Chapter 21: Distress in the Deep Alley
In the dark basement, he wore a mask, a white glove in his left hand, and a piece of photo paper that had just been soaked in the potion in his right hand, with a satisfied expression through the mask, he held the washed photo high above his head and looked up at the image that gradually appeared on the photo paper, just like admiring a precious work of art, suddenly, he frowned, and tore the photo in his hand in shame, he tore off his mask and put the fragment of the photo paper to his mouth and kissed it gently, and then stuffed it into his mouth, chewing slowly like chewing gum.
Through the basement window, there was a series of photographs pasted on the wall, he squinted and slowly admired them, his slender fingers gently caressing them, one after another, he stopped on the one he had just pasted, he suddenly bit his index finger, scarlet blood slowly flowed out, he laughed wildly, scribbling chaotically on the photos.
"Ryukitsu, did you see that?" Concubine Wu asked in a whisper with a hint in her eyes.
I looked at the place where Concubine Wu signaled, there was obviously no one there? I quickly floated to the tree, spread my hands and shook my head, indicating that there was nothing.
Concubine Wu boldly took the little girl's hand and walked over, "Strange, I just saw the shadow of a person here, why is there nothing?" Fei Wu frowned and looked around carefully.
"Hehe, you must have been frightened by this little girl's words!" I said in a relaxed tone.
"Really?" Concubine Wu couldn't tell if the sense of danger just now was really because of what Nan Nan said?
"Nannan, don't be afraid, can my sister help you find your parents?" I touched her little head and said, the poor little girl's face was a little pale because of the fright.
"Can you really see your mother?" It seems that because of hearing her parents, her eyes brightened.
"Well, my sister promised you that I would help you find your mom and dad!" I put my thumb on the little girl's index finger, "Okay, you won't regret it if you put a stamp!" I grinned.
Fei Wu looked at me as if she had a sense of déjà vu, an inexplicable trust, and she couldn't help but think of a vague figure.
"Yes, we'll help you find Mom and Dad!" Fei Wu held the little girl's other hand and said with a smile.
In the dense grass, a freshly discarded half-cut cigarette burned quietly, leaving only the last ash and scattered in the air by the wind.
We took Xiao Nan Nan to take the bus to the city center, because Fei Wu's school is in a university town, which is basically a suburb of the city, although we don't know how Xiao Nan came so far away, and asked her she said she didn't know either.
I got on the bus first, of course I didn't have to swipe the card, Fei Wu followed me and took out the bus card and swiped it, "Master, does she need to swipe it?" Fei Wu pointed to Nan Nan and asked, the driver turned his head and looked, his face was very strange and said lightly No, I think it must be the little beggar who scared the driver, but fortunately, the driver's eldest brother let her get on the bus, and even the ticket was free.
We found the last row to sit, today is not the weekend, so there are very few people in the car, only a few sporadic few, compared to the scene when I followed the concubine dance that day, I don't know how many times better, I can't help but sigh about those people's superb bus squeezing skills.
"Nannan, you sue us, do you know where Mom and Dad live?" I asked her with my head down.
Nan Nan seemed to be a little confused, she held her little head and searched carefully in her mind, she was a little resistant to these memories, she felt panicked, but the little belief that she wanted to return to her parents made her brave to face it, she seemed to have a vague memory, she could see a woman with her hair in a bun wearing a floral dress She smiled and shouted: "Good baby, Nan Nan!" She smelled her mother's smell on this woman's body, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and suddenly something tore up this picture, she was a little afraid, as if she had seen purgatory on earth, the corners of her mouth shrank and trembled, "Woo, they said that you can't see your mother until you have money!" She cried out loud.
Concubine Wu hurriedly hugged Nan Nan in her arms and whispered gently, "Nan Nan, don't be afraid, my sister is here, don't be afraid!" She comforted her and patted her on the back like a considerate mother, and we looked around again, but fortunately there was no one sitting away from us, only one or two people looked back at us in surprise.
After coaxing like this, it seemed that the love was finally gradually restored, and I looked at the concubine dance and said, "I feel like a child who has been abducted." "Huh?" Although Fei Wu also thought about it, she still felt a little unbelievable that she had encountered such a thing for the first time.
"Are we going to the police station to call the police?" She asked in a whisper.
"Even if we go, we may not be able to report the case, maybe the police will think she is a little beggar, and the police uncle will ask about her situation, and it is estimated that she will not be able to ask anything like now."
"So what do we do?" Fei Wu seemed to be encountering such a situation for the first time, and her expression was a little nervous.
"Otherwise, you should first go to the police station and ask if there is a child who has been lost recently to report the crime, if there is, tell me about it, if not, say how you react when you see a little beggar in the school who looks like a lost child."
"Huh? I went to the police station alone, and I never went before. The goddess's expression was a little embarrassed.
"I also want to accompany you, but I want to look at Nannan, if I let a ghost report the crime, the police won't be able to see me, so Fei Wu, only you can go." Concubine Wu's expression was a little embarrassed.
"Don't worry, the police uncles are all fine." I said comfortingly.
"How do you know, and how did you come up with it?"
"Well, on the computer, in the TV series, and in the novel." I said with a smile.
"Okay" I looked at Concubine Wu's expression as if I wanted to laugh but couldn't, and the corners of my mouth twitched slightly.
"Concubine Wu, you see that Nan Nan is so pitiful, didn't we promise to help her find her parents!" Nan Nan also seemed to feel it, staring at the goddess with pitiful little eyes.
"Hmm!" As if encouraged, Concubine Wu nodded.
Half an hour later, Fei Wu walked out of the police station, "How is it?" Fei Wu shook her head, "Uncle police said that no one has reported the case recently that the child has gone missing. Concubine Wu couldn't bear to look at the little eyes of Nan Nan in anticipation.
"It's okay, we can go to the police station in another city and ask." I held Concubine Wu's hand with my left hand, and with my right hand, I handed Xiao Nan's hand to Concubine Wu's other hand and held it.
"Okay." Concubine Wu held my hand and felt cold and comfortable.
We walked through a bustling commercial street together, looking for a bus to another city through the crowd, this commercial street is located in an old city, walking through a luxurious commercial building will see, there are some scattered lanes around, some of these lanes are sitting some old people, some places will have frolicking children, and then go deeper, it seems to come to a slum.
We walked past a garbage heap, which emitted an unbearable stench, and next to the garbage lay a beggar, if you didn't look closely, you would think that he had become one with the garbage, there were watermelon rinds eaten in the summer, and there were flies in them, and some unknown yellow liquid, colorful plastic bags piled together, and the beggar moved and scratched his lion's hair.
Fei Wu and I both covered our noses and walked away, only Nan Nan stopped, she stared at this garbage heap a little distracted, she seemed to be used to this smell and her brows would not wrinkle.
Concubine Wu walked over and pulled Nannan, who turned around and said to her, "Sister, I really want to come to this place, I think it's so familiar." After saying that, she went straight on, and Fei Wu and I followed her, and we didn't know if she remembered the way home.
In front of is a narrow alley, narrow can only allow one person to pass guò, we carefully followed behind Nan Nan, Fei Wu is the last to pass the alley, this alley has a lot of stones, and some discarded garbage, Fei Wu walked a little hard, she was wearing a pair of wedge sandals, accidentally hit her foot, just the moment she lowered her head and rubbed her feet, she heard the footsteps behind her, she quickly turned her head, and felt a shadow flash.
"Concubine Wu, are you okay?" I floated to Fei Wu with concern and wanted to help her.
"It's okay," she whispered, maybe she was hallucinating?
We continued to walk forward, through the narrow alleys, and through a few low houses with yards, in front of which there seemed to be a dilapidated factory, with some broken stone bricks piled up at the door, and some abandoned cement sand, looking at this abandoned factory, her mind seemed to keep remembering.
We took Nannan's hand and approached the factory, and saw that there seemed to be smoke and dust not far away, is there anyone here? Could it be that Nannan's parents live here?
Concubine Wu looked at me with the same puzzled eyes, and I nodded to her gesturely, maybe this is Nannan's home.
We walked slowly along the road paved with broken stone bricks towards the empty factory, and I felt Fei Wu's hand grasping me tightly, and she was a little scared. We walked in the direction of smoke and dust, and saw several children dressed in tatters, a boy a little older than 8 years old pulling a scooter with a thin child sitting on it, the child's legs seemed to have been amputated, he was paralyzed on the cart and could not move, his eyes were a little hollow and did not say a word, allowing several children around him to scold and laugh.
When the children saw us approaching, they immediately gathered around, they didn't have any interest in the same outfit, they pulled the skirt of the concubine dance tightly, "Sister, give me some money, woo, I haven't eaten for a long time!" "Sister, please give me some money, my brother is crippled and I have no money to support him!" Instant pleading, crying together, Fei Wu was a little frightened, she was surrounded by these children, some children took advantage of Fei Wu's inattention to secretly stretched out their hands to the small bag that Fei Wu carried, and was stopped by Fei Wu when she was about to unzip the bag, she held her small leather bag, looked at me with a look of help, I didn't know what to do in the face of these little beggars, I could only desperately want to pull Fei Wu out of the little beggar.
At this time, a man's roar came from not far away: "Big Tooth, how much money did you ask for today, why don't you hand it over quickly, be careful to break your legs like a small leather ball, what are you doing slowly?" With a fierce voice, the little beggars immediately stopped their movements and trembled with fright.
Before we could understand what was going on, a man with a shaved head came up with two vicious wolfdogs on a leash in his hands, and the man came impatiently, with a hideous expression and a large black mole growing from the corner of his mouth, and a hair on it.
As soon as he came over, he slapped the 8-year-old boy in the face, "Where's the money today?" The little boy shuddered and took out a broken bowl from the cart, which contained bits and pieces of gross tickets, "That's it?" The bald head took the bowl and pushed the boy to the ground with a palm, and then kicked the boy a few times, "Don't eat tonight!" ”
"What are you doing!" Concubine Wu couldn't see that the little boy was being bullied, so she screamed loudly.
"Yo, Lao Tzu is disciplining his own children, what does it matter to you." After the bald head finished speaking, he saw that the girl in front of him, who was about twenty years old, already had the body developed by a mature woman, the smooth and tender skin, the shawl hair accompanied by the body fragrance was tempting all the time, the chest was tall and plump, the bald eyes were slightly shining, and he had already felt the rise somewhere in his body.
Anyway, this is also Lao Tzu's territory, and he has an evil smile on the corner of his mouth.
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