Hua Qiao just ran a few steps out of the door of the private school, and remembered that A-Niang said that the girl's family couldn't run outside in a hurry, so she retracted her legs, straightened her chest and jaw, and walked briskly along the side of the road.

The man in the shadow looked puzzled at first, but after taking a closer look, he looked relieved, and chuckled: "Pretend!" ”

After entering his yard, Hua Qiao saw that there was a light in the utility room, so she jumped over: Hey, I'm home, I finally don't have to pretend.

"Daddy!" Hua Qiao poked out half of her head and looked into the utility room, and Hua Youcai beckoned to her, but her expression was very strange. When Hua Qiao went out to go to the private school, Daddy hadn't come back from Yizhuang yet.

"What's wrong, Daddy?" Hua Qiao hurriedly went in and sat opposite Hua Youcai: "Is the bill not going well?" Under the oil lamp, Hua Qiao suddenly found that Daddy's hair had turned gray, and she couldn't help but be stunned: Is Daddy so old?

"It really didn't go well. Although they also agreed that the male corpse died of mercury poisoning, Zhang Yuhou said that the body was found outside the county, and the deceased was not the population of the county, so it was recommended to deal with it as a pending case. Daddy said lightly.

Hua Qiao was not calm: "Hanging the case? Isn't hanging a case just not solving the case? Do Li Zhutou and Hu Yuhou also agree? ”

The county government sometimes encounters a case that has no head and no brain, and there is no bitter master to report the case, so it will "hang the case". As the name suggests, the case hangs there and is not dealt with. Luckily, if another case is brought out in the future, the case will be solved. If you are unlucky, you will hang it for a few years, and the case will be closed.

"What if you don't agree? If it weren't for the connection with Miss Guo, there was really no way to start, and it would also meet the conditions for hanging the case. There are many things to do in the yamen, who wants to run one more thankless job? Hua Youcai raised his head, handed the watch in his hand to Hua Qiao and said, "You help me twist it, see if it's a little slippery?" ”

Hua Qiao took the watch, pinched the small button on the right side of the watch with her fingertips and twisted it a few times: "It's okay, I can twist it, but ...... The pointer still hasn't moved, did you fix it again just now? ”

Hua Youcai took the watch back in his hand and said with a smile: "It's me who overestimates myself." I haven't seen this watch since I came here, and I'm always delusional that I can fix it...... Alas, that is, when you are bored, take it out and play with it. ”

"Daddy, didn't you say that there are quartz watches and electronic watches in your hometown, are they better than mechanical watches?" Hua Buckwheat asked, holding her cheeks.

"That's not good, there is no battery to change, after so many years, it is long gone. You don't remember that camera? Hua Youcai said, stuffing the watch back into the box, and said with a wry smile: "Old man, all the things that Daddy brought from his hometown are dead." ”

Hua Qiao suddenly wanted to cry, but she actually heard a little desolation from Daddy's words. Daddy, he must be missing his hometown.

She remembered the time when she first discovered Daddy's secret when she was a child.

When Xiaohuaqiao was seven years old, she couldn't go to private school, so her father taught her to read at home. Daddy can't teach the Four Books and the Five Classics, and he often can't explain it clearly. When he was still in private school, Hua Qiao criticized him: "Daddy, if you teach me like this again, Mr. Wu will talk to you!" ”

But Daddy's other knowledge is like the ocean, the stars in the sky, the reptiles on the ground, and any question asked by the buckwheat, he has nothing he doesn't know.

The seven-year-old buckwheat is the age of a dead dog. One day, she ran out with a heavy black lump around her neck and asked, "Daddy, what treasure do you think I found?" ”

Hua Youcai was startled, and hurriedly carried the black tuotuo into the utility room with someone, took off the things she hung around her neck, and asked her, "Where did you find it?" Don't rummage through Daddy's box in the future, you know? ”

"My little turtle is gone, and I'm afraid it's crawling into the box...... Well, next time I'll not flip around. But Daddy...... What the hell is this thing? Xiaohuaqiao knew that Daddy wouldn't really scold her, but her curiosity didn't stop beating.

"It's ...... Daddy's hometown stuff. ”

"Daddy's hometown must have a lot of things that Mr. hasn't seen before, Daddy understands, even Mr. doesn't understand." This is very sure of this.

"Hua Qiao, Daddy's things, you can't go outside and tell others. Daddy's hometown and the Ming Dynasty are ...... If a hostile country is discovered, Daddy may be driven away or beheaded. You know? ”

Hua Youcai took off the lanyard from Hua Qiao's neck, alas, this single-lens reflex camera that has long been out of power, if he hadn't thought about it before, bring some photos of this world back, he would have burned it together when he burned the corpse. Now I can only explain it to my child.

Hua Qiao's face was serious, she stretched out her little finger and said seriously: "Daddy, I'll pull the hook with you, Hua Qiao promises not to say a word, not even A-Niang and Hua Rong!" ”

Hua Youcai was a little funny, and he also stretched out his little finger to hook with her, and Hua Tuan read seriously: "Hang yourself with a hook, you can't change it for a hundred years, and if you change, you have to hang yourself." ”

"Why is there a latter sentence? The little girl can't hang herself, her tongue sticks out, it's not suffocating, it's ugly! "It's funny to spend money.

"You can move the hanging rope under the Adam's apple, and the tongue won't stick out when you hang yourself!" This is not difficult for her, "Records of Grievance Washing" Daddy told her.

Hua Qiao smiled and asked, "Daddy, you haven't told me yet, what is that?" ”

Hua Youcai organized the language, and for the first time he tried to explain the other world to a person in this world: "Daddy's hometown, far away, the people there...... I can make a lot of tools, like this one, which is to take a picture of what you see, that is, you can print it directly on a piece of paper without a stroke. ”

"Then you can take one of me now, and print me on paper."

"Now it's no longer usable, because it's out of power, like a person out of breath, and it can't move."

"Oops, is it dead? It's pathetic...... Daddy, what was its name when it was alive? ”

"It's called a camera."

Hua Qiao touched the camera with her hand and whispered to it: "I'm sorry, Hua Qiao didn't know that you were dead, and took you out and disturbed you, if you are offended, please bear with me." ”

Hua Youcai stuffed the camera into the toolbox, touched Hua Qiao's head and said, "It's okay, next time, we'll send it to burn." ”

Since I have this home, I don't want to go back anymore. Anyway, after more than ten years of groping, he didn't find a way to go back. Why go back now? There are sons and daughters, cars and houses. It's a winner in life.

When he married Yun Niang, he bought a carriage. In recent years, two more wings have been built, and the living space is also spacious. Yun Niang also planted the honeysuckle climbing vine in the yard and the fragrant four seasons laurel all year round, and now, in the eyes of Hua Youcai, his house is the most beautiful villa in the whole street.

Get back? Can a forensic doctor buy a villa with that salary? Can a forensic doctor marry such a beautiful daughter-in-law? Can you raise two children?

Joke!