The orphanage is located in the Chengxi District of S City, and it takes more than an hour to drive from Xu Lang's house.

Zhang Lei drove the car, with a restless DJ in the car, while Xu Lang leaned his head on the back of the co-pilot's seat, tilted his head sideways, and looked at the street scene outside.

The sun was just right outside, the wind was beautiful, and the pedestrians on the road were still wearing summer clothes, Xu Lang seemed to be looking at them, but he didn't seem to be looking at them, because Xu Lang's eyes were not focused, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Seeing that Xu Lang didn't speak, Zhang Lei felt that the atmosphere in the car was a little dull, so he said without words: "Brother Lang, what have you been doing every day during the time you came back?" ”

Hearing Zhang Lei's voice, Xu Lang came back to his senses, turned his head, glanced at Zhang Lei, and then continued to turn his head to look at the street scene outside the car window, and said lightly: "Eat, sleep." ”

Zhang Lei was a little speechless for a moment, he turned his head and glanced at Xu Lang, then continued to drive, and asked, "What about eating and sleeping?" What else has been done? ”

It seems that Zhang Lei's question is a question worth thinking about, Xu Lang thought about it seriously, and then said: "It's gone." ”

"Gone?!"

Zhang Lei was completely speechless, "You didn't want to come out and take a look around?" ”

Maybe Zhang Lei's words were turned on, and Xu Lang couldn't be immersed in his own world, so he turned his head, looked ahead and said: "S City is not big, and it is not small, I have lived in this coastal city since I was a child, and I am very clear about the corners and corners of the city, there is nothing to see." ”

Zhang Lei was silent, although Zhang Lei usually looked babbling and grinning, in fact, his mind was more delicate than anyone else, he knew that Xu Lang had changed since he came back from the 712 case, Zhao Hua's funeral Xu Lang did not attend, at that time, it was not that no one said Xu Lang's gossip, it's just that it was just a private discussion, that night, when Xu Lang went to Zhao Hua's grave, in fact, someone saw it, but Xu Lang didn't know it at the time, maybe he knew, but, with Xu Lang's character, Even if you knew, you wouldn't care about anything.

After Bu Zimo's case ended, the second criminal investigation team fell into a state of silence for a long time, everyone was tense every day, but whenever there was a case to deal with, they all rushed to the scene one by one, as if there was some plague in the office area of the second criminal investigation team, in fact, for their situation, whether it was Lu Ye or Ning Yanran, they all saw it in their eyes, they understood Zhang Lei's feelings, and the reason why they were unwilling to stay in the office area of the second criminal investigation team, Mainly because I don't want to see Zhao Hua's workstation.

After the 712 case, the second criminal investigation team added a few new people, perhaps because of Bu Zimo's incident, they had been looking forward to new comrades to join, and they lacked interest in this personnel expansion, even if there was a very beautiful female criminal policeman among the new members this time, but whether it was Zhang Lei or Lu Xing, they were not too interested.

The reason why Zhang Lei deliberately took a vacation today, in addition to taking the opportunity to confess to Shangguan Jing by sending things to the children in the orphanage, the main purpose was to take Xu Lang, who was nesting at home every day and was about to get moldy, to go around, originally, now the second criminal investigation team is very busy, first, there are more cases, and secondly, newcomers are coming, they need to run in, and they need someone to lead, and Zhang Lei, as an old criminal policeman of the second criminal investigation team, is an old comrade, and it is the best decision for him to lead these newcomers, but, When Zhang Lei proposed to take Xu Lang out on vacation, Ning Yanran approved Zhang Lei's vacation without the slightest hesitation.

Zhang Lei saw that Xu Lang was silent again, he looked for another topic and asked, "Brother Lang, why is your detective agency closed?" Two days ago, a friend of mine asked me if I knew a reliable detective, originally, I was going to introduce you to him, but thinking that your office was closed, I didn't say, Brother Lang, look, do you want to take this list? In terms of price, it's good to say, that guy is not short of money. ”

After speaking, Zhang Lei turned his head and looked at Xu Lang with a smile.

Unexpectedly, Xu Lang shook his head decisively and said, "No, I'm not interested." ”

Zhang Lei knew Xu Lang's temper, and said that if he didn't take it, he would definitely not accept it, the so-called friend in his mouth was just an ordinary friend, besides, he asked Xu Lang to take this list, not because of how much money this list could make, nor because of how challenging this list was, but because he wanted Xu Lang not to stay at home and sleep every day.

"That guy has money at home, and he has several sports cars, and you really don't take them?" Zhang Lei asked tentatively.

Xu Lang turned his head and glanced at Zhang Lei, understood what he meant, so he smiled and said, "Okay, I know what you think, I really don't take it, say sorry to your friend for me." ”

"It's okay, anyway, I haven't introduced you to him for the time being, I just told him, he helped him ask, since you don't answer, forget it."

Xu Lang stretched out his hand, patted Zhang Lei's shoulder, and didn't say anything more.

At this moment, Zhang Lei parked the car at the door of an old church, and while unbuckling his seat belt, he said, "Brother Lang, it's here." ”

Hearing this, Xu Lang got out of the car, raised his head, and carefully looked at the building in front of him.

This is a church-type building, but based on the walls on the outside of the building and the creepers that crawl all over the walls, it can be seen that this building is quite old.

Zhang Lei saw Xu Lang leaning on the car and looking at the church, so he walked over, stood with Xu Lang, and explained with a smile: "This used to be a church, which was built by a foreigner, and later, he returned to China because of some things, and sold this church to a Chinese man named Shangguan Huasheng at a low price. ”

"Shangguan Watson?" Xu Lang repeated the name.

Zhang Lei nodded and said: "Yes, Shangguan Watson is Shangguan Jing's father, after Shangguan Watson bought this church, he turned it into an orphanage to take in those homeless children, this orphanage has a history of almost fifty years. ”

Hearing Zhang Lei say this, Xu Lang nodded.

After Zhang Lei said this, he walked to the door, patted the door, and after a while, the door was opened, and a woman in her fifties appeared at the door, she first glanced at Zhang Lei, and then showed a smiling face, looked at Zhang Lei and said, "Mr. Zhang, you haven't been here for a long time." ”

Zhang Lei smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I've been busy with work lately, so I don't have time to come to see you, Aunt Wang, don't blame me." ”

Aunt Wang stretched out her hands to hold Zhang Lei's hand, her face was full of smiles, her eyes narrowed into a slit, she looked at Zhang Lei and said, "Don't blame, don't blame, it's good to come." ”

Xu Lang found that Zhang Lei, who has always spoken a lot, looked like a big boy when facing this Aunt Wang, very shy and shy, Xu Lang felt very good.

After Zhang Lei chatted with Aunt Wang for a while, he remembered that Xu Lang was still on the side, so he hurriedly introduced Xu Lang to Aunt Wang, "Aunt Wang, this is Xu Lang, my friend." ”

"This is Aunt Wang, the aunt who is in charge of managing the affairs of the orphanage." When Zhang Lei said this, he put his mouth close to Xu Lang's ear and said, "She is Shangguan Jing's aunt." ”

Xu Lang hurriedly greeted Aunt Wang with a smile.

Just when Xu Lang, Zhang Lei and Aunt Wang were chatting at the door, suddenly, a lot of small heads came out of the door, and they were a group of children.

The children are big and small, there are men and women, the oldest is twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest is only five or six years old, Xu Lang looked carefully, there are a total of thirteen children, the clothes on these children are very plain, similar to the children in the countryside, some clothes look old, but every piece of clothing is very clean, and the children don't seem to feel any shame in wearing such clothes.

The children hid at the door, blinking their dark and bright eyes, looking at the three people standing at the door, these children were very happy when they saw Zhang Lei, it seemed that they had known each other before, but, maybe because of the existence of Xu Lang, a stranger, a few younger children wanted to run over after seeing Zhang Lei, but they were stopped by one of the oldest children.

This child is a girl, with two braids, wearing an older plaid skirt, the girl's eyes are not as clean and dark as other children, her eyes are full of vigilance and vigilance, which makes Xu Lang a little puzzled, so he subconsciously frowned.

Xu Lang's frowning was originally just a subconscious action, but she didn't expect that after the girl saw Xu Lang's action, she immediately took those children back two steps, she stretched out her hands like an old hen protecting her chicks, blocking those children behind her, she bit her lip and looked at it, raised her pink neck slightly, and looked at Xu Lang stubbornly.

When this group of children appeared, Zhang Lei and Aunt Wang also noticed them at the same time, Zhang Lei had already opened his hands to welcome the hug, but when he saw the group of children subconsciously retreating, Zhang Lei touched his head a little embarrassed, then turned his head to look at Xu Lang, and said with some embarrassment: "That, Brother Lang, I'm sorry, these children are more recognizable, don't you mind." ”

Xu Lang shook his head and said with a wry smile: "There's nothing to mind, I have no children, which is why I have always refused to have children." ”

Zhang Lei saw that Xu Lang really didn't care about these details, he was relieved, he turned his head to look at those children, put his hands in his pockets, as if making magic, and suddenly took out a large handful of candy from the pocket of his suit, and then put it in the palm of his hand, stretched out in front of the group of children, and said with a smile: "Look, what is this?" ”

"Candy."

This group of children is just children after all, when they saw the candy that Zhang Lei took out, a pair of bright eyes suddenly shone with dazzling brilliance, and they looked at the candy in Zhang Lei's palm together, revealing a longing expression.

"Do you want to eat it?" Zhang Lei looked at the group of children and asked.

"Yes," the children shouted in unison.

"If you want to eat it, come and get it yourself." Zhang Lei said with a smile.

"Bang la la"

After hearing Zhang Lei say this, the group of children suddenly looked like wild horses off the reins, hula all ran out from behind the big girl, ran quickly in front of Zhang Lei, stretched out their little hands and picked up a candy from Zhang Lei's hand, the older children only took one, and those younger children took two, but no one took more.

Xu Lang and Aunt Wang stood aside, looking at the group of children in high spirits, Aunt Wang's original wrinkled face showed a kind smile, she looked at this group of children, as if looking at her own children, and Xu Lang found that all the children went to get candy, only the oldest girl was still stubbornly standing in place, she looked at the candy in Zhang Lei's palm, and also showed an expression of longing, but she just didn't walk over, this girl stared at Xu Lang with dead eyes, as if Xu Lang was a bad person.

After all the children got the candy, there were still three candies left in Zhang Lei's palm, and Zhang Lei also noticed the girl, so he looked at the girl with a smile and said, "Siya, why don't you come and get it?" ”

Hearing Zhang Lei ask herself, the girl known as Siya turned her head, looked at Zhang Lei, smiled, revealed two shallow dimples, and shouted sweetly: "Brother Zhang Lei." ”

Zhang Lei seemed to be accustomed to Siya's abnormal behavior, he walked up to Siya, stuffed the remaining three candies in his hand into the girl's hand, then stretched out his hand, rubbed the girl's head, and said with a smile: "What about your sister Jingjing?" ”

Siya didn't wait to tear open the wrapping paper and throw the candy into her mouth when she got the candy like other children, she put three candies into her pocket, and after doing all this, she smiled sweetly at Zhang Lei again, then turned her head and shouted at the yard: "Sister Jingjing, Brother Zhang Lei is here." ”

I don't know if it's because of the benefits of Zhang Lei's candy, or because this group of children is very kind, they saw Siya calling Sister Jingjing, so they also shouted at the courtyard together: "Sister Jingjing, Brother Zhang Lei is here"

During this time, Xu Lang has been nesting at home, although he told Zhang Lei that he sleeps every day in addition to eating, in fact, Xu Lang has thought about a lot of things during this time, Xu Lang's mood has always been very depressed, today, when he saw this group of children, Xu Lang's face didn't know when, and a smile also appeared.

After about a minute, a beautiful woman walked out, the woman was wearing a white shirt, a pair of light blue jeans on the lower half of her body, not high heels, nor sneakers, but also very cheap cloth shoes, the woman's hair was not long, she had a ponytail, the woman's skin was white, her facial features were exquisite, and there was no makeup on her face.

The woman walked up to the children, first touched the heads of several children, lowered her head, looked at them with a smile, and asked, "Is the candy delicious?" ”

"It's delicious."

"Isn't it sweet?"

"Sweet"

"Who gave the candy?"

"Brother Zhang Lei."

"Then have you ever thanked Brother Zhang Lei?"

A group of children suddenly looked at each other, just now, they were only concerned about taking the candy, and forgot to say thank you to Zhang Lei.

"How does Sister Jingjing usually teach you? What should I do if I accept the kindness of others? ”

"Say thank you."

The woman smiled very happily, she raised her head, looked at Zhang Lei, nodded slightly, and then said, "Then what should you do?" ”

The children immediately turned their heads, looked at Zhang Lei, and said in unison, "Thank you, Brother Zhang Lei." ”

was said thank you by a group of children, Zhang Lei suddenly became a little in a hurry, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No thanks, no thanks"

"Haha"

Seeing Zhang Lei's funny appearance, a group of children immediately burst out laughing.

The woman walked up to Zhang Lei, turned her head and said to Aunt Wang, "Aunt Wang, you can take the children in to play first." ”

Aunt Wang looked at Zhang Lei, and then at the woman, with a bright smile, she looked at Zhang Lei's eyes with a kind of mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, hearing the woman say this, Aunt Wang turned around and walked into the courtyard with the children, leaving only Xu Lang at the door, Zhang Lei and this woman.

The woman actually noticed Xu Lang when she just walked out, although Xu Lang stood there and didn't speak from beginning to end, she still asked, "Mr. Zhang, who is this?" ”

Zhang Lei, who had a brighter smile after seeing the woman, still felt very disappointed when he heard the woman call him Mr. Zhang, but he quickly hid this emotion and introduced with a smile: "This is my good friend Brother Lang." ”

"Brother Lang?" The woman looked at Xu Lang with a puzzled expression.

Xu Lang looked at the woman and said with a smile: "Hello, Miss Shangguan, my name is Xu Lang." ”

After speaking, Xu Lang stretched out a hand.

The woman looked at Xu Lang and frowned, when she saw Xu Lang's outstretched hand, her frowning brows became more and more tight, she didn't shake hands with Xu Lang, but asked, "Do you know me?" Have we seen it somewhere? ”

Shangguan Jing didn't give face, didn't shake hands with Xu Lang, and Xu Lang didn't feel any embarrassment, he naturally withdrew his hand and said with a smile: "Zhang Lei told me, along the way, I heard him tell me about you." ”

"Oh, really?"

Shangguan Jing turned his head and glanced at Zhang Lei, Zhang Lei scratched his head a little embarrassed, and smirked at Shangguan Jing.

Shangguan Jing turned her head to look at Xu Lang and asked with a smile, "Then what did he tell you about me?" ”

Xu Lang was suddenly a little speechless, he came out today just to accompany Zhang Lei to see these children, along the way, Xu Lang was thinking about things, and he didn't ask Zhang Lei about Shangguan Jing at all, and now he was asked in person, Xu Lang touched his nose a little embarrassed, he didn't know what to say, he looked around, and saw that the car was still parked at the door, so he said to Zhang Lei: "Zhang Lei, didn't you bring a lot of things to give to those children, hurry up and take them out." ”

"Huh? Oh. ”

Being reminded by Xu Lang like this, Zhang Lei remembered what was going on, he quickly turned around and ran to the car, opened the trunk and the back door, Xu Lang also followed to help, Shangguan Jing followed behind the two people unhurriedly, she looked at Xu Lang's back, her eyes were dark, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

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