never forget [criminal investigation]

Xiang Hai led Li Mo out of the police station, walked for about ten minutes, and entered a convenience store.

He stood by the cash register by himself, and pushed Li Mo in, "Go ahead, buy whatever you want, I'll wait here."

Li Mo lowered his head and rubbed in, and soon came out again, holding a small pack of sanitary napkins in his hand.

Xiang Hai was helpless, so he bought the largest bag from the cashier, led Li Mo back to the place where sanitary napkins were sold, and stretched the mouth of the bag, "Come on, fill this up."

Li Mo frowned, "No need...so many, they can't be used up."

"This stuff doesn't expire, so just use it slowly."

Li Mo hesitated for a moment, then picked two more packages and put them into the bag.

Xiang Hai didn't count on her anymore, he just went up by himself, picked up the ones that were placed in the most conspicuous position, grabbed three or four bags and threw them into the bag.

Seeing that the bag was still free, he took her to the snack place and picked out some jerky, fudge, chocolate, etc. to fill the bag.Finally, I brought another bucket of milk.

"Brother Xiang Hai, it's too much." Li Mo said awkwardly, grabbing the bag, "It's too much, I, I, I have no money to pay back..."

"If you don't have money, you have to pay it back," Xiang Hai said with a smile at her, "I owe it first, and when you graduate from college and earn money at work, you can pay it back to me with interest."

After paying the bill, Xiang Hai led her out of the convenience store, "Are you still going to the toilet?"

Li Mo glanced at him and nodded.

"Then go to McDonald's." Xiang Hai then led her to a nearby McDonald's.

After finding a place to sit down, he took out a pack of sanitary napkins from his bag and handed it to her.Li Mo took it over and looked at it, then put it back, changed to another bag, put it in his school uniform pocket, and went to the toilet.

Li Mo met when Xiang Hai went to the police.At that time, her mother was beaten so badly that her nose was bruised and her face was swollen. The little girl knelt on the ground, crying desperately holding Li Dongxing's leg.I cried until my voice became hoarse, and my tears dried up.

Xiang Hai still remembered that when Li Dongxing was twisted by his arm, he screamed and cursed like crazy, as if the whole world was against him.

If it wasn't for the little girl, he really wanted to slap her across the face, so that that mouth would never make a sound again.

Later, he left his mobile phone number to Li Mo, and asked her to call him if she had any difficulties.The little girl cried and accepted it, but she never called him once.Even if it was the second time the police went out and took Li Dongxing away in front of her again, they have never contacted him until today.

Li Mo came out and sat opposite Xiang Hai.

"What do you want to eat?"

"Anything is fine." The little girl washed her face and looked more peaceful now.

"Then I'll just buy it casually, just sit here and wait."

Xiang Hai bought two set meals, replaced one of the cola with hot milk, and added a chicken wing and a small toy.

Li Mo took a few sips of milk, then picked up the toy, "Brother Xiang Hai, is this a gift from the package?"

"No," Xiang Hai said while slurping his Coke, "I see that there are too few items in the children's set meal, probably not enough for you to eat, so I just bought a toy for you."

The little girl pinched it back and forth, then slowly put the toy into her pocket, then sighed and said, "Brother Xiang Hai, why are you acting like a child? I'm not a child long ago, okay?" Stop treating me like a child."

Xiang Hai was taken aback for a moment, then laughed.At her age, what is it if she is not a child?

But immediately he stopped smiling, he thought of Xing Yue.

The captain of the criminal police who used to be a kid who opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut, and wanted to get rid of him with milk tea and popsicles.

In the eyes of that person, what kind of image do you have?Just like this little girl in school uniform?

No way...

Soon, everything on the table was eaten up, so Xiang Hai went to buy another chicken wing.

The little girl gnawed the chicken wings very deliciously, Xiang Hai looked at her and smiled, "You can eat quite a bit, eat so much, and still grow so short."

Li Mo looked up at him, but his mouth didn't stop.

He rested his elbows on the table and asked her with his chin in his hand, "Why didn't you call me later? Didn't you say you would call me if you had any difficulties?"

Li Mo kept his eyes down, "There is no difficulty, just, no fight."

"Then you have WeChat? I'll add you on WeChat!"

Li Mo licked the oil on his lips, then shook his head again, "I don't have WeChat."

Xiang Hai straightened up, "Who are you kidding? You kids, which one doesn't have WeChat? You still keep it secret from me? Do you think I'm old and don't like to add me?"

As soon as the words came out, he felt that his tone was inexplicably familiar.

Li Mo put down the gnawed chicken bones, wiped his hands again and again, and then said, "Brother Xiang Hai, I don't have a mobile phone."

"Where's the phone?"

Li Mo shrugged helplessly, "My dad took it away."

Xiang Hai's throat was a little congested, and he reached out to touch the smoke out.Realizing that smoking is not allowed here, I put it back in my pocket.

He was thinking quickly in his mind, trying to find a reason for Li Dongxing to make Li Mo believe that his own father was so limitless, not because he was a jerk.But Li Dongxing is a jerk, so he thought about it for a long time, but he still had nothing to say.

"Brother Xiang Hai," Li Mo suddenly moved closer, and asked him in the smallest voice, "My father's illness is due to drug use, right?"

"What?" Xiang Hai suspected that he had heard wrong.

The suddenly raised voice frightened Li Mo, and he immediately shrank back.Several people next to him also looked over here.

Xiang Hai quickly lowered his volume again, "Who told you this?"

Li Mo looked at him, and said timidly, "No, no one said it. Because when I saw my dad was addicted to drugs, he seemed to be sick. Now that he is really sick, I just want to... "

"Li Mo!" Xiang Hai grabbed her wrist all of a sudden, and his voice almost lost control.

"Brother Xiang Hai?" Seeing his pale face, Li Mo became even more frightened, "You, what's wrong with you?"

Xiang Hai's breathing was a little short, his chest heaved up and down, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.After a while, his Adam's apple rolled up and down a few times, and then he let go and said, "I'm sorry."

Li Mo withdrew his hand back, looked at him a little worried, but also a little nervous, "Brother Xiang Hai, did I say the wrong thing?"

"No, it's none of your business." Xiang Hai wiped his forehead with his hand, and gradually returned to normal, "I'm sorry, I was too loud and scared you, right?"

"I'm fine." Li Mo looked at his face, grabbed a tissue and held it in his hand, and it was quickly twisted into twists, "Brother Xiang Hai, why don't you stop seeing my dad today, I'll go first gone."

Then she stood up, "Thank you Brother Xiang Hai for inviting me to dinner, and that toy." After speaking, she went to pick up her schoolbag.

"Wait." Xiang Hai reached out to stop her, and pushed her back to the seat, "Sit with me for a while."

Speaking of Li Dongxing's drug addiction attack, the little girl's plain expression made him worry.

Even when she lied that she had eaten breakfast, she still stuttered, as if she had done something wrong.But when it comes to the ugly and suffocating picture, he accepts it calmly.

It's not that she doesn't understand right and wrong, it's just that her world is turned upside down.

In her world, dad is used to hide, mother is used to fight, and she is used to be ignored as a matter of course.

If you get used to this, you will feel that the outside world is not bad, that's all.

Until one day, when she discovered that other people's parents would hold hands after taking a walk every day after dinner; During my daughter's menstrual period, I will personally cook brown sugar water for the girl.Instead of letting her daughter bite the bullet and ask for ten yuan from an adult man who has only met twice in order to buy a pack of sanitary napkins.

It turns out that other people's worlds are like this.

Even my best memories, in the eyes of others, are like comedy movies in the silent film era, exaggerated to the point of embarrassment, funny to the point of sadness.Not to mention those daily routines that even she feels unworthy of being on stage.

At that time, she would be so humble that she even looked down on herself.

Maybe it's not too late, let her try to see an ordinary but worth pursuing world.

Xiang Hai gently rubbed his hands, and carefully prepared his words, "Li Mo, it's wrong to take drugs. But your father's illness should have nothing to do with drug use. Anyone can get sick. Some diseases can be cured well, while others Not yet."

"As for his drug addiction," Xiang Hai lowered his voice again, "try it, can you forget it?"

The little girl frowned, as if she was trying, but also as if she didn't quite understand what he said, "Brother Xiang Hai, this thing... can't be forgotten."

"Do you want to try?" Xiang Hai looked at her encouragingly, "By the way, do you like flowers?"

"What flower?"

"Any kind of flower is fine. Think about it, how pretty it is, with so many colors and such a nice smell."

Li Mo rolled his eyes and thought for a while, "Well, it's okay."

Seeing that she didn't seem to be interested in flowers, Xiang Hai asked again, "Let's not talk about flowers, what do you like? Or what do you think is the cutest?"

Li Mo puffed his cheeks, "I like cats the most. I think kittens are very cute. But my mother won't let me raise them."

Xiang Hai propped his chin and asked her, "Then what color do you like? Long-haired or short-haired?"

Li Mo thought about it seriously, as if he was really choosing a kitten for himself, "Long hair and short hair are fine, but I like black ones best, the tip of the paws and the circle around the mouth are best." It's white, like a black cat sheriff."

After she finished speaking, she raised the corner of her mouth.

"Okay, just like the Black Cat Sheriff." Xiang Hai looked at her, "Then Li Mo, try it, if you accidentally think of your dad ... sick, or anything you don't like to see Look, just think about that kitten right away."

"Look how cute the kitten is. It's fluffy and soft, and it's barking at you. Why don't you prepare something delicious for him?"

Li Mo blinked her eyes and thought for a while, as if she had a feeling, but she said again, "Brother Xiang Hai, I don't have a kitten yet."

"Don't you have to make preparations in advance? Just because you like it so much. I don't have it now, and I will definitely have it in the future." While talking, he opened the browser on his phone, searched for photos of Somao, and clicked on a black and white cat handed her the photo, "Look, isn't it like this?"

Li Mo took the phone and looked at it, zooming in and zooming out the photo, "That's it. So cute!"

Xiang Hai leaned over and watched it with her, "Don't mention it, it's quite cute, you really know how to choose."

"Then from now on, you will print this photo in your mind, and whenever you think of any bad pictures, you can cover it with this photo, and just look at this cat, okay?"

Li Mo nodded, but looked at Xiang Hai with complicated eyes, "Brother Xiang Hai, I think you are quite naive. You bought that toy for yourself, right?"

Xiang Hai was stunned, and then laughed, "You kid, is there anyone who praises you so much?"

The little girl finally laughed too, "I didn't praise you either."

The two of them laughed enough, Xiang Hai asked her, "Are you full?"

The little girl nodded, "I'm full!"

So Xiang Hai stood up, put his schoolbag on his back, picked up the bag and followed Li Mo out of the McDonald's, "Well, are you feeling sick or something? Can you still go to class in the afternoon?"

"Can go."

"Then I'll take you back."

"No need Brother Xiang Hai, I can walk by myself."

It happened that a taxi passed by, and Xiang Hai reached out to stop it.

"Then you go home first, put your things down, rest, and go to class in the afternoon." Xiang Hai opened the car door, let Li Mo get into the car, and put his schoolbag and bags on the seat.

"Oh, I see."

Xiang Hai gave her another 100 yuan and asked her to pay the fare.

Finally, he leaned on the car window and said, "Li Mo, I haven't agreed to what I asked you just now. Just look at the cat and don't think about anything else, okay?"

The little girl nodded, "I promise you, Brother Xiang Hai."

After speaking, he gave him an OK gesture.

Only then did Xiang Hai leave the car window, waved his hand inside again, and watched the taxi take Li Mo away.