misplaced survival

Zeng Wen held the vegetables she just bought from the vegetable market in one hand, and with the other hand she dialed the number of her subordinate with some difficulty, "Hey, Xiao Yang, send me the project documents, and we will go online this afternoon." meeting."

"I'm taking annual leave, but I followed half of this project, so it has to start and finish!"

The employee on the other end of the phone paused, and said with a little embarrassment: "All right, I'll sort it out and send it to you."

"Okay, thanks for your hard work!" Zeng Wen hung up the phone with a smile and sighed helplessly.

How could she not understand Xiao Yang's tone, but as she said, this project has been followed for so long, and it is almost finished. At this juncture, it is not appropriate for her to return to the company, and she is reluctant to give up like this.

Zeng Wen suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at the person who had been following her, looked him up and down, and asked, "How long are you going to follow me? I've been going out for the past two days, and I keep seeing you around here."

The boy stepped forward, his black peaked cap covered most of his face in the shadow, and a shy smile came from under his black mask, "I'm sorry, auntie, I'm not a bad person. It's like this, I'm about to graduate from college , I am collecting questionnaires now, I want you to do me a favor, can I?"

As he said, he took out a piece of paper and a bottle of dishwashing liquid from his pocket, and explained embarrassingly: "I won't let you fill it out for nothing, a questionnaire, I'll give you a bottle of dishwashing liquid, do you think it's worth it?" ?”

"College student." Zeng Wen took the questionnaire and saw that the questions on it were not difficult, so she put the dish aside, "Okay, let me fill it out for you, but this phone number..."

The boy waved his hand and said earnestly, "Don't worry, Auntie, I won't reveal it to the outside world!"

He lowered his head, hesitated for a while, and said guiltily, "Well, to tell you the truth, there will be a small investigation to trouble you later, but I will still give you a small gift, okay?"

Seeing that the boy in front of her looked clean and innocent, Zeng Wen didn't think about it, adjusted the questionnaire and handed it back to him.

She looked at the boy and asked puzzledly, "It's such a hot day, why are you wearing a mask and gloves?"

The boy was silent for a while, then pointed to the sun above his head, "Isn't it too hot? I'm afraid of getting sunburned."

"Give me the dishwashing liquid!" Zeng Wen reached out to the boy, took a bottle of dishwashing liquid and put it in a vegetable bag. Turning around, she saw that the boy continued to ask other people to fill out the questionnaire. It didn't look like there was a problem.

The boy's shy and innocent smile suddenly disappeared, and his eyes looked darkly in the direction where Zeng Wen was leaving.

Song Zhou looked at the homeless man who was picking up a pile of ruins from a distance. Unlike before, this time he was examining.

Tao Yiran got out from the low wall and whispered: "Captain, I just asked, his name is Ke Yong, he is a native of Changping Village."

Xu Zhishen looked down at the corner of the wall, and said with a smile, "What is Officer Tao doing hiding? We are far away, so he won't be able to find us for the time being."

"Isn't there a sense of atmosphere?" Tao Yiran murmured, patting the soil off his hands and standing up. Thinking of what Professor Xu called him just now, he smiled foolishly, "Professor Xu, everyone in the team calls me little Tao, Taozi, or you can call me Yiran like the captain, but Officer Tao is strange."

He joined the police force a year later than Sister Xin Ying and Brother Gao Mang, and he was the youngest, so it would be appropriate to call him younger.

"Okay." Xu Zhishen smiled slightly. Although Tao Yiran was young, he was the most active member of the team. He was a very likable person.

He looked at Ke Yong in the distance, and asked in a low voice, "Taozi, besides what you just said, did you ask anything else?"

Song Zhou watched Ke Yong staggeringly move a few broken iron plates around. The cold winter wind kept on, and he was shivering with thin clothes.

It took him a long time to piece together the iron plates.He dragged a piece of mat with a big hole on it, and then carried a moldy quilt from under the tree, and hid in the narrow space surrounded by iron plates, curled up in a corner, which was able to shelter a little from the winter wind .

Ke Yong broke the bread that a kind-hearted person gave him a few days ago into four pieces, swallowed it with tap water, looked up to the sky from time to time, and waited for the long winter to pass.

"This was originally his family's residence. More than ten years ago, the village was planning to apply for the title of greening village, so it made a lot of beautification. Because his old house blocked the road, the village committee wanted him to move to another place." Tao Yiran opened the question. He had already asked Secretary Chen just now, and what happened to Ke Yong was pretty bad.

Song Zhou was puzzled: "It stands to reason that there will be compensation for relocation, but the village committee didn't give it?"

Ke Yong is now living on the street, eating and sleeping in the open, and the village committee doesn't care about it?

Tao Yiran nodded: "Yes! But the money was taken away by Ke Yong's cousin. His cousin said that Ke Yong was mentally ill, and as Ke Yong's relative, he could sign on his behalf and keep the money for Ke Yong. money."

He took out the letter of consent he got from the village committee and handed it to the captain, explaining: "When his cousin signed it, he promised to help Ke Yong find a new house, and the people from the village committee agreed to sign it on his behalf. Who knew he The cousin took the money and ran away, no matter how much he called, the village had already paid the money, so there was nothing we could do to help."

He said, looked at Ke Yong, and said sympathetically: "Secretary Chen said that Ke Yong had nowhere to go, so he simply built a shed here. Originally, the village committee refused, but after the demolition, Ke Yong would He erected it again and again, and the people from the village committee saw him as pitiful, so they didn’t bother to take care of him. They simply had to dismantle it for two days when the superiors came to inspect it.”

Secretary Chen said that the village committee originally proposed to find a villager's family to live in temporarily, but no one in the village was willing to take in a person who was mentally ill and unable to take care of himself.

Fortunately, several families would occasionally give Ke Yong some leftovers to keep him from starving to death.

Song Zhou stared at Ke Yong's every move, turned his head slightly and asked Xu Zhishen next to him in a low voice, "Professor Xu, what do you think?"

Xu Zhishen narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not make a decision: "Look again, I always feel that something is a little strange."

He already has some ideas, but needs further evidence.

"Okay." After Song Zhou finished speaking, he walked slowly towards Ke Yong.

Tao Yiran was stunned, and saw that the captain's long legs had gone far away, so he quickly put away his notebook and ran to follow, "Captain, wait for me!"

Hearing the sound approaching him, Ke Yong poked his head out of the quilt. His quilt was soaked in water during the flood some time ago, and it is not dry yet. It can only block the wind, but cannot keep warm at all.

Seeing that the person walking was familiar, he stretched his neck forward, squinted his eyes to see clearly, his eyes were slightly bright, and he grabbed the bread bag on the ground and smiled cheerfully.

Seeing that the other party thought of him, Song Zhou squatted down at eye level with him, took out his police officer ID and said, "I am Song Zhou, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Jiangxin Sub-bureau. There is a murder case and you need to cooperate in the investigation."

Hearing this, Ke Yong stepped back a little, the vigilance in his eyes dissipated immediately, returning to the turbidity of the past, and waved his hands to express that he didn't understand.

Xu Zhishen quickly caught his strangeness, smiled meaningfully, and said, "Mr. Ke, I was recruited by the village committee and the police to help you. I am a psychological counselor."

He doesn't like to poke people when they come up, but he needs to let Ke Yong know his occupation and the good intentions of his coming. He relies on the village committee and the police, and he also hopes that Ke Yong will not have any worries.

Ke Yong held the bread bag tightly, as if confirming it, and looked at the policeman in front of him again, but he knew that no matter how many times he looked at it, the person in front of him was not that child.

Song Zhou was puzzled. When he met Ke Yong last time, he just looked at him like this, as if he was looking for confirmation.

So he asked, "Mr. Ke, have you ever met me?"

Ke Yong stretched out his hand, the bag was already crumpled, he tried to smooth it out, but he couldn't get it back to its original shape.

With a dejected face, he looked at the policeman in front of him and shook his head in frustration.He originally wanted to live his whole life in such a daze, forgetting all the dirty things, but a policeman who looked like that child came.

If it wasn't for him, the child might still be alive, or he might be able to be like the person in front of him, all because of him...

He stared at the ID in the policeman's hand, stood up abruptly, his eyes regained clarity, he waved to the policeman, and pointed his finger not far away.

Song Zhou was amazed by Ke Yong's change, looked in the direction he pointed, and saw the village auditorium at a glance.

Huang Dakang's promotion banquet was held there, and it was also the place where Huang Dakang's body was found.