Dongshan District, Donghai City, shantytown.

It's not the first time Lu Fan has stepped here, the last time he and Chu Xiong and Zhao Kejin came here once in order to solve the usury incident.

All around is a familiar scene of dilapidation: simple wooden shacks, tents made of snakeskin bags, asphalt roads that have stopped for some reason halfway through renovation, and old furniture piled up on both sides of the road.

A slightly better place, is the view of the small residential buildings in the distance, the age is also a little old, most of those old houses are about five floors, the outer walls of the buildings, also covered with mottled traces of disrepair.

Mo Xiaoxuan took the other three people to shuttle through the alleys of the shantytown, and people kept poking their heads out of the surrounding wooden houses and looking curiously.

After walking for about ten minutes, Xiao Xuan stopped in front of a two-story wooden house next to the alley.

The cabin is not cosmetially different from other huts in the shantytown, but it looks clean and not full of miscellaneous items like other people's homes.

The front door, outer yard and walls are spotlessly clean and tidy, and it looks like someone is constantly looking after it.

Mo Xiaoxuan took out the key to open the door, and with the sound of creaking the door opened, a woman's voice came from inside: "Xiao Xun, my daughter, are you back?" ”

Xiao Xuan hurriedly replied, "Yes, Mom, I'm back!" ”

The other three looked at each other: Daughter? What's going on? And why "Kaoru-chan"?

"Hit, excuse me." Lu Fan and the others didn't care about thinking so much, changed their slippers in the hallway, and entered the house.

Directly facing the door is the living room, which is also quite shabbyly furnished, with only a few low wooden cabinets, a dilapidated leather sofa, and a television that looks old.

At this time, the middle-aged woman who had just spoken was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

This woman's face looks seven points similar to Mo Xiaoxuan, and she must have been a very beautiful person when she was young. It's just the wrinkles on his face and the slowly faded clothes on his body, telling the bitterness of life.

"Mom, these are my classmates from school, and they came to the house for a study meeting today." Xiaoxuan introduced.

Seeing that a guest was coming, the woman stood up and said, "Oh, are you all friends with Kaoru?" My daughter is being cared for by you at school. ”

Everyone was stunned again: Isn't Xiaoxuan a boy, why does her mother keep calling her daughter.

"Where, where, you're too polite." Lu Fan hurriedly replied, and then Chen Guangyao also put down the big bag of gifts he was carrying behind him, and he was already so tired that he was panting like a cow along the way.

"Oh, why are you so polite, look at the young man tired." Xiaoxuan's mother covered her mouth and laughed, and then said to Chen Guangyao: "Seeing that you are so hearted, why don't you come and be my son-in-law?" ”

Everyone was immediately petrified on the spot, what does it mean to be a son-in-law!

Chen Guangyao's face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he was red to the base of his neck, and quickly spoke: "Although Auntie, you are so enthusiastic, but we are all young now, and we are all men-"

"Oops, Mom! You're really, go to the back room and rest. Xiao Xuan hurriedly interrupted Chen Guangyao's words with a red face, and then pushed the woman towards the bedroom.

"Okay, okay, I know I know, then you talk, I'll make you something to eat." Xiaoxuan's mother looked at her with a look of "I understand, I understand", and then prepared to enter the kitchen.

Hearing that the woman was going to make something to eat, Xiao Xuan's expression became nervous, and she quickly forcibly changed her direction and pushed her into the bedroom. Then I ran to the small cabinet next to the TV and pulled out a paper bag.

Lu Fan's eyes were sharp, and at a glance, he saw that the small white paper bag was printed on: Donghai City Psychiatric Hospital Pharmacy.

Xiao Xuan poured out two small white pills from the paper bag, then took a glass of water from the water dispenser next to her, walked up to the woman, and said softly, "Mom, take today's medicine." ”

From the moment he entered the door just now, Lu Fan felt an indescribable weirdness. Although the woman spoke normally and welcomed them warmly, the woman's eyes were very loose and she couldn't focus.

Looking at Lu Fan and the others, it seemed that his gaze did not stay on them, but extended to the void behind them.

"I'll settle my mother, and you can sit down first." Mo Xiaoxuan smiled at Lu Fan and the others a little embarrassedly, and helped the middle-aged woman into the bedroom.

After sitting down, Chen Guangyao kept fanning the wind with his hands, and then pressed the remote control of the TV with his hands boredly. He had always been rough-lined, and he didn't seem to notice the anomaly just now.

Lu Fan thought while looking at the water glass in front of him.

Ilya, on the other hand, wandered around the room with her hands behind her back, and she seemed curious about everything in the room, looking left and right.

"Hey, Elijah, don't touch other people's things." Lu Fan reminded.

"What, just looking." Ilya pouted a little unhappily, and then she turned to look at the wall facing the TV.

Suddenly, as if she had found something, she said to Lu Fan and Chen Guangyao: "Come and see, there are two Xiaoxuan classmates here!" ”

Lu Fan and Chen Guangyao were attracted by what she said, and leaned over, and the three of them looked in the direction of Ilya's finger around a photo on the wall.

This photo is a family photo, in the middle is a young couple, seeing the wife's face, they know that it is Lu Fan and the little mother they saw just now, but she in the photo is still very young, and her eyes are also radiant.

Next to her, there was a young man, each holding a young child in his arms, and from the contours of the young child's face, he could barely tell that he did look a little similar to Mo Xiaoxuan.

"It's ...... Twins? Chen Guangyao was stunned.

"It should be twins, you see, their clothes are different, one of the children's clothes is a boy's clothes, and the other is a girl's clothes." Lu Fan reminded.

Indeed, this is a group photo that looks ordinary but happy, young and full of longing for the future life, holding a cute pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses.

This should be a group photo of Mo Xiaoxuan's family.

Lu Fan followed the photo wall and looked at other photos, from the shooting date, Lu Fan found the closest photo to the present, in this photo, there are only Mo Xiaoxuan and her mother.

"Strange...... Where did the other two go. Chen Guangyao touched his head and muttered.

"It's gone."

Mo Xiaoxuan's voice sounded faintly from behind the three of them, startling everyone.

"Xiaoxuan, I'm sorry, we didn't mean to see your photos." Chen Guangyao snorted.

"Well, it's okay." Xiaoxuan walked up to the family photo and looked at it carefully.

Lu Fan and the three of them were confused by her: are they all gone? What is the meaning? Are they all far away, or are they ......?

Lu Fan asked at this time: "By the way, classmate Xiaoxuan, I noticed that your mother called you Xiaoxun just now, what the hell is going on." ”

"......" Xiaoxuan fell into a brief silence.

"Of course, if you don't want to tell us, that's okay." Ilya added.

"No, it's okay, if it's you, I'm willing to say. Because you are the rare friends I have made so far, I am willing to share my secrets with you. ”

Then, she beckoned Lu Fan and the others to sit down next to the sofa, then poured water in front of everyone and began to tell the story.

Sixteen years ago, the loving young man and woman got married, and soon after marriage, the two gave birth to a pair of lovely twin siblings, the boy was named Mo Xiaoxuan, and the girl was named Mo Xiaoxun.

The male owner of this house, that is, Mo Xiaoxuan's father, is a salesman of a business company, because of his diligence and ability, he was promoted to a middle-level management position in just a few years, and the hostess became a gentle and virtuous full-time housewife at home. The life of a family of four is quiet and happy.

I thought it would go on forever, but five years ago, everything changed.

Five years ago, Xiao Xuan's father's company colleague asked Xiao Xuan's father for a guarantee because he needed an urgent matter to use money, and because Xiao Xuan's father trusted this colleague very much, he did not hesitate to become a loan guarantor.

Who knows, after this friend found out that he couldn't pay the money, he ran away with oil on the soles of his feet, and all the contact information was invalid. So the loan company found Xiaoxuan's father, who was the guarantor, and forced him to repay the money.

In desperation, Xiaoxuan's father had to sell his property to repay the money, but he still couldn't fill the gap in arrears.

"So your family has moved to this shantytown?" Chen Guangyao asked nervously.

Xiao Xuan nodded: "Yes, originally our family lived in a mid-range apartment in the city, because of that incident, my father sold everything he could sell and temporarily repaid part of the money, so the number of black-clothed people who collected debts came to ask for money was reduced."

I thought this would be a temporary respite, and my father has been investigating where the disappeared lender friend has gone, but to no avail. Our family lived in fear until that rainy day. ”

As she spoke, Xiao Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, her thoughts were churning, and her memory returned to that day again......