In the room, as soon as I put down my bag, Wen Jing immediately asked, "Silly melon, how do you know that it was my question that alarmed her?"

"You didn't pay attention, I heard that we are old customers, she was a little happy at first, I guess she herself can't remember whether we have been here or not. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

But after she asked the specific time, her expression immediately changed, and she looked frightened, I saw that she was looking for the room card several times wrong, and even her hands were shaking. ”

"So, this matter has something to do with that Xiaofeng!" Wen Jing replied.

I nodded, took out another cigarette and lit it, and said slowly, "It seems that we have come here to the right place." ”

"What do you want to do?"

"While it's still early, hurry up and take a shower to eat, and talk about other things later. I glanced lazily at her and continued, "Do you want to be hungry?"

Wen Jing gave me a blank look and began to prepare her own things.

Half an hour later, Wen Jing and I went downstairs, and the hostess of the hotel was packing up.

"Eldest sister, are you also going home?" Wen Jing smiled.

"Yes, you don't just live for one day, my house is not far from here, so I want to go back and help hang Tian Yi. The landlady replied as she cleaned up. "Anyway, it's just the two of you staying in the hotel, and there isn't much to do, so I plan to go back tonight, and come back tomorrow morning after hanging up Tian Han. ”

"What is Tian Han?" Wen Jing was a little curious.

I really couldn't look past it, so I had to say: "Han is a kind of five-color paper flag, on the day of the Midyear Festival, the custom here is to go to the field early in the morning to select the highest and densest rice ears to hang this kind of paper flag, which can be regarded as a way of sacrifice." ”

"Yes, we have this custom here!" the landlady smiled: "Some places are dedicated to Magu, and each place is different." ”

"Oh. Wen Jing nodded as if she didn't understand, and continued, "Then when are you leaving?"

"Don't worry, I'll leave when you come back!"

"Okay, big sister, let's go out first. ”

"Hurry up, you may really have nothing to eat if it's late!" the female boss smiled.

The two of them walked on the street, and it was still deserted, but occasionally a few families could be seen burning paper in front of the door.

"Where are we going to eat?" Wen Jing saw that I was looking around unhurriedly, thinking that I was looking for a restaurant.

"Old place!"

"Then what else are you looking around?" Wen Jing was a little puzzled.

I didn't answer her directly, but smiled, "Let's go buy a pack of cigarettes first." With that, I showed her the empty cigarette case.

"Can't you smoke less?" Wen Jing glared at me.

"I can't come out at night, and if I don't buy it, I will run out of food. Anyway, he didn't care, and as soon as he took her hand, the two of them trotted towards the small shop not far away.

It's a small shop, mostly selling some daily necessities, except for a middle-aged man behind the counter, and a half-grown boy sitting in front of the door.

After buying four packs of cigarettes with my boss, and then buying some instant noodles and water, and spending almost 300 yuan on miscellaneous items, I began to talk to the boss under the pretext.

"Boss, why are there so few tourists today?"

Probably I spent some money here, and the boss seemed very enthusiastic, and quickly moved out two plastic chairs from the room and asked us to rest.

"It's been two months, and there have never been more than ten tourists in town every day!" the boss pouted, a little depressed.

"It's an exaggeration, and there haven't been any guests for two months?" I said in deliberate surprise.

"It's not the tourist season yet, and although there weren't many tourists at this time before, it's not as few as this year. As he spoke, the boss handed a piece of bread and a glass of water to the boy at the door: "Qiu Zai, go home quickly after eating!"

I didn't notice the boy until this moment.

He was about fifteen or sixteen years old, dark and thin, with some unknown things on his face, dirty, his hair probably not washed for a long time, and his clothes were a little ragged. Seeing that the boss gave him something, he immediately stood up, smirked hoho, and said vaguely: "Thank you, Uncle Tiger!"

As soon as he took the bread, he began to devour it.

"Don't be in such a hurry! you eat slowly!" Wen Jing said with some distress.

"Alas, this child is pitiful, and the family doesn't care much about him, but they come to me every day. The boss sighed and said with some regret: "It's almost seventeen, and it's the same as a five or six-year-old child!"

"He's not a beggar?" Wen Jing was a little surprised.

"No, he is the son of Qiu Lao Liu in Zhenxi, mentally handicapped!" The boss glanced at Qiu Zai a little helplessly, and continued: "I watched him grow up, he had a high fever when he was six years old, and that's it after that. ”

"He's so thin, doesn't the family even have enough to eat?" Wen Jing frowned.

"The conditions in his family were not good, and after this child became like this, Qiu Lao Liu gave birth to two more, and as soon as the population was large, he could only barely get by. The boss sighed again, "Although I didn't treat him badly, I couldn't take care of him after all." Besides, this child is outside every day, often doesn't know how to go home, picks up garbage to eat when he is hungry, and finds a place to sleep when he is sleepy. ”

"At the beginning, Qiu Lao Liu and his wife were still looking for it every day, but after a long time, they didn't worry about it anymore!"

"This kid isn't stupid, it's just a bit of an intellectual problem. He knew that I was the only one in town who had something for him to eat, so he would come every day. ”

"But I'm a small business, and I can't get too much, so I just give him a few loaves of bread and a glass of water every day. The boss was still a little sad between his eyebrows.

As soon as she heard this, Wen Jing immediately bought a lot of food from the boss, packed it in a bag, and then handed it to Qiu Zai: "Come, my sister gave it to you at this time!"

"Sister, you're so nice!" Qiu Zai immediately took it, with a sweet smile on his face, that kind of innocent smile.

"Qiu Zai, remember to go home for dinner in the future. Wen Jing touched his head and smiled.

"Hmm!" Qiu Zai nodded very hard, and then smiled again: "Sister, are you like Sun Wukong, can you change seventy-two?"

"Sister won't change!" Wen Jing smiled a little lovingly.

"But that sister will change!" Qiu Zai said seriously.

"Which sister, what has she become?" Wen Jing was very patient and began to chat with Qiu Zai in a child's tone.

"It's that sister, she's going to be an old man!" Qiu Zai took another bite of bread and continued: "It's amazing, she still has something that glows, but I can't see it clearly." ”

"This kid is talking nonsense again!" the boss smiled, "I ask others every day if they will change seventy-two." ”

Hearing this, Wen Jing and I glanced at each other and asked the boss, "When did he start asking this question?"

"I remember this so clearly, probably more than 20 days ago. The boss replied patiently, and then turned to the counter. It can be seen that he doesn't care about Qiu Zai's words at all.

Seeing this, I hurriedly gave Wen Jing a look and looked at Qiu Zai.

Wen Jing understood, and immediately asked Qiu Zai with a smile: "Qiu Zai, have you seen that sister?"

"I haven't seen it, she disappeared after she turned into an old man that night!" Qiu Zai shook his head.