After Wu Shaodong left, I silently returned to the store, added some water to the puppies in the pet cage, teased one of them, maybe sleepy, the puppy was listless and didn't want to pay attention to me, shrank to a corner and fell asleep.

I reluctantly lay on the sofa, half-covered with Jiang Lina's quilt, breathing in the fragrance of the girl on the quilt, recalling Wu Shaodong's words, and thinking about how to explain to the two sisters tomorrow.

"Don't!" A sudden shout from upstairs interrupted my train of thought, and I immediately threw off the quilt and jumped off the sofa, rushed up to the second floor, and pushed open the door along the spot of the shout.

quickly looked at the room and found that there was nothing abnormal, just saw Jiang Lina sitting on the bed in the dark and crying. I breathed a sigh of relief, walked over to the bed and asked, "What's wrong?" Got a nightmare? ”

Jiang Lina found me walking to the side of the bed, stretched out her hand and gently pulled me to sit at the head of the bed, leaned her head on my shoulder and cried and said, "Brother Cheng, I dreamed that Mengmeng was gone".

I touched her hair and comforted her softly, "Dreams are all reversed, don't think about it, it's so cute."

Jiang Lina looked up at me aggrievedly and said leisurely, "Brother Cheng, you don't understand, I'm really afraid that I'm the only one left in this world."

Reaching out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, I asked softly, "Can you tell me?" ”

Jiang Lina leaned over me, grabbed my hand and said:

Brother Cheng, this starts when Meng Meng was born.

Meng Meng was born with an umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, causing brain hemorrhage, although she was rescued, but she has been in poor health since then and faints easily. Doctors say it's hard to cure, and you can only try to avoid mood swings and strenuous exercise.

Dad has always wanted a boy, Mengmeng belongs to the second child, and there is no way to have any more children. At that time, the family conditions were not good, and Meng Meng often got sick and needed to spend money. Because of this, my father's temper became worse and worse, and he often drank alcohol, and sometimes beat us and my mother after drinking, scolding us for losing money.

In 05, when I was still in junior high school, Meng Meng was only 7 years old. When my father was at work, he had a quarrel with a colleague in the machine tool factory. When I returned home, I drank too much alcohol, took a bucket of gasoline in the middle of the night, ran to my colleague's place, set fire to my colleague's house, and set fire to my colleague's house. Because it was all shantytowns, and it was summer, the fire was not controlled, and all the area around the glove factory was burned, and my father was also burned to death in that fire.

Later, my father was found to be the arsonist, and the family needed to bear a huge amount of compensation, and my mother sold everything that the family could sell, and finally even sold the house, but this money was not enough to pay compensation, and my mother committed suicide in despair a month after the fire.

After my mother committed suicide, my grandmother took us to the house where we live now. Meng Meng was originally in poor health, but after this incident, her health became even worse, and she would get sick if she was stimulated a little, and she couldn't go to school. My grandmother's monthly pension is less than 3,000 yuan, and she has to support the two of us, and she also has to provide for me to study, and it is not enough to pay for my sister's medical treatment. In desperation, my grandmother could only pick up some waste products every day and sell them to subsidize the family.

At that time, our life was really hard, and only once a month when my grandmother received her pension, I would buy meat, and my grandmother was never willing to eat it, so she let me and Mengmeng eat it. During the Chinese New Year, other children have new clothes, but we can only wear old clothes donated by other families.

Although life was very hard, my grandmother was really good to us, but I didn't expect that my grandmother was accidentally knocked down when she was picking up waste 3 years ago, and she never got up again. From that day on, Meng Meng and I were really orphans.

Brother Cheng, do you know? It's ridiculous to say that this pet shop was opened with grandma's compensation. At that time, the girl who knocked down my grandmother lost us 50,000 yuan, and it was with this 50,000 yuan that she opened a pet store.

As she spoke, Jiang Lina threw herself into my arms and cried loudly, tears quickly wetting my shirt. I hugged the girl in pain, not knowing how to comfort him.

After hugging me like this for a while, Jiang Lina suddenly pushed me away, looked at me with a pleading face and asked, "Brother Cheng, will you dislike me?" ”

I gently stroked her hair and replied firmly, "No!" ”

Jiang Lina smiled shyly and leaned back on my chest. After a while, Jiang Lina's calm breathing was heard, and I screamed softly without answering. Realizing that she was asleep, he put her down on the bed, covered her with a quilt, gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and slowly exited the room.

Back on the first floor, I lay back on the sofa and recalled Jiang Lina's story, and was surprised to find that there were several overlaps in her story with this case.

A colleague in the machine tool factory, the fire in 05, and the compensation of 50,000 yuan 3 years ago.

Liu Jing's parents are employees of the machine tool factory, and they died in a fire in 05, Liu Jing asked the uncle for 50,000 yuan!

Are all these things related?

Thinking of this, I immediately got up and dialed Wu Shaodong's mobile phone

"Team Wu, it's me!"

"Lao Cheng, what's the matter?"

"Where are you?"

"Xue Feng's family, I just saw him come back, and he should have gone out to drink, and he smelled alcohol from afar."

"By the way, Team Wu, I have some new discoveries here."

"Oh? Let's talk about it".

I relayed what Jiang Lina said to me to Wu Shaodong, and he was silent for a while before he excitedly said to me, "Very good, now the lines are clearer, just wait for the results of Li Rusong's visit tomorrow." By the way, according to the current situation, Sister Jiang Lina, I am even more sure that there will be danger, you can arrange for them to move their residences tomorrow morning, and then go to the dumpling restaurant in the afternoon. ”

"Thank you, Team Wu!" I saw that he still cared about the comfort of the two sisters, and thanked him from the bottom of my heart.

At 6 o'clock the next morning, I saw Jiang Lina slowly going downstairs and asked curiously, "Got up so early?" ”

Jiang Lina walked up to me, blushed and said, "I have to take the dog to the toilet at this time every day."

"I really didn't expect it to be so hard to open a pet shop."

"Actually, it's not, it's very free after taking care of the dog in the morning." Jiang Lina smiled shyly.

"Oh? Is business bad? "I'm a little confused.

"It's not, like this kind of small shop, customers mainly come to buy dog toys or dog food or something, you see these dogs in my store are not so much for sale, but for Meng Meng to relieve boredom."

"I thought pet stores were all about dogs."

"Of course not, very few people buy it directly, most of them are selected breeds, and then I ask the dog farm to send a video to the guests to see, and the guests pay a deposit after they like it, and then I go to the dog farm to pick up the dogs." Jiang Lina blushed and explained seriously.

I thought it was interesting to see this girl looking serious, and I found that today she didn't know why she blushed so easily.

After serving the pet dog, I called Jiang Lina to sit down beside me and said to her seriously, "Lina, I thought about it all night last night." I hope you can close the pet store first and move in with me with Mengmeng."

Jiang Lina lowered her head when she heard this, and didn't dare to look at me, so she wrung her fingers and said shyly, "This is too fast, right?" ”

"Gotta move out today! I can't protect you well here, and I have to make sure you're always in my sight during the case! I can't refuse.

"Huh? Is it for the case? Jiang Lina suddenly raised her head and looked at me resentfully.

"Yes! I don't want you to get hurt! ”

Jiang Lina lowered her head and thought for a while, then asked me gently, "Brother Cheng, you said yesterday that you would always protect us and would not dislike me, are you serious?" ”

"It's serious!"

"Okay, I'll listen to Brother Cheng, I'll go talk to Mengmeng." After speaking, Jiang Lina nodded vigorously to me and walked to the second floor.

I didn't expect Jiang Lina to agree so happily, and I was going to spend a lot of words, but that's fine, but I always feel that she is a little strange today, but I can't say it clearly.

I dialed Li Rusong's phone and asked him to drive over to help move, at first he didn't agree to die, and finally I was moved by the conditions of a jade stream plus a buffet, and promised to come over now, but lunch must be counted separately and I will help him today, time is pressing, I have to nod helplessly.