Zhou Wei hung up the phone and looked at his watch, it was only about eight o'clock in the evening.

It's still early.

He thought for a moment and took his coat and went out.

Rong'an Plaza's project in Yunling is located in the suburbs, most of the investment work has been completed, the theme building has also been built, and it is planned to open in the first half of next year, which will become the largest commercial complex in Yunling.

Zhou Wei drove to the project site, and sure enough, he saw that a wall was already full of patterns, but no one was painting.

He didn't have much hope, and drove around the exterior wall of the project for half a circle, only to see a small figure on the other side.

It's still a cap and black clothes, but it's not the black sweater from before, but a thicker cotton suit.

Probably because it's cold and it's night, it's really hard to paint in the open air.

The project is huge, the wall is very long, and that side is only about a third of the way painted.

Zhou Wei sat in the car and watched for a while, the little figure stood alone in front of the wide wall, with her body as the boundary, the left side had left a colorful pattern, and the right side was still a large section of white wall, and after she finished drawing, she moved a little to the right, gradually widening the distance.

Zhou Wei inexplicably felt that this picture was very moving, and unconsciously sat there for half an hour, and when he came back to his senses, the wall was already half full.

He dialed Ye Li's number again.

"She comes every night to paint?"

Ye Li didn't understand what she meant at first, but she was stunned for a moment before she understood who the boss was talking about.

"Like, it seems to be because she has other jobs during the day, so she can only have time at night. ”

"It's hard, it's purely obligatory?"

"I didn't mention this, but I listened to Miss Tian, and the other party didn't seem to ask about the cost. ”

"Well, I'll ask later. ”

Zhou Wei hung up the phone, the black figure was still concentrating on work, there were vehicles passing behind her, the street lights were on, but she seemed to be completely immersed in her own world.

For a moment, Zhou Wei felt that she was an independent individual, isolated from the world.

He got out of the car and got out of the warm carriage, and he couldn't help but shiver when the cold wind blew.

It was colder than he had imagined.

Zhou Wei buttoned his coat and crossed the road until he walked behind her.

The other party was engrossed in painting, unaware of the people and things around her, and naturally she would not know that there was someone standing behind her.

Zhou Wei looked at it closely for a while, and found that she had a manuscript in her hand, a stack of crumpled papers, with messy lines on it, which looked like it was made by a child, and all she had to do was to move the contents of the paper to the wall.

Of course, the children's techniques are certainly not skilled, so she will use her professional advantages to appropriately retouch, retain their immature brushstrokes, but also retain the children's imagination, and finally paint colorful colors, a painting is completed.

At the back of each painting, she would note the children's names - Sunflower XXX.

Looking at it this way, it is indeed more practical and impactful than Tian Jiaqi's previous initiative to find a gallery to hold an art exhibition.

Zhou Wei didn't want to disturb her work, so he took a small step forward gently, almost standing side by side with her.

She was coloring a picture, and Zhou Wei looked at it, it seemed to be a house, a villa, a castle, it should be a castle, he finally confirmed.

"Why is the castle this color?"

"It's a candy house!"

Naturally, one question and one answer is like two people who have known each other before.

But the wind suddenly stopped, and the traffic behind him disappeared in an instant.

The brush that had been moving on the wall rattled, deviated, and stopped.

A very abrupt failure was left on the roof of the candy house.

Zhou Wei's heartbeat also stopped, the cold wind blew, and he saw the person in front of him slowly turn his head......

Caps, masks, and scarves were tightly covered, but the eyes that could be exposed were like bright stars, shining a light into his dark and rotten heart.

He was stunned, frozen, or like he was stuck in a dream, not knowing where he was.

The other party was also stunned for a few seconds, and the two looked at each other.

One tilts his head, the other leans over.

But in the end, she was faster, more sensitive, and suddenly ran away after a short period of shock.

Zhou Wei: "......"

He didn't expect this situation at all, and it was too late for the brain waves to send a signal.

He pulled his legs out to chase after him.

But the figure in front of him ran fast, and a thin little thing rushed onto the road at once, ignoring the traffic coming and going, like a startled fish scurrying in a pond.

"Shhhh

When Zhou Wei ran down, he didn't notice a step between the sidewalk and the road, and his old arms and legs twisted.

The man who had already run to the middle of the road seemed to hear the pain and turned to look.

The wind blew her hat off, revealing short shaggy hair and a snow-white forehead......

Zhou Wei covered his heart in pain.

I wanted to shout my name, but my throat seemed to be blocked by something, only the person in front of me, the eyes, the figure, and the sound of wind and breathing in my ears.

Cars honked all around, and the shadows of the cars were confused.

He seemed to be trapped in the middle of the island.

The two buses staggered by, and when the view opened up again, there was nothing left on the other side of the road.

A trance.

Zhou Wei stood there panting for a while, and the sound of the wind and the sound of the car continued to pour into his ears.

The cap in the middle of the road was blown around by the wind, and after a few minutes, Zhou Wei walked over, picked it up, and returned to the same place.

The paintings on the walls are not finished yet.

The misdrawn pen on the top of the castle has dried.

There was her kit on the ground, and she didn't have time to take it away in a hurry.

Zhou Wei stuffed his hat into his bag, picked up his bag and limped to his car.

Climbed into the car with difficulty, couldn't do anything, could only lean back in the chair and gasp.

His back was already covered in cold sweat, and his heart hurt so badly that he swallowed his breath to continue his life, and it took more than ten minutes to barely recover a little.

Zhou Wei opened his eyes and took out his mobile phone.

"Hey ......"

Ye Li was startled when she heard the hoarse voice over there.

"Mr. Zhou, do you have something?"

Zhou Wei took another breath, "What is that volunteer called?"

"Volunteer?" Ye Li reacted, "I don't know what the one you said painted on the wall, but Miss Tian was always in charge of contacting her. ”

Zhou Wei hung up the phone.

Ye Li was inexplicable, thinking that the boss would make a phone call tonight and spend it with the volunteer.

Here, Zhou Wei took another heavy breath, calmed down his mood, and dialed Tian Jiaqi's mobile phone.

Tian Jiaqi had just finished dinner with her friends at this time, and drove a new car with a full car of people for a ride on the outer ring, when she suddenly saw Zhou Qi's name displayed on the mobile phone screen, and she was so excited that she almost drove the car away.

"Jiaqi, why don't you answer the phone?" asked the best friend in the co-pilot.

Tian Jiaqi suppressed her excitement and raised her phone to her.

The girlfriend reads the caller ID above: "Brother Zhou, who is Brother Zhou?"

Tian Jiaqi looked mysteriously excited, and her best friend reacted, "Just the one you went on on a blind date before... Rongbang boss?"

"Hmm. ”

"Wo Groove called at this time, there must be adultery, why don't you hurry up?"

Tian Jiaqi slowed down the car and coughed before pressing the answer button.

"Hey, Brother Zhou..."'s voice was soft and sweet, making the car full of people feel goosebumps and throw goosebumps at her, she glared back and asked, "Is there anything wrong with me so late?"

Zhou Wei had recovered from the emotions just now, and his thinking was clear at this time.

"I've seen the paintings on the outer wall of Rong'an Square, did you arrange for someone to come and paint them?"

Tian Jiaqi became more and more happy when she heard this, and she couldn't bear it anymore.

"yes, how did you draw?"

"Very good, professional team?"

"No, it doesn't cost anything, it was painted by a volunteer volunteer at the shelter. ”

Zhou Yan clenched his phone, "Volunteer?"

"That's right, I heard that Director Jiang said that she often goes to the institute to help, and she also teaches children to draw. ”

"So you've seen it?"

"Not really. ”

"So how did you get in touch before?"

"Director Jiang gave me a mobile phone number. ”

"You send me the number!"

"Huh?"

"Trouble, as soon as possible!"

"Oh. Tian Jiaqi responded, didn't think much about it, and spoke again, "Brother Zhou, are you back from a business trip, or we will ...... tomorrow?"

But before the words were finished, the phone had already hung up over there, and Tian Jiaqi was so angry that she threw her mobile phone on the dashboard.

The friend in the car asked, "What's wrong?"

Tian Jiaqi: "This self-righteous guy actually hung up on me first!"

Everyone scolded her, and then someone asked, "Jiaqi, are you serious this time?"

Tian Jiaqi: "Of course!"

Friend A: "You really like him?"

Tian Jiaqi: "Nonsense, otherwise why would I go to the orphanage and panic when I am full?"

Friend B: "But this kind of man is difficult to serve, the conditions are good, he is rich, and it is normal for him to be arrogant, I am afraid that he will not have that heart for you." ”

Tian Jiaqi's mouth pursed: "I don't care if I have a heart or not, anyway, I just want to chase him, and besides, if you think about it, if you can chase this kind of superb man, is it also very fulfilling?"

"That's just as well!" the crowd agreed.

Friend C said again: "But it's hard to chase, there must be no shortage of women around him under this condition, you have to fight your way through thorns and thorns!"

Tian Jiaqi: "I know this, I still have a lot of confidence in myself, besides, his wife has been dead for almost three years, hasn't he always been single? ”

Friend Ding: "Then I wish you success, and then you will be the proprietress of Rongbang." ”

"What kind of boss lady, it's Mrs. Zhou!" Tian Jiaqi felt that she didn't fancy his money, and finally asked: "By the way, what happened to his former wife? I was not in China a few years ago, tell me." ”

Zhou Wei brought the hat and the kit back to Jardine.

I turned on the light, and I was so tired that I almost slumped down on the sofa.

The mobile phone has received a message from Tian Jiaqi, he opened it, and in addition to a string of numbers, there is naturally Tian Jiaqi's "shh

All his eyes and thoughts were fixed on the string of numbers.

Very ordinary numbers, he has read them countless times, and he can almost recite them.

The indescribable mood just now had almost calmed down at this time, but after calming down, he was left with thoughts and confusion.

Dial according to the number, and without accident, the other party turned off the phone.

Zhou Xian tilted his eyes back, his mind was full of the same look back on the road just now, and his heart began to beat wildly again, with a certain tearing pain, and only after relieving his strength did he get up slightly and open the toolkit on the ground.

The hat was just stuffed on top by him, and when he picked it up, it was a very ordinary black cap, no brand, ordinary material, and the kind that could be bought for twenty or thirty yuan in the small commodity market.

The brim of the hat has also been heavily dermabrasioned, and it looks like it should have been worn for a long time.

Zhou Wei put the hat on the sofa and continued to dig into the bag, a large black crossbody bag, similar to a small duffel bag.

It was littered with pencils, chalk, brushes, scissors, paper towels, various large bottles of gouache, self-spraying paint, and acrylic paint.

It's all wall painting tools, and there's nothing special about it.

But Zhou Wei was not reconciled.

He flipped the kit over, and the contents fell to the ground with a grunt.

With the living room overhead light turned on, he crouched on the ground with a limp on one of his sprained legs.

Delusional hope to find a flaw in this bag, a little clue, but in the end failed, in addition to these painting tools, the only direct connection with the owner of the kit is two old masks, a pair of gloves stained with paint.

Zhou Wei stuffed the same things back into the bag, opened the inner compartment, including a few small pockets on the outside, and finally took out a roll of paper from the inside.

Zhou Wei opened the crumpled ball of paper, and there were some scattered bills, invoices for buying paints, subway tickets, and supermarket receipts.

After researching, he found that the subway tickets are all going to different places, with different starting and ending points, as if they are running around the city, but there is only one store name displayed on the supermarket receipts - the era of Yigang.

Zhou Wei even deliberately paid attention to the purchased items displayed on the receipt, soy sauce, millet, eggs, green onions, vegetables, and two packs of cigarettes.

These things are full of life, but they make Zhou Wei feel particularly unreal.

……

Early the next morning, Xu Nan received a call from his boss and asked him to go up.

Knocking on the office door, Zhou Wei seemed to be sitting there in a daze.

"Mr. Zhou, are you looking for me?"

When I got closer, I saw that he didn't even turn on the computer.

Pure daze?

"Mr. Zhou?"

The person in the chair came back to his senses at this time, his eyes moved, and he stared at Xu Nan but did not make a sound.

Xu Nan was furious by him.

"Mr. Zhou, aren't you looking for something with me?"

Zhou Wei later realized that he responded, "Help me check someone." ”

"Who, you say. ”

"Chang'an!"

“……”

Xu Nan was a little overwhelmed in one breath.

Boss, is this an intermittent seizure?

"Mr. Zhou, you... What do you mean?"

Zhou Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Nan felt that he looked different from usual, and his tired face seemed to have a heavy heart.

After waiting for a while, I heard him speak again: "I seem to have seen her last night." ”

Xu Nan shouted desperately in his heart, this is sick, or terminally ill, but he thinks so in his heart, and he can't say that, after all, he is still his own boss and relies on him to eat.

"You say... Where are you seeing Miss Chang?"

"At the construction site of Rong'an, didn't Ye Li follow a charity project before, she was a volunteer of the other organization. ”

"Huh?"

Xu Nan couldn't keep up, so he worked hard.

"Are you sure that's Miss Chang?"

"Sure!"

"See her face?"

"No, she was wearing a hat and a mask at the time. ”

“……”

Xu Nan touched his nose, he actually had some fuck up in his heart, but whatever the boss said, just obey unconditionally as a subordinate.

"And what do you want me to do?"

Zhou Wei fished something from the ground and threw it directly in front of Xu Nan.

"Here's what she dropped off the site last night, you can take it and take a look. ”

Xu Nan glanced at a dirty, half-worn black tool kit.

"And it's her cell phone number, but I don't think I can reach her. ”

Zhou Wei wrote a string of numbers on a sticky note and pasted it to Xu Nan together.

Xu Nan seems to understand whether he understands or not.

Zhou Wei said again: "She ran away when she saw me last night, I think she was deliberately avoiding me, you have to find a way to find out, where she lives now, what is the situation!"

Xu Nan: "......"

Half an hour later, Deng Shunlin came over and knocked on the door.

Zhou Wei smiled bitterly, "Xu Nan told you something?"

Deng Shunlin shrugged, "It's really incredible, he can't believe it, but he doesn't dare to disobey you." ”

Zhou Wei: "So you came up as a lobbyist?"

Deng Shunlin sat on the chair in front of the desk, paused, and asked directly: "Do you think that in the situation like three years ago, how many people are still there?"

Zhou Wei cleared, "It's very small." ”

Deng Shunlin: "So you actually knew all along. ”

Zhou Wei: "But it doesn't mean that there is no hope, there are miracles in this world sometimes, maybe God has mercy on me." ”

"God?" Deng Shunlin smiled, "You never believe in this." ”

Zhou Wei: "I didn't believe it before, but since she left, I have believed it." ”

Fate, coincidence, fate, these things are like ropes around his neck, and he has been led forward for the past few years, unable to break free, and he can't be allowed to believe it.

Deng Shunlin: "Besides, I listened to Xu Nan, you actually didn't see the whole face clearly, the other party was wearing a mask and hat at that time, and it was night, in fact, it was easy to admit mistakes." ”

Zhou Wei smiled bitterly: "You might as well just say that I am hallucinating or dreaming!"

Deng Shunlin: "You said it yourself, in fact, it is not impossible, I know that you have been seeing a psychiatrist in the past few years. ”

Zhou Wei didn't say a word, looked sideways at the window, and the sunlight poured in.

"Lao Deng, I know that few people will believe this kind of thing, but I have lived with her for so many years. After a pause, he seemed to accumulate a little more strength, "I have lived with her for so many years, a pair of eyes is enough, not to mention that she also spoke at that time, I remember her voice." ”

"But there are thousands of eyes in this world that look alike!"

"No, there are still feelings!"

"Are you..."

"You listen to me first!" Zhou Wei interrupted, "I admit that I couldn't accept the facts for a while at first, and I have been running away, but it doesn't mean that I am not sober, everyone has faded in the past two years, and naturally thinks that I have faded too, I don't say it, you all think that I have started a new life, but not at all." ”

After a pause, he continued, "The moment I saw her last night, my heart hurt, and I almost thought I was going to die of a heart attack, but then I found out that it wasn't, it was my heart that had stopped for three years and started beating again, and I thought I could still live." ”

Zhou Wei covered his face with his palm and rubbed it, laughing at himself, "Really, Old Deng... I'm not afraid of your jokes, it's actually boring to say this at this age, but I can't help it... I'm going to have to live on her. ”

Deng Shunlin looked at the man in front of him, his nose, eyes and mouth were not as affectionate as he imagined, but more like a defeated loser, praying for mercy.

Deng Shunlin exhaled heavily.

"Okay, I'll believe it, but what if it turns out to be none of her at all?"

"Then I admit it!"

"Aren't you afraid of being too disappointed and suffering another sin?"

"I don't think so. Zhou Wei rubbed his face again, "After all, I'm not much better now." ”

……

Deng Shunlin's ideological work was not done, and Xu Nan could only check it head-on.

Zhou Wei went to the Rong'an construction site for several nights in a row to wait for two hours, but unfortunately the candy house never made any progress, and half of the blank wall remained, indicating that everything had come to an abrupt end.

Zhou Xun also tries to dial the mobile phone number several times a day, but every time it is a shutdown reminder.

Xu Nan checked for three days, and finally got an answer on Friday night.

Go to Zhou's office to report the situation.

"The director of Sunflower only has her mobile phone number, not even a name, and she rarely takes the initiative to contact the director. The director said that every time she went there irregularly, and she was always alone, and she was also withdrawn, did not talk much, and was very mysterious. ”

"In addition, I checked the attribution of the mobile phone number, and it was indeed in Yunling, but the information that this number was registered at the beginning did not seem to be her. ”

Xu Nan handed over a piece of paper, "This is the filing information I asked for from the mobile company." ”

Zhou Wei took it and looked at it, "Ding Shouquan?"

Xu Nan: "Yes, the number is registered by this person, and it is not registered in the last two years, this number has been used for almost ten years." ”

Zhou Wei: "Then let's start with this person." ”

Xu Nan: "After checking, I also specially contacted Captain Xu, who transferred information in the public security system, and finally found out that this person has been closed and died about a year ago." ”

Zhou Wei's face froze, he didn't expect this to be the case, "The cancellation should also be able to check the pre-birth information." ”

Xu Nan nodded: "Yes, Captain Xu helped me find the location of his household registration before his death." ”

Zhou Wei: "Where?"

Xu Nan: "Jiaochun County, Tonghai City!"

Zhou Xian's heart twitched, "Jiao Chun, is it not far from the island where the accident happened at that time?"

Xu Nan: "Yes, it's not far, it's a small fishing village by the sea, I went to it yesterday and found the village according to the household registration information given by Captain Xu, but the villagers said that Ding Shouquan had left Jiaochun with his wife and daughter about two years ago, and there were no relatives at home, so the contact was cut off in the past few years." ”

At this point, it seems that all the clues have been interrupted again.

Zhou Wei clenched his fists to support his forehead.

Xu Nan waited for a while, not knowing the next step.

"Mr. Zhou, look at ......"

He looked up, his eyes getting tired.

"There is a roll of bills in the kit I gave you before, and there is a supermarket receipt in it, which shows that there is a supermarket in the era of Yugang, maybe people live near Yugang, you look for someone to check over there, and there are many subway tickets, you look for it at the station above, and come back to tell me if you find any clues. ”

Xu Nan was even more desperate.

Zhou Wei thought about it again, and probably felt that the amount of work was too huge.

There are millions of people in the area alone, and many of them are migrant workers.

"Forget it, you look for a professional agency at the station and at the Gang, but you keep an eye on the sunflower, and she may go over again. ”

"Good!"

Xu Nan took the materials and prepared to go out, but when he walked to the door, he was stopped by Zhou Wei again.

"Don't make a fuss about this. ”

"Understood!"