When he returned to his lodgings at night, the man went into the house and turned on the chandelier, and the man on the sofa slept soundly. His injured hand rested on the edge of the couch, and he curled up with a soft orange pillow in his arms, and the thin quilt on his body fell to the ground.

The man walked over lightly, grabbed the thin quilt that was about to fall to the ground, and put it back on top of the other. Turning around and going into the kitchen to make hot water and make himself a bowl of instant noodles, he had just found a basin to cover the instant noodles when he heard the muffled shouts of the people in the living room.

Having nightmares again? The man sighed helplessly and walked back to the living room. The boy who was asleep on the couch was still closing his eyes, muttering something in his mouth, and his body was twitching from the nightmare.

"Don't!! Devil!! ”

The boy kept repeating words that the man did not understand, his expression was pained and he whimpered.

"Hey! Blackie, wake up! Blackie!!" The man quietly stayed by the boy's side and observed each other, and he didn't see the other party wake up from the nightmare for a long time. He reached out to pat the other party's body in distress, trying to wake the other party up.

"Woooooo

With the man's slapping, the boy whimpered louder, as if he was caught by an evil person in a dream, resisting, struggling, kicking his hands and feet, and finally accidentally, his whole body rolled off the sofa and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the other party suddenly rolled off the sofa, the man didn't think much about it in panic and subconsciously knelt down and stretched out his hand to pick up the other party.

There was a dull sound, made by the impact of the body touching the ground. The boy woke up from the pain, and when he opened his eyes, he met the man's dark eyes. Myself... was held in the arms of the other party.

"Are you alright?" The man gently helped the boy back to sit on the sofa, poured a glass of water and handed it to the other man.

"I... I'm fine. Taking the water cup, the boy took a sip of embarrassment, his face flushed, and he was shy because he had just been held in the arms of the other party.

"You're having nightmares again." The man didn't see the other party's thoughts, he just thought that he was blushing because he was scared by the nightmare, and continued to care.

"Hmm" put the glass back on the coffee table, the boy lowered his head, "I don't know why, I actually have these strange dreams...."

"Is it still those things?"

"Hmm."

The man fell silent, and the room fell silent again. After a long time, I thought about something. In a panic, he ran into the kitchen and brought out the instant noodles that had been soaked too much.

"Haven't you eaten yet?" Seeing the instant noodle box that the other party was carrying, the boy asked.

"Well, not yet. Have you eaten? The man picked out the instant noodles in the box with his chopsticks, and as the white mist rose, a unique fragrance of instant noodles wafted out.

"Would you like a bite?" The man picked up a chopstick and handed it to the boy. The boy shook his head and moved back, "You eat, I'm not hungry." ”

The man ceased to be humble, lowered his head and began to eat. Looking at the other party's gobbling up, the boy frowned slightly.

"That's... Haven't found any clues about me yet? ”

"Nope. It's hard to find. The man finally looked up from the instant noodle box, "There are too few clues, I asked my friend who works at the police station, and I didn't find your identity information." ”

"Then I...."The boy lowered his head in disappointment, trying to say something, but he didn't know how to express it. He felt like an empty hole in his heart, and there was nothing in the hole, but there were many demons and monsters hidden.

He didn't know what the nightmare he had every day meant, if it was something that had happened before he had lost his memory.

"Don't be sad, everything will be fine." The man saw the boy's loss, and stretched out his hand to gently rub the other's hair, as if he were a small furry pet. Putting the finished instant noodle box on the coffee table, the man continued to ask the boy, "Do you want to go to bed tonight?" ”

"Nope." The boy shook his head and straightened up the pillow that had just been thrown on the floor, intending to wait for the other party to return to the house and continue sleeping.

"Are you afraid that I won't be able to eat you?" The man looked at the other party's restrained appearance, and somehow blurted out this sentence like this.

"No, it's not!" Seeing that the other party had misunderstood what he meant, the young man hurriedly shook his head and eagerly explained.

"I know." The man smiled, stood up and threw the instant noodle box into the trash, "Then you can go back to sleep, it's late." I went to sleep too. ”

After saying that, he turned off the chandelier in the living room and walked into the bedroom.

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On the construction site of the development zone next to the city, the contractor foreman wore a dark blue protective hat on his head, and angrily held a meeting with his subordinates, "I said that if anyone of you doesn't want to do it, tell me in advance." Leave without saying a word, what's the matter?! ”

The foreman had a gloomy face, facing his group of men. Just when he started work in the morning, the contractor foreman, as always, planned to count the number of people first and start work. However, when I counted the people, I found that no matter how I counted back and forth, there was one person missing.

At first, I thought someone had an accident, and I anxiously organized people to look for it, and I wasted a whole morning, and I didn't see a single figure before I reacted. The other party should have snuck away.

"I'm sorry, we didn't know he stole away." Lao Wang walked to the foreman, took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to the other party, "I didn't expect that he would leave like this." ”

"I don't blame you." Lighting the cigarette in his hand, the foreman took a hard puff, "I just want to say that there will be this kind of me in advance in the future, I am not afraid that you will leave, I am afraid that you will disappear without saying a word." ”

"Got it, got it." Lao Wang nodded his head like pounding garlic, "Anyway, boss." How long will we be on this site? ”

"What's wrong?" Hearing the other party's question, the foreman looked at him formally, "It's been a long time, at least half a year." ”

Half a year small.... Several people in the crowd looked at each other. They both saw anxiety and helplessness in each other's eyes.

"I also know that you are in a hurry to go home for the New Year." The contractor continued, "When it's done next month, we'll withdraw in a few days, and we'll do it after the rest of the year." ”

"Oh, that's good."

Looking at the back of Lao Wang leaving, the foreman frowned suspiciously, he didn't understand why this group of people wanted to leave early so much, was the workload he gave them too much???