The next morning, I was woken up by the exclamation of the little wind.

I ran to the guest room to take a look, only to see that Xiaofeng's bed was messy, his mobile phone was casually thrown on the ground, and a movie was still playing inside, listening to the lines seemed to be "No Man's Land", and Xiaofeng was sitting on the side panting.

"What's the situation?" Seeing Xiaofeng's strange appearance, I couldn't help but panic. Since Chinese New Year's Eve, I have found that the strange things around me have become more and more frequent, and it has almost become a norm.

Xiaofeng looked up at me and suddenly grinned. The sudden burst of laughter after this startle made me unconsciously wonder if Xiaofeng had been stimulated by his previous captivity.

"Ah Fei, I know! I know! Xiaofeng screamed excitedly, and got carried away with excitement.

"What do you know?"

"Do you remember what I once told you, that Xiaowei's adoptive mother kept saying in the mental hospital?" Xiaofeng said in a trembling voice.

"Remember, what a colorful gorilla. I've been looking at this thing for a long time, but I still don't know what it means. Later, I thought about why I should be in tune with a mentally ill person, so I didn't think about it anymore. I touched the back of my head, inexplicably.

"No, it's not psychotic language, it's a hint!" Xiaofeng put his face in front of my nose and said proudly, "I really deserve to be Sherlock Holmes of G City!" ”

"Secret words? In other words, do you understand the meaning of this sentence? "My heart started beating faster.

"Yes, I figured it out." Xiaofeng put away his crazy expression and said with a straight face.

"Then tell me what this colorful gorilla means."

Xiaofeng twitched the corners of his mouth, picked up his mobile phone, adjusted the progress bar of the movie "No Man's Land", handed it to me and said, "Listen to these words, if there are no subtitles, can you understand?" ”

"It's a bit reluctant." I closed my eyes and listened carefully, but I was really powerless.

"That's right, because it's a dialect and you're not a local." Small air ducts.

"So what you mean?"

We couldn't guess what Xiaowei's adoptive mother meant. That's because we instinctively imagined it to be understood in Mandarin – and it had something to do with her state at the time. First, she is a university professor; Secondly, she never said a word from beginning to end, just kept muttering. But what if she muttered about the dialect of P City? Xiaofeng asked, "Do you know the P dialect?" ”

"I don't understand." I blushed.

"It's okay, if you don't understand, listen to it and learn it." Xiaofeng teased, "I understand. In the past few days, I have been communicating with people in P City, and I have learned some local dialects, although I am not proficient, but I can also translate some dialects into Mandarin. ”

"The colorful gorilla ...... this sentence" Before Xiaofeng's words fell, there was a violent knock outside the door, accompanied by an old roar: "Good son, open the door!" Daddy, see you're here. ”

"Oh, your master is here!" Xiaofeng hurriedly jumped off the bed and ran over to open the door, leaving me with a confused face: Why don't you finish talking to me first!

The old man was still the same as yesterday, dressed in tatters, and a crutch still had a hint of stench.

As soon as he came in, he first touched Xiaofeng's hair affectionately, and then walked straight towards me and unceremoniously slapped me: "You muddy ball!" ”

I was beaten to the ground, and I wanted to get angry, but after carefully considering the situation, I decided to endure it first, and could only ask depressedly: "Master, how can I offend you when you are old?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just that I just want to hit you." The master said angrily, "No, the anger has not subsided." After saying that, another slap in the face came.

I instinctively reached out to block it, but was stopped by the small wind and slapped again. "The education of love, the education of love." Xiao Feng smiled damagely, then turned his head to look at his master, and said flatteringly: "Dad, have you lost your anger?" ”

"I didn't get angry, but when I saw my good son, I immediately stopped getting angry." The master looked at Xiao Feng with a kind face. I'm completely messed up on one side: what a treat this is!

Subsequently, Xiaofeng and I served the master, serving tea, desserts, and massages, and served the master comfortably. Taking the opportunity, I asked my master, "What mistake did I make?" You're going to hit me like that? ”

It's okay not to mention it, but when I mentioned it, the master looked indignant again: "Did you help Di Wu make a cut on the mask woman's face that night?" ”

"That's right, but it's been a day, and you didn't mention this stubble yesterday......"

"I forgot about it yesterday, and I'm going to make it up today!" Master looked at me hatefully and said, "Do you know that the scars on your face are difficult to erase?" ”

"Know... But what does that have to do with you? I didn't understand, "Speaking of the sky, the masked woman is still Xiaowei's appearance, and it won't be your turn to be distressed......"

"You little bunny dare to talk back......"

At this time, Xiaofeng suddenly said "oh~~~~~~~", looked at the master with an ambiguous face, and said, "It seems that Dad, you are kind to that Xiaowei-like woman...... Hey, hey, hey......"

The master's wrinkled face turned red, turned his face, looked at Xiao Feng with a look full of approval, and said, "It's still my good son who is smart." Immediately afterwards, he said viciously to me: "Learn more in the future!" ”

"Master, what do you think about that masked woman...... In other words, can I be sure that she and Xiaowei are okay? Also, then you won't be.... Spying, right? I asked tentatively.

"Nonsense!" The master roared angrily, "Lao Tzu Yan Wang has done everything in his life, but he has never done anything like a spy!" ”

"Oh~~~~ It turns out that Dad, your name is King Yan." Xiaofeng suddenly interjected, "You didn't say it yesterday, I'm embarrassed to ask." ”

"Good son, Dad's pot, Dad forgot." The master said kindly.

I had a black line on my face: this is not a bowl of uneven water at all, this is a bowl buckled!

"That's right." I suddenly remembered the question of the colorful gorilla that I had just discussed with Xiao Feng, and asked Xiao Feng, "The matter we discussed just now is not finished." ”

"Oh, yes." Xiao Feng scratched his head, looked at King Yan, and said, "Dad, it just so happens that you are also here, why don't you take a look at what I analyzed." ”

"Hmm." King Yan put on a profound look.

"The phrase of the colorful gorilla, read in the dialect of P City, should actually be called qizaidaxiangshang, I tried several combinations of homophone Chinese characters, and finally determined, it should be: riding on an elephant." The breeze said slowly.

"Riding on an elephant? What is that? I wondered.

King Yan snorted heavily, and said in a deep voice: "Don't interrupt the boy, let my son finish." ”

Xiaofeng continued: "Since Xiaowei's adoptive mother is an associate professor of psychology, I started from psychology and looked up some information related to elephants. Found in psychology, there is a famous model called the elephant and the elephant rider. ”

The American psychologist Jonathan Haidt mentioned in his "Elephant and Elephant Rider" that the emotional side of people is like an elephant, and the rational side is like an elephant rider. The elephant rider sits on the back of an elephant and holds the reins in his hand and looks like a juggernaut, but this is not the case. Compared to a multi-ton elephant, the elephant rider is actually very small. So, to really change the direction in which the elephant is going, it is necessary to convince the elephant rider as well as the elephant itself. ”

"But what does this have to do with what we're going to investigate?" I felt a little overwhelmed.

"It really doesn't matter." "Rationality and sensibility are not the focus of our concerns. But I think that what Xiaowei's adoptive mother said is to apply the rationality and sensibility in this model to herself and the case. She herself is an elephant rider who can influence the course of the case, and the case itself is an elephant. This case is too complicated and involves too many things, so although she is a key figure, she is also an extremely small existence. To really change the direction of the case, it is useless to simply start with her, and it is also necessary to change the complicated and dark chain of involvement of the case itself. ”

"That makes sense." I pondered, "But why would she say that to you?" Isn't she afraid that you are a suspect in the case to test her? ”

"Hmph, you're still a Jinghua graduate, that's just it!" Xiaofeng scoffed.

Then, a disdainful snort also came from King Yan's nose, "Waste! ”

it? Let me just ask, as for being discriminated against like this?

Xiaofeng continued: "You are wrong, remember what I told you? Before Xiaowei's adoptive mother went completely crazy, there was a transition period when she was sometimes sober and sometimes crazy. According to Li Feng, she once begged Li Feng when she was sober not to tell anyone else everything related to the two of them for ten years. ”

"Yes, I said it." I said, "So you mean, ten years is a very special time node, and now, more than ten years have passed, so she is not afraid?" ”

"No, on the contrary, she's scared to death." "She's seizing every possible opportunity to protect herself." ”

"What do you say?" I don't know why.