"Later, ......," Li Lu wanted to continue, but the exhaust sound of the old range hood in the kitchen stopped abruptly, and then there was a sound of bowls and spoons colliding. The two of us glanced at each other, but neither spoke again, holding our breath, like two junior high school students who were about to cheat in the exam room and lacked time.

Uncle Hua walked out from behind with two bowls of wontons, staggering, so he was extremely slow and careful. Li Lu hurriedly got up, took the bowl from Uncle Hua's hand, and put it on the table. Uncle Hua smiled at Li Lu with satisfaction, motioned for him to go back and sit, and then walked to the steamer and picked out two buns, wrapped them in paper, and handed them to us. I reached out and took it, and noticed that the name of the breakfast shop was printed on the brown paper with the oil-proof layer, Dawn Breakfast Shop.

"Ah Lu, your friend, look at the eyes, are you new to the team?" Uncle Hua looked at me, his deeply sunken eye sockets were embedded in a pair of gray-brown eyes, and his eyesight didn't seem to be very good, and he had to squint his eyes as much as he could when he was concentrating on something.

"She's my friend, not from the bureau", Li Lu took a sip of wonton soup and gave a thumbs up to Uncle Hua, "Uncle's skills are still so good." ”

"Oh, no wonder, I haven't seen you bring a girl to dinner for so many years, every time it's either Zheng Duan or Li Bin, a group of stinky boys...... I said girl, we are very good, not only handsome, but also have strong work ability, and he is the vice captain at a young age", Uncle Hua didn't care about Li Lu's praise, and continued to stare at me with a smile, which made me a little embarrassed.

"Uncle Hua, don't praise me, you see that everyone is blushing", Li Lu had a face with a thick city wall, and teased me while eating steamed buns.

"Don't blame me for the old man's nagging, Ah Lu, you are almost thirty years old, and you should also consider lifelong events. I think this girl is very good, and she looks quite a good match with you," probably because of this topic, the wrinkles on Uncle Hua's face swam happily, regaining a bit of youthful vividness, and then, this kind of radiance disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared. The decayed temperament returned to him, making him look weak and sad. "Xiaoxi was also thirty years old at the time, and she didn't even have a girlfriend yet......"

Li Luo also noticed that something was wrong with Uncle Hua, and hurriedly took over the conversation, "Uncle, there is no one now, you go back to the house to rest first." The two of us left after eating, and there was still something to do in the team. ”

"Hmm", Uncle Hua didn't continue, closed his eyes and nodded, then opened them slowly, his eyes cloudy and moist. "You two eat slowly, I'll go into the house and see what Xiaoxi...... By the way, Ah Lu, don't leave me any more money, I'll have enough", after speaking, Uncle Hua slowly moved his somewhat lame foot, and his figure disappeared behind the curtain.

"Let's talk about it later", sadness is very contagious, although I don't know what happened to Du Chenxi, but looking at their reactions, I can guess a rough idea. I agreed with Li Luo's suggestion, so I sped up the speed of eating the wontons, although the soup was full and delicious, it was still easy to taste that the wontons were quick-frozen. It doesn't matter, it's satisfying for me to have a steaming bowl of wontons in the darkest hour.

Li Lu ate as fast as ever, and it didn't take long for him to put down his chopsticks and wait for me. I quickly swallowed the last bite of the bun and wiped my hands with a tissue. "Eat, let's go. ”

He stood up, put his coat back on, then took his wallet out of his pocket, pulled out a fifty-dollar paper ticket and put it on the table, pressing it with a wonton bowl. The two of us came out of the breakfast shop, and the sky that had been a cloud of ink had long since loosened, revealing the faint light of scales when it flipped over the belly of the fish. The sweat from the hot soup I had just drunk was wiped by the morning breeze, and I felt warm and relaxed all over my body.

"Since I can pay on the go, I haven't used paper money again," Li Lu was surprised when he just took out his wallet, and the urban young people who still use money to wrap paper money in these years can be called alternative.

"I don't usually use it, but I'll have a few on me. Uncle Hua has a QR code in the store, but if you pretend to have no change like me, you can leave him more. ”

"Is Uncle Hua having any difficulties in life? I just heard him say that he wants to take care of his wife......

"Well, his wife had a cerebral thrombosis a few years ago, and basically spent all the family's savings to see a doctor. Our team has raised donations several times, but Uncle Hua refuses to accept it, so we can only do our best in this way. ”

"What about his son?" I knew I would hear a sad story, but I couldn't help but ask out of curiosity. The joys and sorrows of people do not understand, but they are not far away from thousands of mountains, perhaps at this time our emotions are based on sadness, but there are thousands of sorrows in this world, and the bystander will always carry his own private goods.

"About seven years ago, also in the autumn, Du Chenxi was arranged by the team to go undercover in a drug trafficking gang. At that time, I was still in the police academy and did not graduate, so I didn't know many details, in short, the social environment at that time was very impetuous, pornography, gambling and drugs were rampant, not as clear as now", Li Luo seemed to be recalling more details, his brows furrowed slightly, and his steps slowed down unconsciously, "You should still be in high school at that time?" or just entered college, you shouldn't know. "No, I haven't been involved in the affairs of your world at all, but if you think about the history of urban development, it should be the same if you break it down and then clear it.

"He worked undercover in the drug cartel for more than a year and collected a lot of valuable information, so the net was also successful at that time, and he also received second-class merit. But what the team didn't expect was that Du Chenxi's mental state had been bad since he returned to the team, and he was also addicted to drugs. ”

In the past year and a half, in order to gradually gain the trust of drug lords, he was forced to take drugs, prostitute himself, and cut the hamstrings of other horses to prove himself. But when he returned to the police force, he completely collapsed. ”

In his autobiography, he has been puzzled whether he himself is in the same stream - in short, he wished that he died in the undercover position at that time, so that he would not have to face the self-blame after returning to the team. The team found him a professional doctor, but the effect was not obvious. ”

Not long after he returned to the team, he committed suicide by drinking a bomb. Li Luo rubbed his temples with his fingers as he walked, and his tone was not shocked, as if this ending never surprised him, and he already knew the story by heart. "Uncle Hua was originally also a policeman, but he was injured and injured when he was handling a case, and he retired from the army, hoping that it was all on his son. He was heartbroken by his son's death, and later borrowed money to open this Dawn breakfast shop, which is close to the police force, and we are all his sons. ”

"Eh, sad story...... Some people are really fragile, and the weight that life can bear varies from person to person. "After listening to this story, I felt that my heart was blocked, and I couldn't say what I wanted to say. Just like our close friends who have passed away, no matter how many words of comfort we have, we can't wait to stand up and share his pain with our own strength. And I, the second-hand listener of this story, have no object to comfort me, and can only express my own insignificant feelings.

Therefore, it is rare to have a strong heart, and only by constantly trying can we know its scale. Li Lu nodded, I thought he was agreeing with my point of view, but I didn't expect him to say a long sentence of chicken soup, without any human touch. He stopped, not moving on, and I realized that we had reached the bottom of the apartment—so close to where Li Lu worked.

"Go back and rest, Youyi, we'll see you later, I'll come back to you." ”