Chapter 10: The Third Brother

I wake up naturally at six o'clock every day, and I have been like this for so many days.

When I went downstairs, I went to Zhang Xin's door to take a look, and found that the door was open.

Another thief has come in?

I was almost ready to catch the thief, but I gently pushed the door open, and decided to catch the thief by surprise.

The first time I walked into the room, my eyes widened.

Zhang Xin is combing her hair with her back to me!

"Zhang Xin, you, how did you come back?" I stammered in amazement.

"When I came back in the middle of the night, I lost my key and kicked the door open." Zhang Xin was wearing white short sleeves, looking back at me with a ponytail in one hand.

This is not surprising, the lock has been changed, and with Zhang Xin's character, it will definitely be kicked open.

"Did you lose something?" When I said this, my heart hung up, Zhang Xin's note was still with me, if she found out, no matter how I explained it, it would be no reason to snoop on others**!

"Lost something?" Zhang Xin continued to comb her hair in the mirror.

"Yesterday your room was burglarized, and your house was in chaos, didn't you notice?"

"I thought you sorted it out, so I didn't care too much, since I didn't lose anything, forget it." Zhang Xin tied her hair with a hairpin with her backhand.

Zhang Xin's statement doesn't make sense, I don't have the key to her room, so it's impossible to go in and help her clean up the room, if I go to clean up her things, she won't have to cut me off.

"That's good, I haven't been able to get through to your phone, I don't know when you'll be back, I didn't expect to come back so soon." I stood in the doorway, hesitating how to explain it all to her.

"None of this matters, I have something to ask you." Zhang Xin was silent for more than ten seconds before she spit out this sentence.

"You say." In addition to being surprised, I always felt a little uneasy.

Zhang Xin took out a card from the drawer of the dresser, walked over and put it in front of my eyes: "Look, do you know where this place is?" ”

The picture was a little blurry, and I reached out to take the photo to confirm it carefully, but Zhang Xin moved the photo back.

I retracted my hand and smiled awkwardly.

"Remember?" She continued.

"I didn't see the picture clearly, and you know, I had amnesia." I was helpless.

She took back the photo, didn't seem to believe me, and glanced at me several times.

"This is a position that only you know." Her sure tone was very oppressive to me.

"But I have amnesia, and you don't know."

Zhang Xin nodded, so cold that she had no expression: "If you're okay, go back to your room first, I'm tired and want to sleep." ”

After speaking, Zhang Xin closed the door with a bang.

I took a few steps to the door of my room, deliberately walking very loudly, then pretended to open and close the doorknob, and then walked to the door of Zhang Xin's room as if I were walking on thin ice.

Symbolically knocking on the door a few times, Zhang Xin shouted in the room, "Come in." ”

I didn't go into Zhang Xin's room, I just stood in front of the crack in the door and asked into the room, "Did you receive the text message I sent you?" ”

"The phone is off."

I see, I said how Zhang Xin didn't answer my phone for no reason, and didn't even reply to text messages.

I went back to my room. Sit at your desk.

Amnesia, meeting Zhang Xin, the foursome, the rescue of strangers, Zhang Xin's old friend, no matter what happens, it is not a simple accident.

I sat down at my desk, took out a black gel pen from the pen holder that could still write, found a white piece of paper, and wrote all the points I had doubts on it.

Staring at the paper in front of me, I tried to sort out a clue from it, but there was no breakthrough.

Just when I was anxious, a person's name came to my mind, Hu Sheng, yes, that's right, it's him, he may be the interweaving point of the whole thing!

The person the foursome went to find must be this person named Hu Sheng, but why they took a picture of me, which makes me puzzled.

Step by step, I went downstairs to the print shop and waited for someone to arrive.

Knowing that no one had ever come into the print shop after twelve o'clock in the afternoon, I slapped the door of my head, and I didn't tear off the piece of paper that was attached to the door, no wonder no one came.

I got up and was about to walk out the door, when I saw the skinny boy who appeared at the door in the morning with a school bag on his back.

"Is it still open?" He asked me.

"Business, business." I ripped the note off the door.

He carried a dusty schoolbag on his back, and with a dusty face, he took out the USB flash drive, and I was about to reach out to pick it up, but he put the USB flash drive on the table and said softly: "Print Wang Tao's." ”

While helping him print, I asked, "Is that Wang Tao bullying you?" ”

His face was stubborn and silent.

"You're bullied by him a lot, aren't you? If you tell me, I might be able to help you. "I moved the mouse and didn't pay attention to his expression.

He still didn't speak.

By the time I looked back at him, he was in tears.

I hurriedly handed him the tissue, and he shook his head, wiped it with his arm, and said, "No need." ”

He may have been bullied since he was a child, so he formed such an autistic personality.

"I, when I was a child, I was bullied by others, and I didn't want to tell others, I thought in my heart, one day, I would surpass him and live better than him. I thought I could keep going, but one day I couldn't hold it anymore and cried for a long time to an old man who sold fruit on the street. And guess what happened? "I asked him on purpose to get him to communicate with me.

"So you're in your thirties and still working in a print shop?" He's really upright.

"No, no, no. This doesn't matter, what I'm going to tell you is that the old man who sells fruit is actually the grandfather of the person who bullied me, and his grandfather criticized him severely, and since then, he has never bullied me again. "I don't remember the past, and I'm not ashamed to lie.

He first looked at me with strange eyes, and that expression seemed to despise my intelligence.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm going to be very uncomfortable." I don't know how to communicate with him, he's still a ten-year-old kid after all, and I think maybe a story similar to chicken soup for the soul will have a good effect on him.

He stopped looking at me, looking down at something.

"What are you thinking?" I handed him the printed documents and USB flash drive in a bag.

He put the bag in his bag, turned and left.

He didn't take two steps, he turned around and walked back, his face flushed: "I, I forgot to bring money, can I give it to you tomorrow?" ”

"It's okay, just treat it as if I invited you."

"Thank you, I'll definitely give it to you tomorrow."

With that, he took a step and ran out, and I shouted, "By the way, what's your name?" ”

"Li Yan."

Watching him carry his schoolbag and his skinny figure sway through the crowd, I suddenly sat down in the computer chair, not knowing what I was doing.

A few clicks, I followed the sound and looked, it was Zhang Xin.

She wears slim-fitting jeans and high heels that rise higher than her feet.

She looked out the door, took a pen and wrote on the paper while saying loudly: "Tomorrow, we will leave for the place in the photo, I will go to find someone later, buy the necessities, you are responsible for remembering where this place is, the matter is urgent, there is no time." ”

I don't know why she thinks I can remember the place in the photo today, and from her behavior, I think she said it on purpose.

I looked at the words she wrote on the paper: there are monitors in the store, someone is watching us, don't talk nonsense when the time comes, everything is to listen to me.

As soon as I saw this passage, I felt familiar, and the note thrown to me by the strange man who rescued me read: Listen to Zhang Xin, you will know everything.

What's the connection?

I don't know.

Since there was a monitor in the print shop, I thought about going outside with her to talk, so I made an excuse: "I haven't eaten since the morning, let's go have a meal." ”

She folded the paper and hid it in her pocket: "Okay. ”

I took her to the Sichuanxiang restaurant that Zhang Xin took me to and ordered the same dish.

"What the hell is going on?" I wanted to slap the table and pour out all the questions.

"Don't get excited, some things can't be explained clearly for a while, your spirit is too fragile to bear it." Zhang Xin looked out the door.

"The reason for your amnesia has to do with where we're going." Zhang Xin took out a napkin and wiped her mouth and said, "You don't need to think about that place, I know where it is, I will gather some people over later, you just tell the place in front of them." ”

At the very least, she told me more information, and if it was really like hers, the cause of my amnesia was where we were going, then I had to go.

"In Qinling, that's what you say, and how you behave depends on your acting skills."

I didn't speak, looking at her seriously.

"You try to avoid answering their questions, and if they ask other questions, you just say you don't know." Zhang Xin has been vigilant outside.

"How did you know there were monitors in the store?" I spent much more time in the print shop every day than Zhang Xin, and I didn't notice anything unusual, but Zhang Xin noticed this.

"You don't care about it, anyway, I'm not wrong. You...... Rest, here they come. Zhang Xin stopped looking out the door and turned to look directly at me.

I also looked at him, confused, not knowing who was coming.

After a while, an old man came with two young men.

"This is the third brother." Zhang Xin got up and introduced me to the old man in the lead.

"Third brother? Shouldn't it be the third master? I blurted out.

Zhang Xin gave me a blank look: "How do you speak?" Be careful that the third brother teaches you! ”

I reluctantly called out, "Three...... Hello brother. ”

The old man was smoking a cigarette, his hair was pale, and the wrinkles on his face could be stacked arhats, so he was actually called the third brother.

I saw the third brother take off the cigarette on his mouth with his hand covered with age spots, click, and then said happily: "You are really a noble person who forgets things, even the third brother has forgotten." ”

"Isn't he having amnesia?" Zhang Xin said with a smiling face.

"Come, third brother, sit." I couldn't bear to embarrass Zhang Xin, although I didn't know this third brother at all, I still pulled out a stool and asked him to sit.

"This is Yangzi, you have a good conversation with him. This one is Brother Kuroko. Zhang Xin introduced me to the three people who came over one by one.

Yangzi is burly, at least 1.8 meters tall, and has an obvious scar on the left side of his face.

Brother Kuroko, as his name suggests, has dark skin, and is about the same height as me, why does his name sound so similar to a dog's name? I snickered inwardly.

These two people are not as shelf-friendly as the unworthy third brother, they are much more easy-going, and they sat down in the two seats next to me.

Zhang Xin beckoned the waiter to come and order.

The third brother sat next to Zhang Xin, snorting a cigarette and flipping through the menu slowly, like an old man enjoying an opera.

"Third brother, what do you think of this?" Zhang Xin asked, pointing to a place on the menu.

"It's not good, it's too light." The third brother shook his almost bald head.

"Then third brother, what do you think of this?"

"It's not good, I like meat."

The waiter may have been in a hurry, and recommended to the third brother: "Uncle, the taste of snakes in our store is very good, do you want to try it?" ”

The third brother's eyes changed suddenly, the wrinkles on his face became more and more wrinkled, and he slapped the menu on the table again, and said angrily: "Do you want to speak?" ”

This time, the waiter girl was so scared that she almost didn't cry, and she stood aside with a red face and didn't dare to squeak.

"Forget it, third brother, don't be like him." Zhang Xin took the menu and whispered a few words of comfort to the waiter's sister, and then ordered the dish.

"Some people just look down on people and think I'm an old man when they look at me." The third brother is still there angry.

You still look down on people, who thinks you're not a bad old man? I thought to myself.

"Brother Sheng, how did you lose your memory?" Yangzi looked at me and asked.

Brother? Is this my nickname? If Yangzi hadn't asked me that, I don't think I would have known that I still had such a nickname.

"I don't know, I don't even know what my name is." I replied according to Zhang Xin's meaning.

The third brother spit out smoke rings, none of his teeth made me feel uncomfortable when I saw them, all of them were yellow and black, and he grinned and said: "He's a waste now, you see, he doesn't remember anything, what's the use, haha." ”

Hearing him say this, I was so angry in my heart, it wasn't for Zhang Xin's constant glances at me and the fact that he still looked like an old man, I really wanted to beat him in the face.

In desperation, I broke the jar and laughed stupidly.

"Third brother, don't say that, we don't know how he lost his memory, don't be kidding. Besides, only he knows where he is going. Zhang Xin asked the waiter to serve a bottle of high-strength liquor.

"Yes, yes, he's still useful." The third brother pointed at me with chopsticks and laughed.

I wanted to stick those chopsticks into his nostrils that were almost on his face, but I had to force a smile, and it was ugly to think about it.

Yangzi poked me with his elbow, leaned close to me and whispered in my ear: "Third brother is like this, don't care too much about what he says." ”

I smiled wryly and nodded.

"Come, third brother, have a few drinks with Brother Yangzi Heizi." Zhang Xin stood up and poured wine for us.

"And what does he remember?" The third brother took a sip of the liquor that Zhang Xin had just poured for him.

Zhang Xin took out the card from her body and handed it to me.

I remembered Zhang Xin's words, and looking at my acting skills, I had to take the card and pretend to think about it.

The picture on the card depicts a pitch-black hole, the size of a well, and next to it are mossy bricks.

It would have been too boring for me to do this scene dryly, so I leaned my card against the cup, rested my forehead on the edge of the table, and turned my face to the ground so that they could not see my expression, so that I could last a little longer.

Fortunately, they didn't pay any attention to me and started eating and drinking.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't have such an impression at all, but my acting skills required me to pretend that I suddenly realized.

Just as a few of them were drinking and eating, I suddenly said, "I remembered." ”

Then I didn't say anything, I wanted to wait for the third brother to ask me.

After I said that, they all looked at me, and no one said a word.

"Where, you say?" Zhang Xin helped me round the field.

"In Qinling!" I followed Zhang Xin's words and said them as they were.

"Qin Ling?" The third brother turned the wine glass in his hand thoughtfully.

"In that case, shall we leave tomorrow?" Zhang Xin seemed to be asking for the third brother's opinion.

The third brother closed his eyes and thought for a long time, then suddenly opened his eyes and glared at me and asked, "Are you sure you are in Qinling?" ”

As soon as he asked, I suddenly felt weak, but I didn't feel ashamed at all when I was a person with no memory, but I felt a little awkward in my heart, and there was no hole in my facial expression.