"Then what happened to you standing at the intersection with a small desk lamp all day long?"

"Small Desk Lamp ......"

Hearing my question, Sister-in-law Zhang was stunned, and I nervously observed her expression, for fear that something was wrong, and the other party would collapse with excessive grief again.

Fortunately, Sister-in-law Zhang just had red circles under her eyes and didn't really cry.

After a long time, she slowly spoke: "That little table lamp belongs to my son Xiaohu, and I just bought it for him the day before he lost it." Xiaohu especially liked this small table lamp, and when he sent him to kindergarten the next day, he kept holding his hand.

Later, in the days when Xiaohu was lost, I would dream as soon as I slept, and I dreamed that Xiaohu was standing at the intersection with a small lamp and smiling at me. I remember in my dream that he was hanging with bits and pieces of dirt, and he was very sloppy.

Later, after giving birth to the third child, I had a thought in my heart, I stood at the intersection with the small table lamp, and I could wait for Xiaohu to come back sooner or later, but I never waited.

Now that I think about it, I was so stupid at that time, I didn't know how to look for my child when I lost it, and I waited for my son to come back every day with that thing, I really don't know what I thought.

I regret it, I regret that I didn't take good care of Xiaohu that day, I also hate, hate those traffickers who abducted Xiaohu, I am ashamed, I'm sorry for Lao Gao and his family. I...... Woohoo......"

It's over, talking and talking, Sister-in-law Zhang cried and sang again, and the last few sentences were unclear, obviously the rhythm of getting sick.

"Hey, Aunt Wang, calm down. Calm down, it's all in the past, you're a dead man yourself, don't be too sad. ”

"I ...... Woo...... I know, but I ...... I just can't help it...... Woohoo......"

"No, you have to hold back. ”

Seeing that the situation was about to be uncontrollable, I was so anxious that I was sweating profusely, and I really couldn't think of any good way, so I took out the small table lamp with a missing corner directly from my schoolbag and lit it in front of Sister-in-law Zhang.

"Aunt Wang. Look what this thing is!"

"Huh......? My ......"

"Don't move. Don't move, calm down!" finally attracted Sister-in-law Zhang's attention, and I quickly raised my hand to let her sit down in the chair. "Aunt Wang. This is that little lamp for your son. You just need to keep your emotions under control, and I'll give you things, okay?"

"Hmm. ”

"Then don't cry. Tears are wiped away. ”

"Well, it's all wiped clean. ”

"Okay, sit down, Aunt Wang, this small table lamp is in my hand first, let me ask you a few questions, let's finish speaking, and the things will be given to you, how about it?"

"Okay, you ask. ”

Sister-in-law Zhang wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded solemnly, and when she stopped smoking, I finally put my mind at ease.

"Well, Aunt Wang, before I ask you a question, there is a sentence that I will say first. It's been ten years since your son was lost, and you can't turn back the clock even if you dry your tears. So no matter what we think of for a while, don't be too sad. Of course, you don't have to have any psychological burden, I'm purely curious about this small table lamp itself, let's just talk casually, don't be nervous, understand?"

"Hmm. ”

"Okay, then let me ask you first, do you know that this small lamp has a person's thief spirit attached to it?"

"Huh, what's a thief?"

"Uh, well, when I didn't ask. The second question is, can you tell me more about the process of the day your son was lost? If you don't want to remember, then don't say it, don't force it. ”

"I ...... It's okay. It's been almost a decade, and it's time for me to be honest. ”

"Huh, honestly?"

Sister-in-law Zhang came to such a sentence without beginning and end, which made me a little confused, but I was not allowed to ask clearly, she had already begun to tell about the situation back then.

"It was March 20 of '98 and I'll never forget it.

After work that afternoon, I went to the kindergarten to pick up Xiaohu home, and the kindergarten was at the door of my compound, and I stopped by the way home. But when I got there, Xiaohu's teacher told me that his father had taken Xiaohu away.

When I got home, I saw that only Dani was doing her homework at home, and I just thought that Xiaohu's father had taken Xiaohu out to play, so I was busy making dinner.

When I cooked and it was dark, I went out to find the little tiger and the two to go home for dinner. But I couldn't find it left and right, but I saw that this small table lamp was broken and thrown on the side of the road outside the family home.

At first, I thought that children would be hot for three minutes, and they wouldn't want to play for a day, and Xiaohu's father didn't care. So I thought about waiting for Xiaohu to come back and train them well.

But I waited for a long time and didn't see them come back, so I went door to door in the compound to ask if anyone saw Xiaohu and their grandfather, and was asking, Xiaohu's father came back, and when we met, Xiaohu's father said that he worked overtime to come back so late, and he didn't take Xiaohu home at all.

We hurried home to see it, but Xiaohu didn't come back, and it was at that time that I realized that the child was lost.

I lost it and never got it back......"

Sister-in-law Zhang stopped at this point, her tone was dull and her expression was wooden, as if she was narrating something that had nothing to do with her. Looking at him like this, I suddenly remembered Mr. Lu Xun's sister-in-law Aqing, I don't know if the middle-aged women who have lost their children are like this.

At this moment, Sister-in-law Zhang's eyes stared directly at the small table lamp in my hand and stopped talking.

I followed her gaze and looked down, and I saw the missing corner on the base, and my heart moved, and I quickly asked: "Aunt Wang, is this little table lamp the day Xiaohu lost it?"

"Yes. ”

"Did you find the missing piece later?"

"No, I always felt that the missing piece was still in Xiaohu's hands, maybe where he is now, looking at that foot and thinking about his mother......"

Sister-in-law Zhang recalled the past, I did not rush to answer, but looked at the small table lamp in my hand like her and fell into deep thought.

The disappearance of Zhang's sister-in-law's son, Xiaohu, was so common that I could even match it with the surveillance footage of the child's disappearance reported on the TV news. Missing children cannot be recovered. There are countless such things, and besides, it's been ten years, and it's impossible for me to use a small lamp to find that little tiger in the ghost village.

Therefore, things have developed to this point, and the robot cat small table lamp has no meaning to me at all, and I can return it to Sister-in-law Zhang.

But in fact, I can't return it yet, because there is still a man's devouring spirit stored on the lamp. Old man Huang of the Human Soul Research Center said that this kind of thing that stores souls is harmful to ordinary people, and Lin Na's hospitalization just proves this.

Therefore. Before returning it to Sister-in-law Zhang. I'm going to get someone to help dispel the spirits from the lamp.

Then the problem is, if the thief devourer on this is an unrelated person, or Wu Ming found a special one to raise Su Qian, it doesn't matter if he dispels it. But in case the thief is Zhang's son's. That's trouble. Maybe that little tiger isn't dead yet. If I destroy his thief spirit here, I will harm him.

So the most important thing at the moment is to determine who the thief eater is, and at the very least, to know when the thief eater was attached to the small table lamp.

The only person who can directly solve this problem is Wu Ming. But he couldn't be found for the time being.

There is only one stupid way to do it, and that is to find out who has touched this small table lamp.

Since the table lamp was bought the day before Xiaohu lost it, it was from that time to investigate.

As soon as I thought of this, I looked up at Sister-in-law Zhang, tried to organize the language, and asked softly: "Aunt Wang, Xiaohu was lost in the kindergarten at your doorstep, and his teacher didn't see anyone take Xiaohu away? At the very least, there should be a surveillance video in front of the kindergarten, right?"

"Nope. At that time, it was the end of school, and there were all children playing crazy outside, as well as students returning from school at the nearby elementary school, and the children of about the same age in the compound were all playing together, who could look at one alone. There is no surveillance, who has the money to install surveillance at the entrance of the kindergarten in 98. Besides, if there was surveillance, Xiaohu would have been found a long time ago. ”

"Oh?

Hearing Sister-in-law Zhang's explanation, I felt that there was a fatal contradiction in her words, that is, since the teacher clearly said that it was Xiaohu's father who picked people up, how could he say that he didn't see it. If this is a kindergarten teacher shirking responsibility, then it is easy to understand, but Sister-in-law Zhang said it so naturally, it is really incomprehensible.

Forget about that, let's continue with the topic just now.

I gently shook the things in my hand and said to Sister-in-law Zhang: "No one pays attention to Xiaohu, and there is no surveillance video, so I don't know how Xiaohu lost it, that is, I can't be sure that anyone has touched this small table lamp?"

"Huh, what does this have to do with the little table lamp?"

"Of course it does. Aunt Wang, I just told you that there is a person's thief spirit attached to this small table lamp. You don't care what this thief eater is, you just need to know and determine who this thief eater is, and I can determine whether Xiaohu is dead or not, or find out who kidnapped Xiaohu. ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. However, there is a premise, that is, this thief devouring spirit must appear on the table lamp on the day Xiaohu lost it. So I need Aunt Wang to carefully recall who has touched this small table lamp. ”

"Okay, I think about it, I think about it. I bought this small table lamp the first day, and Xiaohu has been holding it since then, and when I went to kindergarten the next day, I also held it, and no one was allowed to touch it. Aside from me, there was only the trafficker who kidnapped Xiaohu. Oh, no, there's ......."

Sister-in-law Zhang wanted to speak and stopped, and I couldn't help but ask urgently, "Who else?"

But as soon as I asked like this, Sister-in-law Zhang's face suddenly changed, and she hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, no, it's just me and Xiaohu." ”

"Are you sure?Aunt Wang, you have to think clearly, there is so little information, it is not conducive to me to get Xiaohu back. ”

"I don't remember, I really don't remember. Don't ask again, don't ask again!"

Sister-in-law Zhang shook her head and stood up, as if she had been greatly stimulated, and rushed out of the interrogation room without looking back.

I really didn't expect that I just pressed a question, and she became like this, and hurriedly chased her out to appease her.

It's just that there are a few police uncles standing outside the door, and when they saw Sister-in-law Zhang, they couldn't help but control people. It wasn't until this moment that I remembered that Sister-in-law Zhang was also one of those who gathered a crowd to flee in Xiyufeng, and according to the regulations, she was to be detained again.

Hu Hai and Xu Lang were not there, and the police uncle here didn't know me, so naturally he wouldn't give me a chance to be alone with Sister-in-law Zhang.

Sitting alone on the bus back to school, looking at the small table lamp of the robot cat in my hand, I felt a stone in my heart, and it was difficult to relax.

Sister-in-law Zhang must have hidden something, maybe what she said to me was not all true, otherwise she wouldn't have remembered someone at the end of the day, and didn't say who that person was.

But who could be this person she was hiding?

The same people who have come into contact with the small table lamp of the robot cat.

Is it Wu Ming?

It shouldn't be, Sister-in-law Zhang may not even know who Nameless is, and what we talked about before was the day Xiaohu was lost.

Could it be that there is another hidden reason for Xiaohu's disappearance?

Along the way, I tried my best to recall Sister-in-law Zhang's words and the news I got from Hu Hai before, but I couldn't figure it out after thinking about it.

And so it went all the way back to Tiandao University.

When I got off the bus, I hadn't even reached the school gate when I saw the fat man helping Linna get out of the taxi from a distance.

We took a look at each other, and Lin Na nodded slightly at me and said softly, "Yan Shifei, thank you for letting Dr. Huang go to see me." ”

"Huh?"

Lin Na said something for no reason, so I didn't react for a while, but the fat man next to me winked at me and explained: "Old Yan, didn't you ask Old Man Huang to go to the hospital to see Lin Na." Old man Huang told us, thank you. ”

I wonder why they said that I asked Old Man Huang to go to the hospital, could it be that the fat man deliberately let Old Man Huang say this in order to ease the conflict between me and Lin Na?

I couldn't figure it out, but I still nodded and replied: "Don't thank me, in fact, I still hurt Lin Na to be sick, I really didn't know that those small table lamps were attached to people's souls, otherwise Lin Na would be fine." Oh, by the way, fatty, did you take out those little lamps?"

"Well, I asked Lin Na's roommates to help take them out, Liang Tianyu and them should have been sent to the Spirit Academy office by this time. ”

"Okay, then I'll go back and have a look. ”

I said hello and turned to leave, but Lyna suddenly stopped me.

"Wait a minute, Yan is right and wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"I heard Shi Dalong say that you are looking for Dragon Claw Huai, right?"

"That's right. ”

"I know where. ”

"Really?"

Lin Na suddenly came out with such a sentence, which made me excited all of a sudden, and asked urgently, "Where is the dragon claw locust?"

"In that ghost grove between the special academy and the ordinary academy. (To be continued......)