Call.

Although it was the end of summer, the two columns of air exhaled from the nostrils were clearly visible under the dim light of the street lamp.

"Do you feel it?"

Leon asked softly.

The black umbrella behind him shook slightly, and there was a sound.

Yin, a thin but clear yin qi, fills this narrow and dirty alley, like a foggy light veil, obscuring the view.

The black umbrella swayed comfortably and comfortably, sucking in the cold of the air, and Leon adjusted his breathing, allowing the rippling energy to flow slowly through his body.

The warm current dispelled the cold, and Li Ang shook his body, walked through the alley, followed the trajectory of the yin qi, turned left and right, and came to a two-story bungalow.

The bungalow is grayish-brown in color, and the outer walls are covered with verdant creepers, and through the cracks in its branches and leaves, you can see the mottled and falling cement wall tiles.

The age of this house is estimated to be one round older than Li Ang, and the cracked corners and roots of the wall make people wonder if the building will collapse in the next second.

The room on the second floor of the building was lit up, and standing at the bottom of the building, he could faintly hear the sound of immature reading from above, Li Ang was stunned for a moment, looked left and right to confirm that there was no one around, and quickly climbed up along the wall of the building, like a black cat, quietly lying on the roof of the second floor, listening to the movement below.

"There is a stone cliff at the foot of the mountain, and there is a crack in the cliff, and the cold bird takes this crack as its nest."

Several immature children's voices were reading the text, reading the text "Cold Bird" in the first volume of the second grade of the People's Education Edition, to the effect that winter was coming, but the cold bird had to get by, refused to build a nest, and finally froze to death in the middle of the cold winter night.

There are five boys and three girls in the children's voice, all very young, two of them sitting in a row of four rows of seats, sitting at the front of the small room, occasionally standing up and walking, is an adult male, wearing cloth shoes, weighing about 140.

Just by looking at the sound and not looking at the picture, Leon can roughly guess the scene inside the house, which is the shantytown version of "cram school"?

When the children finished reading the text, the man sitting on the podium at the front of the room, coughing violently, asked the children to start the math workbook.

Leon patiently lay on the roof of the building and waited for the change, and ten minutes later there was a knock on the door of the room, and a middle-aged woman who sounded like she was doing heavy physical work thanked the teacher in a tired voice and took her own child away.

As ten o'clock approached, the children in the "cram school" were all led away by their parents, and when the door was closed, the man in front of the classroom coughed violently and slowly made himself a pot of tea.

Jasmine tea, the color is fresh and elegant, the taste is sweet and delicious, clearing heat and detoxifying, the pale white flowers float and rotate in the tea soup, just looking at it can make people calm.

The middle-aged man named Zou Zhengze held the lid of the enamel cup, gently rubbed the mouth of the cup, took a sip of tea soup, and said indifferently to the window: "Don't you come down and take a look?" ”

After a moment of silence, Li Ang deftly climbed in through the window, and the red-faced Guan Gong on the mask glared angrily at Zou Zhengze.

"What organization are you from?" Zou Zhengze took a sip of tea on the surface and asked leisurely, "Special Affairs Bureau?" Alien Society? Or is it a whale song? ”

Li Ang didn't answer, but just looked at Zou Zhengze with interest.

He was about forty-five years old, of average build, neither fat nor thin, with short hair, cloth shoes on his feet, wearing a red short-sleeved T-shirt with wrinkled hair and black trousers, and the short-sleeved uncovered arms with large old burn marks.

On his face, the burn scar is even more obvious, the dark red scar covers the entire left side of the face, extending to the right ear, and every time he smiles, the slightly swollen lips will be implicated to the side, making people worry about whether the corners of his mouth will crack along the scar.

"Zeng Weiming and Wang Fangni were the husband and wife, you killed them?"

"It's me." Zou Zhengze nodded.

"Why?" Leon asked, "Grudge? ”

"Feud?" Zou Zhengze shook his head and said, "Not for hatred, but for love." ”

Leon grinned, "No one in their right mind would consider murder as an expression of love. ”

Zou Zhengze shook his head, coughed a few times, got up from his chair, and knocked on the table, "What do you think of me here?" ”

"As a cram school, it's not bad."

"Actually, it's not a cram school here," Zou Zhengze said with a smile: "The people who live in this place are not rich, and many couples do manual work that gets up early and is greedy for darkness, and they have no time or conditions to take care of their children."

When I was young, I repaired bicycles, carried bags, burned boilers, opened a commissary, worked as a barefoot doctor, and taught for a while. ”

"Very touching story." Li Ang said calmly, "I can simply participate in the selection of the top ten people who moved Yin City." ”

Zou Zhengze ignored the irony in Li Ang's words and sighed: "When I was a child, Wang Fangni and I were best friends, and we grew up in the village together and went to school together. Unfortunately, my parents' family conditions were so poor that they didn't have the money for me to go to high school, so I had to enter society early.

Later, I heard that there was an accident at Fanny's family and there was no money for her to continue her education, so I worked two jobs in the city and mailed her money so that she could continue her high school education.

When she was in college, we lived together, I drove a taxi to support the family, she went to class during the day, and went home at night to cook for me, and that was our happiest moment, and she told me that she would marry me as soon as she graduated from college. ”

Zou Zhengze's dark red face revealed the tranquility and warmth of remembering the past, "However, the good times did not last long, in an operation to extinguish the fire, I rushed into the fire and was stripped of my escape mask by the people I rescued. By the time I was dragged out of the fire by the firefighters, I had already become this picture of no one and no ghost. ”

"Fanny didn't leave me behind, she took care of her bedside and kept telling me about the bright future we had imagined.

However, one is a female college student with an infinitely bright future, and the other is a cripple with a ruined face and a broken body, and the fingers of the people around her make Fanny more and more silent. ”

"Did you have that experience? Fear of abandonment, fear of being hated, self-loathing, self-hating of yourself, no longer being able to trust your loved ones,"

Zou Zhengze said in a trance: "At that time, I treated her very badly, very badly, and she was still silent when I fought hard. I told her to get out, but she didn't, so I ripped off the bandages and escaped the hospital and the city by night on my own.

During that time, I couldn't tell if I hated her or myself. ”