The golden sunlight shone in from the small round window, and Meng Jin stood in the middle of the study, looked at the paintings on the walls on both sides, and went downstairs to get a glass of water and poured it in the somewhat dry wind and rain orchid.

For Meng Jin, the biggest gain of this night was to appreciate the charm of Chinese painting.

As for the woman painted by my grandfather, the "Xihe" who painted is still clueless.

He sat at his desk, his head leaning back in his chair, his eyes slightly closed. How important this picture of a beautiful woman is to his grandfather, Meng Jin knows.

He first saw this painting when he was ten years old, and during spring break that year, he went back to Villa Myokawa to stay with his grandfather as before, and as soon as he entered the living room, he saw this tattered painting hanging on the wall opposite the sofa.

Grandpa was watering the flowers by the flower bed outside the window, looked up and saw Meng Jin coming back, smiled happily, took his sunhat and put down the kettle and walked into the house.

Meng Jin stood in front of the painting for two seconds, when he just learned that his father died in an accident on the way to Taohua, and the sadness in his heart had nowhere to vent, and it was all transferred to the Chinese painting.

Grandpa happened to walk in, and when he saw this scene, he immediately changed his face when he had always been calm, and almost rushed over to take back the painting.

Meng Jin had never seen his grandfather look so anxious, when he was a child, he did a lot of damage at home, even if he dropped a valuable jade lion head, grandpa just laughed it off.

But this time, after the grandfather put away the painting, he picked up a ring ruler and hit Meng Jin hard.

This was the first and only time Meng Jin was beaten.

Meng Jin didn't have a mother since he was a child, and his father died early, Old Man Meng raised him as a father and a mother, and he grew up in the palm of his hand like a baby, and he couldn't bear to say a word when he was heavy.

From this, Meng Jin knew that this painting was extremely important in his grandfather's heart.

also knew it early, so when his grandfather was sick and hospitalized, he could guess his grandfather's wish for the first time.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Meng Jin opened his eyes, got up and opened the door, Xia Keren standing outside the door was not his usual cold and calm appearance, and his expression was a little worried.

"Mr. Meng, you stay here and continue to look for clues, I am in a hurry to take a step ahead. ”

Meng Jin's brows furrowed, because of that Mr. Meng.

He didn't speak, turned around and picked up the car keys on the desk, and walked straight out: "Let's go." ”

"I'll just go back myself. Seeing Meng Jin's posture, it seemed that he was going back together, and Xia Keren hurriedly followed behind him and said.

Meng Jin didn't stop at his feet, until he got into the car, and then he spoke: "If you come together, let's go together." ”

Everyone had already sat in the car, and Xia Keren couldn't excuse himself, but just asked, "Don't you even ask what is the matter?"

"Didn't you already say it. Meng Jin started the car, "Urgent." ”

"Since it's urgent, it's always right to rush back. Meng Jin continued, "If you want me to be more specific, you can speak slowly on the way." ”

Xia Keren stopped talking, just staring at his mobile phone and waiting for Feng Jiayu's news.

Yu Ruiqi's mother opened the mahjong parlor all night, and the whole person soaked in the store almost 24 hours a day, and the two children went to school during the day, and came to the mahjong parlor at night to go home and sleep after dinner.

The younger brother Yu Ruiqi is all led by her sister Yu Yashi.

Today was supposed to be the weekend, and there was no need to go to school, Yu Yashi wanted to get up late, took her younger brother to eat breakfast and went to the mahjong hall to do her homework, and then went to Sijizhai to learn to paint in the afternoon.

Yu Yashi was anxious and scared, so she quickly called her mother, who closed the mahjong parlor and led her sister to look for it street by street, but she has not found anyone until now.

When the car was on the highway, Feng Jiayu came with another message, but the person still didn't find it.

The wind was whistling outside the car window, Xia Keren's heart was pounding, and thinking of the indifferent eyes on her immature little face, she squeezed her phone tightly.

"There is a child named Yu Ruiqi who learned to draw from me. Xia Keren said to Meng Jin, "I found out of the house this morning, and I didn't know where I was." ”

"Kids love to run around. Meng Jin stepped on the accelerator, "Let the parents of the children call the police first, don't worry." ”

"I just feel guilty. Xia Keren took a deep breath, the speeding car was like an island in the torrent, and the closed space isolated the hustle and bustle from the complexity, so that she could relax for a moment, and she didn't hold back for a while, and confided in her heart, "Yu Ruiqi is very special, he has autism. ”

"It stands to reason that I should have cared more about him, but when I saw his appearance, I was so resistant that I didn't even dare to make eye contact with him. Xia Keren leaned back in the seat, his head tilted out of the window, not like he was talking to Meng Jin, more like talking to himself, "I don't know how to face him, in front of him, I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do, I don't even know where to put my hands, so I chose to escape ......"

Xia Keren pursed his lips, his chin raised slightly, and his eyes saw his face in the rearview mirror.

The calm face, the corners of the mouth are downturned, and the cold and detached eyes are almost exactly the same as Yu Ruiqi.

Xia Keren ajerked her gaze away, and she chose to escape again.

Every time he encounters something that he can't accept and face, Xia Keren always chooses to escape at the first time. When she had a misunderstanding with her mother, she chose to stay away from her, blocking all news about her mother, and hiding in school as if she was running away, and then her mother died, she fled Qingchuan, and even escaped from various activities about Chinese painting.

"Every emotion is not without a cause. Meng Jin's tone was indifferent, "All you need to do is face yourself." ”

Xia Keren turned his head to look at Meng Jin, Meng Jin smiled at her, Xia Keren's heart shook heavily, and Meng Jin's words continued in his ears: "You are afraid to face Yu Ruiqi, maybe you are just afraid to face yourself." ”

Xia Keren held his breath.

Her mind was chaotic, and what kept flashing in front of her eyes was Yu Ruiqi's face, and in the end, that face became the self she had just seen in the rearview mirror.

Xia Keren sighed, because of the sadness and remorse for his mother's death, Xia Keren has been tightly closing himself, almost no different from Yu Ruiqi, who suffered from autism, their faces are indifferent, and their eyes are cold.

Xia Keren was afraid to face Yu Ruiqi, but he was afraid to face himself like that.

There was only the sound of a whimpering engine in the car, and the two were silent for a long time, and when the car was off the highway at high speed, the mobile phone in Xia Keren's hand rang.

"Yu Ruiqi's mother is crazy, she can't do anything but cry, I have already called the police, and I will go to the public security bureau to watch the surveillance first. Feng Jiayu's voice was also full of worry, "Where have you been?"

"I've already returned to Qingchuan, I'll go to the police station to meet you. Xia Keren said, as soon as he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was a little hoarse.

When I hung up the phone, I found that my palms were covered with dense sweat, and the back of the phone was wet.

Meng Jin turned left and entered Qingchuan City, and just as he was about to arrive at the police station, Feng Jiayu's phone came again: "Lovely people, the surveillance has been checked, and Yu Ruiqi's last picture is to enter the elevator of Wanjia Building! The elevator stopped on the top floor!"

"Wanjia Building!" Xia Keren hung up the phone and immediately shouted at Meng Jin next to him, "He went to the top floor of Wanjia Building, hurry!"

Wanjia Building is the closest high-rise commercial complex to Yu Ruiqi's home, with shopping malls on the first to fifth floors, office buildings and some loft apartments on the upper floors, with a total of 53 floors.

As soon as I got off the car, Xia Keren ran to the elevator room, but today is the weekend, the mall is full of people, the elevator goes down from the fifth floor, and each floor stops for a long time.

"Follow me. Meng Jin called Xia Keren and ran to the fire escape next to him. "There are a lot of people in the mall, so let's go to the sixth floor. ”

Above the sixth floor is the office floor, there are two special elevators, Xia Keren followed Meng Jin into the elevator, and immediately pressed fifty-three.

Xia Keren gasped, staring at the numbers rising layer by layer, getting more and more nervous little by little, and when the elevator door opened and Xia Keren walked out, his legs almost trembled.

The door on the top floor was closed, and after Xia Keren took a deep breath, Meng Jin slammed the door open.

The dazzling sunlight shone in from outside, Xia Keren blocked it with his hand, and immediately saw Yu Ruiqi sitting by the half-human-high wall on the top of the building.

His back was inward, his legs hanging from the wall, and at his feet was a fifty-three-story building.

The wind blew the tips of his hair, and it also blew Xia Keren's heart. Xia Ke's heart was beating like a drum, his legs were almost weak, he wanted to shout, but he was afraid of scaring the child, he slowly leaned over with rapid breathing, his hand was almost stiff, and finally grabbed Meng Jin's wrist beside him, and relied on the little warm body temperature of the person next to her to keep her calm.

When he walked to a distance of two meters behind Yu Ruiqi, Xia Keren saw clearly that there was a box of paints next to the child, holding a drawing board in his hand, and he was adjusting the paint, and he was holding the drawing board and gesturing something to the sky.

"Yu ...... Ricky. Xia Keren kept his voice as soft as possible.

As soon as he spoke, Yu Ruiqi turned around, the look on his face was still indifferent, and when he saw the person clearly, his eyes suddenly flashed, and he turned his head back, and even sat outside.

"Ricky, shall we come down from the wall?" Xia Keren whispered, "What are you going to do here Sister Keren, it's too high and dangerous." ”

"Heavenly ...... God!" Yu Ruiqi ignored Xia Keren, still holding the drawing board, the pen in his hand was stained with paint, and he was painting on the paper while comparing to the sky.

"What?" Xia Keren didn't hear clearly.

"The sky, he's painting the sky. Meng Jin suddenly spoke.

"Yes, yes!" Yu Ruiqi turned her head and shouted vigorously, "Yes, yes! God! draw the sky, draw the sky, draw the sky!"

Xia Keren remembered that before the end of the last class, Yu Ruiqi asked himself how to adjust the color of the sky.

"He just wanted to paint the color of the sky in the closest place to the sky. Meng Jin also understood.

"Yu Ruiqi is doing a great job. Xia Keren should have said to him a long time ago, "Every time I hand in the painting, it is the best, the ink is appropriate, and the colors are well matched, I don't know how the sky is painted this time, can I show it to Sister Keren?"

Yu Ruiqi looked at Xia Keren expressionlessly for a while, suddenly pursed his lips and smiled lightly, he turned around slowly, holding the sketchpad in his hand, and slid down from the low wall with his feet.

As soon as his feet hit the ground, Xia Keren rushed over and hugged him in his arms, tears instantly welled up and fell on the drawing board, fainting the sky on the drawing paper with a cloud.

Xia Keren tightened the child in his arms, hugged the small warm body, as if hugging himself, the siren sounded downstairs, the police and Yu Ruiqi's mother quickly caught up, Yu's mother took Yu Ruiqi away and kissed and kissed, Xia Keren wrapped two tears in her eyes, and Meng Jin stood on the top floor, watching people leave one by one.

Tears flowed out uncontrollably, Xia Keren didn't know what was wrong with him, as if he had been blocked with a piece of ice in his heart for a long time, and his suddenly warm chest turned the ice into water, and it all ran out of his eyes.

Meng Jin stretched out his hand and touched the shoulders of the people around him, Xia Keren forgot everything at once, buried his face in the solid arm with blurry tears, and for a long time, when the tears were gone, he breathed a sigh of relief, raised his face, wiped his eyes, and said, "Thank you today, Meng Jin." ”

Meng Jin's arm was wet, his expression suddenly became very happy, and he said loudly: "I'm very happy, I'm glad that you finally treat me as a friend." ”

Xia Keren was stunned and was about to speak, when another figure appeared at the door leading to the top floor.

That person was Feng Jiayu, as soon as he rushed out, he immediately stopped his feet as soon as he saw the situation inside, and while covering his eyes, he stepped back, and said something in his mouth: "I really didn't come at the right time! You continue, you continue! I will disappear immediately!"