Lu Chen and Qian Duoduo were sitting around the stove, roasting warm and burning sweet potatoes at the same time. Secretary Liu lay on the bed on his back and fell asleep. No one heard the knock at the door.

"It's getting colder and colder." Lu Chen rubbed his hands, wrapped around his body like a bear. Even in the house, it was a padded jacket, and the coat was all wrapped around the body.

Qian Duoduo on the side was relatively thin in comparison, and he held a branch broken from the firewood outside the door in his hand, and reached into the stove to churn sweet potatoes.

In the furnace chamber are two sweet potatoes that are a little wider than a fist, their skins have been roasted and blackened, and from time to time they have the characteristic sweet smell of sweet potatoes.

Suddenly, the door of the house, which was hung with a thick cotton curtain, made several heavy knocks. The two of them were so frightened that Qian Duoduo almost threw the branch in his hand into the stove.

"Woo Woo Woo" was the sound of the door knocking again, and the voice of a middle-aged woman was also mixed in during the process.

"My aunt!" Qian Duoduo finally heard the identity of the outsider, he hurriedly got up to open the door, but as soon as he walked to the door of the house, he suddenly stopped again before he could lift the curtain, turned his head and pointed to the bed with a gesture to Lu Chen.

"Huh?" Lu Chen watched the other party point and point, and he didn't react at first, but when he watched the other party keep pointing to the bed, he remembered. Hurriedly got up and walked to the bed, shaking Secretary Liu's body, trying to wake him up and hide.

But the other party slept too hard, no matter how Lu Chen shook it, he just snorted a few times in dissatisfaction, turned over and continued to sleep.

The knock outside the door became more urgent, and Qian Duoduo's aunt shouted through the door, "Is Duoduo at home?" Anyone? Are you your aunt going down the door?! ”

As people outside kept calling for the door, the anxious look on Qian Duoduo's face became heavier. He saw that Lu Chen still couldn't wake up the other party no matter what. Angry, he ran to the bed in a few steps, stretched out his hand to pull up the quilt, and changed Secretary Liu's whole person under the quilt.

"I said, what are you doing in the house?"

Someone finally opened the door for herself, and Qian Duoduo's aunt looked around as she walked into the room, wondering what the two of them were doing in the room just now.

The room was quite neat, the intersection of the stove was open, and from time to time there was a faint fire coming up.

The quilt on the bed was not folded, but spread on the bed at random, and in some places there was a big bulging fold.

"Auntie, what are you doing here today?"

Following behind their aunt, Qian Duoduo and Lu Chen were very apprehensive, for fear that the other party would suddenly lift the quilt and find the person hiding inside. Or Secretary Liu woke up and lifted the quilt and exposed himself.

But fortunately, my aunt just looked around the room, and then she lost interest, pretending to shift her attention to Qian Duoduo and the others.

"Duoduo, my aunt wants to ask you something, I don't know if it's okay..."Qian Duoduo's aunt said with a flickering god.

"What's the matter? Aunt. You tell us that as long as we can help, we will do it. Before Qian Duoduo could speak, Lu Chen on the side opened his mouth first.

I saw Aunt Qian Duoduo glancing at Lu Chen gratefully, and hesitated to tell the matter, "Actually, it's not too difficult, I just want you to see if you can make some space, I have a friend who wants to find a place to live temporarily." ”

"This...."Lu Chen, who was still patting his chest just now, was in trouble at this time, he thought that the other party was going to ask him to do some physical work, and he didn't want to...

Lu Chen secretly glanced at the bed covered with the quilt, and couldn't help but feel worried.

What should I do, if I don't agree with the other party, I'm afraid it's not good, but if I agree, then Secretary Liu's matter will not be exposed?

"Are you in trouble?" As if seeing the danger of Lu Chen and Qian Duoduo, Aunt Qian Duoduo said, "I also know that if I bring someone to live in your house like this, it will disturb the life of the two of you, but all I can think of is you." There's really no place to stay...."

"No, let's make room for each other to live in." Lu Chen agreed to the matter to save face.

As soon as he closed his mouth, he regretted it, and kept scolding himself in his heart for why he was so fast. Here's a rundown of how to clean up.

"Thank you so much." Seeing that the other party agreed, Aunt Qian Duoduo's face finally relaxed. She thanked her as she pushed open the door and walked out, "Then I'll go and call him over." ”

After seeing his aunt leave the house, Qian Duoduo immediately turned around and crossed his waist and pointed at Lu Chen angrily.

"Are you stupid, we already have a black household in our family. Where are you calling the other party to stay?! And what if you find him?"

"yes, what if you let that person in?!"

At this time, there was also a voice from the position of the bed, the two turned their heads, and Secretary Liu woke up at some point. Lift the quilt and sit on the edge of the bed and look at yourself.

"What a good time for you?!" Lu Chen was angry. He walked a few steps to the bed and cleaned up the quilt. "It doesn't matter why, you can do it yourself!"

"Well, what do you mean by me?"

Just when Secretary Liu was dissatisfied and wanted to say a few words, there was another sound of walking footsteps in the yard, and he had no idea for a while. snatched the quilt that Lu Chen was still holding in his hand and lay down on the bed again.

Then the door was opened, and Qian Duoduo's aunt led a man into the house.

Lu Chen looked at it, it was not familiar, the other party's clothes had not been in the west for a long time, and he looked like he was covered in dirt. He has a dark complexion, and he doesn't look ugly.

"Duoduo, do you still know him?" Walking into the house, Qian Duoduo's aunt introduced the person she brought to her nephew.

Qian Duoduo looked the man up and down seriously, searching for the connection with the other party in his memory, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't have any memories related to this person in his mind.

"I don't know." He shook his head and asked his aunt, "Auntie, who is this?" ”

"This one...."Somehow, Qian Duoduo hesitated when introducing the other party, he glanced at the man behind him, then at Qian Duoduo, and finally at Lu Chen.

"I have one more request, and you must grant it to me." This time she did not ask as she had done before, but made it irrefutable.

"You must not tell the outside world about his residence with you." Aunt Qian Duoduo looked at the two of them very seriously.

"Why?" Qian Duoduo was puzzled, he looked at the person carefully, but he still had no impression at all.

"He can't be found by Mayor Wu." Qian Duoduo's aunt hesitated and explained.

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Hearing Aunt Qian Duoduo's words, Lu Chen's hearts were shocked at the same time, can't they be discovered by Mayor Wu? This person..... Why.....

"You're confused, aren't you?" The man who had been standing behind Aunt Qian Duoduo spoke, and what was surprising was that the man who originally looked no more than thirty years old spoke in a voice like a middle-aged uncle in his forties and fifties.

"I was one of the people who disappeared ten years ago." The man said, looking at Qian Duoduo, "I remember that you were only four or five years old at that time, so it's no wonder you don't remember." As for how I got back, where I am these days, I'm sorry I can't tell you. It's not that I'm selfish. It's that you know as little as possible, and I don't want to cause you unnecessary trouble. ”

The person who disappeared ten years ago... Lu Chen and the others were even more shocked in their hearts, this person was actually the person involved in the disappearance of the person ten years ago that he had been re-investigating!!

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Perhaps, this is a coincidence. Lu Chen and Qian Duoduo exchanged glances and opened their mouths, "I understand, then you just stay here if you don't have a place to go for the time being." We'll clean up and lay you out. ”