July 1, 2007, a warm Sunday morning.

At eight o'clock in the morning, in the Xiajia Foreign Pavilion, the courtyard was sparsely choked by birds.

Everything has been the same for six years, nothing has changed. Through the tempered glass sunlight in the kitchen, He Qiuling prepared sandwiches for a large family, watched the two children in the yard playing with bonsai, and looked at her husband in the dining room who was bored reading the newspaper, the headline of which was reporting the latest developments in the subprime mortgage crisis. There was a cake on the table.

As when she was a child, when she was in her thirties, she would go to the tearoom to sit in the window seat after breakfast, read a book, look out at the courtyard, drink tea, and go to the kitchen to prepare lunch near noon. Morning light, green tea, slightly sleepy eyes, a day without waves.

Until it was discovered that the children in the courtyard were missing.

After calling her husband, the two began to look around in a panic, the iron door was closed, and Gongquan thought for a while and pointed upstairs.

At this moment, the girl's cry was heard.

After running upstairs, he found that Xia Han was glaring at Qingyi angrily, and Qingyi was crying loudly.

"What's going on?" The public power asked Xia Han.

"My sister lost the cat!" Xia Han pointed at Qingyi.

"I didn't! It's my brother who stops me, it's my brother who is wrong! ”

After retorting loudly, Qing Yi cried without realizing that the quill in his hand had fallen on the floor.

Qiu Ling picked up Qingyi and walked aside.

"What cat?" Gongquan straightened Xia Han's collar, and then looked directly into Xia Han's eyes.

"A cat suddenly appeared in the yard, it was out of gas, I said bury it, my sister said she could resurrect the cat, but she used a pen to get the cat gone!" Xia Han still accused Qingyi with an angry face.

Gongquan pondered for a moment, picked up the quill and looked at it carefully for a long time, then took a deep breath, and put the pen back in Qingyi's drawer, this action was really helpless, because as long as he took the pen away, Qingyi would cry.

Reflexively looked at his watch and calculated the GMT.

"Okay Xia Han, today is your sister's birthday, don't worry about her."

After saying this, Gongquan put his palm on the back of Xia Han's head for a long time, and with the bursts of white light from his palm, Xia Han's eyes slowly dimmed.

"Play by yourself for a while, your sister is asleep." Autumn Zero appeared aside.

"Oh." Xia Han obediently returned to his room.

The husband and wife glanced at each other, and the breath of fate lingered in the mansion.

What happened to this cat, Gongquan probably guessed it, just flipped out his mobile phone and looked at Xu Wu's address book, as if the problem could be solved.

"Maybe it's a coincidence, doesn't it mean that the kid has already gone abroad?"

Gongquan shook his head, this pen has not woken up before today, and this is also the first time Qingyi has been cried by Xia Hanxun.

The couple returned to the living room, anxiously considering what to do, and the leisurely light from the window shone on the lattice tablecloth, and the succulent potted plants were placed by the window.

"What time is it?" He asked.

"Nine o'clock." She replied.

The public authority dialed the phone.

"Hey, Lao Xu."

No matter how you open your mouth, the voice on the other end of the phone is serious.

"I've left home and can't be reached now." After saying that, he hung up the phone.

The clock rattled and continued to turn.

"I'll go for it." She stood up.

"It's useless to go." The public power lights a cigarette and makes the mind blank again.

Xu Wu didn't answer the next call, and he went to the courtyard to observe the cat's appearance, but he still couldn't draw any conclusions.

I don't know how long it took, the smell of cream and the sound of vegetables in the pot wafted from the front room, and these smells and sounds were slowly diluting the doubts, and the uneven air in the street flowed, and the sound of footsteps and cars was incessant, as if the world was still normal.

Gongquan lit a cigarette, suddenly ran to the basement as if he thought of something, and found that the water purifier was broken. After coming to the conclusion that fate is unstoppable after all, his thoughts gradually sink into this contradiction of the two laws.

After a while, Xu Wu called and said that everything was fine, Gongquan looked at his watch, and the doubts that hung in his hand finally fell.

It is worth mentioning that the next day, I contacted the water purifier manufacturer and found that it had gone out of business, so I tied up the relevant faucet.

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Friday evening, 13 April 2018.

Because the public authority ordered that dinner would be late, Weiyang went to the mall alone after school, bought a pair of men's sneakers and sportswear and put them in his backpack, and bought a strawberry mousse to pack and carry in his hand.

When I returned to the Western-style house, I found that the brother and sister had not come back, so I went into my room and put down my backpack, and went downstairs to take a hot shower, and after returning to the room to make a cup of black tea, I took out the sportswear in the backpack, put on the straps of my sneakers and rested on the chair in Xia Han.

Looking at the phone, it was half past seven, but the brother and sister still did not come back, so they went out for a walk alone, and their bodies began to gradually get used to this street and the nearby alleys, and the indescribable anxiety of thirty minutes was much lighter.

When I returned to my room and looked at the ceiling, I heard a voice downstairs.

"What did you do?"

To Xia Han, who completely broke the rules, Weiyang slowly walked down the stairs.

Xia Han had a single-lens reflex borrowed from his classmates around his neck, and he was rubbing it against Weiyang.

"Don't, don't, you're in your pajamas...... Weiyang immediately covered her face and protested.

“…… Very handy, brother. Kiyoichi at the door said sarcastically.

Xia Han smiled happily, "Of course, I just practiced my shooting skills recently." ”

“…… Not really. Weiyang walked down unnaturally, "Even if you want to shoot me......"

"The sense of disobedience brought by Qingyi's ability has not been confirmed, this kind of unreasonable problem, especially the moment of change, how can it not be photographed, Weiyang, you also want to confirm it, let's go to Qingyang Hall for experiments later."

It's just a fool, Weiyang whispered back.

"It's not an unsightly photo...... Xia Han turned on the DSLR display in the next moment, "Speaking of which, you are really photogenic, if I take a picture of you every day, I see that there are portraits on the walls of the mansion." ”

"Oh, how can there be ......" Weiyang whispered, but leaned over to watch it together.

"Honestly, brother, I'm also very good, right?" Seiichi deliberately flipped the button on the SLR, and then a series of photos of Kiyoichi appearing in various poses appeared on the screen.

Weiyang jumped out of the corner of his eyes as he watched, turned around and drifted to the restaurant.

It's not that I hate Qingyi's triumphant appearance, but I'm just too lazy to argue with her.

Although my sister's identity is bound for a lifetime, this kind of binding is not something to be thankful for, no matter how unlucky it is, it is Xia Han who is in a dilemma, and this understanding can still be given to Weiyang.

What's more, in the next two days, Weiyang has prepared a large number of training tasks for him.

The three of them came to the restaurant and were taken aback, their parents, pineapple Yueji, all of them were there, Xu Wu's leather suitcase was resting next to his feet, and Weiyang's mother beckoned with a smile.

"Weiyang," Xu Wu said, "will go home after this meal." ”

"Hmm......" Weiyang bowed his head guiltily.

At this moment, Xia Han took a step forward.