After two days of work, Da Mao was really sleepy, so he made up for sleep in the lounge of the housekeeper center.

For some reason, he dreamed for a while and woke up for a while, and he couldn't sleep in a trance. Looking up at the wall clock pointing to 8:15 p.m., he lifted the coat over his stomach and walked out.

The greenway in the cherry blossom apartment is quiet and pleasant, especially in the summer, and it is a great place to escape the heat. But there was no one else here to escape the summer. The faint coolness created by the green plants is naturally not as good as the strong cold air blown by the central air conditioner, and the mosquitoes are rampant, so the owners generally do not come here to enjoy the coolness.

Finding a stone pier to sit down, he couldn't help but sigh. The unpleasant conversation with Yang Qianye in the afternoon has been stuck in his heart, and he regrets his abruptness.

"Here's it."

A familiar voice sounded in his ears, and when he looked up, Yang Qianye handed over a bag of things and stood in front of him with a smile.

"What?" He was in ecstasy, but he did not declare it.

Chiba sat down sideways in the same direction as him, and he subconsciously moved to the side.

"Water chestnut, brought from my hometown."

Open the bag, lots of horn-shaped black items.

Chiba continued, "The raw water chestnut is red, and it is produced in autumn, and these are from last year, but they taste better. Peel it open and eat it directly, or fry the tomatoes and boil the porridge is also good. ”

"It's weird, it's like a cow's horn." Da Mao took out a piece facing the sky, and the water chestnut was like an upturned beard on the disc-shaped moon, like a smiling face.

"The autumn heart is with you, wading through the water to look at the lotus. Ziling can also be picked, try to alleviate the sorrowful year. ”

Chiba recited "Cai Ling Song", and his eyes were infinitely melancholy.

"This is the first poem I learned, and my mother taught me. There is a big lake in our hometown, and water chestnuts are abundant there, and our children there like to eat it. One is fragrant and sweet, and the other is because it is fun, use a bamboo skewer or needle to prick a hole in the middle, and dig out the flesh little by little......"

"You can use it as a toy after eating." Da Mao guessed, she nodded.

"My mother especially likes to pick water chestnuts for me, and I ate a lot of them when I was a child. But I haven't eaten it for a long time, and even if I eat it again, it doesn't taste like that time. ”

"You miss the old days very much, and I also miss when I was a child, carefree, unlike now, when I am busy making a living, sometimes I don't know why I don't think about it. In fact, it's good to stay in my hometown, more than enough, at least I can stay with my family. Da Mao said and lowered his head sentimentally.

Chiba is in a different state of mind.

"Nostalgia is actually very luxurious, just a little, I'm afraid that I will think less once."

"You have to learn to be at peace with what happens, I was also uncomfortable in the first year after coming to Lucheng, but now it's okay, and I'm completely adapted to life here."

"I can't get used to it, my heart is messed up."

"I'm sorry today, I shouldn't have asked you about it, but please believe that I have no ill intentions." Taking the opportunity, Da Mao opened his mouth to apologize.

Chiba just shook his head slightly, and the two dimples rippled with friendliness, and there was no anger at all in the afternoon.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for your attitude." She said to Da Mao sincerely, "I did encounter some trouble, but it was solved temporarily." Please forgive me for not being inconvenient to tell you exactly what happened, but as a friend I promise that when the time is right, I will tell you if you wish to know. ”

"It's okay, you don't have to say anything, you don't have to tell me, as long as you're safe, I'll rest assured."

"With my strength, who else can harm me. Do you see that I didn't come back, and my mind is full of robbery and kidnapping? She joked.

"No, no, no, I believe that your strength is not something that ordinary people can get close to, but don't take it lightly. This is not alarmist, you know, in the past few months, there have been many people missing in Lucheng, and all of them have not been heard from, and the police have not solved the case. ”

"It's the same everywhere the police, I don't know how many cases have not been solved, and how many criminals are at large."

Remembering that the Lancheng police had sworn to judge Mo Lianzhi by accidentally falling, Chiba couldn't help but grit his teeth secretly.

"I'm going to be a police officer, I'm going to be a detective." Da Mao said proudly.

"Why?"

"Take these missing people, don't you see what they have in common?"

"Aren't they all running away from home?"

"No, I don't think they should have run away from home but been killed, and the criminals were the same or the same group."

"Why?"

"The missing people are all young adults, haven't you noticed?"

"It's normal for young people to run away, study pressure, work pressure, depression, anything. I sometimes want to run away, but it's not my home. Looking up at the building, Chiba pouted helplessly.

"Yes, you're right, but one thing missing, these people all had mobile phones connected but no one answered before they disappeared." Da Mao analyzed the matter, with a serious face.

"I don't understand, so what?"

"It's very simple, if you run away from home on your own initiative, you don't want to be discovered in the short term, and you will definitely turn off your phone. It's like suicide, people who really want to die quietly jump off the building in the middle of the night and hang themselves, or cut their wrists and burn charcoal in a place where no one lives, and those who don't want to die sit on the roof in public and cry and make a fuss. According to the families and friends of the missing persons, these people were able to get through to the phone at the beginning. For example, the student who disappeared on the way out of school, her mother cooked a meal, and when she saw that her daughter should come back at this time, she made a phone call, but she didn't answer. At that time, her mother thought or was still in school, maybe she didn't hear it on the road, so she didn't think about the bad thing, until she found out that the phone was turned off and realized that something was wrong. The same is true for the others, if they really take the initiative to run away, they will be unable to find it by shutting down early. ”

"It's possible to forget it for a while, you also said, although the mobile phone is connected, but it is not answered."

"You are wrong, people who have made a move to run away must be very careful and will not fail to think of these details."

"So where do you think they went? If you are killed, you should always order something, kidnap for ransom, open your mouth to ask for money, no. ”

"This ...... I didn't figure it out either. Da Mao got up, and he didn't notice that the two buttons of his uniform were out of place. He paced around like a great detective and continued to analyze. "The economic situation of these people is not particularly good in Lucheng, if they are seeking wealth, criminals can choose some good conditions, such as our community."

"Shhhh

"There's no one here, I'm just making an analogy. It doesn't make sense to have a picture, there are men and women, and the appearance is average. Come to think of it, there's only one possibility......"

"What is possible?"

"There's something special about these people, and it's the same thing."

"For example?"

"For example...... "Big Mao rolled his eyes mischievously," "the kidneys are very good, they were dug up and sold, or the brains are enough and transplanted." ”

"Don't scare me!" Chiba covers her ears.

Da Mao sat down beside her again, smirking.

"I'm kidding you."

"Don't say it, it's panicked and bloody just by listening to it...... But I don't see it, you still like to use your brain. ”

"Well, I like to read novels, reasoning and suspense, especially the Japanese one called Keigo Higashino. Once I finished watching his "White Night Walking" one night, I was excited for a while. ”

"A novel is a novel, and it's all fiction. In the novel, the good guys can get good rewards in the end, and the bad guys will be punished, but the reality is ......" The last pessimistic sentence, Chiba didn't say.

After gossiping for a while, a cool breeze suddenly blew, and both of them felt extremely comfortable.

"The moon is so round today." She looked at the sky.

"Fifteen, nature is round."

They all come from small places, and only people from small places are familiar with the solar terms and stars of the lunar calendar.

"If there's a place where I can be used, just ask."

Da Mao earnestly hopes that he can participate in the life of Chiba, and encourages himself to compete with a son like Song Yingchen.

"Actually, I'm really unlucky, you were right during the day." Chiba said, "I have encountered all kinds of difficulties since I was a child, and every time I rely on others to help me get through them, I feel very useless. So I became very withdrawn later, not because I didn't want to be close to people, but because I was afraid that I would encounter setbacks and have to trouble each other as soon as I got close to each other. Hey, why is life so hard? ”

"It's right for friends to help each other, you shouldn't think that way."

"You also know that we talk about helping each other, but I can't help anyone, I'm trembling, and if I'm not careful, I may have nothing. No one is obliged to help you all the time, others don't owe you, only you are slowly strong is the last word. ”

Seeing her self-pity, Da Mao felt distressed, and he wanted to muster up the courage to say to her, as long as you are willing, all the difficulties in the future will be handed over to me.

"I feel like you're hiding a lot of things on your mind and don't want to say it, don't hold it back."

Chiba smiled knowingly, and her mouth was slightly bitter.

"It's not that I have to think about it, it's reality that forces me to think about it."

"You should learn from me, I also have a lot of unsatisfactory things, but I don't think too much, because if you think about it, it will still be like that, and there will be no substantive changes. When I go to work, I go to work seriously, eat well when I get off work, and read novels when I have time. Reading those people in the book who have experienced setbacks and repeated defeats, they can find comfort in their hearts. Of course, when I say this, you will definitely laugh at me for being unproductive, not looking for a gap in people who are better than me, but finding a balance in people who are not as good as myself. But there are too many promising people in this world, and there is no shortage of me, so why fight with others and compete with yourself. ”

Da Mao obviously didn't understand where Chiba's distress came from, and mistook it for values, but it resonated with her.

"Yes, there are a lot of things that I can't force and don't want to ask for. What everyone thinks should be pursued, but I have no interest in it, but I have to ask for it, and this is where I have no interest. ”

"Why do you have to be promising? Can you earn a few bucks is interest, not a bunch of problems that can't be solved. The important thing is whether you can face life calmly, regardless of rewards or harsh criticism. I don't have any big ambitions, I haven't had them since I was a kid. When I was in school, I didn't think about taking the first place, I just wanted to learn some knowledge and remember it in my brain to use it later. It's the same at work, I don't earn as much money a month as anyone else earns in a day, but I'm steady. I earned it by my own labor, unlike many people who worry all day long, whether the business will be good tomorrow, whether the cooperation will be in vain the day after tomorrow, how tiring it is. ”

"Hahaha, you're really good at finding steps for yourself, but I agree. To hell with those big ambitions, I just have to live a solid life. ”

Indeed, she did not have any great ambitions, not because she was a woman, but because God had taught her a profound lesson at the beginning of her life. In the face of wealth and success, she would rather choose a harmonious family and good health. Ordinary happiness has gone a long way, and the impetuosity in universal values has been tired of her as early as the age of five.