I think what this town lacks the most is actually the laughter of the children.

——Chu Mie

Dou Tongtong looked at the direction where Shen Huaiyun disappeared, frowned and said, "Isn't this person too strange? Someone died, how can he still be like this?"

Ye Zhi frowned, and moved a little further away from Dou Tongtong.

"Xiao Dou, how many times have I told you?" Teacher Gao held Dou Tongtong down, "You are not the person involved, so don't say such sarcastic remarks."

"Teacher!" Dou Tongtong dissatisfied, "Look at that person just now, how can he still laugh?"

The salt girl next to her couldn't hear her, so she said bluntly: "You live by the sea? It's none of your business what other people do?"

Dou Tongtong stared angrily.

The girl of the salt family sneered: "Why are you staring? Are you talking behind your back?"

"He's much better than you! He found out that something went wrong, not only immediately realized what triggered the death mechanism, but also calmly asked someone to come over to help, and even told us about the death mechanism—"

The girl of the salt type snorted coldly, and took a step closer to Dou Tongtong: "What can you do? I'm afraid you will call out first when you see it, and directly trigger the death mechanism, contributing a second head to this dungeon!"

Dou Tongtong was speechless.

Seeing that Dou Tongtong was beaten into silence, Mrs. Gao showed helplessness on her face, touched her head and said, "Xiao Dou, this is because you did something wrong, no matter how others are, it is also wrong to criticize others behind their backs." wrong."

Dou Tongtong blushed and glanced at the sarcastic Yan girl, then ran back to the room covering her face in embarrassment.

The salt girl sneered and hugged her chest and said, "It's nothing serious."

Seeing that the two of them had finished arguing, Ye Zhi went downstairs to find Shen Huaiyun to see the situation.

However, when he just went downstairs, he saw Shen Huaiyun communicating with Ah Wu in a gentle voice. Shen Huaiyun raised his eyes just in time to see him, and smiled at him: "Ye Zhi, let everyone come over for dinner! Later, the mayor asked us to do something."

Ye Zhi looked at Shen Huaiyun in a daze, nodded, and called the others to come out for dinner.

…………

Shen Huaiyun adjusted his state much faster than Chu Mie imagined.After only a while, Shen Huaiyun came out of the toilet with a calm expression, his expression was not at all like seeing someone die in front of him.

It seems that this kind of thing has been experienced a lot.

Chu Mie looked at Shen Huaiyun and sighed in his heart: It's hard for him.

Shen Huaiyun found Ah Wu, and deliberately said in panic, "Ah Wu, one of our companions died suddenly for some reason!"

"Is it related to what the mayor said before that you can't speak loudly?"

Ah Wu paused when he put the dish on, then smiled unnaturally and said, "This... I don't know."

Shen Huaiyun stared at Ah Wu, and smiled unexpectedly and deeply: "Ah Wu, it seems that you have seen many dead people? You can be so calm about the news that someone has died."

Ah Wu's cheeks tensed slightly.

Unknowingly, there was a smell of smoke in the air, and without any precautions, the smell of smoke permeated silently.

Chu Mie's back stiffened unconsciously.

And Shen Huaiyun's originally joking expression instantly changed from shock to vigilance.

He turned his head sharply.

It's the mayor.

On that face full of ravines, there is a pair of slightly cloudy eyes.Because of old age and thinness, the thin eyelids seem to hang loosely on the eyelids, outlining the obvious arc of the eyeballs, and as the line of sight moves, you can clearly feel the rotation of the eyeballs.

Those eyes were staring at Shen Huaiyun tremblingly.

The mayor suddenly appeared behind Shen Huaiyun silently, took a puff of cigarette, and then slowly exhaled it, looking at Ah Wu from a distance through Shen Huaiyun:

"Ah Wu, have all the guests come down?"

Ah Wu quickly put a smile on his face, showing some fear while being respectful: "Father, they have already been told to come down, and they must be here soon."

"Oh, not yet—"

Ah Wu seemed to be frightened, and said: "No, father, I was too careless——"

Mayor: "Ah Wu."

Ah Wu's body trembled.

The mayor's expressionless face was covered by the smoke lingering around him, which made people feel very unreal and too weird.

He held the cigarette in his hand, and slowly spread a fake smile on his somewhat blurred face covered by the smoke: "Don't be so nervous, let outsiders see it, and think I've done something to you."

Ah Wu lowered her head and twisted her hands together: "Yes, it's my fault!"

Shen Huaiyun stood beside him, his expression unchanged, but his eyes moved back and forth between Ah Wu and the mayor thoughtfully.

Seeing A Wu's cowardly and cowardly appearance, the mayor looked away indifferently, looked at Shen Huaiyun and said, "Please tell others that I have something to do after dinner, please ask A Wu for the details."

"A Wu."

"Ah? Yes!"

Seeing the mayor calling himself, Ah Wu responded immediately: "Ah Wu knows. Father, your meals are already prepared in the room."

The mayor lifted his drooping eyelids, let out a "hmm" from his nose, then dusted off the cigarette ash in his hand, looked up and looked outside the door, and took another breath of cigarette slowly: "I don't think it's a good day. It’s too good, it’s probably going to rain. Remember to remind guests to bring umbrellas before they leave.”

Ah Wu replied: "Yes."

"and also--"

Ye Zhi and the others just happened to go downstairs together when they saw the mayor and Ah Wu standing in the living room.

The mayor turned around, faced the other people who were coming, dropped the cigarette in his hand on the ground, raised his foot and crushed it a few times.

The sparks came on brightly, and then went out quickly.

"I hope all the guests can have a pleasant meal. I still hope that everyone can go faster, otherwise you will have to do things under the heavy rain later."

Hearing this, Ye Zhi shifted his gaze to the window; the salt girl standing aside didn't care about what the mayor said, but just stared at the mayor's face with ecstasy, narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, and then took a step back , and returned to everyone's side.

"Ah Wu, Ah She will be back in a few days."

Ah Wu raised her lowered head subconsciously, clenched her hands even tighter, and finally suppressed her fear and responded in a low voice: "Yes."

She added: "Father, I know what to do."

The mayor nodded and went back to the room without saying anything.

The figure of the mayor disappeared behind the door panel.

Ah Wu packed up her mood and said with a gentle smile, "Please take your seats!"

Everyone hesitated in their actions.

"Guests, please eat in time, because we won't provide anything else. If you are hungry, I'm afraid you can only bear it."

As soon as Ah Wu said this, the others sat down at the table one after another and began to eat.

Shen Huaiyun was thinking about the information he just got while eating.

As the mayor's daughter-in-law, Ah Wu has a strange relationship with the mayor.

She called the mayor "father" instead of "dad", because the word "father" is a more official and respectful word, far less intimate than "dad".

Ah Wu has an inexplicable fear of the mayor, and even has a feeling of following orders.This kind of relationship, which is similar to that between master and servant, highlights the weirdness of the mayor's family.

And that A She, who is he?

At the dining table, the girl from the salt family spoke bluntly, "Ah Wu, who is Ah She?"

Ah Wu chewed the food hard, swallowed the food with great effort, and then said, "A She is my husband and father's son."

"Then why isn't your husband at home? Who's out there doing?"

Ah Wu stuffed a mouthful of vegetables into his mouth, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said vaguely: "He... he just went outside... to escape..."

Running goods?

Could it be that Ah Wu's husband is a delivery driver?

Dou Tongtong: "Are you and the mayor alone at home? I didn't see anyone else."

"Yes, just the two of us." Ah Wu glanced at the lower left corner unconsciously, and said, "My mother-in-law passed away before I got married."

Shen Huaiyun smiled but not smiled: It seems that Ah Wu is lying.

Chu Mie heard the difference in address and showed a thoughtful expression.

To the mayor, Ah Wu calls "Father"; while to the mayor's wife, she calls "Mother-in-law", which is too weird.

"Then Ah Wu, where are you from? Are you a local?"

Ah Wu paused for chopsticks, and put them back as if nothing had happened. He lowered his eyes and said, "No... I'm from here. Since I've been married here..."

The salt girl didn't even look at Ah Wu, she still lowered her head and ate the vegetables: "It sounds like you don't look like a local."

"I--"

Salt girl: "Then how long has it been since you came home?"

Ah Wu froze in place as if she had been stabbed in her mind.

"Snapped--"

She put the chopsticks in her hand on the table forcefully, and hastily cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks in front of her, showing a hasty and powerless smile:

"Sorry, I'm full, so I'll clean up the kitchen first."

After that, she hurried to the kitchen with the dishes and chopsticks.

Someone just took a careful look, and there was still more than half a bowl of rice in Ah Wu's bowl.

Everyone at the dinner table exchanged glances and realized the strangeness of Ah Wu.

The salt girl still eats by herself, without being affected in the slightest.

Chu Mie thought to himself: This girl is hiding her secrets.

Ye Zhi, who had kept his head down to eat without opening his mouth, looked up at the door, because his mouth was still stuffed with rice, so his speech was still a bit vague:

"It's...it's going to rain."

The moisture in the air seemed to be saturated, filled with strong water vapor, even the corners of the clothes seemed to be a little damp, and there was an earthy smell everywhere, which made people feel some inexplicable discomfort.

Shen Huaiyun also cast his gaze outside the door, and the sky showed a strange brightness.

It is clear that the clouds have covered the sky, but there is still a strange sense of transparency.It seems that something is used to block the light source, although it is bright, it is not so bright.

Ah Wu has regained his composure, smiled and took out a few umbrellas, and put them by the wall: "Guests, I will trouble you to go out in the rain in a moment. You can share these umbrellas."

"go out?"

"You want us to go out on a rainy day, what are you doing?"

Ah Wu just remembered that the mayor did not explain to the players what he was going to do.

"Everyone, my father wants you to take a look. Are there any children outside?"

Dou Tongtong was puzzled: "It looks like it's going to rain today, who can play like this?"

The salt girl put down her bowl and chopsticks, and wiped her mouth calmly: "That's not necessarily the case."

"What if the child is not human?"

Everyone's face changed.

"Tick-"

Chu Mie raised his head as if feeling something, and found that a small dark dot had appeared on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, there were more and more small dark dots on the ground, and finally countless small dots gathered, dyeing the ground a darker color.

"It's started to rain."

Ah Wu looked at them with a smile: "You should go, guests."

Everyone watched the rain getting heavier and heavier, waiting for the first person to come forward.

Looking sideways at Shen Huaiyun's expression, Chu Mie sensed that he seemed to be about to say something, and probably planned to be that early bird again.

Surprisingly, the girl with neat short hair came out first.

The girl of the salt family picked up an umbrella, walked directly outside the door, looked back at the crowd, raised her chin and said:

"Who will support me?"

"Me!"

Shen Huaiyun opened the mouth and said.

The salt girl looked him up and down, and said with a smile: "It's good, let's go!"

Shen Huaiyun pondered for a moment and said, "What's your name?"

The salt girl was taken aback, and said with a speechless expression, "What, you don't even know my name?"

"Then you remember it." The salt girl opened her umbrella, looked at the rain outside the door, turned her face and smiled:

"My name is Xi Qing."

The author says:

It's time to test everyone's memory (no), does anyone remember where the name Xi Qing was mentioned?

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