Speaking of my brother, let me introduce him, his name is Xiangzixiong. Both of us were raised by our grandfathers and grandmothers since we were children, and there are almost no fragments of our fathers and mothers in my memory, but my brother said that there were. Actually, he's only about 10 minutes older than me, and we're twins. My grandfather and grandmother said that our father and mother disappeared when we were more than 2 years old, and we still don't know where we are, so I have always been very skeptical of my brother's statement that he has an impression of my parents.

My brother studied painting in college, and after graduation, he mixed in the society for nearly two years, and he was depressed, always saying that the boss and customers didn't understand art and wouldn't appreciate him. Seeing this, Grandpa asked him to quit his job and go home to take over the antique shop, after all, Grandpa was almost 80 at that time, although his body was still strong and his head was still clear, but it was time for him to rest. So my brother gladly accepted my grandfather's arrangement to go home to see the store and paint in my spare time, not to mention how comfortable I was, so that I, an IT migrant worker who had been working hard outside, once complained that my grandfather was patriarchal, which was really partial.

Only now, I didn't know I was wrong, I really wanted my brother to come back and take over my grandfather's shop, that's what my brother should do, not me, I can't do it.

Two years ago, my brother disappeared and disappeared inexplicably.

I still remember that it was the day before Valentine's Day, and the house was full of red roses, which my brother was going to give to his girlfriend, and I remember that when I went out to work in the morning, he said to me: "Cha Cha, brother will definitely get you a sister-in-law back this year." ”

I smiled and ignored him, our two brothers and sisters are really called no peach blossom luck, and they don't have a home when they are old, so they are in a hurry to make their grandparents anxious, and they are not less urged. As for me, I haven't had a chance to talk about it, but he's talked about it, and he has so many girlfriends that he can't even remember how many he has been, and the marriage proposal has also failed repeatedly, and we are used to it.

At noon, I received a call from him, and I heard that he was in a hurry, saying that he had an urgent trip to Henan. I also wanted to ask if I could come back in time to propose on Valentine's Day, but before the words could be spoken, he hung up the phone in a hurry. After that, no one answered, and an hour and a half later, I received his WeChat message saying, "It's almost time to board the plane, come back and talk to me in detail." ”

In fact, my brother is always like this, headless, brainless, and reckless, and I am used to it, so I replied: "Be careful yourself." He replied, "Yes." After that, there was no news from him, and the phone was turned off. I went to the airport to check all the flights to various places in Henan, all of them arrived safely, and I also saw the name of "Xiangzixiong" on a certain flight, but after leaving the airport, there was no more information about him.

My grandfather and grandmother were old, and I was afraid to tell them that they were sick urgently, so I kept it a secret and secretly called the police, but there was no news.

Two weeks later, I couldn't hide it anymore, so I found a chance to confess to my grandfather, who was so frightened that his face turned pale, but he still sensibly said that his grandmother had a bad heart and couldn't let her know that more than 20 years ago, his son and daughter-in-law disappeared for no reason, and finally pulled his grandson up. So he began to lie to me, saying that he would let my brother go to Henan and his old friend to learn antique appraisal, and the affairs of the store would be handed over to me to take care of, so as to save me from saying that he was patriarchal.

When I heard this, I didn't think about how sour my my heart was, and I couldn't stop crying, so I immediately said that I was going to the toilet, so I locked myself in the toilet and cried, which was the first and only time I cried since my brother disappeared. Because I know that it's useless to cry anymore, what I have to do is to take care of the store left by my brother.

However, I can't manage it.

I didn't understand anything, I was deceived by my peers, I received a lot of fake and expensive goods, and my vision was not good, so I sold a lot of good goods cheaply. In the past two years, inflation has been severe, and the rent has also risen vigorously, so I can only return the shop in the City God Temple and rent a small façade downstairs in the community.

Grandpa has been getting a lot older since he knew about his brother's disappearance, although grandma doesn't know, but she often blames grandpa and says: "Zixiong didn't open a store very well, it's almost 30, why suddenly let him learn what identification, so I can't see my grandson now." ”

Grandpa was also afraid that grandma was so old that his grandson would want to get sick, so he said that while he was still able to walk in the past two years, he would take her out to play and relax. They often go for months, come back for a week or two, and then leave. So my grandfather couldn't teach me anything, and I didn't dare to bother him more, which eventually led to the loss of the store.

As a result, our antique shop was forced by the situation to change from a shop selling agarwood to a shop selling Indian incense, which is really ashamed.

It was almost 10 o'clock that day, and I was about to close as usual, when suddenly a beautiful woman walked into the store, dressed very modestly, but with a very elegant temperament. As soon as she walked in, she asked me, "Is your boss there?" ”

I looked at her in a daze, feeling a little familiar, but I couldn't remember it for a while, so I just smiled faintly and said, "I am, is there anything wrong with me?" ”

"You?" She looked up and down, and finally I saw a glimmer of brightness in her eyes, and I heard her voice half a degree higher and asked, "Are you Cha Cha?" I'm Mo. ”

"Mo?" I tried my best to recall, and finally found the information about Xiao Mo in the temporary table of my memory database that was about to be automatically emptied.

Xiaomo's surname is Ding, her name is Ding Xiaomo, two years younger than me and my brother, she used to be our neighbor at home, and she was also our junior sister from elementary school to junior high school. When I was in junior high school, my brother chased her, and they seemed to have talked for a while, but then because Xiaomo moved, they broke up because of the so-called "distance" problem. Later, I heard that my brother had some contact with her in high school, and I don't know exactly what happened after that, but now it seems that they have always been in touch. But my brother has been missing for almost two years, and she is looking for him now, what does it mean?

"Are you looking for my brother?" I asked tentatively.

Her eyes lit up again, and she asked in surprise, "Is he there?" ”

I shook my head and said bluntly, "He's been missing for almost two years." ”

"Hmm." She was not too surprised, and only said lightly: "No wonder he hasn't replied to my messages for two years, and the phone has been shut down since then." At first, I thought he was deliberately ignoring me, but in fact, I always had a bad feeling after that, and I just didn't dare to confirm it. I have been waiting for him at your old shop many times, but I have never seen him come out, but I often see you, and then I know that you have moved here, and I have come here many times. Because I knew you had a job outside, I always thought you were a helper hired by the store, but I didn't expect it to be you. ”

I suddenly said cheaply: "It's not that you didn't expect it, you don't want to think so, because if it were me, then my brother would really have an accident." ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the store suddenly became very depressing, and I could see that she was very uncomfortable, and my heart was also very sour, but she broke the deadlock and said: "Live to see people, dead to see corpses." Now there is nothing, at least, there is hope of survival. ”

The word "survival" is a harsh word, but since my brother disappeared, I firmly believed that he was just missing, and never thought that something would happen to him and die. All the nervousness and anxiety stemmed from "he is missing", even what he said just now that "something happened" also refers to "missing", I never thought about "death", my brother will not die.

Actually, perhaps, I was just as self-deceptive as she was, but I just didn't want to think about it.

Suddenly full of exhaustion, I didn't want to talk to the person in front of me who had broken my scars, so I said coldly: "My brother is not here now, I'm closing, if he comes back, I will tell him that you came to find him." ”

Xiao Mo was slightly startled, and said lightly: "Okay." But although she said yes, she didn't move.

Seeing that I couldn't drive away the guests, I asked unhappily, "Is there anything else?" ”

Xiao Mo bit her lower lip and said, "I'm here to buy something." ”

"Buying something? So what do you want? I'll get it for you. "I don't think she's here to buy anything, maybe it's just an excuse to stay, so I just casually respond.

"I'm going to buy incense."

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