, he is as simple as he is.He is as reckless as he is resolute.How much he resembles foxes and hyenas who are good at hunting and killing, and how much he is like a large dog who is good at companionship and protection.

Xiao Man asked Zhao You, "Can you row a boat?"

Zhao You held his head high and held his chest high: "I was in the dragon boat team when I was in college."

Xiaoman didn't quite believe it, and squinted at him: "Really?"

Zhao You shook his head, and was immediately discouraged: "Fake."

Xiao Man laughed out loud and sprayed smoke outside.Zhao You scratched his ears: "You can't lie to you, once you lie to you, you will see through."

Zhao You said: "I hope to be someone useful to you, but I don't want to be too useful to you. Otherwise, when you think of me, you just think that I can be useful to you..."

Xiao Man said, "It's not good to think you're reliable, is it?"

Zhao You looked at him and said, "It's better to think I'm cute."

Xiao Man clicked his tongue: "Where did you learn so many rustic love words?"

"This is honesty, not earthy love talk, right?"

Xiaoman smiled: "I really envy your frankness."

Seeing that it was almost time to arrive at the Jinxiu Street Police Station, Xiao Man said: "There is one more thing, I forgot to mention just now, Xiao Yin asked me to talk about reconciliation, and I pretended to be her fiancé."

"You pretending to be me?" Zhao You pointed at himself.

"It's not an impostor, it means that I went to talk to Lao Xing as her fiancé."

"No wonder I saw Lao Xing at Xiao Yin's place before, he looked at me strangely."

Xiao Man glanced at the bright police station, and said, "Then we..."

Zhao You rolled his eyes: "Let's play it by ear, if the people inside know that you are Xiao Yin's fiancé, it will be easier..."

He didn't explain further, he rushed into the police station with his feet and arms, and threw out his police ID card to the two policemen on duty sitting inside, angrily and loudly: "Your director What? Which bastard leaked the important information of the witnesses in our criminal case! The witnesses are now kidnapped!!"

Xiao Man did adapt accordingly, ran over, slapped the table at the two policemen on duty who hadn't realized what had happened, and said, "Brother Biao! Find someone named Brother Biao! He's the one who dealt with me last time. The wife's case! His registration information! What ID card, what place of residence! It must be his leak!"

The two policemen looked at each other and exchanged glances. One took Zhao You's ID to see, and the other immediately called the landline on the table, turned his back and spoke in a low voice, as if he was contacting the director of their police station.

Zhao You lost his temper again, twisted the corners of his mouth in anger, and looked in pain because of the wound on the corner of his mouth: "Okay! You can check it out, ask around, ask if it's a few zeros in any neighborhood in the University City... ..." He grabbed Xiaoman and came over, "Address! Tell me!" He sighed, "I had a good vacation, and when I was called over temporarily, I met those gangsters..."

The policeman who called took away a mobile phone on the table and typed.

"Building 18, Meijing, 1802!" Xiao Man replied smoothly.

"You go and ask, see what I am doing, go and ask if someone has been kidnapped there! Is there a kidnapping case there tonight!"

The policeman who made the call turned back, hung up the phone, and met the policeman who checked the ID? Eyes, the policeman who checked the ID hurriedly appeased Zhao You, and walked out from behind the table to guide him: "Deputy Captain Zhao , talking inside, talking inside."

Xiaoman stepped forward to arrest the policeman, but was stopped by Zhao You: "Calm down, don't touch the policeman!"

Xiaoman stretched his neck and asked, "Where's Brother Biao? What about others? He's a black policeman!"

Zhao You pushed him and said, "You wait here!"

He entered the office area together with the police who were looking at his ID.Xiao Man sat on a row of chairs by the door angrily, the policeman who called looked at him, said nothing, lowered his eyes and began to press the phone again.

Yu Yaner

Not long after, Xiaoman saw the policeman Biao who presided over the reconciliation between Yin Miaozai and Xing Tianxiang came in from outside. He grabbed an old man with gray hair and dark skin, followed by a girl with long hair.When Brother Biao saw the policeman who called, he said, "You're playing hooligans on the main road, where is Xiaoli? Let her come and record a statement for the client."

Brother Biao glanced at Xiaoman, and seemed to recognize him too.Playing a full set, Xiao Man didn't wait for him to say anything, jumped up first and rushed in front of him: "Did you tell others my wife's address!"

The gray-haired old man cried and shouted: "Comrade policeman! It's really not me!"

The long-haired girl also cried.The old man sat down on the ground and cried louder.

Brother Biao looked astonished: "What are you doing? Let go! You have assaulted the police!"

A policewoman came out of the office area: "What's going on??"

The old man rolled on the ground, wiped the girl's ankle with his hand, and rolled to the bottom of the girl's skirt: "I didn't do anything!"

The long-haired girl screamed and hid aside, Brother Biao went to grab the old man and said, "Don't take this opportunity!"

Xiaoman went to catch Brother Biao, and pressed the old man on the table in the chaos, and put his feet on him to keep him from moving.The old man cried out in pain, crying and making noise in the hall for a while, the policeman who called came out and separated Xiao Man and Brother Biao, just so happened that Zhao You and the policeman checking the documents also came out.The policeman who inspected the documents introduced Zhao You: "He is Chen Hanbiao."

Brother Biao stared, grabbed the old man who was sitting on the ground, and the female policeman comforted the long-haired girl, and swept everyone away: "What's going on?"

Zhao You said: "The matter is clear." He pushed Xiao Man aside again, and snapped: "How many times have I told you! We will find out!"

Xiao Man clenched his fists: "How long will you wait for you to check and check! I will find it myself!"

As soon as he left, he walked out of the police station for a long time. After a while, he looked back and saw Zhao You jogging over. The two met again. Zhao You said: "Two policemen from the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Yanzigou Sub-bureau came here yesterday." , took a list of Internet fraud suspects with Yin Miaozai’s name on it, and they saw Yin Miaozai had been in and out of this police station through the eyes of the sky, so they came to ask about the situation, and copied the files of the case she mediated at that time.”

Zhao Youdao: "I looked at the file, and the address of Xiao Yin's current residence is the address of the University City."

Xiaoman raised two fingers: "The first possibility is that the two policemen have connections with the black forces; the second possibility is that they also took orders to run errands."

He said: "This matter has to be reported to the anti-gangster."

The two continued to walk forward, and the sky turned white. Unknowingly, it was about to dawn, and a puff of white smoke drifted out from the side of the road. The smoke was full of the aroma of soy milk.Xiao Man said, "Let's eat something first."

Zhao You didn't answer, Xiaoman looked at him, he was looking around, struggling.Xiao Man followed and looked around, and suddenly all the breakfast vendors along the street opened their shops, and all the itinerant vendors pushed their carts and set up battles on the road.Those who cook glutinous rice balls in a boiler, those who wrap glutinous rice and siu mai, those who paste lard cakes in brick kilns, those who bake scallion pancakes on large iron plates, those who sell beef brisket and beef gluten noodles, those who sell tofu brain, and those who make pancakes and fruits Yes, those who fried sesame balls, deep-fried dough sticks, pan-fried sizzling tofu, kneaded dough, kneaded buns, and stacked steamer racks layer by layer all came out.

For the first time, Xiaoman discovered that there are so many choices for breakfast.The aroma of oil, green onion, and spicy pepper stimulated his nasal cavity, and his stomach growled. Before Zhao You could make a choice, he dragged him into a biscuit shop.He ordered a bottle of iced soy milk and a scallion pancake, while Zhao You ordered two scallion pancakes and a bowl of beef and egg drop soup.

The egg drop soup was freshly made, and the biscuits and soy milk were served first. The two sat side by side, facing the road, quietly.A small van was parked in front of a lo mei shop across the street, and a big man was unloading goods from the back of the van to the door of a store, all of which were chilled goods.

Xiao Man took a bite of sesame seed cakes, rubbed the crumbs, and said, "Old Wang has a van, and he can butcher pigs."

Zhao You asked, "Do you know his full name?"

Xiaoman shook his head.Zhao You said, "Let's go to the village committee later."

He also said: "I have to ask Xiao Yin to borrow a car. If she wants to go together, she can go together. The two of us will accompany her, and she will be safer. Going to a friend's house or returning to her parents' place is dangerous."

Xiao Man said: "It's not necessarily true, if someone directly hits someone with a gun..."

Zhao You chewed on the pancakes: "A horse stumbles, and a man miscalculates. I didn't expect that there would be Li's person in the fortune..."

He said in a low voice: "Recently, I have been making miscalculations a lot." He asked Xiao Man, "Xiao Jing and Lao Xing are still at Xiao Yin's house?"

The van in front of the lo mei shop drove away.When Zhao You mentioned these two people, Xiaoman suddenly thought of something, and called Xing Tianxiang. After Xing Tianxiang answered the phone, Xiaoman first asked him: "Are you okay at home?"

"It's okay, where are you?"

"It's okay. By the way, I want to ask you something. I wanted to ask it yesterday. I forgot it when I was in a hurry."

The egg drop soup was served, and Zhao You had a mouthful of pancakes and egg drop soup, which was delicious.The store brought out a pot of freshly baked zongzi, and Zhao You asked for a zongzi.Xiaoman covered the receiver and said, "It's from red beans."

Zhao You asked the shopkeeper, "Do you have red bean dumplings?"

"Red beans? No, only meat and lye."

Xiaoman said, "That meaty one."

Zhao You asked for a meat dumpling, wiped his mouth, got up and walked outside.He turned to the right side of the biscuit shop, Xiaoman couldn't see him, and continued to talk to Xing Tianxiang: "Xiaojing posted on the Internet, it is the account of the storyteller, and the contents of those posts are all based on your investigation data back then. Bar?"

"Yes."

"Boss Wang of the grocery store in Huangguozi Village, have you ever interviewed him?"

"Yes, I went there after I found out Lin Midong's name. He and Lin Midong are not much different in age. At that time, he said that his father was going to adopt Lin Midong. Later, his relatives objected, so it was nothing. gone."

"Has any other reporter interviewed him?"

"No, as far as I know, I was given an exclusive. I stuffed him with a lot of money at the time, and I didn't see his interviews on other platforms after that. I went to inquire about nail polish the day before yesterday and I even chatted with him. Let’s talk, no other reporter has approached him in these years.” Xing Tianxiang said in a deep voice, “You don’t suspect him, do you?”

Xiaoman put down the biscuits in his hand, and said: "The person who posted the photo of you at the annual meeting on the Internet probably guessed the identity of the storyteller through the information posted by the storyteller on the Internet, and it is very likely that you interviewed him back then. One of those who have been."

Xing Tianxiang was silent on the other end of the phone, and after a while, he said, "I'll take a closer look at that post and contact you later."

Zhao You came back now, with an extra cup of red bean and purple rice porridge in his hand, he handed it to Xiaoman, and sat back beside him.The porridge was still warm.He started to unpack the zongzi. The zongzi was very hot and kept steaming out. He was sweating profusely when he unpacked it.

Xiao Man opened Xiao Jing's reply and handed it to Zhao You.Zhao You took two paper towels to wipe his hands, and read the post.Xiao Man opened the meat dumpling for him, and another gust of hot air came out.The glutinous rice is delicious.Zhao You asked Xiaoman: "Can I use your cell phone to make a call?"

Xiaoman nodded, drank the porridge, picked up a spoon and scraped a sharp corner of the rice dumpling, took a bite of some glutinous rice.

Zhao You pressed a series of numbers, picked up the phone, and said, "Xiaoyan, you can tell the fourth group, the economic crimes in Yanzigou, um, by the way, have you found my phone? Oh, oh, let it go to your place first, I will go back to the dormitory to rest, you can tell Team Zhan and the others, a slight concussion, the doctor said, really, if you don’t believe me, go check my medical records, I don’t know what happened to him He's at the scene, he's gone, I can't get in touch."

Xiao Man squinted at him, Zhao You smiled, and continued: "If you need anything, just call me, no, definitely not, oh, look at what you said, you can definitely find me, I swear ,I promise."

After talking on the phone with a smile, he returned the mobile phone to Xiaoman, and used chopsticks to push the leaves of the rice dumplings back to the sides, and then drank the soup, ate the sesame seed cakes, and ate the rice dumplings.He eats carefully, without making any annoying chewing noises.Xiaoman propped his chin and bit the straw to drink iced soy milk, looking at Zhao You.He recalled it carefully, he had never met a person who was so serious about eating, everything was delicious, and there was no waste at all.He doesn't succumb to appetite, mouths a lot, eats wildly, and doesn't shy away from this primitive desire.He takes this desire very seriously.

Xiaoman drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and ate a few mouthfuls of rice dumplings.He also ate very seriously.