Chapter 36: Humbert Humbert III
"I love you, I'm a monster, but I love you." - Lolita
The stone bench is placed around a lotus pond that has long since dried up, and a bronze statue is erected between the mud and dead branches and leaves.
Just now, Fei Du inadvertently raised his eyes, and happened to meet a pair of eyes reflected on the bronze statue.
After all, the bronze statue is not a mirror, the light and shadow are very blurry, and even the other party is a man and a woman, young and old, can not see clearly, but somehow, when he saw those eyes, Fei Du's heart tightened for no reason, and the vanilla puff that he had just swallowed was stuck in his chest, he subconsciously raised his head and followed the shadow on the bronze statue to look around-
There is no courtyard wall around this old community, several buildings are mixed together to form a gang of their own, and the boundary of the busy street is ambiguous, there is a bus stop nearby, because of the improper planning in the early years, has invaded the interior of the community, many people line up outside the bushes, a dial and a dial come and go, the business of several street shops is quite prosperous, it is close to noon, there are already people standing in front of several food stalls waiting for a seat.
The crowd was bustling, including residents of the community who came out in pajamas, passers-by who were active in the outer areas, private car owners who used the internal roads of the community as shortcuts, and couriers and food delivery people who ate and waited for seats......
The owner of those eyes was extremely alert, and had quietly disappeared into the sea of people, and Fei Du did not find a single suspicious sign.
He immediately stood up and said to Chenchen, "Let's go, let's go home." ”
Chenchen had no sense of crisis, and dragged a long "ah" in disappointment, and reluctantly looked at the snack bar on the street, she licked the residual cream on her fingers, rolled her eyes, and made a reasonable request to Fei Du: "I still have pocket money, you just invited me to eat a puff, otherwise I will invite back now, right?" I also want to eat a matcha one. ”
"Another day," Fei Du gently and indifferently pushed the back of her head, "it's time for lunch." ”
Chenchen was forced to stand up with him: "But I don't like to eat, I still have a lot of dishes that I don't like to eat.leenu/books/37/37761/
Dressed as a former voice actor in the pure love world. ”
"Well, actually, so am I," Fei Du very frankly admitted his prince's illness in front of the little girl, and then, as soon as he changed his voice, he added, "But it will be good when you grow up, and when you grow up, you will eat and buy whatever you like, and no one will find you a picky eater anymore." ”
Chen Chen looked up at him speechlessly, feeling that these adults were so shameless, at this time, she suddenly saw Fei Du's expression clearly, and was immediately stunned.
The pre-adolescent child is half a year old, and he already has some careful thoughts of his own, and can basically understand the face of an adult, Chenchen originally thought that Fei Du's words just now were playing with her, but when he looked up, he found that he was frowning slightly, and his face was a little too strict.
She couldn't help but get nervous, and reached out to grab the corner of Fei Du's clothes: "Big brother, what's wrong?" ”
While talking, the two passed by a residential building, the window of the corridor on the first floor just opened outward, unfolding an arc, Fei Du quietly let the little girl walk in front of him, kept bowing his head to talk to her, and when he walked here, he suddenly raised his eyes without warning.
I caught a pair of shadowy eyes on the clear window!
The man was wearing sunglasses and a mask, and his entire face was tightly wrapped. Fei Du pressed Chenchen's shoulder and turned his head quickly, and at the same time, about two hundred meters behind them, a person burrowed into the bushes next to him, and disappeared in an instant, Fei Du only saw his rickety figure and gray hair.
Old man?
Chenchen didn't know what was going on, and looked at him worriedly.
Fei Du's cold gaze penetrated the lenses on the bridge of his nose, swept over the crowd not far away, and asked, "Do you usually have someone to send to school?" ”
"Yes...... Yes," Chenchen said softly, "My parents are at home, they will pick me up, if they are not there, my sister will take me on the subway, if my sister also works overtime, I will stay at the school for a while, the school has a special teacher to manage." ”
Fei Du nodded thoughtfully, and asked again, "Have you ever seen a strange old man nearby?" ”
Chen Chen thought about it for a moment and shook his head at him with doubt.
The two of them quickly walked into the residential building, the light gray old building cut off the view from the shadows, and after a while, an old man with a rickety back slowly walked out from behind the bus stop sign.
He covered his face, wore huge sunglasses on his face, and held a crutch in his hand, like a man with poor eyesight, and tapped back and forth on the ground with his pathfinder crutch.
The people around him were each plugged in with their headphones, mostly indifferently fiddling with their phones, not paying attention to his staggering steps.
The lenses of the look are his excellent cover, the sunlight cannot penetrate, but the greedy gaze can.
The gaze had traveled a long way, piercing through time and space, staring at the place where the little girl had just been.
Her floral dress seemed to dance with a floating light, and the crystal hairpin reflected a clear little face, the only bright color in the whole world as far as he could see, and the childish silhouette burned violently the moment it met his eyes, leaving a layered outline on his retina.
But the forbidden fruit was guarded by the terrible basilisk, and he remembered the gaze of the man beside the girl, and ducked into the shadows in fear, fear and longing converged into a unique heartbeat, and he pursed his lips thirstily, and fell back heavily, leaning against the trunk of a tree, his chest heaving violently, and he was fascinated in the thrill of his heart.
It's like a person who is drowning or taking drugs.
After a puff meal, the elevator had been repaired, and Fei Du pressed the twelfth floor and entered the elevator with Chenchen.
Chen Chen cautiously asked, "Brother, what happened just now?" ”
Fei Du paused, but did not comfort the girl: "I saw a very suspicious person - remember in the future, when you are alone with adults, you should pay more attention to yourself.leenu/books/37/37759/
Born special forces. ”
"I know, I'm in the graduating class at the beginning of school, and I'm not a first-grade child," Chenchen imitated the tone of an adult, breaking his fingers and counting one by one, "Keep your distance from strangers, don't eat what strangers give, strangers ask for help, politely ask them to find the police ......"
"People who are not strangers should be more careful," Fei Du knocked on her head, "Don't get into an adult's car alone, and don't stay alone with an adult in a place where no one else is there - like now, it's not safe for you to stay with me, what if I'm a bad person?" ”
Chen Chen covered his head and stared at the man who called himself a bad guy with wide eyes: "Huh? ”
"Including the teachers at your school, but also the grandfather and grandmother who don't seem to be able to move easily, remember?"
Chenchen couldn't help but shudder, at this time, the elevator reached the twelfth floor, the iron door opened, and she asked in a low voice, "Why?" Brother, I'm a little scared. ”
"It's good to know that you're afraid, because good things are like porcelain," Fei Du stretched out his hand to block the elevator door, motioning for the girl to go out first, "The most dangerous thing for them is often not the cat running around the room. ”
"What's that?"
Fei Du looked into the girl's eyes and said softly, "It's the porcelain itself that doesn't realize it's fragile. ”
Luo Wenzhou was in front of the meter box, holding a cigarette in his mouth, leaning against the wall and waiting for them.
"You two have to buy a fuse for half a year?" Luo Wenzhou took out the flashlight and the word change cone and put them aside, "If you don't come back, the frozen fish in the refrigerator will escape from prison and abscond." ”
As if seeking a sense of security, Chenchen stepped away from his short legs and ran into the house quickly.
Fei Du took the cone from Luo Wenzhou's hand, dismantled the meter box very skillfully, took off the burned out safe, and then used the old-fashioned fuse to turn a few times at both ends of the line, twisted it gently, and did not ask for pliers, directly used the cone head of the word cone to cut off the small section of the safety, he reached out and pulled it twice, to ensure that the installation was strong, and pushed the switch back on.
There was a "beep-" sound from the room behind him, and the refrigerator and air conditioner were resurrected at the same time, and the whole process did not take more than a minute, and the cigarette that Luo Wenzhou was holding in his mouth next to him had not had time to light it.
Luo Wenzhou looked at him and suddenly realized that Fei Du had completely departed from the category of a teenager and was a man.
When he looked at Fei Du, his vision was often divided - when he was in a tit-for-tat confrontation, Luo Wenzhou felt that Fei Du was a dangerous scourge, with a bad temperament, lawlessness, and the possibility of exploding at any time, and he would be beaten with one mouth, especially if he couldn't speak human words.
And when he is rarely calm, he always thinks of the thin boy who shrunk at the door of the villa, sometimes he worries about him, and sometimes he involuntarily overcares for him - it is a big brother-style care.
I don't know if Fei Du just crossed the line in the stairwell to provoke, suddenly, Luo Wenzhou's perspective that was divided into two actually had a little meaning to be one, deviations and fallacies corrected each other, and finally wiped out a small piece of objective clarity - Fei Du is neither a dangerous anti-social, nor a poor little boy, he is first and foremost a man, and a very good-looking young man, informed and interesting, with a blatant hypocrisy, with a pipa on his body and a half-covered face written "Welcome to sleep at any time".
Luo Wenzhou thought that if he wasn't Fei Du, just a stranger passing by on the street or in a bar, he would probably be the type that makes people think about it for a while.
But...... Why is there a precondition of "if he is not Feidu"?
Luo Wenzhou thinks about life, and even when he eats, he is a little absent-minded - Tao Ran's dining table is not enough, and many dishes can't be put on the table, so he has to be served directly to divide it, Luo Wenzhou didn't pay attention, scooped a large piece of "white sugar elbow" in the small plate in Fei Du's hand, and put it in before he remembered that this place belonged to "below the knee", and the young master didn't eat it.
Luo Wenzhou paused, and before he could speak, he saw Fei Du poke lightly with the tip of his chopsticks, frowning and staring at the hoof for a moment, and then put it in his bowl with a disgusted expression, his expression seemed to smell the smell of imported cat food.
The pet maid is the last.
Luo Wenzhou: "......"
Sure enough, what "below the knee", what "pharyngitis", are all the grandsons of this bastard's thing.
In addition to the group of people in the city bureau, Fei Du and Chang Ning are both extroverted and talkative types, and they can quickly blend into the atmosphere, looking not like outsiders at all, Lang Qiao also put on a foreign dog horn, brought two bottles of red wine, except for minors, one person poured a glass, and warmly celebrated Deputy Tao joining the army of house slaves and dogs.
Lang Qiao cleverly saw the thick single arrow between Tao Ran and Chang Ning, and in front of Chang Ning, he improvised and orally organized a "Tao Vice Praise", from how Tao Ran loves his job and dedication to his love of life and small animals, and listed all kinds of arduous struggles made by Tao Deputy Team over the years in order to protect the vast number of "broken urges" and the ghostly Captain Luo, and finally under Luo Wenzhou's smiling gaze, her voice changed vividly, and made up a beautiful suitor for Tao Ran out of thin air, which scared Tao Ran and hurriedly made up, Plead with this benefactor not to be innocent for no reason.
"Brother Tao is really patient," Fei Du interjected at the right time to ease the embarrassment, "I will definitely be a model father if I have children in the future, and I didn't cause him much trouble when I was a child." ”
Tao Ran waved his hand again and again.
Chang Ning looked at him curiously.
Fei Du took a sip of red wine: "My mother didn't have to be early, Brother Tao happened to be a police officer who dealt with my mother's case at the time, my father didn't care about me at that time, he took care of me for a while - in fact, I was more than ten years old at that time, even if no one took care of it, I couldn't starve to death, but I only knew what it meant to 'live seriously' from him, sister, don't look at him as a blind person, in fact, take care of others, and he can think of anything for you." ”
Chang Ning listened to this group of people selling Tao Ran word by word, and he didn't feel anything else, so he first felt the good popularity of Tao Vice, and couldn't help but smile at Tao Ran.
Tao Ran's amount of wine was originally stronger than "a cup poured", he was poured most of the red wine, his head was already dizzy, and he was targeted by the lover in his dream with a smile, his whole person completely lost his thinking function, and he was so embarrassed that he began to babble nonsense: "No, no, really...... Really no, I didn't take care of Xiaofeidu alone at that time, everyone cared about you, and even my master would often ask a few words when he heard about it later...... Who else is that-Wen Zhou, don't look at him and don't usually say it, in fact, he has secretly visited you several times, and he still asked me to ...... your game console."
Luo Wenzhou heard that the voice was wrong, and hurriedly gave him a kick under the table, but it was too late.
Tao Ran's little remaining sense of balance was wiped out under his feet, and the whole person was crooked on one side, knocking down a cardboard box containing miscellaneous items that he hadn't had time to pack up next to him.
All kinds of professional books, idle books, literary folders, and notebooks fell to the ground in a hurry.
Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou were guarding a table corner, each frozen.
Lang Qiao heartlessly elbowed Luo Wenzhou: "It's really fake, boss, you still did this, it's so embarrassing." ”
Luo Wenzhou: "......"
Knowing that you are embarrassed, you still spread the word!
He stood up against Fei Du's heavy gaze, coughed dryly, and stood up to clean up the cardboard box that Tao Ran had touched.
"It's not productive, and when you drink too much, you talk nonsense." Luo Wenzhou stiffly changed the topic, picked up a yellowed notebook and shook the ashes, "Hey, why are Master's old notes here?" ”
Before he could speak, a pencil portrait of a man fell out of his notebook, with a man with upright features and a polite style, but there was something dark and dull in his eyes that looked out of the paper.
The date on the drawing paper is more than 20 years ago, and there is a note written in the corner.
"Wu Guangchuan - the bodies of the six girls have not yet been found."